Weather Docklet does not work
Weather Docklet by Jeff Barmann Version 1.6 and Stardock
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by Alan Hill | Discussion: ObjectDock
After a recent update I was hoping the weather docklet would updated. It has !!! But it still does not work.I tried Brisbane Australia I tried Oceania Brisbane Australia. No Good.
Maybe it only works in the US. Pity I do not live there. Neither do a lot of your customers
Global what's that?
Maybe it only works in the US. Pity I do not live there. Neither do a lot of your customers
Global what's that?
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Rosco54
Reply #42 Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:49 PM
Reply #42 Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:49 PM
It isn't AccuWeather's fault - There is a sidebar gadget - AccuWeatherForecast - which works fine ???
whRpRrpHN
Reply #43 Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:51 PM
Reply #43 Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:51 PM
My sentiments exactly. I live in Adelaide South Australia and that does not work either, matter of fact no Australian cities work but New Zealand's do, what gives?
Nikay
Reply #44 Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:13 PM
Hi everyone! Just so you know, its a brand new weather backend on our servers, so we're still working on that for international locations. If your location doesn't work right now, don't worry we're working hard in conjunction with AccuWeather to get *all* available locations up and running!
A note also about locations: right now it can be a little finicy about what you put in. Particularly, if you're a Canada resident be aware that you don't want to do say "Toronto, Canada", but use the province abbreviation...so..."Toronto, ON". Another example, "London, England" won't work.. but "London, United Kingdom" will. And for the US, you can do "48104" or "Ann Arbor, MI", but you can't spell out the state name and have it work...so "Ann Arbor, Michigan" would fail.
Hopefully this is taken care of quickly, i cant live without my weather docklet, though in the meantime I am just using the XML docklet, but I would rather use this one.
Reply #44 Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:13 PM
Hi everyone! Just so you know, its a brand new weather backend on our servers, so we're still working on that for international locations. If your location doesn't work right now, don't worry we're working hard in conjunction with AccuWeather to get *all* available locations up and running!
A note also about locations: right now it can be a little finicy about what you put in. Particularly, if you're a Canada resident be aware that you don't want to do say "Toronto, Canada", but use the province abbreviation...so..."Toronto, ON". Another example, "London, England" won't work.. but "London, United Kingdom" will. And for the US, you can do "48104" or "Ann Arbor, MI", but you can't spell out the state name and have it work...so "Ann Arbor, Michigan" would fail.
Hopefully this is taken care of quickly, i cant live without my weather docklet, though in the meantime I am just using the XML docklet, but I would rather use this one.
arcturus13
Reply #45 Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:36 AM
Reply #45 Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:36 AM
From Reply #29
"Particularly, if you're a Canada resident be aware that you don't want to do say "Toronto, Canada", but use the province abbreviation...so..."Toronto, ON"."
I had entered "Toronto, On", but the docklet gives a reading for "York, On" (which is the former name for Toronto, from about a hundred years ago!) and gives the wrong weather reading by many degrees. Right now the docklet reads "York,On Sunny 7C", but when I open the homepage from the docklet, Accuweather there says "York,On Sunny 12C". And also, the 5 day forecast shown by the docklet does not match the one from the Accuweather homepage.
Dragged the docklet off the dock, started over, put in "Toronto, On", now the docklet says "Toronto,On Cloudy 11C" (there is not a cloud in the sky!), but the Accuweather homepage then says "Toronto", but says the weather is "Sunny 7C" - but any other weather report I check says it's 12C. And the 5 day fly-out is a day behind - it's Sunday, but the fly-out starts at Saturday's (yesterday's) forecast ??
"Particularly, if you're a Canada resident be aware that you don't want to do say "Toronto, Canada", but use the province abbreviation...so..."Toronto, ON"."
I had entered "Toronto, On", but the docklet gives a reading for "York, On" (which is the former name for Toronto, from about a hundred years ago!) and gives the wrong weather reading by many degrees. Right now the docklet reads "York,On Sunny 7C", but when I open the homepage from the docklet, Accuweather there says "York,On Sunny 12C". And also, the 5 day forecast shown by the docklet does not match the one from the Accuweather homepage.
Dragged the docklet off the dock, started over, put in "Toronto, On", now the docklet says "Toronto,On Cloudy 11C" (there is not a cloud in the sky!), but the Accuweather homepage then says "Toronto", but says the weather is "Sunny 7C" - but any other weather report I check says it's 12C. And the 5 day fly-out is a day behind - it's Sunday, but the fly-out starts at Saturday's (yesterday's) forecast ??
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #46 Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:08 PM
Reply #46 Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:08 PM
OK, mine is going crackers. It's supposed to be 'Sheffield, United Kingdom'. Yesterday it said Barnsley, this morning Sheffield, and now Chesterfield. Eh?
ZeBeeDee
Reply #47 Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:34 PM
Reply #47 Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:34 PM
XML Weather Docklet Version 1.10 works but no 5 day forecast ... it'll do for now until Stardock gets to grips with Accuweather. Really hated the bundled one saying it was yesterday all the time!
Bob Everard
Reply #48 Monday, April 30, 2007 7:42 AM
Reply #48 Monday, April 30, 2007 7:42 AM
This is just the kind of thing that constantly makes me want to throw up. A product comes from the US with some new "features" that nobody asked for, which don't even work for those poor benighted morons who aren't lucky enough to live in the glorious U S of A. And who cares? Nobody.
When I first installed Object Dock Plus, I had to spend an hour trying to work out how to get local weather, finally finding something like SEXX0031. That, of course, is not accepted any longer, and so far all attempts to get any weather information for Stockholm have failed miserably. As thomassen has already said, Stockholm, Sweden produces a request for specification among
* Stockholm, Sweden (Jamtland)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Skane)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
which in itself is ridiculous, and insulting - the distance between Jämtland and Skåne is about 500 miles north-south, neither contains a Stockholm, and they tend not to share weather conditions.
Will Americans ever learn that Europeans are actually real people, and not merely zoo animals for the amusement of tourists?
When I first installed Object Dock Plus, I had to spend an hour trying to work out how to get local weather, finally finding something like SEXX0031. That, of course, is not accepted any longer, and so far all attempts to get any weather information for Stockholm have failed miserably. As thomassen has already said, Stockholm, Sweden produces a request for specification among
* Stockholm, Sweden (Jamtland)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Skane)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
which in itself is ridiculous, and insulting - the distance between Jämtland and Skåne is about 500 miles north-south, neither contains a Stockholm, and they tend not to share weather conditions.
Will Americans ever learn that Europeans are actually real people, and not merely zoo animals for the amusement of tourists?
ZubaZ
Reply #49 Monday, April 30, 2007 8:04 AM
See post #29. It's being worked on.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Reply #49 Monday, April 30, 2007 8:04 AM
And who cares? Nobody.
See post #29. It's being worked on.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
JeffBDVS
Reply #50 Monday, April 30, 2007 8:48 AM
Reply #50 Monday, April 30, 2007 8:48 AM
As a proud U.S. citizen, my first response to what Mr. Everard said was going to be snippy. But then I remembered one American tourist that I encountered in Tivoli Gardens a few years ago, and her behavior as she interacted with a very nice Danish lady at an Information kiosk (apologies to Mr. Everard for including information about Denmark while replying to a Swede 
). Let's just call her behavior shameful. I imagine that Mr. Everard has seen too many misbehaved American tourists and not enough well-mannered ones.
). Let's just call her behavior shameful. I imagine that Mr. Everard has seen too many misbehaved American tourists and not enough well-mannered ones.
relenti
Reply #51 Monday, April 30, 2007 9:04 AM
Reply #51 Monday, April 30, 2007 9:04 AM
I also have this problem with the weather dock!
But, just for trying, I writed: London, United Kingdom, and didn´t work, too
I sawed in another topic that the system tray tab also have some problems, I updated the object dock from 1.5 to 1.9 and the icons in the system tray desapears. Also the weather.
Is this a serious update? it realy worth it?
But, just for trying, I writed: London, United Kingdom, and didn´t work, too
I sawed in another topic that the system tray tab also have some problems, I updated the object dock from 1.5 to 1.9 and the icons in the system tray desapears. Also the weather.
Is this a serious update? it realy worth it?
CameronMitchell
Reply #52 Monday, April 30, 2007 10:52 AM
Reply #52 Monday, April 30, 2007 10:52 AM
Im in Denver, Colorado and the docklet only shows yesterday's high temperature and that's it. It also won't go the pages that show the radar, etc, when you click on them.
cybermessiah
Reply #53 Monday, April 30, 2007 11:37 AM
Reply #53 Monday, April 30, 2007 11:37 AM
If you are frustrated with this issue then there is a solution.....at least one which enables you to have a forcastable weather docklet in your OD.
