Integrating with Weatherology

PlayoutONE can integrate with Weatherology to automatically ingest and schedule regular, advisory, and severe weather forecasts.

Weatherology

Users can configure their weather forecasts via the Weatherology control panel. During setup, Weatherology will ask you to specify the PlayoutONE cart numbers for each forecast type. If they do not ask you for these, please reach out to them to make sure they are set.

PlayoutONE

When Weatherology sends through a severe or advisory forecast, PlayoutONE can automatically schedule this for you in the log. To configure this, you'll need to create a snippet containing all of the items you want to be scheduled in the log.

Create a snippet for both advisory and severe forecasts. If you prefer, you can use the same snippet for both forecast types, although if running in a multi-station environment, you'll need to create a snippet for each station.

Please note that regular forecasts will be downloaded and imported normally and played wherever you have scheduled them.

Auto Importer

To create a Weatherology import job in Auto Importer: 

1. Click 'New'

2. Set the import name to 'Weatherology' and set the import method to 'Specific UID'

3. Create a new directory within your current import folder on your PlayoutONE server (This is usually located at \\SERVERNAME\PlayoutONE\Import). Call it Weatherology. Once created, select this in Auto Importer.

4. Under the Overrides tab, set the type to the desired type and also category (if needed)

5. In the cart details section, set the artist to be %DATETIME%

6. Click 'Save'. 

FileCopy

To set up the Weatherology integration, you need to create a new job in FileCopy.

1. Click 'Add'

2. Name the action 'Weatherology' and select your station from the station drop-down if running in a multi-station environment.

3. From the Source tab, choose 'Weatherology'

4. Enter your Weatherology username, password and directory (if required)

5. Choose which stations to enable the Weatherology integration for. 

6. Click 'Snippet Settings' and choose the snippets for each weather forecast, as well as where you would like them to be placed in the log. If you select the 'Next Weatherology Note' log position, the next note containing the word 'Weatherology' will be used. For example, Weatherology or Weatherology update would both work.

7. From the 'Destination' tab, pick the import job setup earlier.

8. From the 'Schedule' tab, set the schedule that you'd like FileCopy to check in with Weatherology. We recommend every two minutes.

9. Click 'Add Job'.

Now that all steps have been configured, FileCopy will check in with Weatherology regularly. If a new weather forecast becomes available, it will be downloaded and imported. If Weatherology sends an Advisory or Severe forecast, it will also be scheduled in the log.