Zambretti Weather Forecaster

Zambretti Forecaster, uses the Barometer for empirical weather forecast in the Northern Hemisphere (see https://web.archive.org/web/20110610213848/http://www.meteormetrics.com/zambretti.htm), similar to weather stations. Watch must be stationary and its height above sea level set.

Uses code from widbaroalarm for measurements (boot.js)

apps/zambretti/app-icon.js

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apps/zambretti/app.js

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+/**
+ * https://web.archive.org/web/20110610213848/http://www.meteormetrics.com/zambretti.htm
+ */
+
+const storage = require('Storage');
+const Layout = require("Layout");
+
+let height;
+let mainScreen = false;
+
+const ZAMBRETTI_FORECAST = {
+A: /*LANG*/'Settled Fine',
+B: /*LANG*/'Fine Weather',
+C: /*LANG*/'Becoming Fine',
+D: /*LANG*/'Fine Becoming Less Settled',
+E: /*LANG*/'Fine, Possibly showers',
+F: /*LANG*/'Fairly Fine, Improving',
+G: /*LANG*/'Fairly Fine, Possibly showers, early',
+H: /*LANG*/'Fairly Fine Showery Later',
+I: /*LANG*/'Showery Early, Improving',
+J: /*LANG*/'Changeable Mending',
+K: /*LANG*/'Fairly Fine, Showers likely',
+L: /*LANG*/'Rather Unsettled Clearing Later',
+M: /*LANG*/'Unsettled, Probably Improving',
+N: /*LANG*/'Showery Bright Intervals',
+O: /*LANG*/'Showery Becoming more unsettled',
+P: /*LANG*/'Changeable some rain',
+Q: /*LANG*/'Unsettled, short fine Intervals',
+R: /*LANG*/'Unsettled, Rain later',
+S: /*LANG*/'Unsettled, rain at times',
+T: /*LANG*/'Very Unsettled, Finer at times',
+U: /*LANG*/'Rain at times, worse later.',
+V: /*LANG*/'Rain at times, becoming very unsettled',
+W: /*LANG*/'Rain at Frequent Intervals',
+X: /*LANG*/'Very Unsettled, Rain',
+Y: /*LANG*/'Stormy, possibly improving',
+Z: /*LANG*/'Stormy, much rain',
+};
+
+const ZAMBRETTI_FALLING = {
+	1050: 'A',
+	1040: 'B',
+	1024: 'C',
+	1018: 'H',
+	1010: 'O',
+	1004: 'R',
+	 998: 'U',
+	 991: 'V',
+	 985: 'X',
+};
+
+const ZAMBRETTI_STEADY = {
+	1033: 'A',
+	1023: 'B',
+	1014: 'E',
+	1008: 'K',
+	1000: 'N',
+	 994: 'P',
+	 989: 'S',
+	 981: 'W',
+	 974: 'X',
+	 960: 'Z',
+};
+
+const ZAMBRETTI_RISING = {
+	1030: 'A',
+	1022: 'B',
+	1012: 'C',
+	1007: 'F',
+	1000: 'G',
+	 995: 'I',
+	 990: 'J',
+	 984: 'L',
+	 978: 'M',
+	 970: 'Q',
+	 965: 'T',
+	 959: 'Y',
+	 947: 'Z',
+};
+
+function correct_season(letter, dir) {
+  const month = new Date().getMonth() + 1;
+  const location = require("Storage").readJSON("mylocation.json",1)||{"lat":51.5072,"lon":0.1276,"location":"London"};
+  const northern_hemisphere = location.lat > 0;
+  const summer = northern_hemisphere ? (month >= 4 && month <= 9) : (month >= 10 || month <= 3);
+
+  let corr = 0;
+  if (dir < 0 && !summer) { // Winter falling
+    corr = -1;
+  } else if (dir > 0 && summer) { // Summer rising
+    corr = 1;
+  }
+  return String.fromCharCode(letter.charCodeAt(0)+corr);
+}
+
+function get_zambretti_letter(pressure, dir) {
+  let table = () => {
+    if (dir < 0) { // Barometer Falling
+      return ZAMBRETTI_FALLING;
+    } else if (dir == 0) { // Barometer Steady
+      return ZAMBRETTI_STEADY;
+    } else { // Barometer Rising
+      return ZAMBRETTI_RISING;
+    }
+  }();
+
+  const closest = Object.keys(table).reduce(function(prev, curr) {
+    return (Math.abs(curr - pressure) < Math.abs(prev - pressure) ? curr : prev);
+  });
+
+  return correct_season(table[closest], dir);
+}
+
+function loadSettings() {
+  const settings = require('Storage').readJSON("zambretti.json", true) || {};
+  height = settings.height;
+}
+
+function showMenu() {
+  const menu = {
+    "" : {
+      title : "Zambretti Forecast",
