pWidgets 2.5.8
There's no weather today here too
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.
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
Hi David -
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
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.davids45 wrote:Is there another less troublesome weather agency that could be used for a detailed weather widget?
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
Last edited by Moat on Fri 25 Mar 2016, 02:00, edited 1 time in total.
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.
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.
musher0
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Bonsoir, musher0 -
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
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.musher0 wrote:However after the
last forecast I got late this afternoon (Ottawa time), the app froze badly.
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
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
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
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
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.p ... 17#p121417
Simply replace the existing config's Yahoo URL...
Code: Select all
http://weather.yahooapis.com
... with this -
Code: Select all
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
New yahoo weather link
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.tlchost wrote:Any hints/ideas ?
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
Hey musher0 -
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
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#896431musher0 wrote:I can confirm that vovchick's yweather is not responding properly today.
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
any luck with pwidgets weather ?Moat wrote:
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
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
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
[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
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?
G'day,
My recently modified Weather-Station-Forecast widget has just gone weatherless again.
Is this more Yahoo "activity behind their scenes"?
David S.
My recently modified Weather-Station-Forecast widget has just gone weatherless again.
Is this more Yahoo "activity behind their scenes"?
David S.
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
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
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
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
- Attachments
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- Glassycast.jpg
- Running on my modified Precise 5.7.1 retro (Chloe Pup)
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- Glassycast.pet
- Worth tinkerin' with...
- (99.11 KiB) Downloaded 597 times
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
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
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.
http://conky.pitstop.free.fr/wiki/index ... r_%28en%29
It uses https://www.wunderground.com/
So perhaps this might be a reliable alternative.