Tempest weather station display options, compared
The Tempest weather station doesn’t come with a display. Tempest’s own store says so: “Tempest does not come with a dedicated display, but there are many other options to view your data.” This page covers every realistic Tempest weather station display: a tablet running the free Tempest app, a LightMap on the wall, Teapot, PiConsole on a Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant, DAKboard, and browser dashboards like myweatherdesk and Halcyon.
Full disclosure: we make Halcyon, one of the options below. We’ve tried to be straight about when you don’t need it. Prices checked September 12, 2026.
The short answer
- You have a spare tablet and just want your readings on the wall: the free Tempest app in Always On mode.
- You want something that looks like décor, not a screen: LightMap.
- Your spare screen is an iPad or a Mac: Teapot.
- You enjoy building things: PiConsole on a Raspberry Pi.
- You already run Home Assistant: add Tempest to your Home Assistant dashboard.
- You want a TV or monitor showing live data, radar and alerts: a browser dashboard.
Tempest display options at a glance
| Option | Runs on | Price | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempest app on a tablet | iPad or Android tablet | Free | The tablet stays on a charger around the clock. |
| LightMap Weather Display | Its own wall panel | $119 once | Light and animation, not a screen. No radar or charts. Indoor only. |
| Teapot for Tempest | iPhone, iPad, Mac | $12.99/yr | Apple devices only. History charts are still on its roadmap. |
| WeatherFlow PiConsole | Raspberry Pi + screen | Free + hardware | You maintain the Pi and its OS. Needs a CheckWX key too. |
| Home Assistant dashboard | Your Home Assistant display | Free | You build the dashboard yourself. |
| DAKboard | Any screen | Free plan, or from $5/mo | Not Tempest-specific. Station data comes via Weather Underground. |
| myweatherdesk | Any browser | Free | Sign in with your WeatherFlow account. |
| Halcyon (ours) | Any browser, TV, monitor | $14.99/yr, or Plus $59.99/yr | Paid. Tempest only. Charts and history need Plus. |
What to check before you pick a weather station display
- Readings or ambience. Some options show exact numbers; LightMap shows conditions as light.
- Radar and forecasts. Your station measures what’s happening in your yard. Radar shows what’s coming.
- History. Charts of past days and records are rarer than live readings, and often cost extra.
- Alerts where you live. Several options only carry US National Weather Service alerts. In Canada, check for Environment Canada support.
- What stays switched on. A tablet, Pi or TV runs around the clock. Pick hardware you don’t mind leaving on.
- The bill after year one. One-off purchase or subscription. The three-year table below does the arithmetic.
- Maintenance. Somebody has to update a Raspberry Pi. That somebody is you.
The Tempest app on a tablet
Free, and probably already on your phone. Tempest’s own advice for turning a spare tablet into a display is to install the Tempest app and turn on “Always On Mode” and “Full Screen Mode” in its settings (Tempest’s tablet guide).
For plenty of owners that’s the whole answer, and it costs nothing if the tablet was sitting in a drawer. What you give up is choice: you get the app’s own layout, and the tablet lives on a charger. You can also sign in at tempestwx.com in any browser for Tempest’s web view of your station.
LightMap Weather Display for Tempest
$119, sold by LightMaps and on Tempest’s own store. It isn’t a screen: it’s a printed acrylic panel, 5.5 × 11.5 inches and about a quarter-inch thick, lit from behind by LEDs. It connects to your Tempest account over 2.4 GHz WiFi and shows wind direction and speed, temperature, humidity, UV index, rain intensity and accumulation, moon phase, a forecast dial and critical weather alerts.
The trade-off is the same thing that makes it look good. It shows your conditions with light and animation rather than a screen, so there’s no radar map and no history charts. It’s indoor-only and runs off an included 24 VDC adapter. If you want weather as wall art, nothing else here does that.
Teapot for Tempest (iPhone, iPad and Mac)
Teapot runs on iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or newer) and on Macs with Apple silicon. It shows live station data with animated gauges, Nearcast daily and hourly forecasts, rain rate and storm totals, a radar map in its Storm View, and NWS alerts for US stations. History charts are on its roadmap rather than shipped. It’s a subscription on the App Store: $12.99 a year or $1.99 a month.
If your always-on screen is an iPad or a Mac, Teapot is a strong fit. If it’s an Android tablet, a Windows PC or a TV, it isn’t an option.
WeatherFlow PiConsole on a Raspberry Pi
PiConsole is free, open-source Python software by Peter Davis, and it set the bar for what a Tempest display should look like. We ran it for years before building Halcyon. It runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, 4 or 5 (a 4 or newer is recommended) with the official 7-inch touchscreen or an HDMI screen, and it also installs on Ubuntu 22.04 or newer. Setup asks for your WeatherFlow personal access token and a free CheckWX aviation weather key.