+    },
+    "< Back": () => {
+      E.showMenu();
+      layout.forgetLazyState();
+      show();
+    },
+    /*LANG*/"Exit": () => load(),
+    /*LANG*/"Settings": () =>
+      eval(require('Storage').read('zambretti.settings.js'))(() => {
+        loadSettings();
+        showMenu();
+      }),
+    'Plot history': () => {E.showMenu(); history();},
+  };
+  E.showMenu(menu);
+}
+
+const layout = new Layout({
+  type:"v", c: [
+    {type:"txt", font:"9%", label:/*LANG*/"Zambretti Forecast", bgCol:g.theme.bgH, fillx: true, pad: 1},
+    {type:"txt", font:"12%", id:"forecast", filly: 1, wrap: 1, width: Bangle.appRect.w, pad: 1},
+    {type:"h", c:[
+      {type: 'v', c:[
+        {type:"txt", font:"9%", label:/*LANG*/"Pressure  ", pad: 3, halign: -1},
+        {type:"txt", font:"9%", label:/*LANG*/"Difference", pad: 3, halign: -1},
+        {type:"txt", font:"9%", label:/*LANG*/"Temperature", pad: 3, halign: -1},
+      ]},
+      {type: 'v', c:[
+        {type:"txt", font:"9%", id:"pressure", pad: 3, halign: -1},
+        {type:"txt", font:"9%", id:"diff", pad: 3, halign: -1},
+        {type:"txt", font:"9%", id:"temp", pad: 3, halign: -1},
+      ]}
+    ]},
+  ]
+}, {lazy:true});
+
+function draw(temperature) {
+  const history3 = storage.readJSON("zambretti.log.json", true) || []; // history of recent 3 hours
+  const pressure_cur = history3[history3.length-1].p;
+  const pressure_last = history3[0].p;
+  const diff = pressure_cur - pressure_last;
+  const pressure_sea = Math.round(pressure_cur * Math.pow(1 - (0.0065 * height) / (temperature + (0.0065 * height) + 273.15),-5.257));
+
+  layout.forecast.label = ZAMBRETTI_FORECAST[get_zambretti_letter(pressure_sea, diff)];
+  layout.pressure.label = pressure_sea;
+  layout.diff.label = diff;
+  layout.temp.label = require("locale").number(temperature,1);
+  layout.render();
+  //layout.debug();
+
+  mainScreen = true;
+  Bangle.setUI({
+    mode: "custom",
+    btn: (n) => {mainScreen = false; showMenu();},
+  });
+}
+
+function show() {
+  Bangle.getPressure().then(p =>{if (p) draw(p.temperature);});
+}
+
+function history() {
+  const interval = 15; // minutes
+  const history3 = require('Storage').readJSON("zambretti.log.json", true) || []; // history of recent 3 hours
+
+  const now = new Date()/(1000);
+  let curtime = now-3*60*60; // 3h ago
+  const data = [];
+  while (curtime <= now) {
+    // find closest value in history for this timestamp
+    const closest = history3.reduce((prev, curr) => {
+      return (Math.abs(curr.ts - curtime) < Math.abs(prev.ts - curtime) ? curr : prev);
+    });
+    data.push(closest.p);
+    curtime += interval*60;
+  }
+
+  Bangle.setUI({
+    mode: "custom",
+    back: () => showMenu(),
+  });
+
+  g.reset().setFont("6x8",1);
+  require("graph").drawLine(g, data, {
+    axes: true,
+    x: 4,
+    y: Bangle.appRect.y+8,
+    height: Bangle.appRect.h-20,
+    gridx: 1,
+    gridy: 1,
+    miny: Math.min.apply(null, data)-1,
+    maxy: Math.max.apply(null, data)+1,
+    title: /*LANG*/"Barometer history (mBar)",
+    ylabel: y => y,
+    xlabel: i => {
+      const t = -3*60 + interval*i;
+      if (t % 60 === 0) {
+        return "-" + t/60 + "h";
+      }
+      return "";
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+g.reset().clear();
+loadSettings();
+Bangle.loadWidgets();
+
+if (height === undefined) {
+  // setting of height required
+  eval(require('Storage').read('zambretti.settings.js'))(() => {
+    loadSettings();
+    show();
+  });
+} else {
+  show();
+}
+Bangle.drawWidgets();
+
+// Update every 15 minutes
+setInterval(() => {
+  if (mainScreen) {
+    show();
+  }
+}, 15*60*1000);

