Hey Brian,
Sorry to hear you are shutting down development on Home Weather Station.
I have both Saratoga and HWS installed here and HWS is the one I turn to first -- the data presentation is so thoughtfully done.
I totally understand the maintenance difficulties that are arising, though. I have some ideas on how to address those difficulties, and now I might implement them. If I make much progress I'll put my work up for others to poke at.
Thanks again for all your hard work.
Good morning
thanks for the compliments however don't misinterpret what I have said , i will continue to iron out any code issues that arise for whatever reasons and just focus on the weatherflow hardware and if any changes arise to meteobridge structure.
you can sit here week in week out adding on additional options and ideas sent in but it has got to a point where there is simply no room in the design and when you add or implement something it starts to look very disorganised and data crammed into anywhere it can.
I point blankly have refused to scrape data from any websites or unofficial api's (I have tried but the performance impact is quite dramatic and i have used
https://gtmetrix.com as the tool for measuring differences and impact) just to have and display extra information available from external sources , I always just wanted to replicate personal weather station data from a console in the simplest manner possible using modern css capabilities.
the final end result is shown below keeping the page size sub 300k and having removed some big fat jquery libraries and redesigned them in css,all images using svg and so has shown a remarkable difference overall in performance and end user experience .
so i look forward too seeing your ideas and if they are universal for users to use and not tied specific to one type of hardware etc then your onto a winner and i would happily endorse it no problem. but try to think of other scenarios and trust me there are many otherwise the weather would be pretty boring and acknowledge that there many types of hardware that deliver data in different ways and not forgetting the many server configurations this part surprised me a lot over the last 3 years and lastly develop on php 7.2 or greater always cross check for https compliance (often perceived as google importance but its not just about google ranking and other google shite also look ahead to HTTP/2 it will be even better in terms of data transfer).
have a nice day and i truly look forward to your ideas.. brian