LOCALSKY

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Settings

Devices, watering, and app preferences.

Hardware

Devices, zones, and location.

Logic

When and how much to water.

App

Preferences, history, and access.

Configuration

Choose a section to view its settings.

Devices
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Every controller, source, and sensor LocalSky uses, native or mirrored from Home Assistant. Add a source or controller here, or scan the LAN to adopt a gateway.

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Everything LocalSky talks to: controllers, weather sources, and the sensors they carry. Native devices are editable here; Home Assistant devices mirror in automatically. Guide →

Weather sources

Add weather coverage

Turn on a free service to cover your yard now. No station to buy, and the default for your region is already on.

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Extra forecast models

Keep a separate forecast for Home Assistant or another app. Learn more

Use this name in your automations.

Coverage: global

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Which source provides each reading

You decide where each number comes from. Every reading has an ordered chain of sources: the top one reporting now wins, and if it goes quiet the next takes over. LocalSky sets a smart default order for your region; drag to make your own (your station for wind, a cloud service for rain, whatever fits). A source only leads while it is reporting, so a reading is never lost.

Forecast source

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Where weather data comes in: a local station (Tempest, Ecowitt), a cloud service (Open-Meteo, WeatherKit, NWS), MQTT, or Home Assistant. When several report the same reading, the higher-priority source wins. Add and edit these in Devices.

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Pick which cloud service supplies your forecast: the daily and hourly outlook, rain expected tomorrow, and the evapotranspiration estimate watering is sized from. This is the main control if you have no local hardware. "Auto (follow the chain)" follows the chain of your forecast sources; Open-Meteo (free, no key) is the built-in default at the end of the chain.

Per-field priority and backup chain

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Where weather data comes in: a local station (Tempest, Ecowitt), a cloud service (Open-Meteo, WeatherKit, NWS), MQTT, or Home Assistant. When several report the same reading, the higher-priority source wins. Add and edit these in Devices.

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Each reading has an ORDERED chain of sources. The top source that is reporting now wins; if it goes quiet the next takes over, so a reading is never lost. LocalSky sets a smart default order for your region (shown as "Automatic") and you can drag to make your own order ("Custom"). This is the main control whether or not you have local hardware: with cloud only, this is where you decide which service backs up which.

Soil moisture is bound per zone in the zone editor, not as a per-reading chain here.

Advanced: the raw chainmost people never open this

The region default order ("Automatic") comes from each source's per-region priority. The chains below are the explicit custom orders this page writes; a field not listed follows the default.

field_source_chains
(none, every field follows the region default)
forecast_provider
(auto, follow the chain)