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?
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armsty
Reply #101 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 7:27 AM
Sydney, Australia works for me.

rooyvan
Reply #102 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:22 PM
Hello
Im from Mexico City
Can somebody tell me if it woks in my country and how is the correct way.
Thanks

Otfried
Reply #103 Thursday, July 5, 2007 3:40 PM
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Weather Dock doesn't work here. Can somebody help?
Tks

grooveeo
Reply #104 Sunday, July 8, 2007 11:48 AM
Hmm it doesn't work with Stuttgart, Germany

Karsa
Reply #105 Monday, July 9, 2007 2:53 PM
The only city I saw working for Portugal is "Porto" and I'm in "Caldas da Rainha".

martyh1
Reply #106 Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:54 AM
Mine doesn't work and I live in Houston, TX, USA. It always says N/A. On mouse over, it eventually says "feed not available".

bobbyhundreds
Reply #107 Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:14 PM
Still no weather for Worthing,UK.  

ZubaZ
Reply #108 Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:41 PM
Still no weather for Worthing,UK


From the dev:
A couple notes about the weather docklet, good news is that we've been working closly with our official partner AccuWeather on improving this, and will be rolling out an updated system later this summer that should significantly improve the situation. As is, some international locations can have some trouble, but on the whole the system has shown to definitely pick up most US locations fine. Second, the weather docklet is freely available as part of the no-charge version, so you can try it out before buying!

ZubaZ
Reply #109 Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:42 PM
Mine doesn't work and I live in Houston, TX, USA
We're neighbors!  I'm in Kingwood and 77339 works great!

Jonatas Trafaniuc
Reply #110 Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:08 PM
"Sao Paulo, Brazil" doesn't work, but "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" do...
Why? Silica Weather from DesktopX accepted in the first try!!

fsaravia65
Reply #111 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:58 PM

I have the same problem in Durango, Mexico.

Americans: Please remember that WWW stands for WORLD Wide web.

There is five Durangos in diferent states. I foud some support groups which seem to help everyone else, but it did not work for me. When I put Durango, Mexico into accuweather.com I get:

>>>>>>>>>>>>

We have found the following matches to the city you entered durango, mexico

* Durango, Mexico (Baja California)
* Durango, Mexico (Chiapas)
* Durango, Mexico (Chihuahua)
* Durango, Mexico (Durango)
* Durango, Mexico (Hidalgo)


Go To your Cookied Location( DURANGO, Mexico (Durango))

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

JMB1984
Reply #112 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:20 PM

Attention everyone, please be aware that there is an update available that takes care of this issue. Support for ALL of our customers is very important to us! We just had to do this one step at a time. We've expanded our relationship with AccuWeather to cover more locations, and have built in location searching. All locations will now turn up and report super-up-to-date data

The beta for this update is available for ObjectDock Plus customers right now on Stardock Centeral, and will be made generally available in ObjectDock's free version once it completes beta.

Thank you

-Jeff Bargmann
ObjectDock Developer


DockOfAges
Reply #113 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:09 PM
Installed and testing right now. Really can't tell at the moment until the temp. changes on the accuweather site. The 5 day forecast is spot on.

It would be nice to have some more options for the docklet. The caption pretty much just puts into words what the icon displays, ie, it says cloudy (and my city) while the icon is the cloudy one. Kind of redundant.

I would like to see the current days forecast in it's place. I'm sure you can pull all kinds of info from the feed and make it an option.

Let you know if things are OK.

DockOfAges
Reply #114 Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:46 PM
The beta appears to be working great for me. All the info on the docklet is up to date
so far as the length of the update interval is. Doing an update now works for me too.

btw... what is the interval for automatic updates? Sniffing around it appears to be an hour. Any chance we could get an option to specify our own interval?


DockOfAges
Reply #115 Thursday, August 23, 2007 7:52 PM
Well it looks like all isn't well with the weather docklet afterall.

Right now the docklet displays a clear moon icon and 66F. The label says Clear 66F also.

Going to the accuweather site it says cloudy with a cloudy icon and 66F.


*** update

I removed the icon and then added it again. Now it matches the AW site.

iVAN WILDER
Reply #116 Friday, August 24, 2007 7:52 AM
Trying out the latest beta and was pleased to see that my village in UK now has weather details for it.

2 problems to report though:

1. Bogota, Colombia does not give weather for the capital of the country, just tries to suggest some provinces in the rest of the country.

2. I have a tab called Weather where I keep some weather docklets for various cities. However, when in a tabbed folder, there is no flyout effect on mouseover, only when I click on a docklet. No problem with flyout effect on mouseover when it's just in a dock. I can provide screenshots if I'm not making myself clear.

Please try to sort those problems out, thank you very much.

ZubaZ
Reply #117 Friday, August 24, 2007 8:21 AM
2. I have a tab called Weather where I keep some weather docklets for various cities. However, when in a tabbed folder, there is no flyout effect on mouseover, only when I click on a docklet. No problem with flyout effect on mouseover when it's just in a dock. I can provide screenshots if I'm not making myself clear.


I believe this is by desgn.  Will have to wait for Jeff to respond to be sure.

iVAN WILDER
Reply #118 Friday, August 24, 2007 9:59 AM

I believe this is by desgn.  Will have to wait for Jeff to respond to be sure.


Thanks, if this is by design then I think it's a hiccup. If the there is a flyout on mouseover in dock and the folders slide out on mouseover too then why not combine the 2 and have it so when I move the mouse over the tab the folder slides out and when I move the mouse over the weather docklet in the folder it flies out like if it's in a dock?

Please resolve this. Maybe not enable it by default but at lease give the option

Cheers,

iVAN

P.S. Also please add weather data for the capital I mentioned in the first post. I can't get any data on it on Accuweather.com website, which is ridiculous because every self-respecting weather site should have data on every capital in the world.

ZubaZ
Reply #119 Friday, August 24, 2007 10:26 AM
Also please add weather data for the capital I mentioned in the first post. I can't get any data on it on Accuweather.com website, which is ridiculous because every self-respecting weather site should have data on every capital in the world.
This is more an issue with Accuweather than Stardock.  I get the same responses from the website as with ObjectDock.  Everything appears to be working as designed.
Please resolve this. Maybe not enable it by default but at lease give the option
I tested my tabbed-dock weather.  Turned off the flyout onclick from the properties and verified that fly-out on mouseover was checked but got no love.  In fact, I was unable to uncheck the flyout on mouseover at all.

I'll alert the dev.

iVAN WILDER
Reply #120 Friday, August 24, 2007 11:21 AM
This is more an issue with Accuweather than Stardock.  I get the same responses from the website as with ObjectDock.  Everything appears to be working as designed.


You are right, it's working as designed. No argument there. Therefore, is it possible to use alternative feed(s) for places which aren't covered by Accuweather. If I were you, I'd give them an earful for missing a capital of a rather significant country from their data and including other minor regions.

I tested my tabbed-dock weather.  Turned off the flyout onclick from the properties and verified that fly-out on mouseover was checked but got no love.  In fact, I was unable to uncheck the flyout on mouseover at all.

I'll alert the dev.


Thanks for giving dev a heads-up. I hope my suggestion will make sense for him   

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