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Bug 619152 - Weather Report no longer collects forecast
Weather Report no longer collects forecast
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-20 00:16 UTC by hamilton.tim
Modified: 2020-11-06 19:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Update BOM forecast URL (1.21 KB, patch)
2010-09-19 08:03 UTC, Michael Chapman
none Details | Review

Description hamilton.tim 2010-05-20 00:16:46 UTC
Weather Report no longer collects forcast data for Melbourne, Australia. It continues to work correctly for other locations within .au. 

It appears error may be due to BOM changing the way the Mel forecast is delivered, now as HTML and not plain text (see the differences between http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml and http://reg.bom.gov.au/wa/forecasts/perth.shtml). Plain text file remains available at http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV10450.txt

Additionally, can someone point me where Weather Report keeps this data so I can hack my version to point it at the correct data point?
Comment 1 André Klapper 2010-05-20 19:40:07 UTC
What exactly does "Weather report" mean here, please? The applet?
The integrated display in the clock?
Comment 2 hamilton.tim 2010-05-20 22:51:06 UTC
Sorry, Weather Report panel applet ver 2.28.0.
Comment 3 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-08-26 17:12:56 UTC
this bug still reproduce?
Comment 4 hamilton.tim 2010-08-29 13:13:08 UTC
Yes, this bug persists with Weather Report 2.30.0 as packaged with Ubuntu 10.04.
Comment 5 Michael Chapman 2010-09-19 08:01:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Additionally, can someone point me where Weather Report keeps this data so I
> can hack my version to point it at the correct data point?

The URL is hard-coded into libgweather/weather-bom.c .

I'll attach a patch that gets it to use the http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/*.txt URL instead.
Comment 6 Michael Chapman 2010-09-19 08:03:04 UTC
Created attachment 170582 [details] [review]
Update BOM forecast URL
Comment 7 dedanna1029 2010-10-08 15:50:22 UTC
I have this issue as well for several locations in the U.S.. I have had this for over the last year and a half, distro-wide, in Mandriva, Arch Linux, Fedora, you name it. I can not get an updated forecast either in Fedora or Arch at this time - I am no longer using Mandriva.

$ pacman -Q libgweather
libgweather 2.30.3-1

I am unable to get a forecast for Clovis, NM, USA, where I now live; it is still stuck on the same forecast it had along in May, 2009. I do not know if this area's ICAO code changed; it is KCVS.

I've been hoping that updates would fix it; they haven't.

Thanks.
Comment 8 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-11-25 02:33:36 UTC
any news for this report?
Comment 9 dedanna1029 2010-11-25 16:58:28 UTC
Not from here... yet. The bug still remains in both latest Arch Linux and updated Fedora 14.

Will try to call on Monday to find out ICAO codes (although I am wondering if that's really the issue) for this area - it's the holidays here today.
Comment 10 dedanna1029 2011-06-10 14:41:22 UTC
Even with update to Gnome 3 in Arch Linux, this bug still remains. I have found since, that the ICAO code for this area is still KCVS. Thanks.
Comment 11 dedanna1029 2011-06-10 14:44:36 UTC
Radar map updates, current conditions updates, but forecast is still stuck around May 2009. Thanks.
Comment 12 dedanna1029 2011-06-10 14:47:54 UTC
Oh, sorry, also, at this point:

[dedanna@dedanna ~]$ rpm -qa | grep libgweather
libgweather-2.30.3-1.fc14.i686

Will do Arch's later today.
Comment 13 dedanna1029 2011-06-11 14:23:37 UTC
For Arch Linux:

:) pacman -Q libgweather
libgweather 3.0.2-1

I'm also having issues getting weather to display at all with the clock in fallback mode.

Thanks.
Comment 14 dedanna1029 2011-06-11 14:24:54 UTC
For Arch Linux:

:) pacman -Q libgweather
libgweather 3.0.2-1

I'm also having issues getting weather to display at all with the clock in fallback mode.

Thanks.
Comment 15 André Klapper 2020-11-06 19:57:12 UTC
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If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-applets/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be fixed.