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[Micropolis]

Hi Ray,

... If I have WU for both today and forecast I get this screen (also popups no info) ...

it would be very helpful to have/see your weather profile for Chester, because I'm not able to reproduce your issue (see screenshot) with latest version from 1st post.

My test configuration: Location: "Chester", City code: "UKXX0033" or "*15829", Country: "United Kingdom", Timezone: UTC.

Cheers, Micropolis

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Ok, so I did not set UK as Country (possible addition to GUI), this is going to be one of those questions asked over and over again, why if Chester GBR selected, sorry if I am trying to play dumb here, just trying to keep things nice and simple

 

[Dadeo]

Hi Dadeo,

Please try the latest build of WorldWeather Lite or WorldWeather to verify, if the sunshine calculation bugfix has fixed your problem. I have tested this using the following conditions: Location: "Goderich", Country: "Canada", City code: "CAXX0165", Longitude: "-81.7052612" and Latitude: "43.7457047".

Cheers, Micropolis

Unfortunately no luck for me yet (with v 2.3.0). Using Goderich - I added the Location Details to the skin so you can confirm them - see Titan screenshots for Goderich.
Here's what is set in my WorldWeather.xml:

  <section name="WorldWeatherProfile1">
	<entry name="City">Goderich, CAN</entry>
	<entry name="CityCode">CAXX0165</entry>
	<entry name="CityPostalCode"></entry>
	<entry name="Country">Canada</entry>
	<entry name="Description">
	</entry>
	<entry name="TemperatureUnit">0</entry>
	<entry name="WindUnit">0</entry>
	<entry name="PressureUnit">0</entry>
	<entry name="VisibilityUnit">0</entry>
	<entry name="Timezone">82</entry>
	<entry name="TimezoneUTCSpan">-300</entry>
  </section>

WWL does not contain Lat./Long in the WW.xml but you can see it is picking up the correct coordinates in GUI.

 

[blair_haynes]

Hi Micropolis

I have an interesting problem. In the attached screen shot, it doesn't show a condition for Thursday, and consequently shows an XBMC place-holder. If I look on the Weather Underground website, the condition for that day is "Chance of T-storms" so is it possible that it does not know what to do with this condition?

Also, I notice that it is not picking up the current condition for my location so is also putting a place-holder icon.

 

[Micropolis]

Hi blair_haynes,

... In the attached screen shot, it doesn't show a condition for Thursday, and consequently shows an XBMC place-holder. If I look on the Weather Underground website, the condition for that day is "Chance of T-storms" so is it possible that it does not know what to do with this condition?

thank you for reporting, I'll try to check this in the evening. Location is "Gisborne", Country is "New Zealand", correct?

Cheers, Micropolis

 

[blair_haynes]

Yep, correct.

 

[Micropolis]

Hi blair_haynes,

Yep, correct.

I've made a check of the xml output from Weather Underground. As you can see in the following snippet, the weather condition indicator (<weather>) for Gisborne is empty.

...
<local_tz_long>Pacific/Auckland</local_tz_long>
<local_tz_offset>+1300</local_tz_offset>
<weather/>
<temperature_string>72 F (22 C)</temperature_string>
<temp_f>72</temp_f>
<temp_c>22</temp_c>
...

If I take a look to another location (e.g. Munich), the indicator contains a value.

...
<local_tz_long>Europe/Berlin</local_tz_long>
<local_tz_offset>+0100</local_tz_offset>
<weather>Overcast</weather>
<temperature_string>28 F (-2 C)</temperature_string>
<temp_f>28</temp_f>
<temp_c>-2</temp_c>
...

Because of this constallation it is not possible to determine the condition image and text. The grabber works correctly, I can't do anything here, sorry.

Cheers, Micropolis

 

[Micropolis]

Hi Dadeo,

... Unfortunately no luck for me yet (with v 2.3.0) ...

for me it is absolutely incomprehensible why this does not work on your machine.
I've made double checks for each weather provider, no problem. The last chance to find the issue is to check your country specific machine settings and your WorldWeather Lite settings and key itself. Otherwise I had no more ideas, where the problem can be located.

Cheers, Micropolis

 

[Dadeo]

Hi Micropolis - sorry for the delay - just too busy lately and with bad weather either power or internet is out half the time
I just started from scratch (when in doubt start over ) and generated a new api key for Weather Underground and it is working now for me. I do not know what got messed up about my previous key, which works fine using your troubleshooting guide. But at least it may be good to know if other users report similar issues at some point.

As long as it works, I would say keep Weather Underground as provider!

I still cannot figure out why World Weather Online reports wrong info for Goderich (see screenshot above). I promise you it is NOT 32C in Canada in January (I wish!) . Can you post a screenshot of what you get for Goderich using WWO? When I troubleshoot using the API I have to add country i.e. Goderich Canada, otherwise city Goderich finds data in Sierra Leone (which matches what displays in WWL). So I added 'Canada' to the city name and voila WWO works! So I think this might be an important point to add to docs for WWO? - i.e. if there is more than one city/location with the same name, you need to add the country to the city name for WWO.

 

[Micropolis]

Hi Dadeo,

... As long as it works, I would say keep Weather Underground as provider! ...

Ok, thanks for your feedback.

... Can you post a screenshot of what you get for Goderich using WWO? ...

Please find attached the configuration and output for Goderich/Canada. And yes, I can confirm, that WorldWeatherOnline has a identification problem for this location.

Cheers, Micropolis