Use Case Notes and Limits

The Weather Element is a new feature in Korbyt that is in it’s early stages, if you do not have access to this element in your builder tool and would like access please email Product@Korbyt.com

Limited Information Availability

Because this element uses information from the United States National Weather Service (NWS) it will only provide accurate information for locations that they have details for.

Full Screen Display

The Weather Element is limited now to it’s formating and needs to be presented as a Full Screen display to scale all elements of the forcast properly.

It can not be embeded into a portion of a screen.

Required Player Settings

For the Weather Element to function correctly, the Media Player has to have complete address information, including Latitude and Longitude

You can find the player’s address information on the Players Screen by clicking the Pencil Icon to view and edit a single player's details, or by clicking Provision Export to download a CSV file with all your players' details.

If using the Pencil Icon, location information can be expanded in the left side under the Actions Buttons

If you do not know the precise Latitude and Longitude information for your player, enter the correct street address, then click the Get Location button, and that will fill it in for you.

Don’t forget to click the Save button in the upper right before leaving the Player screen

For more information on managing player metadata, see Player Settings - Controlling and Configuring Media Players in the CMS

If you change a players location metadata after Weather information is alread being displayed it may take several minutes for that change to be reflected in the displayed forcast.

Using the Weather Element

• On the Layout screen, either edit or create a new layout

  • For more information on this see, Managing and Creating Layouts

  • and Using The Builder Tool For Layouts Or Messages

• Locate the Weather Element in the Element section of the control panel and drag it to the canvas.

  

• When you add this to your design, your Web Browser may notify you that Korbyt.com wants access to your location information. This is the Weather Element trying to secure its own details to show a forecast for you in the Builder Tool.

  • If you decline, you will not see accurate weather information in the Builder Tool or in Preview.

    • Even if you accept, if your Browser does not provide enough detail to the element, you may still see a difference in the Builder Tool and in the Preview

  • The final display on the screen through the Media Player will not be affected by your choices here,

• Now use the Gear icon in the element’s top right corner to open its settings.

  

• The Weather Element is designed to display forecast information in a full-screen graphical format. Because of that, it might be best to first open the elements’ Properties and select Maximize to stretch it to full size

  

  • Now you can better see the effect of design settings

• In the Settings Menu, select Edit Element.

• Now you can use the options to configure how your Weather forecast looks.

  

Weather Element Options

• Templates

  

  • Allows you to select between the two standard design layouts

    • Template 1

      

    • Template 2

      

• Veiw

  

  • Allows you to select to see information based on an Hourly or a Daily forecast

    • Hourly

      

    • Daily

      

  • If you want to display both Hourly and Daily forecast information, create two separate layouts—one for Hourly and one for Daily.

• Background Color

  

  • Allows you to set a background color or reset to the default

• Upload Logo

  

  • Allows you to upload a Logo Image from your computer to replace the Korbyt Anywhere Logo

• Icon Design

  

  • Allows you to switch between Icon Designs

    • Basic

      

    • Modern

      

    • Animated

      

      • Sun Rotates, lightning flashes, for example

Publishing and Display

• Once you have configured your Weather element to your liking, in the Control Panel, click the Publish button

  

• If you do not have a Publish button, you are a Content Author and will need to save the design, then request a Content Approver to publish it.

• Then add the Layout to Playlists as normal

  • For more information, see Creating and Managing Playlists

• When the Media Player displays the Layout, it will retrieve the information for its programmed latitude and longitude from.