I know OpenWeather is sometimes a little off, but it’s REALLY far off right now in Southern Indiana. (USA) (6 March, 2022) It says that the temperature here is 60°F - 15.5°C, but Weather Underground and the U.S. National weather service both have 57°F - 13.8°C. Accuweather, The Weather Channel, and Amazon’s Alexa, all say it’s 72°F - 22.2°C. The weather location for NWS is 20 miles (32 KM) from my house and has a rain storm going on. At my house it’s clear. I just measured it with an accurate thermometer and it’s giving me 72° - 22.2°C.
All of this is just to say, anyone who thinks the weather is wrong on Facer watch faces, You Are Correct, but there is nothing we can do about it. Weather is weather and only correct when tested exactly where you are at any given moment in time.
Thanks MAG . I wonder if Facer Pay Open Weather . I somehow suspect not . So in the end you get what you pay for . There will not be many apps that send a numbers for Third Parties to use .
Weather Underground used to be excellent. Then Microsoft bought it.
It still has the API so that anyone with a local weather station can hook their own readings into it to improve extremely local readings though.
If they do pay anything I’m sure it’s a very inexpensive payment. I know when you read the OpenWeather API page there’s a free or paid subscription but, I’m sure the free is limited to a low number of pings per hour.
I agree and now it is very “spammy” for what brings to the table. I only have it on my phone so I can have the widget on my home screen alongside of OpenWeather’s widget. They are always different, but it gives me a range of what “might” be happening around here.
I quite like the Transparent Weather Clock widget. I use it on my second home screen of things happening around the planet, along side TerraTime, Phases of the Moon and ISS Detector:
Yeah. Thought I had corrected myself but must have forgotten. I recently factory reset a tablet and was reminded that SwiftKey had been MS bought when re-installing everything. Must have had that on my mind.
Mine has been stuck on 42 degrees F for the past couple of days. It’s -2 right now so I know it’s not right, haha. Galaxy watch 4 here. I thought I’d done something funky on the face I was wearing but the tags are correct and it’s all Facer faces, not just this one.
Just as a “heads up” before you read this long answer, try restarting your watch. That is usually the quickest way to force the weather to start working.
DISCLAIMER: I’ve picked up this information from several different Facer Community posts, so this is just my overview of the issue.
First make sure you have all the permissions for Facer granted on both the watch and phone. You must have location turned on in both or the Facer watch app will not have any weather information.
Facer uses OpenWeather (https://openweathermap.org) for their weather source. OpenWeather does not use your “exact” location (no matter what your watch says) and just gives the region wide weather which can be different from where you are now. Some have said that if you install the OpenWeather app on your phone, it will help the weather stay updated.
You have to make sure your phone is not set to use power management (Adaptive Battery) where it closes “unused” background apps, or at least exempt the Facer app from it.
Next, I’ve found that my weather updates more regularly if I open the Facer app 3 or 4 times during the day. There have been lots of times where I’ve looked at my watch and thought that the temperature was wrong, opened the Facer app, closed it and checked my watch and it be close to correct.
Also, if you have checked, and everything above is correct in your watch and phone, try restarting both. I’ve noticed that all my watches and phones sometimes need a restart. I now restart everything every Friday.
NOTE: I’m using an original Galaxy Watch, a Galaxy 4 “Active”, and a Galaxy 4 Classic as my daily carry watches. I also use a Fossil Carlyle watch for testing my watch designs on. They all seem to have the same issue and cure.
These are my personal observations and are of course subjective: Your Mileage May Vary!
A quick note on location. I have noticed that if I let my watch run down to nearly empty it turns off location and sometimes does not turn it back on when recharged so, re-check it even if you were previously sure it was on.
On Tizen we get shut downs quite a lot. Often a reboot is required but. Installing a Native Face then going back to Facer is almost daily. I do not know how I would be without my smart watch. I feel very cheated if I have to wear my Old Indiglo for a few hours.
Thanks you guys! I’d done multiple reboots of both phone and watch, checked permissions, bluetooth forget and re-add etc… and in the end it turned out the location being off was the culprit. It’s likely it did get turned off last ‘power saving mode’ and I didn’t notice it wasn’t on. And I now feel very stupid, lol.
I for some reason thought I’d read that the weather came from the info on your phone, and just trusted that obviously wrong memory. Oh well. Appreciate you all taking the time to help!
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one having this issue. The weather can be wildly diferent between the location the watch is reporting and my location.
I know it is an old topic, but still relevant. Mrantisocialguy, you are the creator of my absolute favorite watchface MAG1421 and I’m sad to report that it has been a few weeks and my weather is stuck between 99 and 125 degrees. It was like a light switch - worked one day, ridiculous values the next. I checked openweathermap.org and it has my town as 51 degrees (correct) and yet my watch - doesn’t matter what face, so long as it is a Facer face - has me living in Death Valley apparently. I wish they’d fix the weather - what’s the point if it isn’t correct?
The only thing I can recomend is to reinstall Facer on your watch. I do that every time there is an update on my Phone. The app I have on my phone is OpenWeather not OpenWeatherMap. I am afraid that is a bit of Voodoo but it seems to work. I am certain MAG will come and help soon.
There is no Issue breathing life into an older Topic. If they are given a good Title they tend to be there for ever. Saves starting a new Topic on the same thing every time someone asks a question.
There have been several reports lately about that. If your Facer app came from the Galaxy Store it has a glitch in it. What has worked so far is to delete both the watch and phone app and reload them both from Google Play. That has fixed 4 or 5 so far that I know of. It has been a discussion on the Facer Facebook Group. Before you do that just make sure you have liked all the watchfaces you normally use on Facer so you can easily find them again with the Google Play version of the app.
