BlueWeather
This software is still in early development.
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BlueWeather is an open-source personal weather station (PWS) web-app. It connects your weather station hardware to a website allowing you to view your weather from your phone or computer.
Spec
I originally started this project for my dad who's weather station broke. I wanted to re-purpose the working hardware into a smart weather station that he could access from his phone. Possibly even view from the internet.
BlueWeather has become such a big project for me. I have worked on it for over 2 years now; making large changes to core of the project, as well as feature-creep further delaying anything useful from coming to fruition. I want to stop this, and decide what the app will look like once and for all! From now on, I will not make any large changes to the design of the app, and any additions I want to add may only be done after The app is functional.
Framework
BlueWeather will operate using python + django as a back-end and Bootstrap + Vue as a front-end. To serve Vue, NPM will be used.
I don't know a whole lot about NPM, but I hope that I will be able to use .vue files for the front-end, and compile them into individual js scripts without bundling. This may not be possible, but we will see.
Apps
There will be several apps that help manage blueweather. This includes viewing the weather, managing settings, managing accounts, and managing plugins.
Weather
This app will display the weather.
Accounts
This app will serve the login/register pages as well as the accounts, and general admin page.
Settings
This app will serve all the application settings, as well as all of the plugins settings.
Plugins
There is no way this app could be useful without the integration of plugins. Plugins will allow for the ability to interact with hardware, as well as provide ways to process data in ways I could never do on my own.
I plan to use Stevedore to manage plugins. Plugins will register with the app to have different types of services, such as a hardware interface, data processing, django sub-app, and possibly more I haven't yet thought of.
From what I have gathered, Stevedore uses the built-in setuptools library to collect plugins.
Command Line Interface
The CLI will be able to manage plugins, settings, django, and starting the application
I hope to integrate the cli with django's manage.py to make managing the app more seamless.
API
Not much is known about how the API will act yet
This app will of course support a ReST API allowing for external integration with things such as Android/iOS/desktop apps.