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owvision

Starter Guide

What Is owvision?

open weather vision (in short owvision) is an open source software system, that allows you to build up your own weather control center.

The bare metal version (without plugins) has four main features.

Bare Metal Features

  1. ⏲️ View your station’s most recent sensor readings in realtime
  2. 〽️ Navigate through your recorded historic weather data
  3. 🏆 Checkout your most extreme sensor readings
  4. ☁️ View a 7 day forecast for your weather station’s set up location (via Open-Meteo)

With plugins you can add more cool features, for example:

Rain Radar Plugin Add a live rain radar map for your location
Live Webcam Plugin Add a live webcam
DWD Weather Warnings Plugin Include weather warnings from the DWD (german weather service)

And all this for free, in an easy to use modern user interface. That’s the idea behind owvision. Cool, isn’t it😎?

Getting Started

  1. Check if your weather station is supported

    owvision just got released, that’s why only a few weather stations are supported yet. If you are a developer, adding support isn’t difficult.

    Check support

  2. Download an installer

    owvision is a software system, that consists of multiple software pieces. You don’t need all of them, it depends on your personal use case. To make installation easy, we created an installer, that handles all the difficult stuff for you:

  3. Open owvision.local in your webbrowser

    The most easiest way to interact with owvision is to open owvision.local on your webbrowser. On the first startup the graphical user interface will guide you through everything. After a few steps you will have your weather station control center up and running.

The next guide will explain in more detail how to configure owvision and how to add a new weather station.