Weather Personal Widget

Luc DesGroseilliers

About this app

This widget displays the information of a clientraw.txt file generated by the software Weather Display.
This is NOT an application. This is a widget. You need to add it to your home screen after install.

To use it, your need a personal weather station and a program like Weather Display to generate the file clientraw.txt and upload it to a web server.

In the configurations, the URL must me a fully qualified url: https://www.server.com/live/clientraw.txt
It supports http and https protocols.

Click the temperature in the upper left corner to configure, click anywhere else to update the display.

Configurable:
-Temperature units (Celsius or Fahrenheit)
-Wind speed units (kts, m/s, km/h, mph)
-Barometer(hPa, in/hg)
-Rain (mm, in)
-Feels like: Apparent, humidex, windchill, heat index.
-Background/Text color and transparency
-Text size
-Display of an icon for the forecast/current conditions
-Icon transparency
-Auto-update when the device is unlocked
-Periodic update
-URL of the file to download
-file type: clientraw.txt or yowindow.xml.

The small chart behind the temperature is the temperature in the last hour. The limits of the graphic are the hi/lo temperature of the day.

You can activate a periodic update. It will download only when the screen is ON.

To discuss about this widget, you can go to the Weather-Watch forum: https://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php?topic=54688.0

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this widget for years and was very happy with it but recently it had stopped updating - it just stated 'Updating' but it didn't update unless I pressed on the temperature (setup screen) and then back to my home screen and then it would update just the once but then revert to 'Updating' again. I checked the version number and discovered that it I was using v 2.8.15 which is presumably the latest so I reverted to 2.8.12 and this solved the issue

Two vital items missed. Please add for higher rating. Better icons (user replaceable icon sets) and placement would help as well. Update: Removed a star because "Removed the decimal when the temperature is displayed in °F". Somtimes it forgets the URL even though unchanged.

The graph behind the temp and the decimal in F temp need to be replaced, otherwise I like the update. Was wondering when heat index, windchill, etc. were going to be added!

What’s new

- Fixed the 'Update on wakeup' feature
- Wait for internet to be available before downloading