williwaw: Weatherflow Tempest Self-Contained Console & Datalogger

Overview

This project builds a WIP self-contained Golang binary that presents current readings from a Weatherflow Tempest weather station to a web client. It is designed to be used as a full-screen display on a wall-mounted tablet or monitor.

TODO

• Handle other Tempest UDP events
  • hub_status
• Preferences form/route
• Handle most UI value formatting in HTML/JS
• SQLite data logger option
• Charts
  • Have them use units prefs
  • Auto refresh
• Data export API

Build

$ # clone me
$ cd williwaw
$ go build .

Run

On interrupt/control-c, the program cleans up after itself, but you can also terminate it remotely via the /quit?token=something-you-make-up endpoint:

$ SEEKRIT_TOKEN=bye DB_PATH=readings.db ./williwaw

If you don’t set SEEKRIT_TOKEN the /quit route will not be set up.

If you don’t set DB_PATH the datalogger won’t be started.

You can use CLI params or environent variables or a .env files to set preferences:

$ ./williwaw --help
Usage: williwaw [--seekrit SEEKRIT_TOKEN] [--path DB_PATH] [--listen-port PORT]

Options:
  --seekrit SEEKRIT_TOKEN, -s SEEKRIT_TOKEN
                         token enabling remote disabling [env: SEEKRIT_TOKEN]
  --path DB_PATH, -p DB_PATH
                         Full path to datalogger file db [env: DB_PATH]
  --listen-port PORT, -l PORT
                         port to listen on [default: 9867, env: PORT]
  --help, -h             display this help and exit

Routes

• / - the main page where readings are updated
• prefs - interact with user preferences
• /quit?token=something-you-make-up - terminates the program; REQUIRES SEEKRIT_TOKEN to be set
• /charts - charts page; REQUIRES DB_PATH to be set
• /since?ts=yyyy-mm-dd - returns all readings since the given timestamp (including the given timestamp) as a JSON array; REQUIRES DB_PATH to be set

Tailscale

Highly suggest running this on a Tailscale tailnet for ubiquitous access w/o exposing anything to the internet directly. If that’s possible, here’s a sample nginx reverse proxy config:

location /tempestwx/ {
  proxy_pass http://#.#.#.#:#/;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-for $remote_addr;
  proxy_ssl_verify off;
  port_in_redirect off;
  proxy_connect_timeout 300;
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}

WAT

Around five years go I got a few NuVision TMAX cheap 8” Windows tablets (~$50.00 USD). They’re dinky (2GB RAM, 32GB slow SSD, Windows Home 10), but they can be used as a kiosk-mode display.

I’ve put off front-ending my Weatherflow Tempest HTML display project for this for way too long and decided to give it a go after re-finding a tablet whilst poking for something else.

After an arduous “it’s been five years since your last Windows update” process, and getting Golang on the thing, this works pretty well.

It uses:

• fir which is a Go toolkit to build reactive web interfaces that uses html/template and alpinejs under the hood
• code from my go-weatherflow for the UDP dance to listen for the local broadcasts.

{fir} is pretty neat! It uses websockets for comms and only updates the portions of the web page that have data changes.

Screenshots

Arc (dark mode) is shown up top. I’ll take new captures of these (below) eventually.

Windows (tablet/Chrome)

iOS

Safari (light mode)

REF

• WeatherFlow Tempest UDP Reference - v171