Majorly improved Weather update coming soon!
Brand new improved weather feed
Thursday, August 2, 2007 by Dr W - Fences Support | Discussion: Docks
Good news ObjectDock fans, we've been hard at work with our partner AccuWeather, and a brand new reliable weather feed is nearing ready. 2-3 weeks away.
The new feed will be (1) as up to date as you can possibly get (2) very resilient about locations, you'll have a much much harder time getting your nearby location to not be found, especially international users who may have had trouble before. Also, no more having to type something in exactly for it to work (For example "United Kingdom" vs "UK" vs "England"...only 1 of the 3 used to work.) (3) fast. faster servers = better performance and higher reliability for all.
Major kutos for our partner AccuWeather for being so helpful getting the feed & location-lookup up and running!
I'm really looking forward to putting out the update, thanks for your patience as we've been improving our system over the last several months
-Jeff
The new feed will be (1) as up to date as you can possibly get (2) very resilient about locations, you'll have a much much harder time getting your nearby location to not be found, especially international users who may have had trouble before. Also, no more having to type something in exactly for it to work (For example "United Kingdom" vs "UK" vs "England"...only 1 of the 3 used to work.) (3) fast. faster servers = better performance and higher reliability for all.
Major kutos for our partner AccuWeather for being so helpful getting the feed & location-lookup up and running!
I'm really looking forward to putting out the update, thanks for your patience as we've been improving our system over the last several months
-Jeff
vStyler
Reply #3 Thursday, August 2, 2007 3:10 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, August 2, 2007 3:10 PM
I'd like a weather improvement too please, its a tad muggy here 
Great news about the actual weather you referred to as well
Great news about the actual weather you referred to as well
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #4 Thursday, August 2, 2007 3:12 PM
Ya sure, but you'll have to be patient and wait resources are scarce right now. When the weather finally gets nice again, I'll send you my bill.
Reply #4 Thursday, August 2, 2007 3:12 PM
Can you improve the weather itself as well?
Ya sure, but you'll have to be patient and wait resources are scarce right now. When the weather finally gets nice again, I'll send you my bill.
Chovus
Reply #5 Thursday, August 2, 2007 3:12 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, August 2, 2007 3:12 PM
Please add support for country Serbia. Beograd (Belgrade) or Novi Sad cities. Many thanks
Dr W - Fences Support
Reply #7 Thursday, August 2, 2007 5:11 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, August 2, 2007 5:11 PM
Neil & BigDogBigFeet: Ha ha!
Good feature tips guys i'll make sure to make note in thee 'ol "todo" log....
haha
Good feature tips guys i'll make sure to make note in thee 'ol "todo" log....
haha
bobbyhundreds
Reply #9 Friday, August 3, 2007 8:36 AM
Reply #9 Friday, August 3, 2007 8:36 AM
Great news JMB,looking forward to seeing it on my dock again.
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #10 Friday, August 3, 2007 7:10 PM
Reply #10 Friday, August 3, 2007 7:10 PM
wonderful to hear of this ongoing research,developement + troubleshooting of the worthwhile Objectdock app that has that on/off annoying weather update bug....will be cool to be able to truly trust one's eyes again w the pop-up five day forecast + daily/hourly reading once more + not have to check it against the DX version for accuracy
zeeth
Reply #11 Sunday, August 5, 2007 7:35 PM
Reply #11 Sunday, August 5, 2007 7:35 PM
Despite earlier problems, my docklet has been finding my weather (Sydney) properly for a couple of weeks now; however, the flyout forecast is now displaced by two days; ie it's now monday, but the flyout runs "today","tomorrow","monday","tuesday","wednesday". The current weather & temp in the main docklet are correct, though.
Any chance this will be fixed, or is it just me?
Any chance this will be fixed, or is it just me?
eieio
Reply #12 Sunday, August 5, 2007 8:25 PM
I think this is happening for everyone. Hoping this is one of the issues that will be addressed.
Reply #12 Sunday, August 5, 2007 8:25 PM
Any chance this will be fixed, or is it just me?
I think this is happening for everyone. Hoping this is one of the issues that will be addressed.
IceBone
Reply #13 Monday, August 27, 2007 5:21 AM
Reply #13 Monday, August 27, 2007 5:21 AM
Any idea what the new locations will be? Kinda sucks to only have the capital as an option. 
Dr W - Fences Support
Reply #14 Monday, August 27, 2007 5:59 PM
Reply #14 Monday, August 27, 2007 5:59 PM
number of new locations available = ridiculous 
basically, if you can get it on accuweather.com, you'll now be able to get it in ObjectDock. Fully searchable too, so just type in part of what you're looking for and it'll bring up a list of matches for you to pick from.
basically, if you can get it on accuweather.com, you'll now be able to get it in ObjectDock. Fully searchable too, so just type in part of what you're looking for and it'll bring up a list of matches for you to pick from.
IceBone
Reply #15 Saturday, September 1, 2007 6:41 AM
Reply #15 Saturday, September 1, 2007 6:41 AM
weather.com has a lot more locations available. For instance, for Slovenia, accuweather only has the capital available, but weather.com even has my little town. Would it be possible to include an .ini file or something, where you input your own weather feed url?
ZubaZ
Reply #16 Saturday, September 1, 2007 1:31 PM
Reply #16 Saturday, September 1, 2007 1:31 PM
The weather.com feed is for non-commercial use I think. ObjectDock is a commercial product.
There may be other doclets out there that are community produced that might work for you.
There may be other doclets out there that are community produced that might work for you.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #17 Saturday, September 1, 2007 4:36 PM
Reply #17 Saturday, September 1, 2007 4:36 PM
Same here - the days are only correct in the evening; in the morning it's a day out
ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #18 Saturday, September 1, 2007 6:12 PM
Reply #18 Saturday, September 1, 2007 6:12 PM
Great news - works for me!
Now back to designing them new Vista Icons I've got my eye on...
SGT
Now back to designing them new Vista Icons I've got my eye on...
SGT
IceBone
Reply #19 Saturday, September 1, 2007 7:39 PM
Reply #19 Saturday, September 1, 2007 7:39 PM
There's a docklet called XML weather, which uses weather.com, yes, but it doesn't have the nifty forecast thingy, hehehe.
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Reply #1 Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:47 PM
aaaanyway... yes, this is great news. looking forward to the update.