Local Weather Radar
by dravenst (community developer)popularity rank: 6
description: This app displays animated United States local radar images from the National Weather Service. Tap the screen to set the location, zoom level, and radar type. Touch and drag the radar image to see other areas of the map. App saves pan location between reloads and caches images appropriately. Radar Types: N0R: Base Reflectivity N0V: Base Velocity N1P: One-Hour Precipitation NCR: Composite Reflectivity NTP: Storm Total Precipitation N0Z: Base Reflectivity - Long Range Please log issues (and find the source code) here: [[http://code.google.com/p/chumby-local-weather-radar]] Enjoy! -Rob
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Comments
harmlessgryphon
– April 19 2023
It looks like NOAA may have added something that could make this widget work again. There are regional and USA images presented as GIFs that look like the old stuff. Load a local forecast on weather.gov. Look under additional resources, you'll see two RADAR images. One is the new pretty turd, the other is an old-school gif. Click the one that looks like the old gif and you'll be taken to a page with the images you want - several options, and it looks like you can remove the timestamp from the animation to get the latest image. For example: https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KCCX_loop.gif
dravenst
– December 30 2020
Sorry guys, as mentioned, it looks like the NOAA changed their website so the radar images are no longer available. It was a good run, thank you for your support.
harmlessgryphon
– December 24 2020
NOAA recently changed their RADAR page and made it "prettier" (read: slower than a dead possum frozen in the arctic ice) and it appears to have broken this widget.
[email protected]
– April 20 2020
Radar looks dead again. Any chances of reviving it?
dravenst
– January 24 2019
Sorry, it looks like there might be an issue with the proxy.chumby.com server handling the requests (there's a related thread in the forum on 1/21/19). I was asked to route all image requests through that server a couple years ago due to certificate issues on certain chumby models.
[email protected]
– January 24 2019
All I get is: Load failed: URLNotFound http_error:0 path:http://proxy.chumby.com/proxy/https%3A%2F%2Fradar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/N0R/FTG_5.png
[email protected]
– January 24 2019
Doesn't seem to be working again. Down for several days now. Any updates? This is literally the only channel I use on my chumby-fied dash.
tkillday3
– July 14 2017
I have noticed that it seems like it only updates maybe 3 or 4 times a day, so you are always looking at what passed through a few hours ago. Not much good.
tryx911
– June 09 2017
No it seems like it's pulling down radar again but it's pulling down the radar that is an hour old. Ugh I just wanted this app to work.
tryx911
– June 06 2017
It stopped working again... Ugh and it's my favorite app of all!
tkillday3
– March 13 2017
Yes, it works for me again as well, with an Insignia 3.5 inch. Thanks!
demarks51
– March 13 2017
Doesn't work on Sony Dash anymore.
benlstevens
– March 13 2017
Thanks for the update. The radars now work on my chumby 8's.... Except for the Velocity radar....
dravenst
– March 12 2017
It looks like the government changed to https. I updated the app, but it's been awhile and I don't have a way to test so let me know if it works.
appleb
– March 12 2017
I agree, not working for me now either.
tkillday3
– February 28 2017
This isn't working for me and at least one other user in the forum. It just says "Loading" for the entire time. I noticed some of the sites that were http are now https addresses. Could this be affecting this app? Problem started in early to mid Feb 2017 I think.
dravenst
– November 04 2011
I fixed a possible memory leak and did some cleanup on the image loading. The configuration dialogue box can now be closed/cancelled by touching the map. Please report any issues you find (or request additional features) on the Google code site mentioned above. Thank you.
dravenst
– October 25 2011
@wicksken - I only updated the description, not the code on 10/24. Could you elaborate on what "it no longer works" means? I'm currently running the app on the Dash and it works fine. Please log more details of the issue on the google code site I have in the description above. One suggestion is delete the app and re-add it to your channel (the Sony device has issues periodically with having apps get corrupted.)
wicksken
– October 25 2011
You updated it on 10/24/11 and it no longer works. It was one of the best apps for me.
dravenst
– October 07 2011
My understanding is that the I8 with C8 firmware is not an officially supported config. However, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work. I use a standard MovieClipLoader to grab the images and a timer to automatically get the latest images after 4 minutes of continuous play. As a work around, you may want to setup your channel to change apps regularly to force a reload.
sultnwoz
– September 30 2011
Now on my Insignia Infocast with the Chumby 8 firmware...the image seems to get "stuck", like Friday morning it is still playing some image it grabbed from the day before. The radar image is being cached somewhere. Restarting the Infocast makes it pick up a new one, but about 18 hours later it stops refreshing the image! Can fix?
cjmc1
– August 21 2011
Love this app. I live In Florida where there are almost allways scattered showers and so an animated weather radar is the only effective way to know if it might rain. This app has been what my chumby has been missing so thanks alot. Also great job on coverage of West Florida. I also must say it looks fine on my 3.5in screen.
dravenst
– August 06 2011
Added mention of United States to clarify the description.
Mithos
– August 06 2011
Even if it's perceptible at a glance like in this case that an app is only working as intended for the US of A, it would be nice to add this information to the description of any respective app.
spunk_
– July 31 2011
what is to do for display it in germany?
sultnwoz
– July 28 2011
Thanks, eventually it appeared on my Chumby One. Today 7/28 though it seems to have disappeared from the Chumby site! But it is on the Insignia site (I have both devices), hence I had to reply from there (@cdrmrsr). It works well, hope it's going to stay around.
chumzter
– July 27 2011
@cdrmrsr - I just tested this app on our chumby one devices here at this app is showing up fine. Have you tried a channel refresh or reboot? If you need further assistance with this come see us in support (http://www.chumby.com/pages/help). -chumby support
cdrmrsr
– July 27 2011
I put this on my Chumby One channel and it doesn't even show up! If this is not available on Chumby One, you need to flag it or something so we don't try to use these widgets if they're not going to work.
dravenst
– July 26 2011
Thanks for the feedback. I will see what I can do about remembering the panned position between reloads. I will also adjust the zooming control to allow < 100% zoom levels. And I agree a decent radar app has been long overdue...enough for someone who would never be mistaken for a 'developer' to take a crack at writing it! :)
Plank
– July 26 2011
Finally, after all these years, a wise developer writes a decent radar app! It looks great on the big screen chumbys. On the small screen, I have to pan too much to find my city even at 100% zoom. The next time the app reloads, it doesn't remember where I left and I have to start over.
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