Whether Weather

In-progress weather tool that renders an image for a home screen widget.

See the image hosted for free on fly.io:

Dev Flow

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

python app.py

Then see widget docs for how to use the image in a widget.

Running locally

Uvicorn is a ASGI server:

python -m uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --reload

Insider docker:

docker build -t whetherweather .
docker run -p 8000:8000 whetherweather

Tasks

• PoC
  • Create PNG image
  • localhost serve image
  • Some docs for showing the image in a widget
  • Call a weather API, get i.e daily max/min temps
  • Render the temps on the image
• MVP 1
  • Deploy cron task to cloud i.e. fly.io
    • Install dependencies
    • Dockerize
  • fly.io secrets management
  • Pick weather API sources and starting weather metrics
    • Hourly temp
    • Precipitation
  • Figure out the exact size of my android home screen for rendering
  • Draw metrics visually
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/246525/how-can-i-draw-a-bezier-curve-using-pythons-pil
• v2?
  • https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/continuous-deployment-with-github-actions/
  • Customizing physical location, configuring which metrics to show
  • Log time scale
  • Other metrics
    • Barometric pressure
    • AQI
    • Moon brightness / phase
    • Dawn/Sundise
    • Wind
    • UV index
    • Tides
  • Minimizing API calls, by writing to S3 as a cache or using a caching reverse-proxy
    • https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/#free-tier
    • https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/
  • Config
    • Instead of URL with id to a DB entry, put state values into the URL?
    • User physical location maps to a default time zone?
    • GUI for setting config just generate the URL query param
  • Provide google calendar share link (ICS?): find all of your event locations for the next day and show you calendar weather based on those locations
  • Think again about business brand / name
    • already exists: https://github.com/codersinthestorm/WhetherWeather
    • maybe pick another name or make it cute?
• Import from obsidian://open?vault=notes&file=MyNotes%2FWhetherWeather