🌩️ WeatherDesk v3.0.5 is out — and your Tempest is no longer required.
🌩️ WeatherDesk v3.0.5 is out — and your Tempest is no longer required.
📥 Grab v3.0.5 (installers for Windows, macOS, Linux .deb, Android APK, and Docker):
👉 https://github.com/d4vid87/weatherdesk/releases/tag/v3.0.5
⚡ Radar is powered by our sibling project, Hook Echo-WX — a from-scratch NEXRAD Level II renderer in Rust:
👉 https://github.com/d4vid87/hookecho
WeatherDesk is a free, self-hosted weather desk that runs on YOUR machine, reads YOUR station, and answers to nobody's ad network. Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Docker. No account. No subscription. No "premium tier" hiding the radar behind a paywall.
What's new in 3.0.5:
🛰️ Bring your own station — any brand. The big one. WeatherDesk used to speak Tempest and only Tempest. Now it ingests Ecowitt, Ambient Weather, Davis (WeatherLink Live), AcuRite (via rtl_433), La Crosse, KestrelMet, and any generic Weather Underground-protocol console. Point your console's "custom server" at WeatherDesk and every gauge, chart, trend, alert, and CWOP upload lights up exactly like a Tempest does — because it all converts at the door.
🌍 No station at all? Still works. Type in a location and WeatherDesk pulls a full forecast, hero card, hourly, and 10-day for free. Your own sensor just overlays on top when you have one.
📱 The Desk fits a phone now. Real layout on small screens instead of a squashed desktop.
🔔 Notification spam is dead. Forecast-change alerts fired repeatedly for the same change. Fixed.
🖱️ Panel drag-resize behaves. Panels no longer creep bigger every time you touch a corner.
Why anyone should care: live radar with velocity, storm-relative velocity, VIL, echo tops, and hail probability. NWS warning polygons with the full warning text. 10-day, alert center, model agreement (GFS/ECMWF/ICON/GEM side by side), air quality, sun & moon, station health, records, and a searchable weather archive. Trends and history live in a local database on your own disk — nobody rents your weather back to you.
Free. Open source. Runs on your hardware. Pull requests and bug reports welcome. 🌪️