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davids45

Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1237 Location: Chatswood, NSW
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2016, 21:33 Post subject:
There's no weather today here too Subject description: ... in between the Autumnal showers. |
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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.
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2016, 21:54 Post subject:
Re: There's no weather today here too Subject description: ... in between the Autumnal showers. |
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Hi David -
davids45 wrote: | Is there another less troublesome weather agency that could be used for a detailed weather widget? |
I've been wondering the same thing myself. On my Windows machines, I run the desktop widget app Xwidgets, which AFAICT uses Accuweather.com for weather information. For me, it has reported faithfully for years without a hitch.
I do have to wonder how difficult it might be to modify our existing Pwidgets configs to work with a new information source. I'm guessing it will take some rather serious work...
It seems no one can leave well enough alone these days.
Ziggy, Mick... help!
Bob
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14542 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2016, 21:57 Post subject:
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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.
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2016, 22:27 Post subject:
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Bonsoir, musher0 -
musher0 wrote: | However after the
last forecast I got late this afternoon (Ottawa time), the app froze badly. |
Yup - it was right around that same time period (late this afternoon, Eastern time in Michigan) when I noticed the Pwidget failed in reporting, after working fine earlier. And then at that point, launching Yweather, it failed (and crashed a few minutes later) also.
The scary thing was the authorization error reported in the Pwidgets temp weather file - and in Googling that specific error, led me to the (very recent) Yahoo info linked to earlier. Doesn't look good. No specific mention there of rss feeds, though - which is where Pwidgets scripts snatch their weather info from. So who knows... it may indeed be a temporary glitch while Yahoo sorts out this authentication/secret crap.
But I'm not holding my breath. Grrr...
Thanks for the reports, fellas.
[edit] Looking closer, I was wrong - it indeed appears the standard rss feeds are affected by this change after all. Grrrrr....
Bob
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tlchost
Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2111 Location: Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 03:10 Post subject:
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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
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 16:09 Post subject:
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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.
Bob
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2016, 19:04 Post subject:
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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...
Code: | http://weather.yahooapis.com |
... with this -
Code: | http://xml.weather.yahoo.com |
For how long this "new" URL will continue to function, who knows. But it's working dandy here, so far. YaY!
Bob
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davids45

Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1237 Location: Chatswood, NSW
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2016, 20:07 Post subject:
New yahoo weather link Subject description: Browser link works - pwidget 'in progress' [Fixed] |
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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 .
Hoping Yahoo don't decide to stop this feed before I get the widget fixed .
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.
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tlchost
Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2111 Location: Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 07:08 Post subject:
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odd.....
this url gives me what I want for weather
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=12766523&u=f
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when used in the weather station configuration file, it doesn't return
any values
Any hints/ideas ?
thanks
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Mayou
Joined: 17 Apr 2014 Posts: 106
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Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 07:33 Post subject:
nobody cares of my trouble with pwidgets. |
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nobody cares of my trouble with pwidgets not US, women... I go away, where sun is shining, where pWidgets is not frozen as in United states of America.
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 14:09 Post subject:
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tlchost wrote: | Any hints/ideas ? |
My guess is that line 16 of the Weather_Stationfunc plugin has to be changed to reflect the new URL (for Weather_Station, that would be /usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/plugins/Weather_Station/Weather_Stationfunc) - otherwise it might be overwriting the config's new URL with the bad, old URL if being invoked via the Pwidgets GUI.
Just a guess. I plan on digging into these issues if I get some time this week. Looks like all of the Yahoo weather widgets/plugins will need to be tweaked.
Bob
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 15:43 Post subject:
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Hey musher0 -
musher0 wrote: | I can confirm that vovchick's yweather is not responding properly today. |
In case you're interested, I more-or-less repaired vovchik's Yweather, using this newly-discovered, working Yahoo URL - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=896431#896431
I'm sure you could do a better job at compiling it, but hey - it works, and it's really not that big anyway. FWIW!
Bob
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tlchost
Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2111 Location: Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 17:27 Post subject:
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any luck with pwidgets weather ?
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Moat

Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 968 Location: Mid-mitten
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 18:55 Post subject:
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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...
Bob
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tlchost
Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2111 Location: Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 19:57 Post subject:
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[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
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