About
With our Weather plugin, you can easily display a forecast or today’s overview in your content. This page gives an overview of how the plugin works and how it can be used.
This is our native weather plugin, but you can also use our MediaRSS and Website plugins to show weather from other providers.
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.