apps/zambretti/boot.js

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+{
+  // Copied from widbaroalarm
+  const LOG_FILE = "zambretti.log.json";
+  const history3 = require('Storage').readJSON(LOG_FILE, true) || []; // history of recent 3 hours
+  let currentPressures = [];
+
+  isValidPressureValue = (pressure) => {
+    return !(pressure == undefined || pressure <= 0);
+  };
+
+  calculcate3hAveragePressure = () => {
+    if (history3 != undefined && history3.length > 0) {
+      let sum = 0;
+      for (let i = 0; i < history3.length; i++) {
+        sum += history3[i].p;
+      }
+      threeHourAvrPressure = sum / history3.length;
+    } else {
+      threeHourAvrPressure = undefined;
+    }
+  };
+
+  handlePressureValue = (pressure) => {
+    if (pressure == undefined || pressure <= 0) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const ts = Math.round(Date.now() / 1000); // seconds
+    const d = {"ts" : ts, "p" : pressure};
+
+    history3.push(d);
+
+    // delete oldest entries until we have max 50
+    while (history3.length > 50) {
+      history3.shift();
+    }
+
+    // delete entries older than 3h
+    for (let i = 0; i < history3.length; i++) {
+      if (history3[i].ts < ts - (3 * 60 * 60)) {
+        history3.shift();
+      } else {
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+
+    // write data to storage
+    require('Storage').writeJSON(LOG_FILE, history3);
+
+    calculcate3hAveragePressure();
+  };
+
+  barometerPressureHandler = (e) => {
+    const MEDIANLENGTH = 20;
+    while (currentPressures.length > MEDIANLENGTH)
+      currentPressures.pop();
+
+    const pressure = e.pressure;
+    if (isValidPressureValue(pressure)) {
+      currentPressures.unshift(pressure);
+      let median = currentPressures.slice().sort();
+
+      if (median.length > 10) {
+        var mid = median.length >> 1;
+        medianPressure = Math.round(E.sum(median.slice(mid - 4, mid + 5)) / 9);
+        if (medianPressure > 0) {
+          turnOff();
+          handlePressureValue(medianPressure);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  };
+
+  /*
+  turn on barometer power
+  take multiple measurements
+  sort the results
+  take the middle one (median)
+  turn off barometer power
+  */
+  getPressureValue = () => {
+    Bangle.setBarometerPower(true, "zambretti");
+    Bangle.on('pressure', barometerPressureHandler);
+    setTimeout(turnOff, 30000);
+  };
+
+  turnOff = () => {
+    Bangle.removeListener('pressure', barometerPressureHandler);
+    Bangle.setBarometerPower(false, "zambretti");
+  };
+
+  // delay pressure measurement by interval-lastrun
+  const interval = 15; // minutes
+  const lastRun = history3.length > 0 ? history3[history3.length-1].ts : 0;
+  const lastRunAgo = Math.round(Date.now() / 1000) - lastRun;
+  let diffNextRun = interval*60-lastRunAgo;
+  if (diffNextRun < 0) {
+    diffNextRun = 0; // run asap
+  }
+  setTimeout(() => {
+    if (interval > 0) {
+      setInterval(getPressureValue, interval * 60000);
+    }
+    getPressureValue();
+  }, diffNextRun*1000);
+}

