Tempescope is a physical display that recreates the weather forecasted inside a box. Instructions for building the box are straightforward: search google for github kenkawakenkenke tempescope wiki
Are several control examples online for iPhone and Raspberry Pi 3. I am thinking Wio Link could be perfect.
Wio-Link can use IFTTT to set up triggers on the weather for a given day. Then turn on and off relays to the 12V water pump and mist generator. Lastly, animate some RGB lamps for sunrise, lightning.
#idea OpenTempescope
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Re: #idea OpenTempescope
Sounds nice, looking forward to see your project!
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Re: #idea OpenTempescope
Hi Wassabi,
Sounds Great idea, recently I made a weather forecast box which can talk using Rpi3, and I found a website named openweathermap where you can get the weather info freely, maybe you'll need it too.
About the trigger, You can use IFTTT and DoButton as well as a Grove Sensor, For example, install a sensor on your door (PIR sensor, Touch Sensor and so on), so that when you want to go out it'll update the weather automatically.
Regards
Jiankai.li
Sounds Great idea, recently I made a weather forecast box which can talk using Rpi3, and I found a website named openweathermap where you can get the weather info freely, maybe you'll need it too.
About the trigger, You can use IFTTT and DoButton as well as a Grove Sensor, For example, install a sensor on your door (PIR sensor, Touch Sensor and so on), so that when you want to go out it'll update the weather automatically.
Regards
Jiankai.li
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Re: #idea OpenTempescope
I went a slightly different way. I used the Advanced User Guide and reprogrammed my wio link from the Arduino IDE. Then pulled in a wunderground library for the ESP8266 to get the weather.
Resources:
OpenTempescope - https://github.com/kenkawakenkenke/temp ... pescope%3F
Wio Advanced Users Guide - https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Wio_Lin ... User-Guide
Arduino ESP8266 Library - https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
Weather Station Library - https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station
Lightning Animation - https://github.com/jamesabruce/cloudlamp
WiFi Manager - https://github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager
Resources:
OpenTempescope - https://github.com/kenkawakenkenke/temp ... pescope%3F
Wio Advanced Users Guide - https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Wio_Lin ... User-Guide
Arduino ESP8266 Library - https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
Weather Station Library - https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station
Lightning Animation - https://github.com/jamesabruce/cloudlamp
WiFi Manager - https://github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager
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Re: #idea OpenTempescope
I am still working on this and nearing completion. Basic animations are: Sunny, Cloudy, Raining, Thunderstorm, and Fog. The thunderstorm animation will also make small tornado in the chamber! 
Debugged:
Issues:

Debugged:
- Wifi Connect
- Wunderground Weather Parse
- Temp -> LED Color
- Lightning Effects
- Fan Control
- Wifi AP for initial wireless config (using smartphone)
- Set weather location and UTC offset during config
- Time sensitive forecast (today's forecast is in the past at night)
Issues:
- wio link resets after a dozen minutes or so, WD timeout?
- Wifi Credentials are sometimes forgotten through power cycle, may need to re-write the save process to use the eeprom
- Hardware: Atomizer. Tested ok on breadboard
- Hardware: Water Pump, have the parts
- Hardware: Configuration / Mode select button, the built in config button on D0 seems to be tied into the reset circuit if held too long.
- Software: Elevated forecast, reads tonight and tomorrow, displays worse of the two
- Software: Demo Mode (cycle through temperture colors while cycling through clouds / lightning / vortex)
- Software: Party Mode (Fog with sound reactive lightning, black alt color)