This is a link for Sysstats 2.5.11: actually a really cool program ,by Judge,that allows you to add docklets such as CPU, battery, calander and weather to OD.
The weather docklet is one that Ive used for ages and it even provides a 3 day forcast (though not in fly-out form). Just follow the instructions to install the plugin and weather docklet provided on the link:
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=4271&libid=29
Its better than beating ur head over this issue with the current OD weather and there are tonnes of other stuff that you can add into it as well.
Hope this helps.
This is a link for Sysstats 2.5.11: actually a really cool program ,by Judge,that allows you to add docklets such as CPU, battery, calander and weather to OD.
The weather docklet is one that Ive used for ages and it even provides a 3 day forcast (though not in fly-out form). Just follow the instructions to install the plugin and weather docklet provided on the link:
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=4271&libid=29
Its better than beating ur head over this issue with the current OD weather and there are tonnes of other stuff that you can add into it as well.
Hope this helps.
bobbyhundreds
Reply #54 Monday, April 30, 2007 12:22 PM
The Stardock guys have now commented several times in this thread that the problem is being addressed and as far as I am concerned they have always been good to their word,so a little patience would be virtuous.
Let's get this into perspective eh...it's a faulty weather docklet,not a leaking nuclear reactor...hardly the international incident you make it out to be.
I'm English and I've never noticed that we get anything other than equal treatment on this site.
And to the other person who said he can't live without the docklet...jeez fella..you wanna get out more. Just give it a while and it will be sorted out,as things always are here.
Reply #54 Monday, April 30, 2007 12:22 PM
This is just the kind of thing that constantly makes me want to throw up. A product comes from the US with some new "features" that nobody asked for, which don't even work for those poor benighted morons who aren't lucky enough to live in the glorious U S of A. And who cares? Nobody.
When I first installed Object Dock Plus, I had to spend an hour trying to work out how to get local weather, finally finding something like SEXX0031. That, of course, is not accepted any longer, and so far all attempts to get any weather information for Stockholm have failed miserably. As thomassen has already said, Stockholm, Sweden produces a request for specification among
* Stockholm, Sweden (Jamtland)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Skane)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
which in itself is ridiculous, and insulting - the distance between Jämtland and Skåne is about 500 miles north-south, neither contains a Stockholm, and they tend not to share weather conditions.
Will Americans ever learn that Europeans are actually real people, and not merely zoo animals for the amusement of tourists?
When I first installed Object Dock Plus, I had to spend an hour trying to work out how to get local weather, finally finding something like SEXX0031. That, of course, is not accepted any longer, and so far all attempts to get any weather information for Stockholm have failed miserably. As thomassen has already said, Stockholm, Sweden produces a request for specification among
* Stockholm, Sweden (Jamtland)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Skane)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
which in itself is ridiculous, and insulting - the distance between Jämtland and Skåne is about 500 miles north-south, neither contains a Stockholm, and they tend not to share weather conditions.
Will Americans ever learn that Europeans are actually real people, and not merely zoo animals for the amusement of tourists?
The Stardock guys have now commented several times in this thread that the problem is being addressed and as far as I am concerned they have always been good to their word,so a little patience would be virtuous.
Let's get this into perspective eh...it's a faulty weather docklet,not a leaking nuclear reactor...hardly the international incident you make it out to be.
I'm English and I've never noticed that we get anything other than equal treatment on this site.
And to the other person who said he can't live without the docklet...jeez fella..you wanna get out more.
Just give it a while and it will be sorted out,as things always are here.
lianmeyer
Reply #55 Monday, April 30, 2007 12:25 PM
Reply #55 Monday, April 30, 2007 12:25 PM
Work for Paris, France but not with Orleans, France .
nrz0000
Reply #56 Monday, April 30, 2007 3:01 PM
This is just the kind of thing that constantly makes me want to throw up. A product comes from the US with some new "features" that nobody asked for, which don't even work for those poor benighted morons who aren't lucky enough to live in the glorious U S of A. And who cares? Nobody.
When I first installed Object Dock Plus, I had to spend an hour trying to work out how to get local weather, finally finding something like SEXX0031. That, of course, is not accepted any longer, and so far all attempts to get any weather information for Stockholm have failed miserably. As thomassen has already said, Stockholm, Sweden produces a request for specification among
* Stockholm, Sweden (Jamtland)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Skane)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
which in itself is ridiculous, and insulting - the distance between Jämtland and Skåne is about 500 miles north-south, neither contains a Stockholm, and they tend not to share weather conditions.
