Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no account to lose.

Where does the weather come from?

Open-Meteo, which serves forecasts without an API key.

Does my location go anywhere?

It lives in the link. The only place it is sent is the forecast request that draws the temperature.

Does it work without internet?

The clock keeps running and the last forecast stays on screen, labelled with when it was read. It catches up when the connection returns.

Can I run more than one screen?

Yes. Each screen is a different link, and nothing is shared between them.

Safari 13.4, Chrome 80, Firefox 75 and later, roughly 2020 onward. An iPad Air 2 from 2014 qualifies, because it runs iPadOS 15.

How do I change the location later?

Tap the place name in the top corner of the display.

Skarmly — a wall display for a screen you already own

Made for

The tablet in your drawer

Old tablets stop getting apps long before they stop working. An iPad Air 2 still has a bright screen and a charging port, but the App Store has almost nothing left that will install on it.

A web page has no such problem. Safari on that iPad renders this fine. There is nothing to install, nothing to sign in to, and nothing that stops working when a company shuts down.

The one fiddly bit

Keeping the screen on

Skarmly asks the browser for a screen wake lock, and newer browsers honour it. These settings are what make it reliable everywhere else.

iPad and iPhone

Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never. Then open this page in Safari, tap Share, and choose Add to Home Screen. Launching from that icon drops the address bar and the tabs.

Android

Settings → Display → Screen timeout, set to the longest available. For a tablet that stays plugged in, Developer options → Stay awake covers the rest. In Chrome, open the three-dot menu → Add to Home screen.

Design

Why it looks like this

The background is not a theme. It is the sky at your coordinates, worked out from the sun's real position — the hue follows the sun's elevation, and the glow sits where the sun actually is. East at dawn, west at dusk, gone at night.

The line along the bottom runs from sunrise to sunset, with a marker on where the day has got to. At Lund's latitude that line is eighteen hours long in June and six in December. You notice things like that when something shows you every day.

It stays dark at noon on purpose. This hangs on a wall, and a screen that goes bright in the middle of the day is a lamp.

Questions

Do I need an account?: No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no account to lose.
What does it cost?: Nothing.
Where does the weather come from?: Open-Meteo, which serves forecasts without an API key.
Does my location go anywhere?: It lives in the link. The only place it is sent is the forecast request that draws the temperature.
Does it work without internet?: The clock keeps running and the last forecast stays on screen, labelled with when it was read. It catches up when the connection returns.
Can I run more than one screen?: Yes. Each screen is a different link, and nothing is shared between them.
Which browsers work?: Safari 13.4, Chrome 80, Firefox 75 and later — roughly 2020 onward. An iPad Air 2 from 2014 qualifies, because it runs iPadOS 15.
How do I change the location later?: Tap the place name in the top corner of the display.

Weather and place search by Open-Meteo. Your location stays in the link — it is never sent anywhere but the forecast request.