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The Weather Radar card

FreeWorks with: Any Apple TVAbout 1 minute to set up

A live rain map centered on your home, so you can see the shower coming before it arrives.

What it shows

A map with rain drawn over it in color, refreshed every few minutes from the RainViewer service. Light rain is pale; heavy rain is bright.

The Weather Radar card.
The Weather Radar card.

Add the card

Every card is added the same way. If you have done this before, skip ahead.

  1. On the dashboard, move to a card you want to replace. Press and hold the center of the remote's pad for about a second. The card dims and a Modify button appears on it.
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    Hold the center of the pad on the card you want to change.
  2. Press the center once to choose Modify. The Choose a card screen opens.
    The Choose a card screen
    The Choose a card screen. The list down the left side narrows the cards by group.
  3. On the left, choose Information, then move right and choose Weather Radar. (You can also leave the list on All and scroll; cards are in alphabetical order inside each group.)
  4. Choose the area: leave it on your own location, or pick a town for a radar somewhere else, a holiday house, where the children live. Then choose how far the map reaches: Close, City, Region or Wide, each labelled with roughly how many kilometres or miles it spans.
  5. Finish with the Add to Dashboard button (on some cards it reads Add Weather Radar). You return to the dashboard with the new card in place.

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