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Weather

The frame can show the current weather for your location beside the clock: the outdoor temperature and an icon for the sky. It reads from OpenWeatherMap, so it needs a free API key. Without one, weather stays off and the frame leaves it out. Set it up under Settings → Weather. These are current conditions, not a forecast.

The Weather settings: an OpenWeatherMap API key, latitude and longitude, poll and retry intervals, and units

On the frame, weather is the outside reading: the current temperature and an icon for the sky, such as clear, cloudy, or rain. The kiosk display shows where it sits.

If you also have an outside temperature sensor, its reading takes priority, and weather fills in only when no sensor reading is current. The sky icon always comes from weather.

  • OpenWeatherMap API key. Create a free account at openweathermap.org, generate a key, and paste it here. Leaving it empty turns weather off.
  • Latitude and Longitude. Your location as decimal coordinates, for example 51.5074 and -0.1278. To find yours, look them up on latlong.net or right-click your spot in a maps app.
  • Units. metric for degrees Celsius, imperial for Fahrenheit, or standard for Kelvin. This sets how the temperature reads on the frame.
  • Poll interval. How often the frame fetches fresh conditions. The default is ten minutes, which sits well within the free tier’s limits.
  • Retry interval. The first delay after a failed fetch. It backs off up to the poll interval, so a brief outage does not hammer the service.

Both apply the moment you save.

Every setting on this page maps to a key in the configuration reference.

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