I’m currently creating a weather card for using it on my smart clock, that I hopefully will be able to release here soon.
The goal was to enhance the default weather card with rain amount and perception.
So it uses the default HA weather icons and a similar layout at least for the daily forecast.
For a quick glance, the rain values are dimmed when they are below a certain value.
Hourly conditions are translated vertically based on the temperature, also for a better “on-a-glance” experience.
The forecast can be scrolled horizontally, so you can also look at the hourly forecast of next days.
Another planned idea is to jump to the day in the hourly forecast when you click on a daily item.
Clicking on the hourly forecast could switch between a every-our or configurable every-few-hours layout, so you have to scroll less for a quick overview.
Replacing the hour number with a full hour:minute format for the two hours when the sun rises and sets in orange and purple is another idea that I might implement.
The card also auto-calculates the gap between the items based on the card width and does snap into position when scrolling ends, so the card looks always nice and clean.
When you scroll though the hours, a little indicator with the first letters shows the beginning of a new day, so you don’t get lost.
The current weather section is using some images instead of an icon (thx to ChatGPT). I guess it would be nice to make them user-configurable with a something like an image theme directory.
Not sure so far what else I want to see here as values beside min/max temp most likely.
If anyone has more little ideas about user interactions that makes a weather forecast better to use, or other must-have features I’m happy to hear.
I also thought about adding bars as a graph for the precipitation as an option, let’s see how it looks. Not sure if it should be in the background of the text, or below as a second row just containing the bar, like there’s a second row of text in the daily forecast.
One thing I would have also liked to add, but didn’t so far as the vertical space in my smart clock is limited: Adding floating rounded bars to the daily chart per day to display the span of max and min temperature.
But I came up with the idea to switch to a side-by-side layout on landscape devices (and add an option to force portrait or landscape layout or use auto to switch automatically e.g. on Devices like phones when they are rotated).
That way, this could be added to the daily forecast easily, as there’s quite some unused vertical space in a quick test hacked together. Let’s see.
Really nice, would like to use this on my Nest Hub dashboard.
Do you plan to make it possible to use a separate sensor for the outdoor temperature?
Thats a must requriments from my familly, so it excludes a few of the existing weather cards for me
I already have the current temperature of our own outdoor sensor combined with min/max from the weather forecast on the clock screen (screensaver of the device),
so this is also planned to be possible with this weather card.
