Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I was able to get weather to display on ambient mode

by slinky317

One thing I liked about the Chromecast was that it displays weather on the screensaver/ambient mode but my Android TV devices didn't.

Today I found out that you can enable the weather on Android TV.

When the screen saver is active, go into your Google Home app and find the TV in your list of devices. Tap on it and you should see something at the bottom that says "Personalize ambient mode."

Tap on that and it will bring up a new menu with a temperature option. Mine was already enabled despite not showing anything, so I tapped Hide and then re-enabled it and a few seconds later the weather started showing on my TV.

This may be well known but hopefully it helps someone out!

EDIT: Just to clarify as it doesn't seem to work for everyone, this worked for me on two different Sony Bravia TVs, running at least Android 8 (I think).

mediumwhite

I got all excited but it still doesn’t work on my 2017 Nvidia SHIELD 😔

latinriky78

Didn't work for me either, anyway I sent a feedback message inside the Home app because this options should work correctly, they are just buggy, plus, there is an update to Chromecast built-in rolling out, it was released on june 29th, let's see if it fixes this problem for good.

EDIT: On 7/13/20 I received the update to version 1.47.216070 of Chromecast Built-in and I still can't get "Ambient Mode" to work.

lament

Used to work on the Shield way back when. Hasn't for a while.

Ced67

Works on Mii Box S. Thanks 👍

g3ppi

Works on the Mi TV as well!