Set up LocalSky
About five minutes. Leave any time; your progress is saved on this device until you apply it at the end.
Where should LocalSky get its weather??
Next-rain probability, expected amounts, and the heat-stress + wind metrics the skip rules check. Live, refreshed every 30 minutes.
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Next-rain probability, expected amounts, and the heat-stress + wind metrics the skip rules check. Live, refreshed every 30 minutes.
Read full doc →LocalSky has two first-class sources of weather, and you can run either or both. A cloud weather service covers your location with no hardware (free options need no key). A weather station on your network is the strongest signal for the readings it carries. Below you have full control of both: turn on cloud providers, and add your station if you have one.
How they fit together: a live LAN station (Tempest, Ecowitt) always outranks cloud for the readings it covers; cloud fills the readings it does not, and backs it up if it goes quiet. So a no-hardware setup runs entirely on cloud, and a hardware setup uses cloud as a complement and a safety net. Cloud current conditions are model based, not a sensor in your yard, so they are not perfectly hyperlocal, but they are a legitimate source. Each option below states exactly what it provides.
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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Your weather stations (strongest signal)
Own a Tempest, Ecowitt, or Davis station on your network? Add it here and it takes priority over cloud for the readings it carries. A mixed device (an Ecowitt gateway that also reads soil) is added here as one source; its soil channels become assignable in the Zones step. Most people skip this and start on the cloud feeds.
No weather station added yet.
Everything you set here goes live when you finish setup: the cloud providers you turned on, and any station you added. To confirm a source is actually ingesting (and see its live readings), open the Sensors hub afterward, that is also where you can add or edit sensors any time, no wizard required. Change nothing and LocalSky runs on your region's free cloud feeds (and listens for a Tempest on your network if you have one).