[kde-linux] LCD weather widget not finding noaa stations

[Duncan]

Dale posted on Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:00:11 -0600 as excerpted:

> netherstar wrote:
>> Dale-46 wrote
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded to KDE 4.6.2 and noticed the weather widget thingy
>>> stopped working.  It seemed to have lost its settings somehow. 
>>> Anyway,
>>> I right clicked and tried to set it again.  It comes up with a list
>>> but they are all wettercom instead of noaa stations.  They don't seem
>>> to work.
>> I've gotten the lcd weather widget to start working again.  While
>> trying to find a replacement I tried Yawp (Yet Another Weather
>> Plasmoid).  I couldn't get it to work either BUT the lcd weather widget
>> can now access noaa and accuweather stations.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> What version of KDE are you using?  It still doesn't work here so I may
> need to upgrade something.

FWIW, I'm using YAWP here, version 0.4.3 on kde 4.9.90 now but earlier 
versions back thru I'd say kde 4.7.0 if not earlier have all worked just 
fine.  In fact, I'm running six different instances, three for different 
noaa devices in various locations here near phoenix (AZ, USA), another 
for phoenix from accuweather, and two for caldwell (ID, USA), one noaa 
one accuweather, since that's where my folks live.  (Back before I added 
the caldwell locations, I had only one instance running, rotating several 
phoenix reports, but I setup a second activity for most of my desktop 
plasmoids including yawp, and setup all the phoenix locations I could 
find as separate plasmoids then, plus added the caldwell locations as 
separate plasmoids as well.  So now I have six yawp plasmoids running, 
all with one location each, instead of one plasmoid, with multiple 
locations.)

At one point I recall a bit of disruption.  I took it as some provider  
malfunction, or possibly deciding they didn't want to service "bots" any 
longer, thus blocking them, but I simply reconfigured to use different 
providers and locations that worked, and I was fine.

Since I normally update my kde pretty fast, including running the pre-
release betas (like the 4.9.90 aka 4.10-beta2 I'm running now), however, 
it may be that one or more data providers changed format or some such, 
and the old versions went stale.  Once I reconfigured, however, I got the 
new datasets as shipped by the newer kde, so it just worked for me once 
again, while anyone still running a six-month or whatever stale kde 
version, because that's what their distro shipped, would have only seen 
the old datasets, until such point as they did a distro update that 
brought in a newer kde with the new provider datasets.

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