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rittels

Hi Windy fans and Aviators

I have been (very slowly) working on this for a while. It might be somewhat superfluous, since @marekd is creating something similar.

There are still kinks to be ironed out, but usable:

Go to windy.com/plugins and enter windy-plugin-fp. Once loaded, right click/long press on the map for context menu. Then click Flight planner.
The plugin is meant for recreational VFR flight planning.
Use the weather picker to plot a route.
You can also upload a route. (Upload formats: .gpx, .ep1, .efp. Download: .gpx.)
Airports (found in the Windy Airports layer) can be used to add a waypoint.
Sliding the aircraft icon along the route will set the Windy map to the appropriate time and altitude.
Altitude, speed, time and date can be set for selected legs.
Long press on a row in the flight plan to select single leg.
Click the "Read Wx" button to fly along the flight plan and read the weather data. Do not move the map during this period, may take a minute or more.
Ground speed and corrected ETE are then calculated.
"Allow Drag" button allows dragging the waypoints. "Lock Drag" again to prevent dragging accidentally.
In the Settings menu: Alert values for different overlays can be set. The alert sections will then be marked with red along the route after "Read Wx" has run.
Airspace data from openAIP.net has been translated to geojson and can be loaded in the Airspace menu. Do not load too many countries.

hope it is of value....

Latest version: windy-plugin-fp@0.1.8 : Added @marekd 's route planner .

rittels

Good afternoon Windy community

This plugin is a team effort, by @mhaberler and myself. Thank you for @vicb for the use of your code and @johnckealy for the initial inspiration.

Our plugin displays radiosonde (weather balloon) data on Windy. You can then compare it to recent historical forecasts.

Please read the comprehensive description on Michaels blog: https://blog.mah.priv.at/release-announcement-windy-plugin-radiosonde/

We hope you enjoy it!!

PS: It is interesting to use it with the new thermal layer.

rittels

windy-plugin-cov

Still requires some work, but usable.

rittels

windy-plugin-day-night

A day-night terminator plugin, using Vladimir Agafonkin's SunCalc library. (This is also used for the sun-position plugin, by @jacobsjo) .

Changes: v 0.0.36 (21-12-2020):

It is possible to either close the left pane and keep the lines active, or uninstall the plugin complete. (Few plugins uninstall cleanly.)
Windy style time progress bar added for Full year (desktop and mobile).
Different terminator times, for the picker position, displayed in left pane as the picker is moved.
Click on a time-pair to display this in the picker if you want.
Time zone name, daylight saving time rules and offset displayed.
Terminator lines are responsive to the satellite of radar overlay timestamps.
Use the URL to open at a location or time like this:
https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-day-night?lat=-42.5&lng=146.3&date=2020-11-18T06:00Z

7-Jan-21: Optimized plotting the lines, now smoother and a bit faster.

rittels

Hi

This plugin reads the warnings geojson data from http://www.weathersa.co.za/warnings and displays it on Windy.

Hope the SA weather services don't have objections.

For those not familiar with plugins:

URL: www.windy.com/plugins.
Type in: windy-plugin-saws-warnings and click Load plugin.
Hopefully Borat will appear.
Close plugin pane and right click on screen for context menu. Then click SAWS warnings.
Load may take several seconds.
Use the weather picker to view different regions and warnings.
So far only today shown, not tomorrow and D3-5.

Probably still buggy.
enjoy

rittels

@ivo and team

Thanks for negotiating with ECMWF!

It is an honour to be a core windy contributor.

rittels

Updated Plugins gallery

Thank you @ivo and @marekd for the opportunity to refactor the plugin gallery.

This is a description of the new features, and specifically on how to provide data via the URL query string.

Load and Open buttons

Load will load the plugin, but not execute the code. Once loaded, clicking this button will open the message box, with the opportunity to view the debug log.
Open will load and open the plugin.
Loaded plugin cards get a red border.
Once a plugin (or more) has been loaded, the option appears to show only loaded plugins.

Plugin order

The plugins can be rearranged by dragging them up or down. The new order is stored in localStorage.

Autoloading

Approved plugins can be prepared to be loaded from the query string:
www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-pluginName?QUERY.
QUERY is structured like this: param1=x& param2=y (no spaces).
Once pluginName is confirmed as an approved plugin, the QUERY part is sent to the loaded plugin as a property: W.plugins["windy-plugin-pluginName"].query. You can reach it with this.query.
The user is shown a warning message, with the option to return to windy.com, or open the plugin. The purpose of the warning message is to ensure that the user understands that the plugin was created by an external developer, not by Windy.
The query data is displayed below the card.
The plugin requested to be autoloaded gets a blue border.
There is also an option the show all plugins, the requested plugins will remain at the top.
Since the order has now changed, rearranging the cards now will not be stored.

