What’s New in PhotoWeather: A New Dashboard and AI Assistant Connections

The new dashboard helps you decide where and when to shoot across your locations. There’s another way to plan, too: connect a compatible AI assistant to PhotoWeather and ask about your opportunities.

A new dashboard for planning across places and time

Open Dashboard on the web to see upcoming opportunities on a map. Pick a day and hour, filter by rule, and jump to the next hour with a match. Open a location to check the condition and timing before you head out. Opportunities depend on your enabled rules and the forecast, not a guarantee of good conditions.

Live Pulse shows what’s happening now or soon, whether or not it matches a rule. On smaller screens, open it from the dashboard control. Watching shows what you’re monitoring at each location; Alerts lets you switch email and push updates independently.

If no active location has an enabled rule, the dashboard guides you through setup. The map-first view is also available in the mobile app. Your plan limits still apply.

Connect your AI assistant with MCP

PhotoWeather’s own AI Weather Assistant, introduced in July, gives you a plain-language briefing inside the app. MCP support is different: it lets a compatible external AI assistant connect to your PhotoWeather account, with your permission.

You could ask it, “Which of my locations has the next fog opportunity?” or “What does the forecast look like at the ridge tomorrow morning?” With permission to make changes, you could also ask it to add a location, set up a rule from a template, change which location a rule watches, or adjust notification preferences. It can read your opportunities, weather, rules, and account details; it cannot do things outside the available PhotoWeather actions, such as manage billing. Your subscription limits still apply.

How to connect

You can also find these steps in PhotoWeather under your account menu → Connected Apps.

1. In an AI assistant that supports remote MCP connections and browser sign-in, add a custom connection. Copy and paste this address: https://app.photoweather.app/mcp.
2. Follow the assistant’s sign-in prompt and approve access to your PhotoWeather account. Choose read access if you’re only exploring and planning; allow changes only if you want the assistant to update your setup.
3. Start with “What is the best opportunity I have in PhotoWeather this week?” Review any proposed changes before confirming them.

For the exact steps in your assistant, see Claude’s custom connector guide or ChatGPT’s developer mode guide. Look for a connection flow that supports sign-in; you don’t need to paste an access token or your password into a chat.

MCP doesn’t replace your rules or alerts. It gives you another way to inspect them and, if you grant permission, change them. Check important changes before approving them, especially deleting locations or rules, which cannot be undone.

Smaller improvements

Setup now makes rule limits clearer when assigning rules to locations. On mobile, you can set the timezone for notifications and scheduled updates in account settings.

Try the dashboard with two places you know well: step through tomorrow morning, compare the opportunities, and check Live Pulse for anything happening sooner. If you use an MCP-compatible assistant, start with a read-only question before letting it change your setup. I’d love to hear which part makes planning easier — or what still gets in the way — at support@photoweather.app.

Clear skies,

Pontus