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davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1206 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day Moat,

I have been widget weather forecastless as well, from yesterday I think.

This morning, I went as far as checking the original yahoo address in a browser but it was unresponsive. Definitely not a 'Good' Friday.

So I found yahoo weather for Chatswood on the yahoo.com.au site

https://weather.yahoo.com.au/local-forecast/nsw/chatswood

and being an optimist, copied that address over the original in the weather widget, but nothing resulted.

Is there another less troublesome weather agency that could be used for a detailed weather widget? The original basic weather widget is still OK but I miss the extra information and prognostication of the Forecast widget.

David S.

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Hi David -

musher0 · Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2016, 21:57 Post subject:

Hi Moat.

I can confirm that vovchick's yweather is not responding properly today. I did get a
couple of forecasts during the day, forcing it with a restart of xwin. However after the
last forecast I got late this afternoon (Ottawa time), the app froze badly.

Maybe try a general weather site, like weather.com or accuweather.com until we really
know what's going on with yweather? Maybe it's just a glitch, or a database update.
(Since they carry weather data from everywhere in the world, that DB must be huge.)

BFN.

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Bonsoir, musher0 -

tlchost · Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 03:10 Post subject:

weather underground still offers forecast and free keys.
I use it in a script in the #puppylinux channel on freenode

Most puppies have a link to the channel...if you care to, log in and type
!w or !w help

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Still broken today, throwing the same "Please provide valid credentials. OAuth oauth_problem".

More people reporting the issue - https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4buhc7/news_yahoo_weather_rss_api_is_downgone_if_your/

I don't get it - just what in Pete's name are they thinking? Potentially breaking millions of users' weather reporting apps, worldwide.

Confused

Bob

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Found a simple fix for the Yahoo weather issue, from this post in the Rainmeter forums -

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=121417#p121417

Simply replace the existing config's Yahoo URL...

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1206 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day Moat,

Thanks for finding the fix for our Weather-Forecast widget yahoo source.

It works for here (Sydney (not the one in Canada), temperatures in Celsius) in my browser.

But not yet in my widget - I'd probably fiddled with it too much and will need to start again from scratch Embarassed

.

Hoping Yahoo don't decide to stop this feed before I get the widget fixed Rolling Eyes

.

Fixed - I needed to paste the new URL in the (unused by me) Weather_Station widget config - I'd pasted the link in the Weather_Station_Forecast config (which I use) but it called the URL from the Weather_Station widget (ignoring the URL line in its own config file?). Probably something I've broken during playing around.

David S.

tlchost · Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 07:08 Post subject:

odd.....
this url gives me what I want for weather
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=12766523&u=f
but
when used in the weather station configuration file, it doesn't return
any values

Any hints/ideas ?

thanks

Mayou · Joined: 17 Apr 2014 Posts: 106

nobody cares of my trouble with pwidgets Question

not US, women... I go away, where sun is shining, where pWidgets is not frozen as in United states of America.

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Hey musher0 -

tlchost · Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 17:27 Post subject:

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 960 Location: Mid-mitten

Hi tlchost -

After applying the URL tweaks I mentioned in a few posts above - to both the Pwidgets' config and especially Weather_Stationfunc plugin - unload/re-load the widget via Pwidgets GUI and in the location popup window enter USMD0018 for Baltimore (from this website - https://weather.codes/united-states-of-america/maryland/ )

IOW - USMD0018 is the location code you want.

See if that works. It does here (is it really mid 70's there today?).

Actually (and optionally), the Weather_Stationfunc plugin's location parameter forecastrss?p has been deprecated, and could be changed to forecastrss?w instead - in which case your original WOEID of 12766523 should likely work.

Aack... more tail-chasing, never-ending stuff to fix... Confused

Bob

tlchost · Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 19:57 Post subject:

[quote="Moat"
IOW - USMD0018 is the location code you want.

See if that works. It does here (is it really mid 70's there today?).

Actually (and optionally), the Weather_Stationfunc plugin's location parameter forecastrss?p has been deprecated, and could be changed to forecastrss?w instead - in which case your original WOEID of 12766523 should likely work.[/quote]

Thanks...works now...and yes, it's 74 and we're having a thunder storm.
BTW, USMD0020 is the weather station 1/2 mile from me.

Hopefully the changes will be incorporated in the next release of pwidgets