Weather: Animated Forecasts For Any Screen Orientation

The Weather widget displays current conditions and a 3 day forecast with animated icons and background images that match the weather condition. It works in both landscape and portrait orientation.

Configuration

All parameters are set through any CMS that can read config.xml, here shown in Garlic-Hub.

Parameter	Default	Description
`provider`	`open-meteo`	API provider: `open-meteo`, `openweathermap`, `weatherapi`
`apikey`	—	API key, not required for the Open-Meteo free tier
`city`	`Hannover`	City name, used if no coordinates are given
`lat`	—	Latitude, takes priority over `city`
`lon`	—	Longitude, takes priority over `city`
`lang`	`de`	UI language: German, English, Russian, French, Greek, Spanish
`refresh`	`3600000`	Cache TTL in milliseconds, default 1 hour

Coordinates always take priority over the city name. If neither is given, the widget defaults to Hannover.

Landscape and Portrait

The layout adapts automatically to the screen orientation set for the playlist.

SMIL Example

<ref src="Weather.wgt">
  <param name="provider" value="open-meteo"/>
  <param name="lat"      value="48.2082"/>
  <param name="lon"      value="16.3738"/>
  <param name="lang"     value="de"/>
</ref>

API Providers

Provider	Free Tier	API Key
Open-Meteo	No key required, requests are rate limited	No, optional for commercial use
OpenWeatherMap	1000 calls/day	Yes
WeatherAPI	1M calls/month	Yes

Download

Download Weather Widget