3.22Weather

The Weather object is a tile showing the current temperature, the sky condition, and optionally humidity, wind and today's high and low. The gateway fetches the weather for your project's location from the free Open-Meteo service every 15 minutes, so there is nothing to bind and no account to create.

#When to use it

Use it on a home or lobby page to show the outside weather. For readings from your own weather station on the KNX bus, use an Analog Value instead.

#What you need first

• The project location: Latitude and Longitude under Server > Gateway. The same location drives the sunrise, sunset and prayer times. Without it the tile shows "Weather unavailable".
• Internet access on the gateway. The gateway asks Open-Meteo directly; the apps never contact it.

#Properties

The tile on the Configurator canvas shows example values; the real ones appear once the project is deployed.

#How it behaves in the apps

• The tile has a blue day background and a darker night one, switching with sunrise and sunset at your location.
• The icon follows the condition: clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, fog, drizzle, rain, snow or thunderstorm.
• Until the first reading arrives, or when the gateway cannot reach the internet, it shows "Weather unavailable" and --. Earlier readings stay on screen when a later refresh fails, and the gateway retries after five minutes.
• It works the same on the local network and through the cloud relay, in the Veltnova client (Windows, Android and iOS).
• It cannot be tapped.

#Example

A weather tile in the top corner of the Home page:

1. Set Latitude and Longitude under Server > Gateway and deploy.
2. Add a Weather object. Label Dubai, Temperature Unit Celsius, Show Details on, Width 260, Height 120.
3. Deploy again. The tile shows the temperature, condition, humidity, wind and the day's high and low.

#Tips and common problems

• "Weather unavailable": the project has no latitude and longitude, or the gateway has no internet access. Check Server > Gateway first.
• The temperature looks a few degrees off: it is the forecast model's value for the coordinates you entered, not a reading from a sensor at your house. Use an Analog Value for a local sensor.
• A new Weather object shows no data right away: the gateway fetches as soon as the project is deployed, but give it a few seconds.

#See also

• Analog Value
• Gateway settings
• Common properties
• Overview of UI objects