Setting the query string

If you wish to set the URL query string from within your plugin, do this:

import location from '@windy/location';
import broadcast from '@windy/broadcast';

this.hasURL = true;  

const setQs = qs => {
    location.url(`plugins/${this.ident}?${qs}`); 
}  

setQs("param1=123&whatever=xyz");

However, the query string will be overwritten by other processes. You can then reset it with, for instance:

broadcast.on("pluginOpened",e => {
    if (e==this.ident) setQs("param1=x&whatever=y") 
})

Listeners added

If a plugin is opened:
- the property lastOpened is set to true.
- The function onOtherPluginOpened is called (if it has been defined) in the other plugins, with the opened plugin id as parameter. This will allow the author of the other plugin to deactivate listeners and remove elements when their plugin loses focus.
- The W.plugins.plugins.lastPluginOpened is set to the id of the last opened plugin.

Other changes

The form for the plugins loaded directly from npm, can now be closed.
If an unapproved plugin is opened, from the form, a card is created and added to the top of the list. This can also be dragged around, but the position is not stored.
It is impossible to pass a query string to the unapproved plugin.
The cards can be collapsed, to be viewed as a list.

Mobile

Unfortunately the plugin gallery is not available in the mobile app, due to security reasons.
There is also no link in the mobile version of Windy.com to the plugins.
It is possible to open a plugin by pasting the plugin URL in the address bar. (thus www.windy.com/plugins)
The problem is that clicking on the plugin link ( www.windy.com/plugins ), triggers the installed app on mobile devices.
Hopefully, it will be possible in the future to redirect plugins to the default mobile browser.

Todo

Uninstalling / unloading a plugin is complex. Since it is up to the plugin author to remove all the map elements and listeners and CSS changes. The easiest is still to uninstall all plugins.
There are still a few small bugs.

rittels

For sailors:

Go to windy.com/plugins.
Load plugin directly from npm: Enter windy-plugin-polars.
Select a boat to load the polar plot.
Place the picker.
Drag the arrow head for direction.
The plugin will show your speed.

First step towards a sailing planner.

@idefix37 @thomhada @chrisanifadis @JohnB2

rittels

@d4no111

www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-waterwatch

Recently fixed.

Only US rivers.

rittels

windy-plugin-da

Fun with data loader!!!

rittels

@bradleycw needs some attention, sorry

rittels

@guy_bottlaender

Thank you.

Yes, geopotential height is not available for Arome, via Windy. I use calculated values, which is not ideal.

Would you recommend that I leave it out, or use ECMWF?

rittels

@idefix37 @dr-mdgrant-windy @marekd

The problem seems to come from the backend:

Weird values. It is very intermittent though. Speed does not appear to play a role, rather the number of waypoints. Probably an interpolation problem of some sort.

rittels

@vsinceac @javierbu

Thanks, should be working now.

rittels

Hi @vicb

How would write the package.json? how about:

"old_windy_version":{"33.0.0": "path_to_other.js"},
"main": "dist/plugin.js"

So if the version < 33.0.0, use path_to_other.js, else use main.

rittels

@jprous Thanks for letting me know. Should work now.

Bug slipped in when I updated the plugin for: https://community.windy.com/topic/16811/plugin-developers-stay-alert-we-are-refactoring-windy-com-client-codes-to-typescript/6

Really cool that you like my plugin!!! Dankie!!

rittels

@petehdgs

Try now. You can either use the picker, or go to settings and click: ctrl-click selects WP

then the picker will still see POIs

rittels

@petehdgs

The default weather picker behavior is: Wait 500ms to check if you click a point of interest (POI) or map label (such as a city). If you click on something, the appropriate plugin will open, else the picker will open with the overlay info.

I modified it so that the picker opens immediately, and it ignores POIs, (annoying if you want to add a WP and it opens the forecast plugin).

Unfortunately it is not yet possible to uninstall the flightplanner plugin, you have to reload the browser (F5). I will still get round to it, I promise.

However, I think a good idea would be is a setting, where you have to press control, then click, to add a WP, else the picker will have default behavior. Will try this.

Thanks for the feedback.