How to add weather?

February 26, 2022 Leave a comment

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There are two ways to add weather to your watch face:

Using Live Info bubbles
Watch face complications

Weather is not easy. Openweathermap.org is the last free provider, and they too are limiting the free access. I would have to charge a minimum subscription fee of I don’t want to lose money. In my experience Android users are opposed to subscriptions.

But there are some good news too: the new Android Wear version, 2.0 (now called Wear OS) introduced complication support, which means you will be able install various weather provider apps, for this, please see the second half of this post.

1. Weather Live Info

Please see these post on how to add weather using LiveInfo bubbles:

If you already assigned the LiveInfo there are a few things that can go wrong:

you have to have a working connection to your watch
you need a working internet connection
you need a location for the area to get
there is a slight chance for openweathermap to be overloaded in your area

These are not only permissions, these services have to be enabled too. Please check if the phone app still has the permission to use the Internet and coarse location.

Do you have location service enabled on your phone? We need at least coarse location for the current weather (i.e. the city / district)
Make sure Bubble Clouds is on the exception list for task killer applications (such as Greenify or if your phone has a stock “power manager” app that kills / freezes apps or prevents them to access the internet)
Newer Samsung phones typically put apps to sleep when they are not on your screen. This means they don’t have internet access when running in the background. You will have to put Bubble Clouds on the list of not-optimized (similar to the Android Wear app and Google Play Services):For more information please read: Phone battery level and weather updating issues
of course you also have to have a working connection between phone and watch, so the information can be passed from the phone to the watch. Please see CONNECTION PROBLEMS

If all goes well the weathershould update once every hour (from openweathermap.org)

Adguard

If you are using Adguard or other firewall / vpn / security app on your device make sure to still allow Bubble Cloud to access internet in order to download weather updates using standard HTTP connection to http://api.openweathermap.org. Here is for example how you can do this in Adguard [big thank you C. Briggs for the screenshots!]

Reset weather provider

Here is something you can try:

Please open Wear Cloud Editor on your phone
Tap on the weather bubble in the list:
In the dialog that opens, you can see an error log. This is how it should look if everything goes well: (Please send me a screenshot if the log section looks different)
to reset the weather info please click on the button “Fahrenheit” (or “Celsius”) to reset

This procedure will fetch the weather and send it to your watch immediately. You will see a message on the screen of the phone if the app is not able to get the location information.

2. Using other weather apps

You can also add weather and other data using watch face complications.

Just install one of these apps (some of them are free):

And add their complications to your Bubble Clouds:

With your premium license you will be able to place as many weather complications as you want. I actually like to use a full page of archive cloud just for weather complications: