pi-rain-radar
A self-contained Raspberry Pi and Docker rain radar display with animated observed rainfall, local history, outage-resilient playback and LAN multi-screen support.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 55 upvotes (top 15%) · 2 views
Niche: digital signage and virtual displays · 47 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- docker
- kiosk
- rain-radar
- rainviewer
- raspberry-pi
- self-hosted
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More like this: all 47 launches in digital signage and virtual displays →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a self-hosted Docker/Raspberry Pi dashboard that fetches public weather radar tiles, animates them in a web canvas or kiosk browser, and serves them over LAN, which is an ideal project for vibe coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1287 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #184 of 1288 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- dripfetch · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- rainy-osgi-activator · github · 2026-11-06 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Weather balloon to the stratosphere with a Raspberry Pi computer · hn · 2026-08-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- project-rain-oss · github · 2026-09-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- flightscope-public · github · 2026-11-03 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- keephaven · github · 2026-09-25 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Self-hosted Raspberry Pi wall display (no cloud, no subscription) · hn · 2026-04-20 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- WeatherOrNot a maximal weather app in the terminal · hn · 2025-11-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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