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There's no weather today here too
Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 01:33
by davids45
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-fore ... /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.
Re: There's no weather today here too
Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 01:54
by Moat
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
Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 01:57
by musher0
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.
Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 02:27
by Moat
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
Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 07:10
by tlchost
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
Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2016, 20:09
by Moat
Still broken today, throwing the same "Please provide valid credentials. OAuth oauth_problem".
More people reporting the issue -
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comm ... e_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
Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2016, 23:04
by Moat
Found a simple fix for the Yahoo weather issue, from this post in the Rainmeter forums -
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.p ... 17#p121417
Simply replace the existing config's Yahoo URL...
... with this -
For how long this "new" URL will continue to function, who knows. But it's working dandy here, so far. YaY!
Bob
New yahoo weather link
Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 00:07
by davids45
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.
Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 11:08
by tlchost
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
nobody cares of my trouble with pwidgets.
Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 11:33
by Mayou
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.
Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 18:09
by Moat
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
Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2016, 19:43
by Moat
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/viewto ... 431#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
Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 21:27
by tlchost
any luck with pwidgets weather ?
Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 22:55
by Moat
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- ... /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
Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 23:57
by tlchost
[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
Yahoo weather gone again?
Posted: Wed 13 Apr 2016, 01:57
by davids45
G'day,
My recently modified Weather-Station-Forecast widget has just gone weatherless again.
Is this more Yahoo "activity behind their scenes"?
David S.
Posted: Wed 13 Apr 2016, 05:33
by Moat
Hi David,
I'm experiencing the same here, with /root/.pwidgets/tmp/wever-tmp reporting "Could not connect to the requested server host".
Fingers crossed, and hoping it's just a temporary server glitch. Googling about in search of any recent news regarding these servers being inaccessible is exposing nothing definitive, nothing pointing at Yahoo dropping this service or the like - or even the servers being "down" ATM.
So - hopefully just a temporary glitch! We'll see over the next few hours/days, eh...
Bob
Posted: Fri 06 May 2016, 04:02
by Moat
Yeah, screw it - Yahoo indeed appears to be history in regards to our Pwidget's weather scripts. Bah!
Vovchik's Yweather, too.
I managed to get a really nice weather conky (9 day forecast!) adjusted and working in Pwidgets on my Precise Pup... but it's a heavily-tweaked Pup, per this thread of Battleshooter's (running conky-all v1.8.1, Lua, and feh as the desktop wallpaper "placeholder" instead of the Rox pinboard);
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72815
I attached the .pet below, but I couldn't get it to function/display properly on an OOTB Puppy w/Pwidgets, without
at least the above (newer conky-all, feh, Lua) tweaks - but tinker away, if anybody wants - you might have better luck than I getting it to work on Puppy's default Roxdesktop.
Uses Accuweather, and is 99.8% based on the great work of TeoBigusGeekus and Sector11 over at the bunsenlabs forum;
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=189
Lovin' it, here!
Bob
Posted: Fri 06 May 2016, 04:18
by Moat
Oh yeah... here's my fat-but-happy Chloe Precise pup, if anybody wants to see the weather conky in action directly (as well as have a great, polished, complete and up-to-date pup to try out);
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209 ... up_R27.iso
330-ish Mb. MD5sum - a0a24a8e885883dc9b2ff9c6c11ae70c
Notes - Enabling the Glassycast weather via Pwidget's Plugins>Cluster selection
after network connection is established, works best. Also, use only Frisbee from the tray to connect - I cannot get SNS or Dougal's to work on this pup.
Bob
Posted: Sat 07 May 2016, 10:32
by solo
I'm not running a weather forecast widget in Conky myself, but I did see an alternative method to Yahoo at this link:
http://conky.pitstop.free.fr/wiki/index ... r_%28en%29
It uses
https://www.wunderground.com/
So perhaps this might be a reliable alternative.