Will Americans ever learn that Europeans are actually real people, and not merely zoo animals for the amusement of tourists?
Bob:
If it makes you feel better, I'm in the USA and it doesn't work for me either. I should be able to enter a US Zip Code, which it allows me to do, but when I hover over the docklet it shows the weather for a different Zip Code. When I try to go back in and fix it, it shows the correct Zip Code being entered, but still doesn't report the correct location. AccuWeather has my Zip Code in its database too...
Reply #56 Monday, April 30, 2007 3:01 PM
This is just the kind of thing that constantly makes me want to throw up. A product comes from the US with some new "features" that nobody asked for, which don't even work for those poor benighted morons who aren't lucky enough to live in the glorious U S of A. And who cares? Nobody.
When I first installed Object Dock Plus, I had to spend an hour trying to work out how to get local weather, finally finding something like SEXX0031. That, of course, is not accepted any longer, and so far all attempts to get any weather information for Stockholm have failed miserably. As thomassen has already said, Stockholm, Sweden produces a request for specification among
* Stockholm, Sweden (Jamtland)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Skane)
* Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
which in itself is ridiculous, and insulting - the distance between Jämtland and Skåne is about 500 miles north-south, neither contains a Stockholm, and they tend not to share weather conditions.
Will Americans ever learn that Europeans are actually real people, and not merely zoo animals for the amusement of tourists?
Bob:
If it makes you feel better, I'm in the USA and it doesn't work for me either. I should be able to enter a US Zip Code, which it allows me to do, but when I hover over the docklet it shows the weather for a different Zip Code. When I try to go back in and fix it, it shows the correct Zip Code being entered, but still doesn't report the correct location. AccuWeather has my Zip Code in its database too...
rsnbrsnb
Reply #57 Tuesday, May 1, 2007 11:48 AM
Reply #57 Tuesday, May 1, 2007 11:48 AM
One suggestion, Weather Docklet group needs to look in to the Mac Accuweather widget, that might give you some ideas
Nikay
Reply #58 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 4:07 AM
The Stardock guys have now commented several times in this thread that the problem is being addressed and as far as I am concerned they have always been good to their word,so a little patience would be virtuous.
Let's get this into perspective eh...it's a faulty weather docklet,not a leaking nuclear reactor...hardly the international incident you make it out to be.
I'm English and I've never noticed that we get anything other than equal treatment on this site.
And to the other person who said he can't live without the docklet...jeez fella..you wanna get out more. Just give it a while and it will be sorted out,as things always are here.
That was me that said I cant live without it, but if you paid attention, I was merely joking. Some people. I use the XML docklet, just would have been nice with this one.
Reply #58 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 4:07 AM
The Stardock guys have now commented several times in this thread that the problem is being addressed and as far as I am concerned they have always been good to their word,so a little patience would be virtuous.
Let's get this into perspective eh...it's a faulty weather docklet,not a leaking nuclear reactor...hardly the international incident you make it out to be.
I'm English and I've never noticed that we get anything other than equal treatment on this site.
And to the other person who said he can't live without the docklet...jeez fella..you wanna get out more.
Just give it a while and it will be sorted out,as things always are here.That was me that said I cant live without it, but if you paid attention, I was merely joking. Some people. I use the XML docklet, just would have been nice with this one.
renczus
Reply #59 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 12:06 PM
Reply #59 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 12:06 PM
Can anyone help me:
Warsaw, Poland doesn't work,
spelled in polish:
warszawa, poland also doesn't work but look:
poznan, poland
gdansk, poland
lodz, poland
gdynia, poland
and so on...
those cities work fine!
Why the capital of Poland doesn't work??
Have you got any idea how to solve my problem?
maybe someone knows how to contact docklet's author?
Warsaw, Poland doesn't work,
spelled in polish:
warszawa, poland also doesn't work but look:
poznan, poland
gdansk, poland
lodz, poland
gdynia, poland
and so on...
those cities work fine!
Why the capital of Poland doesn't work??
Have you got any idea how to solve my problem?
maybe someone knows how to contact docklet's author?
ZubaZ
Reply #60 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 12:16 PM
Stardock is aware of the problems associated with the docklet and are working on them.
Thanks for your patience.
Reply #60 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 12:16 PM
maybe someone knows how to contact docklet's author?
Stardock is aware of the problems associated with the docklet and are working on them.
Thanks for your patience.
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Reply #41 Saturday, April 28, 2007 9:02 AM
it's a big joke,