Weather apps
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The Apps Weather is used to display current weather or forecast
- Free OpenWeather data
- Choose 1 to 7 days
- Choose up to 3 locations
- Automatic °C/°F adjustment
Using
The Apps Weather can be used to display the weather forecast for one to three locations.
The following properties can be configured:
- Location (1/2/3)
- Up to three city location can be specified. It is recommended to always follow the city name by the country code, separated by a coma. ("geneva,ch" or "new york,us")
- Unit
- You can choose between Centigrade and Fahrenheit
- Locale (multiple days only)
- Locale use to display the date. Many different locale can be selected.
Configuring
The Apps can be freely positioned anywhere in the Playout as long as it does not overlap other Apps.
The Apps has the following configurations parameters
- Type
- Type of weather forecast to be displayed
- Current weather ( single day only ): Displays current weather conditions.
- Today ( single day only ): Displays today's forecast
- Tomorrow ( single day only ): Displays tomorrow's forecast
- Horizontal ( multiple day only ): Display forecast using horizontal layout
- Vertical ( multiple day only ): Display forecast using vertical layout
- Type of weather forecast to be displayed
- Location (1/2/3)
- City names of the location for the forecast. This is the same locations as the ones shown in properties.
- Number of days ( multiple day only )
- Number of days of forecast to be displayed. Up to 7 days are supported with firmware 4.0.1
- Unit
- Unit used to display the temperature. This is the same data as the one shown in properties.
- Duration
- In case of multiple locations, duration of the display of each location.
- Date ( multiple day only )
- Configure how the date should be shown in the display. The following values are possible:
- No date: do not show any date.
- Day and month: Shows the date as number and the month name.
- Day of the week: Shows the day of the week.
- Configure how the date should be shown in the display. The following values are possible:
- Locale ( multiple day only )
- Locale use to display the date (name of the month, name of the days)
- Color
- Color of the text text.
- City
- Indicated whether the city name should be shown or not.
- Temperature
- Indicated whether the temperature should be shown or not.
- Background
- Color of the background