It occurred to me today that I am hosting more and more services locally, but I still rely on a 3rd party weather app on my PC and phone. Generally, they suck as a class of applications - so much surveillance.

I searched around and found a couple Reddit threads from years ago, before Apple killed off the DarkSky API. But I think there are still free APIs, yes?

Are there any good FOSS current weather and forecasting self hosting options now? Thanks!

I’m in the US if that matters.

  • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    It depends on what country you’re in. If you’re in the US, the National Weather Service provides an excellent no-bullshit “please don’t abuse this” API.

    https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

    If you just want a site to pull the weather down: https://weather.gov/

    I’m really not sure what you’d gain from self-hosting this unless you own your own weather station though since you’d have to reach an authoritative source that provides the forecasts eventually.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      France provides the Open-Meteo API for europe too. I just tap into this source.

      It is better than AccuWeather anyway often times. Foe Geometric weather it actually works too. With AccuWeather I wouldn’t get any air quality stats.

      • Willdrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Is Geometric Weather displaying info on thebdetail cards for your chosen service? I changed it to OoenWeatherMap and still shows me accuweather cards