apps/zambretti/metadata.json

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+{
+  "id": "zambretti",
+  "name": "Zambretti Weather Forecaster",
+  "shortName": "Zb. Weather",
+  "version": "0.01",
+  "description": "Zambretti Forecaster, uses the Barometer for empirical weather forecast in the Northern Hemisphere (see https://web.archive.org/web/20110610213848/http://www.meteormetrics.com/zambretti.htm), similar to weather stations. Watch must be stationary and its height above sea level set.",
+  "icon": "app.png",
+  "tags": "outdoors,weather",
+  "supports": ["BANGLEJS2"],
+  "dependencies":  {"mylocation":"app"},
+  "screenshots": [ {"url":"screenshot.png"} ],
+  "storage": [
+    {"name":"zambretti.app.js","url":"app.js"},
+    {"name":"zambretti.settings.js","url":"settings.js"},
+    {"name":"zambretti.boot.js","url":"boot.js"},
+    {"name":"zambretti.img","url":"app-icon.js","evaluate":true}
+  ],
+  "data": [{"name":"zambretti.json"}, {"name":"zambretti.log.json"}]
+}
+

apps/zambretti/settings.js

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+(function(back) {
+  const FILE = "zambretti.json";
+  // Load settings
+  const settings = Object.assign({
+    height: 0,
+  }, require('Storage').readJSON(FILE, true) || {});
+
+  function writeSettings() {
+    require('Storage').writeJSON(FILE, settings);
+  }
+
+  // Show the menu
+  E.showMenu({
+    "" : { "title" : "Zambretti Forecast" },
+    "< Back" : () => back(),
+    'Height above sea level (m)': {
+      value: settings.height,
+      min: 0, max: 1000,
+      onchange: v => {
+        settings.height = v;
+        writeSettings();
+      }
+    },
+  });
+})

lang/de_DE.json

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         "quarter to *$2": "viertel vor *$2",
         "ten to *$2": "zehn vor *$2",
         "five to *$2": "fünf vor *$2"
+    },
+    "zambretti": {
+        "//": "App-specific overrides",
+        "Settled Fine": "Beständig sonnig",
+        "Fine Weather": "Sonniges Wetter",
+        "Becoming Fine": "Es wird schöner",
+        "Fine Becoming Less Settled": "Sonnig, Tendenz unbeständiger",
+        "Fine, Possibly showers": "Sonnig, eventuell Schauer",
+        "Fairly Fine, Improving": "Heiter bis wolkig, Besserung zu erwarten",
+        "Fairly Fine, Possibly showers, early": "Heiter bis wolkig, anfangs evtl. Schauer",
+        "Fairly Fine Showery Later": "Heiter bis wolkig, später Regen",
+        "Showery Early, Improving": "Anfangs noch Schauer, dann Besserung",
+        "Changeable Mending": "Wechselhaft mit Schauern",
+        "Fairly Fine, Showers likely": "Heiter bis wolkig, vereinzelt Regen",
+        "Rather Unsettled Clearing Later": "Unbeständig, spaeter Aufklarung",
+        "Unsettled, Probably Improving": "Unbeständig, evtl. Besserung.",
+        "Showery Bright Intervals": "Regnerisch mit heiteren Phasen",
+        "Showery Becoming more unsettled": "Regnerisch, wird unbeständiger",
+        "Changeable some rain": "Wechselhaft mit etwas Regen",
+        "Unsettled, short fine Intervals": "Unbeständig mit heiteren Phasen",
+        "Unsettled, Rain later": "Unbeständig, später Regen",
+        "Unsettled, rain at times": "Unbeständig mit etwas Regen",
+        "Very Unsettled, Finer at times": "Wechselhaft und regnerisch",
+        "Rain at times, worse later.": "Gelegentlich Regen, Verschlechterung",
+        "Rain at times, becoming very unsettled": "Zuweilen Regen, sehr unbeständig",
+        "Rain at Frequent Intervals": "Häufiger Regen",
+        "Very Unsettled, Rain": "Regen, sehr unbeständig",
+        "Stormy, possibly improving": "Stürmisch, evtl. Besserung",
+        "Stormy, much rain": "Stürmisch mit viel Regen"
     }
-}
+}