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Aurora Watch running on a 32×32 LED panel
32×32 · Livereal render
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Aurora Watch

Kp index, NOAA's 3-day forecast and the live aurora oval — with your chance of seeing it.

At a glance

OutputLiveRendered by the engine and streamed over Bluetooth as its data changes (about 5–9 frames a second).
Settings4every one editable live in the studio, or by an agent with update_app_settings
Source code (MIT)aurora.pysrc/deskdot/apps/aurora.py

Settings

Settings
SettingTypeDefaultOptions / range
LayoutlayoutchoiceCycle all
Cycle allKp now3-day chartAurora map
Seconds per pagerotatewhole number83 – 60
Alert when Kp reaches the thresholdalerton/offOnon / off
Alert at Kpalert_kp5 = G1 storm: aurora at lower latitudeswhole number53 – 9

Try it

render a frame to PNG (no panel needed)
$ uv run deskdot preview aurora --settings '{"layout":"gauge"}' --out aurora.png
show it on your panel (engine running)
$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8765/api/apps/aurora/activate

Or ask your agent: “Show Aurora Watch on my panel”. It calls show_app with "aurora". New here? Set up DeskDot first.

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