Release 2.0.2

Release 2.0.2

Released: 2026-05-23 Minimum Indigo version: 2025.2

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Highlights

This release adds an optional WeatherFlow Web API integration that unlocks nine new device states unavailable from UDP, including rain-check corrected totals, rolling rain and lightning counts, and current weather conditions. It also introduces web-only mode — a way to monitor a Tempest hub on a different network by sourcing all data from the cloud API.

New Features

WeatherFlow Web API (Optional)

Enable in Plugin Preferences → Enable Web API with a free Personal Use Token from your WeatherFlow account. When active, the plugin polls the WeatherFlow REST API every 5 minutes to supplement local UDP data.

Nine new device states are added:

State	Source	Description
rain_today	Web API	Authoritative daily total — rain-check corrected by WeatherFlow servers
rain_yesterday	Web API	Authoritative yesterday total, rain-check corrected
rain_last_1hr	Web API	Rolling 60-minute rainfall total
rain_duration_today	Web API	Minutes of measurable rain today
rain_duration_yesterday	Web API	Minutes of measurable rain yesterday
conditions	Web API	Current weather description, e.g. "Partly Cloudy"
weather_icon	Web API	Icon name from WeatherFlow's forecast engine
lightning_count_last_1hr	Web API	Strikes in the last 60 minutes
lightning_count_last_3hr	Web API	Strikes in the last 3 hours

When UDP and the Web API are both active, real-time sensor readings (temperature, wind, pressure, etc.) continue to come from UDP. Web API updates rain totals and provides the web-exclusive states above.

Web-only Mode

Devices can now be configured for web-only mode — tick Web-only (hub on different network) in the device configuration and enter your Station ID. Use this when:

• The Tempest hub is on a different network, subnet, or VLAN from the Indigo Mac
• UDP broadcast cannot reach the Indigo Mac
• You want a fully cloud-sourced device with no dependency on local networking

In web-only mode, all sensor readings come from the REST API, polled every 60 seconds. deviceStatus displays Active (web) when data is flowing.

Web-only devices require only a Station ID — no serial number entry is needed.

Automatic UDP Fallback

If a UDP station goes silent for more than 5 minutes, the web API automatically provides all standard sensor readings (including temperature, wind, pressure, etc.) until UDP resumes. This ensures states remain current even during temporary network interruptions.

Improvements

• Plugin Preferences now includes a Web API section with enable toggle and API token field
• Device configuration simplified — web-only devices no longer require a serial number to be entered manually
• Web poller auto-restart: runConcurrentThread detects if the web poll task exits unexpectedly and restarts it automatically
• Consecutive failure tracking: the web poller warns after 1–2 consecutive failures per station and silently suspends polling after 3. Edit and save the device to reset the counter and resume
• Wind direction stored as cardinal abbreviation (N, NNE, NE … NNW) via an internal _degrees_to_cardinal helper
• Plugin Menu: new List Discovered WeatherFlow Devices item — logs all currently-discovered serial numbers, models, and firmware versions to the Event Log

Documentation

• New wiki pages: Plugin Configuration, Tempest Device Configuration, Web API
• GitHub Actions workflow to automatically sync wiki/ from the main repo to the GitHub wiki on every push
• README.md updated with new device states, configuration screenshots, and full wiki links
• README.bbcode updated for the Indigo plugin forum

Upgrade Notes

• The Web API is opt-in — the plugin continues to work without it. No configuration changes are needed for existing UDP-only setups.
• To enable the Web API, get a free Personal Use Token from tempestwx.com → Settings → Data Authorizations and enter it in Plugin Preferences.
• A 401 Unauthorized error from the web API means either the token is invalid or the Station ID belongs to a different account. The WeatherFlow REST API only serves stations registered to the token's account.