What's next: Your real sky (2026.9.0)

[ReikanYsora]

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Helios has always drawn your home, your neighborhood, and the sun's real path across the sky. The next release gives it the rest of the sky.

2026.9.0 is "Your real sky": the weather actually happening outside comes onto the card. When the sun is out, the scene warms and light rakes across it from the real sun position. When it clouds over, the world greys and cloud shadows drift across the map. When it rains, it rains on your home. Not decoration for its own sake, but the missing half of the story: the weather is what drives your solar, so now you get to see it.

What's landing:

• Live weather on the scene, sun, overcast and rain, tied to the real conditions and the real sun position.
• A temperature chip with its own curve, so outdoor temperature sits right next to your consumption (thank you @tfriberg, [Improvement] Temperature guage/meter #332).
• The option to override the forecast with your own local sensor, for anyone who wants ground truth over a regional value.
• Comparing several curves at once ([Improvement] Curve comparison: read several metrics in one view (the solar clock's one real strength) #320), so you can lay outdoor temperature over your consumption, or hold two devices side by side.

A few honest notes: it is in active development, so no hard date yet, I am aiming for late August, but quality comes before the calendar.
It stays true to Helios, fully local, model weather by default with your own sensors for accuracy, and performance first so it still runs smoothly on modest hardware.
There will be a beta before stable (as always), and I would love your eyes on it.

This whole direction grew out of your requests and the conversations here.

Thank you, and keep them coming.

Cheers ;)

ReikanYsora / Jérôme