Beta pre-release. One deliberate exception to the beta feature freeze: a new NOAA radar source that directly resolves live beta feedback and removes the line's biggest freshness deficit. Everything else stays fixes-only until 3.7.0. Upgrading from beta1 is drop-in — no config changes required.
NOAA radar: ~2 minutes behind real time (was 15–25)
NOAA now serves from NCEP's opengeo GeoServer — the same backend radar.weather.gov runs on. It publishes the radar layer's actual frame timestamps, so the card requests exact scan times instead of guessing a grid:
- Newest frame ~2 min old (measured; the legacy server refused anything fresher than ~14 min)
- Every frame is a distinct radar scan — the duplicate-frame quantisation from alpha2 is gone by construction
- New "Frame interval" dropdown: 2 / 5 / 10 minutes (default 5, restoring the 3.6-era 12–13 frames per hour — and yes, this fixes "the increment shown is 10 minutes instead of 5" from the beta1 feedback; thank you for reporting it)
- Colour bar updated to the modern radar.weather.gov reflectivity ramp
- Legacy
frame_countconfigs migrate back to their 3.6-era time spans - If the new server's listing is ever unavailable, the card falls back to the old server for that cycle and recovers automatically
type: 'custom:weather-radar-card'
data_source: NOAA
past_minutes: 120
frame_stride_minutes: 2 # full native scan cadence, or pick in the editorAlso in beta2
- The newest-frame label reads "Latest" instead of "Now" — radar frames always lag real time by source, and the label shouldn't overstate freshness. Localised in all 11 languages.
- Translation catch-up: all 3.7 editor strings (playback speed, per-user persistence, motion compensation) are now properly translated in all 10 non-English locales.
Full changelog: v3.7.0-beta1...v3.7.0-beta2