The software is free. The Pi, screen, power supply and SD card aren’t, and keeping the operating system current is your job. It’s also the one option here that supports the older WeatherFlow Smart Home Weather Station (AIR and SKY) as well as Tempest.
Home Assistant dashboards
If you already run Home Assistant, you don’t need anything new. It has two WeatherFlow integrations: WeatherFlow, which reads your Tempest hub on your local network, and WeatherFlow Cloud, which mirrors what the Tempest app shows. From there you build a dashboard like any other and put it on whatever screen shows your Home Assistant.
If you don’t run Home Assistant, installing it just to get a weather display is a lot of project for one screen.
DAKboard
DAKboard is a general-purpose wall display: calendars, photos, news and weather on one screen. It isn’t built for Tempest. Personal weather station data comes through its Weather Underground integration, and Tempest can share your station’s data with Weather Underground. There’s a free plan with one predefined screen; paid plans start at $5 a month billed yearly.
Pick it if weather shares the wall with the family calendar. If weather is the point, pick something else.
Browser dashboards: use a screen you already own
A browser dashboard runs in a web page, so it works on anything with a modern browser: a spare monitor, a laptop, an Android tablet or a TV. That makes it the practical way to put a Tempest weather station display on a big screen.
myweatherdesk
myweatherdesk is free. You connect it by signing in to your WeatherFlow account. It has layouts for phones and for portrait and landscape screens, hourly and daily forecasts, radar and satellite imagery, weather alerts, and an automatic day/night look.
Halcyon (ours)
Halcyon shows your Tempest’s live data in 11 animated panels, including temperature, wind, pressure, rain, lightning, forecast and astronomy, plus a radar panel, NWS and Environment Canada alerts, PurpleAir air quality, and panels that rotate on a timer. You connect it with a WeatherFlow personal access token, and your settings sync across devices. To put it on a TV, open it in the TV’s browser, cast a Chrome tab, or AirPlay from a Mac.
Basic is $14.99 a year. Plus is $59.99 a year and adds charts and history: heatmaps, records, data import and CSV export. Both start with a 7-day free trial. It’s built for a big screen first, and it only works with Tempest stations.
What each option costs over three years
| Option | Upfront | Per year | Three years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempest app on a tablet | $0 if you own a tablet | $0 | $0 |
| LightMap | $119 | $0 | $119 |
| Teapot | $0 | $12.99 | $38.97 |
| PiConsole | A Pi, screen and power supply | $0 | Hardware only |
| Home Assistant | Whatever runs it | $0 | Hardware only |
| DAKboard Essential | $0 | $60 | $180 |
| myweatherdesk | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Halcyon Basic | $0 | $14.99 | $44.97 |
| Halcyon Plus | $0 | $59.99 | $179.97 |
Devices you already own count as $0. DAKboard’s free plan is $0 too. The awkward row for us: three years of Halcyon Plus costs about the same as a LightMap.
Which one we’d pick, and when we wouldn’t pick ours
If you want a big always-on screen with live readings, radar and alerts, and you don’t want to maintain a Pi, we think Halcyon is the best fit. That’s why we built it.
We wouldn’t pick it if your station is an older AIR/SKY setup (Halcyon doesn’t support it; PiConsole does), if your only spare screen is an iPad (Teapot or the free app will do), if you want weather as wall art (LightMap), or if the free Tempest app on an old tablet already does what you need. Plenty of owners are in that last group.
Questions Tempest owners ask
Does the Tempest weather station come with a display?
No. Tempest’s own store says it “does not come with a dedicated display.” You see your data in the Tempest app, at tempestwx.com, or on one of the options on this page.
Can I show my Tempest on a TV or computer monitor?
Yes. A browser dashboard like Halcyon or myweatherdesk runs on anything with a modern browser: open it in a smart TV’s browser, cast a Chrome tab, or AirPlay from a Mac. PiConsole and Home Assistant can also drive an HDMI screen.
Do these work with older AIR and SKY stations?
PiConsole supports the older WeatherFlow Smart Home Weather Station as well as Tempest. Halcyon does not; it works with Tempest stations only. Check with any other option before you buy.
How often does a Tempest display update?
Displays that use WeatherFlow’s online feed get a full observation about once a minute and a quick wind reading about every three seconds. No display on that feed can update faster than WeatherFlow sends data.
Do I need a Raspberry Pi?
Only for PiConsole. Every other option on this page runs on a tablet, computer, TV or its own hardware.
Last updated September 2026. Written by DAB Worx Inc., the makers of Halcyon. Competitor details come from each product’s own website or app store listing, checked September 12, 2026.