Every condition in a trigger has a Trigger Type. It sets whether your action happens before, during or after the weather.
Trigger Type | Use it to act… | Data checked | Data updated |
Current | during the weather | Live conditions now | Every 15 minutes |
Forecast | before the weather | Predicted conditions | Every hour |
Past | after the weather | Recent past conditions | Every 15 minutes |
Setting the time range (Forecast and Past)
For Forecast and Past, choose how far to look and how:
Within the next / Within the past: checks every hour from now up to the limit you set. “Within the next 2 days” checks the rest of today plus the next 2 days.
In exactly / Exactly: checks one specific hour or day only. “In exactly 1 day” checks tomorrow and ignores today.
You can set the range in hours (3 to 30, in steps of 3) or days (up to 7).
Example: Rain, Forecast, Within the next 3 days. Your action starts as soon as rain is forecast anywhere in the next 3 days.
How often the condition must occur
Select Show advanced options, then Duration / Frequency of condition. This only applies to Forecast and Past.
WeatherAds reads weather data in timeframes: one-hour snapshots, like the hourly view in a weather app. A condition counts for a timeframe if it happens at any point in that hour. Five minutes of rain counts as rain in that timeframe.
Over at least: the condition must occur in a set number of timeframes. You can count them across the whole range, each day, or as consecutive timeframes. By default, one timeframe is enough.
Continuously: the condition must occur in every timeframe in the range.
Example: an air-conditioner retailer could trigger ads only after hot weather in every timeframe for the past 2 days.
Limiting hours and days
Also under advanced options:
Hours of the day: only count the condition between set hours, for example rain during the day but not at night.
Days of the week: only count the condition on chosen days, for example sunshine forecast for Saturday and Sunday. WeatherAds first checks whether those days fall inside your time range, then checks the weather for them.
Keeping ads on after the weather ends
There are two ways to keep your action running after a condition has passed:
Use a Past trigger. “Rain, Past, Within the past 1 day” stays true for 24 hours after it last rained.
Delay the reverse action (Single Location automations). In the filter's Reverse action box, choose Reverse action after, then up to 72 hours, 30 days, 4 weeks or 3 months.