How To Set Up The Weather Widget

Display dynamic live weather data directly to your digital signage

Allow your audience to better plan their day, and keep them well informed on local weather. NowSignage has a variety of options to choose from when it comes to how you present information to viewers. 

Find the weather layout that’s the best fit for your screens. Choose from same-day/24 hour forecasts, 5-day forecasts or even longer from a variety of free-to-use apps such as Windy, Accuweather, MeteoTV or Screenly. To add weather into your digital signage display, simply add the URL of your desired web-based weather app as a webpage, then select the screens you’d like this to be displayed on and you’re good to go

How to setup the Weather Widget:

Step 1 (Activate the app):
- Once logged into your NowSignage account begin by going to the 'Apps' area of the platform:

- When you have entered the apps area, scroll down to find the 'Weather Widget' app and activate this by clicking "Instal App'

Step 2 (Creating a widget):

• Enter a name for your widget (e.g. Manchester Weather)
• Input your latitude and longitude coordinates, which can easily be found using Google, to specify the location for which you want to retrieve weather data.
• Customise the look by selecting a background colour, font colour, the number of forecast days and a language.
• When you are satisfied with your selections, simply click 'create' to finalise the widget.

Step 3 (Adding the widget to a playlist):

- Go into the 'playlists' tab and either create a new playlist or edit an existing one.

- Within the 'add to playlist' dropdown menu select 'weather widgets':

- Click 'add' on the widget you wish to add, then provide this with a duration and click 'add to playlist' once you are happy with this.

- The weather widget has been successfully added to your playlist:

To see how this appears in practice, refer to the example provided for the 'template 3' option below: