How to add weather to a digital photo frame on Android
A digital photo frame that also shows the weather is more useful than one that only displays photos — especially in a kitchen or hallway where you glance at it throughout the day. Fravora's weather overlay puts the current temperature and conditions directly on the frame screen alongside your photos, and tapping it opens a full hourly and 7-day forecast without leaving the frame.
What the weather overlay shows
- Current temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit (your choice)
- Current conditions with an adaptive weather icon (clear, cloudy, rain, snow, etc.)
- Overlay size: Small, Medium, or Large — readable from across a room
- Position: assignable to any corner or center slot via the Overlay Layout grid
Setup: what the onboarding covers
When you first launch Fravora, the onboarding walks you through adding photo sources and creating your first album. After your frame is running, enable the weather overlay from Settings:
- Open Settings → Overlays.
- Enable the Weather toggle.
- Grant location permission when prompted. Fravora uses GPS to determine your location for local weather data. A warning icon appears if weather is enabled without location permission.
- Choose your preferred temperature unit (Celsius or Fahrenheit) and overlay size.
- Optionally open Overlay Layout to move the weather widget to a different corner — by default it appears in the top-left, but you can place it in any of the four corners or center slots.
To add more overlays or rearrange their positions later, go to Settings → Overlays → Overlay Layout.
Tapping the weather overlay: full-screen forecast
Tapping the weather widget on the frame screen opens a full-screen weather forecast without interrupting the slideshow. The forecast view includes:
- 24-hour hourly strip — temperature and conditions for each hour through the next day, with midnight wrap labels
- 7-day daily forecast — day/night temperature range, precipitation probability, and condition icons
- Swipe navigation — swipe left and right within the hour or day detail views to move through the forecast range
- Rich detail per slot — temperature, precipitation probability, wind speed, humidity, and UV index
- Localized labels — hour and day labels follow your configured clock and date format
Closing the forecast returns you to the slideshow exactly where it left off.
Combining weather with other overlays
The weather overlay shares the screen with other overlays — clock, photo metadata, now-playing, and photo index. The Overlay Layout grid lets you assign each overlay to a specific corner or center slot so they don't overlap. A common setup for a kitchen frame: weather in the top-left, clock in the bottom-right, and now-playing (if you use radio) at the bottom-center.
The anti-burn-in effect (PRO) periodically micro-shifts all overlay positions and varies their opacity, which protects OLED screens from image retention caused by static weather and clock widgets sitting in the same spot all day.
Weather and the photo metadata overlay
If you also enable the photo metadata overlay (PRO), the frame can show both weather and the capture location of each photo simultaneously. A travel photo from Japan can show "Shibuya, Tokyo" as the photo label while your current local weather sits in a separate corner — the two overlays coexist without interfering.
Placement tips for weather-forward setups
Kitchen: Place weather in the top-left corner at Medium or Large size so it is readable from the counter or table without walking up to the device.
Bedroom: Use Small size and position it in a corner away from the clock. The forecast tap is useful for a quick morning check before getting up.
Office or hallway: Weather at Large size in a top corner is visible from a distance and does not require interaction unless you want the full forecast detail.
Privacy note
Fravora uses GPS location only for weather data — it does not store, transmit, or log your location to any external service beyond the weather API request. Location is read locally on the device and used only to fetch a weather response.