The tile settings screen shot above is only a representation - The API Key is currently 32 characters (letters/numbers) and the Longitude/Latitude could be a positive or negative number depending on your location.
@Shai_Dotan, I replied to your PM - Your screen shot (tile settings) looks different. I suspect the original code is being changed/adapted?
OK !!! THAT’S did the job…
I follow @josh movie and entered the parameters within my DASHBOARD. Before I entered the parameters in the Custom Tile Editor and pressed Preview which didn’t showed nothing.
I used to do a PREVIEW for Media Tiles. I thought PREVIEW work for Custom Tiles as well… apparently not.
Thanks a lot (as usual) for the great support !!!
@Michael, I really love your new widget and it’s "smart background!
However I have gone back to the version based on your prior work. The reason is that the current weather takes so little space on the tile that it’s difficult to read. I haven’t discovered a solution to that. Maybe if I delved into the code I might see how to enlarge it.
I would use the new version to show the hourly forecast, and continue to use the prior version for the daily forecast.
To show what I’m trying to describe, this is the dashboard using your prior effort:
The ‘Live’ Weather Widget was designed and intended to fill (majority) a screen - All about the graphic! The content will scale but at some point… if the tile is too small (relative to the dashboard) the text may then become unreasonably too small to read.
You could insert your own HTML/JavaScript and create a new widget that is specific to your set up. There are specific/identified areas in the Weather Widget (original) where you can safely place your custom markup.
I haven’t used imgur before, but it does look like the files get renamed.
Because of that… You will need to change the image references (i.e. thunderstorm = “your_file_name”) and or the file (image) extension (i.e. “png”) in the getWeatherBkgrd function.
NOTE: For imgur - Use the URL: https://i.imgur.com/
Hello everyone, Newbie here but can someone explain how do I go about loading the images to a server, I can’t seem to figure this part out to get the animated images, Thanks.
It varies, depending on the hosting provider. Most provide an “Upload” button (select files), and or a “drag and drop” option. Before you upload… Be sure to unzip the file.
NOTE : Imgur will rename the uploaded image files - You will need to update the getWeatherBkgrd function (code) to reflect the new file name(s) (i.e. thunderstorm = “new_file_name”).
Thanks for the response Michael, I am new to this so forgive my knowledge issue, I went to GitHub and tried to upload an image but it is saying they have to be less than 1mb, after unzipping to I need to do anything to the files they are named 200, 300 500 and so on, thanks.
You do not want to change the file names (200, 300, etc) - Choose a hosting service and upload the files as is. IF they get renamed… you will have to change the function variables (i.e thunderstorm = “new name”, rain = “new_name”, and so on).
You should be able to upload the images to GitHub - (100 MB Limit)
After signing up for an account and creating a repository… you should see a set of buttons inside the repository that looks like this:
Click ‘Add file’ > ‘Upload files’ which will then take you here:
Click ‘choose your files’ (which will open up the file window) and select the folder which contains the images. Then, drag the entire folder and drop it in the boxed area. After it finishes adding all the files > Scroll to the bottom and click the ‘Commit changes’ button. You should now have a folder (presumably named “images”) containing the images in your repository.
It occurred to me that… In order to get (be aware of) a possible update, you would need to visit the community on a regular basis. I’ve updated the Weather Collection widgets, to include an option to be notified (via the dashboard tile) if an update is available.
Go into the Developer Tools to update (recommended) your current version (see how above).
Note: The notification option is turned off by default. Go into the tile settings to change it (on/off).