Weather Display

The current temperature of up to 5 locations can be displayed - useful if you broadcast to a large area and need to know how things are a few miles away.  The display can be in Celcius or Fahrenheit and the data is updated every 15 minutes.  Your StudioScreen computer will therefore need an internet connection for this feature to work.

From v1.72 (10th July 2026), you enter Lat+Lon co-ordinates rather than a place for the weather lookup.

On the LEDs and Weather tab of of the Config window, you can set the parameters for the weather display: Enter the Lat+Lon position (eg: 51.12345 and -1.54321) plus a "friendly" name for the City/Town label.  The nearest active weather station to your Lan/Lon will be polled.  The default units are Celcius, but you can use Fahrenheit if you're of the imperial persuasion.

You'll need a free API key from OpenWeatherMap: (bottom of page): https://openweathermap.org/price  which opens: https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up - there is a limit of 1000 calls per day with each free account - StudioScreen polls 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 times every 15 minutes so with all 5 running, that's 480 polls per day - just under half this limit, nice!


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