Matt Rossman

ForecasWatch 2

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What it is

ForecasWatch 2 is a watchface for the Pebble smartwatch family. It supports all rectangular watches (Pebble Classic, Pebble Time, and Pebble 2).

Features

  • 3 week calenday
  • 24 hour weather graph
  • Multiple weather providers (Weather Underground, Dark Sky)
  • Battery indicator
  • Next sunrise or sunset time
  • GPS or manual location entry

Why I made it

I loved the original ForecasWatch face, but it stopped working after the free Weather Underground API was shut down. The developer was MIA after Pebble got bought by Fitbit. By making this an open source project, I could revive the watchface for myself and others and allow it to potentially live forever.

What I learned

This was my first experience developing for the Pebble platform. I learned how to use the Pebble SDK (C and PebbleKit JS) and how to use the Clay framework for settings configuration.