Show the weather and what to wear

Follow these steps in your own Denframe. This website never connects to your household, your accounts or your devices, and never asks for your credentials.

1. 1

   Open the Weather page

   In Studio, open Sources, then Weather, and choose Add a location.

   Forecasts come from Open-Meteo, which needs no account or key. Denframe asks it for the current conditions, the next 24 hours and seven days, and, unless you turn it off, for air quality alongside.

2. 2

   Choose where

   Type a town or postcode in City or postal code and choose the matching result. The result fills the name, the coordinates and the time zone together; typing again clears them until you choose again.

   • Use my location asks the browser for its position and fills in Latitude, Longitude and this device’s time zone under Advanced coordinates. It names the place Home, unless you had typed a name of your own; change it in Place name.
   • Advanced coordinates holds Place name, Latitude, Longitude and Time zone, for a place the search does not find. Renaming the place there keeps its coordinates.

   A location without a name or coordinates is refused: Denframe never falls back to a default place.

   On a dashboard with no clock block, the location’s time zone also keeps the screen’s time. A clock block without a time zone of its own uses the screen browser’s zone, not the weather’s. The screen keeps the time even when it loses the network.

3. 3

   Pick the units and the dashboards

   Choose Units: Metric · °C, km/h or Imperial · °F, mph. Under Show on, tick the dashboards that should show this weather, then choose Add location. Denframe creates the source and adds a weather block to each dashboard you ticked.

4. 4

   Set what every dashboard shows

   The location’s page lists its settings as rows that save as you change them:

   • Location: Change ▸ opens the same place fields, with Save.
   • Units: what every dashboard shows unless it chooses its own.
   • Seven-day forecast: seven days when on, three when off.
   • What to wear: turns the advice on for every dashboard showing this location, except one whose Clothing advice is Hidden.
   • Air quality: fetched with the forecast. A dashboard can hide it, but cannot show it if the location doesn’t fetch it.

   Showing on lists the dashboards with this weather; Add to a dashboard… puts it on another one.

5. 5

   Tune what to wear

   Open Advanced on the location’s page. Wear thresholds sets when the advice changes: the Guidance locale (such as en-GB), the cold and warm temperatures, the rain chance and the wind gust, in the location’s own units. Wear wording sets the Guidance heading and the Cold wording, Mild wording, Warm wording, Rain wording and Wind wording.

   The advice picks one of cold, mild or warm from the current feels-like temperature (or the temperature when that is missing), and adds the rain and wind lines when the next three hours reach their thresholds. The screen shows the heading before them where the block has room.

   • Cold must stay below warm, and the rain chance is 0 to 100%.
   • Wording is plain text of up to 100 characters. The defaults are age-neutral, for a shared screen.
   • Switching the location’s units converts the thresholds with it.

   The advice uses this forecast only and makes no extra request. It shows only while the forecast is fresh and has a current temperature: when the forecast goes stale or is incomplete, the advice disappears and the ordinary weather stays.

6. 6

   Let one dashboard choose its own

   In the dashboard editor, select the weather block. Its Content sets Temperature, Outlook, Clothing advice and Air quality for this dashboard only. Each one’s first option, From source, follows the location’s page.

   A dashboard can turn the advice on where the location has it off, because the location keeps the wording and thresholds. Air quality can only be hidden here. To make this dashboard’s choices everyone’s, choose Make this the source's default.

7. 7

   Check it worked

   The dashboard shows the current conditions and the outlook, credited to Open-Meteo. With what to wear on, it shows your heading and the cold, mild or warm line while the forecast is fresh, with the rain and wind lines when the next three hours call for them. Where the block is short of room, the heading goes first, then the rain and wind lines; the cold, mild or warm line stays. Where the block has room, a line gives the air quality in its scale’s published bands; when poor air is the warning the block shows, the warning replaces the line.

   A severe-weather cue on the block is worked out from the forecast. It is not an official warning.