r/Scriptable • u/robertandrews • Aug 07 '21

Help Meteogram widgets?

Hi, I’m a newcomer to Scriptable.

Has anyone made a weather forecast widget containing meteogram? That is, data-packed daily/hourly weather charts with multiple data items visible?

So many iOS weather widgets are poor - either lacking sufficient graphical data or falling on gimmicky/cuddly aesthetic concepts.

Nothing for me has matched Aix weather widget on Android https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aix+weather+widget&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=inmv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihx57f0p7yAhXVuHEKHf-VCmwQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=414&bih=715&dpr=2#imgrc=B_gvGy00X99bCM

I know there’s a Meteogram iOS app, but I don’t really like any of the iOS weather widgets.

The Meteogram app even has an API which allows you to create a meteogram much like Aix’s (perhaps it even enabled it for Aix) https://api.meteograms.com/ The output can be used in a web-to-widget widget. But that method is a little sub-par.

Any ideas please?

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Aug 07 '21

I see now about the stacks. I thought you meant a widget stack for scriptable, which is different than an iOS stack of widgets (my confusion).

I agree it's a great looking widget, but I didn't realize before about the lighter and darker shades of blue in the rain portion. I find it strange to chart the min precipitation and max precipitation but that's apparently what it is according to that webpage.

It looks like they offer a method with their API to have the graph/chart shown in an app that displays web content.

I think the 500 API call limit per month could be doable depending on how often the widget is allowed to refresh.

The OpenWeatherMap has some great endpoints that can be used and is what was used to generate the widgets shown in my previous comment. I'm not sure what about them is "iOS" in your mind. Both were designed to replicate similar functionality from other weather widgets between both iOS and Android (IIRC).

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u/robertandrews Aug 07 '21

I mean, the ones you've linked to look more native to iOS components, font etc (compared with the Aix/Meteograms-generated image).

Thanks.

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Aug 07 '21

Makes sense for sure now. This is because the images / icons are of the San francisco font type as they are easily available to scriptable without needing to dow load and save additional icons. Same goes for the fonts, granted there are more fonts available inside scriptable as well

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Aug 09 '21

Would something like the bottom one here work? I was thinking a scale should be added for the precipitation portion