Cannot change temperature degrees on home screen to celcius in new smartthings app

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Temperature (From Weather Channel) that show on Home screen only show in Fahrenheit. Cannot change it to Celcius.

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I am encountering the same issue. The Weather Channel temperature is showing as °F even though I’m in Canada and all my sensors are set for °C. There doesn’t appear to be anywhere to change this setting. Help!

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This is also really bothering me in New Zealand. Everything else set to C, weather channel temp showing as F.

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Mine is in C in the UK, which fortunately is how I want it as I can’t see any way of changing it that works.

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I’m in Canada, I have it in C.
Maybe the phone language ? US eng vs CA Eng ? (That would be dumb…)

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Anyone figure this out yet?

I am in Canada - using IMPERIAL measurements (ie Farenheit for temps) but the widget on the home screen in ST is in Celcius… Sadly when I click on the link the weather app in the web browser shows up in F!

It doesnt matter if I am using a location in Canada or USA - both display in ST as C.

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I still face the problem. I choose temperature unit to Celcius but it always show Fahrenheit.

Smartthings not fix this problem for many months

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Samsung Customer Support wrote me back and claim that the ST home screen weather widget is tied to the “country” setting in your Samsung Acct. Which appears to require an Act of Congress to switch. Apparently I set up my account in Canada - even though the rest of the phone and accounts are US based.

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I wondered if it related to cookie settings on weather.com, as I’d tried changing the units to Celcius on their website, which provides the data to the widget. The setting changes the units displayed, but only for that single session. However when I checked the cookies, they were being saved for that site.

I’ve got my location correctly set in my Samsung account, but on my the home screen widget still insists on showing me the wrong units, ie deg fahrenheit.
(Celcius has been the temperature unit in my country for half a century)

Strange, given that Samsung is a Korean company - I wonder if they’re forced to pander to a particular nation which shall remain nameless,
And if I can be permitted to speculate wildly, perhaps Samsung have decided to disable the ability to display celcius for ALL users because so many of the population of that nation are

  1. unbelievably parochial
  2. incapable of (or disinclined from) following simple instructions, hence will be unable to change the units to their archaic preference
  3. tend to get very angry should their preferences not be the first choice globally, preferably the only one (as witness Samsung offering only US English for their keyboard inputs on my phone. When I tried to turn them off, their radio buttons became greyed out, and stayed on)
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Similar problem here. I set up my SmartThings account in Europe (Celsius), then moved to the US (Fahrenheit). So my account is stuck in Celsius and some features are blocked. I talked support about a year ago and they told me that I had to create a new account. Here’s what they said:

We see that your account does not show as a US-based account. Because of this, options that would be available to a US user are blocked.
You will need to set up a US account before they can access this feature.

One of the many reasons I’ll be ditching SmartThings.