I don’t think that this is an accurate characterization. There’s a complete API documentation pull-down on the top of every single forum web page, and a whole section of this forum dedicated to third-party integrations and apps that will display your station’s data nine ways to Sunday…and none of them purple.
If you don’t like their colors, feel free to make your own app!
Let me add a confession that I have not opened the Tempest app once since the purple version was released. My home weather station console is a wall-mounted tablet displaying the WeeWX Belchertown skin 24/7 in dark mode. That’s one of the big plusses of the Tempest ecosystem. You’re NOT locked in to using the purple app for anything but changing the configuration settings of your station.
If you want something to compare it to, I spent more than a Tempest station sells for to buy the API documents from Davis for their pre-Vantage serial logger. Talk about criminal, they charged hundreds of dollars for a multi-generation photocopy of some programmer’s notes and a floppy disc with obsolete sample code for an equally obsolete C compiler. Please click on the API pull-down at the top of this page now. if for no other reason than you CAN look at current/useful Tempest API documentation for free…
Today, after a PC reboot, the font on the main Tempest weather information screen was different that it had previously been. I actually liked it. But after restarting the Tempest web page, the font was back to what it had been previously. What could have caused this? There seems to be no options to change the font in the Tempest settings (windows 10 PC).
Perhaps if enough Tempest users STOPPED sharing their weather data on line. If enough users joined, then the Tempest folks would fix the App so the user can select any background color. Anyway, for now I’m swiching off sharing weather data. NOTE: Personally, I would be happy if they just went back to blue. Who know what god awful color they will use next!!!
Unless you make sure your hub isn’t connected to the internet, I think your are always sharing your data with weatherflow, just not with the rest of the world. Anyway a colour change isn’t worth all this. It’s just colour. I know people like to change colours but to disconnect the hub from the internet isn’t worth it
