If you have smart tv, go to home, then find the App box, click on it, then find the search button, type Weather Channel, sélect to download.
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Yes, there should be an option to add apps on your smart TV. Probably via the settings menu.
You’ll also need to install the app on each of the Roku sticks as well.
And then you’ll have to link your YTTV to the weather channel app on each device.
If it seems too much trouble you might want to use a weather app on your phone instead.
I’ve tried it twice now, two hours apart. Each time it tells me there’s a problem with the Samsung app store. It doesn’t download, even though I click on Install. I’ll try again tomorrow.
I hate technology when it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.
Thanks for asking about the weather channel! I’m not quite there yet. I’m behind you VeryHappy! We do have our summer cottage new smart TV working and up and running just YTTV, Netflix and Prime, cut the cord, there. Nice new modem and powerful WiFi mesh extender. One house down! We talked to the customer service person who came out about our main home and the TV’s in the basement. He told us those cheap plug in extenders are pretty worthless, you need to get a mesh extender for a larger home. He’s right because we were trying those plug in ones for upstairs and basement just for our phone and tablet WiFi and it didn’t work well.
I need to add other people to YTTV, as DH asked what if he’s there and wants to login with his “info”. I’ll do that today.
Went to the basement to start working on those TV’s. One is a large smart TV that we never use (DH wanted to but it a couple years ago because it was so big and inexpensive he couldn’t believe it, but never watches it because it’s in the basement…,sheesh). So, I turn it on and it says it’s not connected to the internet! I’m not even understanding that. I know we need to but a good mesh extender, but I’m confused how to get it connected to the internet? Help!
Usually you just need to go to settings and find the internet section, choose your internet network name and then sign in on your tv
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Thank you, I will try that!
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Good luck, @conmama . I feel your pain. It’s so frustrating when you think you have it all ready to go and then some technical issue that we don’t understand pops up!!
As @DadOfJerseyGirl suggested, I just downloaded a weather app to my phone. Again, the problem is DH. He hasn’t been able to download apps to his fancy new iphone. 
We are taking a trip to the Verizon store today so they can show him how to do this. (To be fair, the issue is that before he can download something, the phone asks for his Apple PW. And no matter what he does, it doesn’t seem to recognize it. So that’s where we have to start.)
One issue leads to another, doesn’t it.
And I have another question for all you smart people: Is there an easy way to go from channel to channel on YTTV? It seems that I need to basically start over each time I want to watch another channel – that is, go to the home screen, select YTTV again, select myself as the person watching, go to Live, and then finally find the channel. It’s very cumbersome – not to mention time-consuming. Back in our cable days (24 hours ago), I could just toggle between two or more channels.
While watching a show in YTTV, I use the down arrow, which reveals a menu bar with the choice TV Channels. When you choose that, it pops up a series of little thumbnail images of current programs on other channels. You can just arrow to the right and eventually see every other channel while your original show is still going in the background. If you want to pick one of those thumbnail shows, just arrow to it and click. If you want to switch back, arrow down again, and your prior show will be one of the first thumbnails. I jump around among multiple sporting events like this all the time.
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You definitely shouldn’t need to go back to your tv home screen to change channels! In addition to the suggestion in the previous post, if you’re watching something live, the “back” button on your remote should take you back to the YTTV live grid, where you can go up or down to a different channel.
Also, they’ve recently added a feature on some devices (not all, yet) where a long press on the select/okay button takes you to the most recent previous channel. Not sure how well that works if you’re chase-watching (started late so you can skip through ads).
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If it were just me, I might be able to live with our (embarrassing amount of) streaming channels. Our daughters get along just fine without cable. But there is the husband to consider …
A good tip someone gave me is that if you find a channel you want to watch something in particular on, get it for a month and binge the heck out of whatever it has. We did this with Apple TV and Ted Lasso. Then cancel, and come back in a few months. Some (all?) of them don’t care.
All that being said, TV/streaming is our main form of entertainment. We don’t go to the movies, plays, sporting events, etc. So I’m one of those willing to pay for what I want.
Anymore, though, the streaming channels are starting to bundle. Before long they will resemble cable lol.
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Thanks. I figured it out. It’s remarkably easy!
DH continues to have difficulty. I’m beginning to worry about his executive functioning skills.
Yay…glad it’s figured out.
Some folks are very resistant to any kind of change…ask me how I know!
LOL. A little over a year ago, I was able to convince DH to switch from cable (the $$ don’t lie!) I set him up his own profile, and told him how he could add anything he wanted to his library (so it would “record” it), and mentioned he could log in on his laptop to make it easier to move his preferred channels to the top. Plus he could watch under “my” profile to access anything in my library. I signed on under his profile a time or two to see how it was going - no favorites, nothing saved…
Then maybe 6-8 months later, he mentioned, hey, that recording function is pretty nice! So there’s still hope - just a long learning curve.
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I think many of us have one in the house who has trouble with this transition. On this thread it happens to be husbands/males! My husband also CANNOT seem to understand or recall tech steps. I think it is a product of his job when he was working NOT being tech dependent. Besides email and some basic recordkeeping he did not have to interact or work with tech devices/computers.
On the other hand he has “understood” a tv remote/cable for decades! To be honest, there have been times when even with cable if something went off course he had no clue what to do.
You were right about the Basement TV not connecting to internet, that I needed to go to Settings.
I did that this morning and it asks for the SSIS and password. I had to google where to get it. Found it on the bottom of our modem.
My question is : is this different than our wireless ID and password? I didn’t know if it was something where you start off with a generic SSID and then rename it? Or 2 totally different things.
If my husband goes away, I have to be retaught how to turn on the TV and use the remote (well actually multiple remotes due the Bose system… tis more complicated than I’d like, even though we pay dearly for the Comcast that we rarely use for our evening TV session.). Honestly, my go-to is online stuff…. and I only watch the TV with him.
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No. That’s what you need to enter to connect to your WiFi/Internet. If you don’t remember your network name/ID, go to the settings → wireless section on your phone and see what wireless network is configured.
Ok, I’m editing my message. So, we put in the name and password we created, correct?
Yes, correct
Thank you!
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