About
The Weather plugin shows today’s weather or a forecast for any location on your slides.
For more details, like UV, rain probability and wind, use Detailed Weather. To show weather from other providers, use our MediaRSS or Website plugins.
Get Started
Add Weather to a slide
- Open the playlist and the slide where you want Weather
- Click Plugins in the top toolbar
- Search for Weather in the Add Plugin window, and click the Weather tile
- Click Weather on the canvas to select it, and set it up in the settings on the right (see Options below)
- Click Publish
Options
Ungroup
Click here to ungroup the different elements in the weather plugin (please note that you cannot group them again after ungrouping)
Alignment
Use this to align the plugin
City
Location-based
Units
Either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Theme
Sets the icon theme; we currently have Black, White, and Colored themes available.
Font
Change the font
Color
Pick a color theme for the plugin
Language
Pick a language
Layer
Move the plugin up and down the layers
Weather Provider
Pick the provider that you prefer
Shadow
Add shadow to text
Stroke
Change the thickness and color of the text stroke
Positioning
Change the position of the plugin pixel by pixel
FAQ
How often is the data updated?
The weather API returns data for the next 24 hours in 1-hour intervals (10:00, 11:00, 12:00, etc.), and the plugin displays the weather for the current hour (at 14:25, the current hour is 14:00). As the forecast can change, the plugin requests updated weather for the next 24 hours from the API every 6 hours. At midnight the plugin will fetch the forecast for the next 4 days and update the day forecasts.
What happens if the player does not have an Internet connection?
The player will store weather data in local memory for 6 hours upon the first successful load. If there is no Internet connection on the first load, the plugin will be hidden. If the internet connection is not restored within 12 hours of the previous update, the plugin will not be shown.
Where is the data coming from?
The data comes from a weather data service.
