Why does anyone need a ChatBot in their weather app FFS?
Turned it off but now the app (#OpenWeather) leaves a bad taste.
Any recommendations for a FOSS alternative?
1854: The first telegraph‐enabled storm warning crossed 80 km of copper.
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For a while now I've been using #Forecastie to display open weather data from;
It was, at the time, the best weather app I could find on F-Droid. But while I was Fossify-ing my Simple apps, I decided to see what's available now. I'm quite impressed with Breezy Weather (forked from Geometric Weather);
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.breezyweather/
It seems to be able to use a range of open data sources, but the default appears to be;
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You dont need an API key to work with Open Meto. Making access even easier!
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Learning a bit from the API on OpenMeteo
you can curl your local wheather info!
Personal use is <10k calls per 24 hours which is more than enough!
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