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Weather Forecast Tile for Canada?
I’m trying to find a good way to get the weather forecast for my location in Canada. There doesn’t seem to be a SmartThings device that exposes the high/low forecast for the day without custom code. (The Accuweather tiles don’t seem to work at all). Would it be best to pursue a media item from a URL?
Or am I just missing something obvious?
Answer
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Have you tried using a MTG URL?
Knowledge Base Page: Media Tile Generator (MTG was jggdev/atiles): Weather, Calendar, News
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Just thought of a couple things on MTG.
- I notice no way for MTG to generate current temperature for "today". It only shows H/L.
- The MTG produces text that is too small to read on my tablet. I am using 4x1 size tile for a 4 day forecast on an old Android 10" tablet.
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Please see the MTG Instructions: Media Tile Generator (MTG jggdev): Weather, Calendar, News
Add the units parameter: units – whether to show temperature in metric or imperial units. Acceptable values are metric and imperial. Imperial is default.
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Current weather is most directly handled via this method: SmartThings Weather Tile Device and Weather Tile
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Have been trying for 2 days to get this to update for a Canadian postal code and no luck...searching thru this forum and the ST Community but can't find any answers...going cross eyed.
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Gave it 1 more try with Lat/long and it works like a charm (as someone else said, need to delete the space after the comma in the lat/long numbers so no blanks)...whoo hoo.
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El, for me personally, removing the postal entirely made it work. When there is no postal code specified, it default's to hub's location.
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For my current location, yes that works fine (which happens to be Central America). But I monitor weather in several Canadian cities where family is, 1 in the US and 1 in France. The only way to get those to work is with lat/long coordinates.
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Have you tried using a MTG URL?
e.g., https://mtg.actiontiles.com/weather.php?backgroundColor=FFFFFF&bodyColor=00FF00&titleColor=000000&loc=toronto&country=ca
Knowledge Base Page: Media Tile Generator (MTG was jggdev/atiles): Weather, Calendar, News