I own an OEM of Ambient Weather WS-1400-IP which came without a console. I've always wanted to have my own customized console on my desk which can display following realtime on one screen without scrolling:
- sensor data update - live or almost live from my outdoor and indoor sensors
- 5-7 days forecast
- hourly forecast, preferable one icon for every 2-3 hours
- current Moon Phase
- current Sunspot
- my webcam
Brian's PWS is a great and beautiful template which almost fullfils my needs ( weather34.com, mine:
http://bthoven.dyndns.biz:802/pws ). Jachym's Meteotemplate is also great and full of information ( meteotemplate.com, mine:
http://bthoven.dyndns.biz:802/template).
However, they don't really fit those info on one tablet page. I therefore go for the "Frankenstein" route by combining many Android widgets:
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1. Weather Station app (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arf.weatherstation )
The upper left section. The app comes with an almost complete info widget which displays updated info from my wunderground uploaded data (or from many sources, e.g. clientraw.txt, ...).
2. Weather & Clock app (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devexpert.weather )
The lower left widget: display hourly forecast. I'm actually looking for a 2 or 3 hourly forecast. Those who know, please recommend...thanks
3. Moon Phase Pro (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daylightmap.moon.pro.android )
The upper top right corner: display current Moon Phase, just that.
4. Sun Spot (middle right) and my webcam image (lower right). These two auto-refresh images from url are accomplished by a great Showr widget (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shadowburst.showr ). I just specify the url of image file which I want to have it refreshed, refresh interval; that's it. For Sun spot, I set it to refresh twice a day from
https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/mdi_sunspots_1024.jpg . For my webcam image, every minute from my own server.
The tablet itself is a cheap Chinese tablet (7.85", Android 6.0, 1GB ram, 16GB rom, $60), set it to always on display when having AC power plugged. To hide both notification bar and navigation keys by using GMD full screen app (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.immersive ) which do not require root.
Hope this is useful for those who are interested.