Weather My Way (Pebble SDK 2.0)

This is my attempt at learning about the Pebble SDK by adjusting an app for my own needs. The original Futura Weather watchface was the cleanest and best looking design I had seen but I prefer YAHOO! Weather data. So, I added the option to switch between both, and added hourly data from Weather Underground.

• Update - as of 2016, Yahoo has decided to charge for API access when attempting to translate lat lon to woeid and therefor I have replaced their API with Weather Underground.

Give it a shot and let me know what you think: download pbw here

   

Requirements

The hourly data for this app comes from the Weather Underground API. Unfortunately, their API is not free. However, Weather Underground does provide a free developer API key (500 hits / day) which more than suffices for this app. Don't share your API key, as once the quota has been reached the key will stop working.

Configuration

Try it yourself here

Query string variables:

s=[wunder|open]  // weather service
u=[F|C]         // weather scale
d=[true|false]  // debug enabled
b=[on|off]      // battery enabled
a=[apikey]      // Weather Underground API Key 

Progress

• Hourly weather!
• Configurable weather provider (Weather Underground, Open Weather map)
• More granularity in weather condition expression
• Configurable minimal battery display
• Configurable weather scale (°F / °C)
• Configurable debug mode ((L)ast updated, (P)ublish Date, Neighborhood)
• JQuery Mobile configuration screen here
• Config settings are persisted
• No longer subscribed to second ticks, minute & day for better battery performance
• Tested on iOS 7.1 & Android 4.3
• Improved network link monitoring (limited retries on both Pebble and JS sides)
• many rewrites, separation of concerns

Based on work by:

• "Futura Weather 2" by Niknam - https://github.com/Niknam/futura-weather-sdk2.0
• "WeatherWatch" by Katharine - https://github.com/Katharine/WeatherWatch
• "Roboto Weather" by Martin Rosinski - http://www.mypebblefaces.com/apps/3601/3408/