ObjectDock Weather Docklet not working anymore
Sunday, May 11, 2008 by kratonator | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Hi all.
I had OD running for over one and a half years now and the weather docklet always worked. Since Thursday or Friday it only displays "Weather Information not Available". Is there somenthing wrong with weather.com?
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Reply #3 Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:28 AM
The default weather docklet that's bundled with OD.
I'm having the same trouble, at first I thought it might have been because I'm in a city outside the US, and getting the docklet to recognize my city code was kind of a nuisance, but I tried entereing US cities and still nothing.
I hope it's temporary, I really like the default docklet.In the meantime, any suggestions for possible replacements would be nice.
Reply #4 Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:33 AM
if you do a search in the Odock gallery there's several in there - they just don't have flyouts that I recall
Reply #5 Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:35 AM
And go me, I tried updating to the newest version, and it works fine. Why I didn't think of this before, I have no idea.
kratonator, have you tried just installing a new version?
https://www.wincustomize.com/download.aspx?skinid=2049&libid=29
Reply #6 Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:55 AM
Just a thought.
Reply #7 Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:03 PM
Reply #8 Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:06 PM
There are several questions you can ask yourself at this point, such as when was the last time it actually ran? What's changed in your system since? Could it be an issue from your provider or your firewall? Do I restore the system to the point before the weather stopped working? Do I archive all of my docks and uninstall then reinstall OD?
Take ownership of your system, you'll make the right choice.
G'Luk!
Cp
Reply #9 Monday, May 19, 2008 5:32 PM
There are too many people who have the same problem so I suppose that there is something with a port or something (I have all my firewall ports open, just in case it matters). Well...I guess I'll have to investigate a little more...
Cheers,
krat
Reply #10 Monday, May 19, 2008 11:35 PM
If you have an old version it is likely linked to weather.com which we are no longer working with. Simply update to correct the issue. If you have the current free version there were several server fixes that are available but only to the Plus beta. The free version will not be updated with these fixes until the next full version of Object Dock is launched.
If you have the Plus version and you are getting this issue please try out the current beta. If you have done that and still have troubles please let us know at [email protected].
Reply #11 Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:29 AM
I see the V1.9 of the freeware Objectdock still does not work for cities like Oslo, Norway and Stockholm, Sweden.
How far away is the new version where weatherdock works?
Reply #12 Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:24 PM
The free version does work but certain servers on AccuWeather are simply not available to it. You likely can pick locations near where you are trying to set it to and it will respond to one of them. This isn't guaranteed of course but it is likely. version 2.0 is still under development but no release date has been set yet. We will announce more as the information comes to us.
Reply #13 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:56 AM
My weather dock no longer shows the correct temperature. It logs in and can open Accuweather, but does not show the same information as the weather page on the web. I am using the free version.
Reply #14 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:33 PM
Same here. I am in Canada and it shows that the temp is -1 as it is -18. When I double click it says local weather not available yet I can get to accuweather by clicking the link in dock properties/options. I have used this for a while and no problems till I saw this thread. Is there a way to change the weather server to a different weather provider?
Reply #15 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:45 PM
What locations are you using for the docklet? Have you tired the fix that is posted above?
Reply #16 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:23 PM
same here, the weather info has not updated for about 3 days. Today is Tuesday and the weather flyout is still showing wed through sun.
It seems to be connecting but just not updating the information. I changed the zip code and it returns the same incorrect time span of information for a different location.
17dec08 Starting work for me also. