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

[Dale]

Duncan wrote:
> 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.
>


When I type in the name of my city, the only thing that comes up is
wettercom.  There is NO NOAH stations at all.  While wettercom does
report some info, it doesn't report it all and I might add, it is not
accurate at times.  When I could use NOAH, which I think was last
available here in KDE3, it worked great. 

I don't know what happened to the NOAH settings but I sure wish I could
get it back. 

I'm on 4.9.4 which is the latest in the tree.  No overlays here.

Dale

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