Weather reminders that actually help
A weather app tells you it might rain. A weather reminder tells you to bring the washing in before 4 pm. The difference is context — and it’s the whole point of Home Heads Up.
Forecasts aren’t reminders
Most of us check the weather and then forget it by morning tea. The forecast wasn’t wrong; it just wasn’t connected to anything. The washing was on the line, the bins were about to go out on a windy night, the garden got watered right before a downpour — all things a forecast technically covered, and practically didn’t.
Home Heads Up flips it around. Instead of showing you the weather, it watches the forecast for your address and speaks up only when the weather intersects with something your household actually does.
The weather heads-ups
- Rain and washing. Meaningful rain expected in the next few hours? “Rain likely this afternoon. Bring the washing in before 4 pm.” Drizzle with a 20% chance doesn’t qualify — thresholds keep it honest. More about the rain reminder
- Bin night and wind. If strong winds are forecast overnight before your collection, the bin-night reminder itself suggests putting the bins out in the morning. One message, not two. More about bin night
- Extreme heat. When tomorrow is forecast above your threshold (37°C by default is common in much of Australia; you choose), you get a heads-up for pets and plants — each variant only if you’ve enabled it.
- Rain and the garden. A decent fall forecast tomorrow means you can probably skip watering. The app says “probably” — forecasts are forecasts.
- Storms. When thunderstorms are possible in the coming hours: secure the trampoline, the umbrella, the loose pot plants. This is a convenience nudge, not an emergency warning service — for warnings, always rely on official emergency channels.
Why it stays quiet
Every heads-up has a threshold, a validity window and a one-per-day rule. If the forecast wobbles between 60% and 70% rain probability all morning, you hear about it once. If the data source goes stale, the app suppresses weather advice rather than guessing. Quiet hours (9 pm to 7 am by default) hold non-urgent messages until morning.
Honest language
Forecasts deal in likelihoods, so the app does too: expected, likely, forecast, consider. You’ll never see “it will rain at 3:47 pm”. Weather data comes from Open-Meteo, cached per neighbourhood so your battery and their servers both stay happy.
Home Heads Up is a free app for Australian households — no ads, no account. It sends the reminders described here automatically.