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.
Details
- External ID
- 1371743200
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- pi-rain-radar
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 55
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8415962080450935
- Tags
- docker, kiosk, rain-radar, rainviewer, raspberry-pi, self-hosted
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous robotics, drones, and sensor hardware
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- rain radar display and playback system for raspberry pi
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 427 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 428 (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 0.60
- 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 0.56
- keephaven · github · 2026-09-25 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Self-hosted Raspberry Pi wall display (no cloud, no subscription) · hn · 2026-04-20 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WeatherOrNot a maximal weather app in the terminal · hn · 2025-11-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- piserver · github · 2026-09-13 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PC-Monitor · github · 2026-09-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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