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Weather station (SaxWeather)

SaxWeather is my iOS/macOS weather app and its public marketing site at weather.saxobroko.com. Repo: github.com/saxobroko/SaxWeather.

Not the same thing as homelab infra monitoring — see Monitoring for SaxoStatus.

What SaxWeather is

SwiftUI app (iOS 17+, macOS 14+, Xcode 15+) that aggregates forecasts from multiple providers into one customisable experience:

Source Role
Apple WeatherKit Primary Apple ecosystem data
Open-Meteo Open forecast + rain nowcasts
Weather Underground PWS and WU network
OpenWeatherMap Alternative API
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Australian warnings
Personal weather stations Home Ecowitt PWS ISUNBU78 (Sunbury) via Wunderground

App features (from marketing site + README): themes, home-screen widgets, iCloud theme sync, proximity-filtered BOM warnings, quiet hours, spoken alerts, on-device AI summaries (Apple Intelligence), Lottie animated condition icons, accessibility (Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, reduce motion).

Community translations: Crowdin — see repo TRANSLATING.md.

URLs

URL Purpose
weather.saxobroko.com App marketing / feature showcase
App Store Linked from marketing site ("Download on iOS")
github.com/saxobroko/SaxWeather Source
Public sites Hosting vs tunnel-backed homelab

Home PWS — Sunbury

Physical station at home in Sunbury, VIC. Data uploads to Weather Underground; SaxWeather can pull it via the WU / PWS integration.

Field Value
Brand Ecowitt
WU PWS ID ISUNBU78
WU dashboard wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ISUNBU78
Location Home LAN, Sunbury

Data path

Ecowitt sensors → Ecowitt console/gateway → WU upload → ISUNBU78 on Weather Underground
                                                              ↓
                                                    SaxWeather app (WU / PWS source)
Layer Notes
Sensors / console Ecowitt — fill in exact model (e.g. WS90, GW2000) when noted on the unit
Upload Ecowitt → Weather Underground as ISUNBU78
SaxWeather Select WU / personal station source; station ID ISUNBU78
Marketing site weather.saxobroko.com — static on Cloudflare (public, no geo block)
App backend No SaxWeather server — WU and other APIs called from device

When something breaks

  1. WU dashboard stale — check Ecowitt console/gateway power, Wi‑Fi, and WU upload settings on the Ecowitt side
  2. SaxWeather shows wrong/missing PWS data — confirm station ID ISUNBU78 in app; WU may lag a few minutes
  3. Site down vs station down — weather.saxobroko.com is marketing only; live readings are on WU and in the app

Development
Language Swift / SwiftUI
Last repo activity Jul 2026 (very active)
Stars 7 on GitHub

Build and release on Apple platforms; Windows PC is not the compile target — see PC specs.

Why document it

So I remember how PWS + API keys + App Store releases fit together when something breaks or a domain needs DNS/WAF changes. SaxWeather marketing site is intentionally public (not behind block no aus like homelab hosts).