So, yes this is selfhosting related. I am working on an n8n flow to pull in weather data so that I can have this data on a dashboard. I can’t find any dockerized weather forecasting apps. Most of them connect to a personal weather station, which might be an option in the future. For the time being, this is a little project I’m working on.
Partial JSON snippet:
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json
cod "200"
message 0
cnt 40
list
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dt 1780693200
main
temp 29.4
feels_like 29.23
temp_min 29.4
temp_max 29.68
pressure 1019
sea_level 1019
grnd_level 984
humidity 42
temp_kf -0.28
weather
I would like to display something like this:
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Current temperature: 23.25 °C
Feels like: 24.09 °C
Low / High: 23.25 °C / 23.60 °C
Humidity: 94%
Atmospheric pressure: 1023 hPa (sea level: 1023 hPa, ground level: 988 hPa)
Temperature correction factor (temp_kf): -0.35
Weather: Light rain
Weather code: 500
Short condition: Rain
Icon: 10d
So, this is for you devs or coders out there. I can produce the JSON data. I’m just not sure how to parse it to something meaningful. I’m sure Python will have to be incorporated, but unsure of how to proceed.
Maybe someone could point me in a direction to tuts, articles, or your own experience. Sorry the JSON data doesn’t format correctly. Lemmy formatting doesn’t seem to allow that.
Use Case: I want to display a daily and extended forecast on a dashboard perhaps via an iframe or other means. I get tired of going to the weather channel and having them complain about my ad blocking techniques. LOL Also, I thought it would be a good learning exercise for me. I’m using n8n to pull the raw data from OpenWeather API. I can generate the JSON data fine (at least it was an accomplishment for me), it’s just getting that JSON data into a prettier format to display on a dashboard with maybe some pretty little weather icons later on when I get it down pat.
I mentioned Python because it seemed like a language I see others use for this sort of thing, but I am willing to explore other avenues. I am not very strong at coding. I can muck by, fiddling with this or that until I finally get something that works. Then I immediately commit that to my notes because my brain is shit at remembering things.
I spent some time writing a script first in Python and then in ExcelScript at work to pull data from from OpenWeather API to compare ambient temperature and humidity to some of our indoor spaces. Both Python and JS (which ExcelScript is, basically) will make it very easy to pull the JSON from the API and pass whatever data you want down the line.
I don’t have any experience with dashboards or your setup in particular so I can’t give any good advice about how to go forward though. If you have a pre-existing dashboard, what makes it and what feeds it data? Is it a webpage or an app or such?
I am using the Homarr dashboard. It does have an iframe module that I think I could use once I pretty up the data.
What dashboard are you using? It seems weird to use n8n as the data should already be in json format
Just FYI the data you provided is not in json format
I’m using Homarr which has the capabilities of iframes.
Is this not JSON format?
ETA: I guess I should have posted it as such:
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[{"json":{"cod":"200","message":0,"cnt":40,"list":[{"dt":1780693200,"main":{"temp":29.4,"feels_like":29.23,"temp_min":29.4,"temp_max":29.68,"pressure":1019,"sea_level":1019,"grnd_level":984,"humidity":42,"temp_kf":-0.28},"weather":[{"id":803,"main":"Clouds","description":"broken clouds","icon":"04d"}],"clouds":{"all":65},"wind":{"speed":4.11,"deg":213,"gust":4.12},"visibility":10000,"pop":0,"sys":{"pod":"d"},"dt_txt":"2026-06-05 21:00:00"},{"dt":1780704000,"main":Is there are reason you can’t just use the Homar weather plugin?
Well, primarily because I wouldn’t learn anything. lol Plus, the Homarr weather plugin doesn’t give as much detail as I would like. It works, no doubt, I just wanted something a bit more.
You could build a weather app using flask and bootstrap 5. (Flask is the backend and bootstrap is the frontend)