Homepage
Choose what your public site shows: Overview cards, sections and tabs, the wind rose and compass, a Windy map, a webcam, a TV display and the public API.
Open Website → Homepage to choose what your site shows. Its four tabs are Stations and cards, Sections and tabs, Maps and media and Display options; Save makes the changes live. How it all looks, and the order of tabs and tiles, is set under Design → Layout.
A section with no data hides itself, so leaving one switched on costs nothing.
Stations and cards
- Stations (only with more than one station): which station the site reads from. Leave all unchecked to use your WeatherLink station, or your pushed hardware when you have none.
- Overview cards: the readings beside the temperature (humidity, wind, gust, pressure, rain today, dew point, solar, UV, air quality). Leaving all unchecked shows every card your station has data for.
Sections and tabs
- Sun and Moon, Sky events, Forecast and Severe weather warnings need your station's coordinates and are greyed out without them. See Forecast for how a station gets a location.
- Almanac, Climate reports and Garden and agriculture are Pro features built from your archive. The almanac and reports appear once about a week of data exists.
- Sensors: lightning and extra channels; hidden when your hardware reports neither.
- Chart builder: lets visitors query your archive, up to 400 days at a time. See Build a chart.
The Overview, the measurement tabs and Air quality appear on their own when your station reports the data. Diary appears once you write an entry, and About once you fill in Website → About.
Maps and media
- Wind and sky: the moon on the astronomy section, the live wind compass, and the wind rose with 8 or 16 directions.
- Weather map (needs coordinates): a Windy.com map centred on your station, with the layer, forecast model and zoom it opens on.
- Webcam: paste the direct URL of a still image (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF or AVIF, up to 5 MB), usually listed in your camera's manual as the "snapshot" URL. A video stream or web page will not work. Clear the field to remove the section.
Our servers fetch the webcam image every few minutes and serve it from your
site, so visitors never connect to your camera. Plain http:// cameras work,
and a camera that needs a login works with
http://user:password@camera.example.com/snapshot.jpg; the credentials never
reach the page.
Charts
Under Display options, Default range is the window charts open on: 24 hours (the default), 7, 30 or 90 days, or a year. Visitors can still switch. A longer range only applies once your archive reaches back that far. Chart colours and style are under Design → Extras.
TV display
A full-screen view for a wall screen or tablet, at /tv on your site's
address (for example https://ardooie.pro-weather.com/tv). It fits the
screen, uses large type, refreshes itself and rotates through screens.
Turn on Enable the TV display, then choose:
- Screens: Now (always on) plus the temperature chart and the forecast. A screen with nothing to show yet is skipped.
- Switch screens every: 15 seconds to 2 minutes.
- Colour mode: same as your site, light or dark.
Open the address in the screen's browser and go full screen (F11, or kiosk mode). It shows the same data, tiles, units and language as your site, and is never listed by search engines.
Public data
- Public data API and RSS feed: your current conditions as JSON at
/api/v1/<your-subdomain>/currentand RSS at/feed.xml, with only what your public page already shows. See Public API & RSS feed. - Publish station health: battery, signal and freshness figures for visitors. See Station health.
Starting over
Reset homepage, at the bottom of the page, switches every card and section back on and returns the other options to how a new site starts. That includes switching on the weather map, chart builder, station health and TV display, so switch off afterwards anything you want private. Your webcam address and station choice are kept. There is no undo. Design has its own reset.
