Personal weather stations
Use your Ambient Weather or WeatherFlow Tempest station for outdoor context instead of a distant OpenWeather city.
Product setup
- Open Dashboard → Settings on thermaltrace.dev.
- Under Outdoor weather source, choose Ambient or WeatherFlow.
- Enter credentials and save.
- Confirm the home weather card shows your station name.
Full guide: Personal weather stations on thermaltrace.dev
Ambient Weather
| Field | Where to find it |
|---|---|
| MAC address | Ambient dashboard → your station |
| API key | ambientweather.net → Account → API keys |
Operator: set AMBIENT_APPLICATION_KEY in Cloudflare Worker secrets (developer application key from Ambient). Users store their personal API key in Settings.
WeatherFlow Tempest
| Field | Where to find it |
|---|---|
| Station ID | tempestwx.com → station settings |
| Personal access token | Settings → Data Authorizations |
What uses outdoor weather
- Home weather card (signed-in)
- Indoor/outdoor delta on History
- Forecast freeze alerts (Member+)
- NWS freeze advisories (Pro)
- Cold-snap checklist on Overview
OpenWeather city remains the fallback if a personal station fetch fails. Forecast API calls still use OpenWeather at the station coordinates when lat/lon are available.
Push ingest alternative
To store every sensor reading in ThermalTrace history (not just the outdoor card), push via ingest instead: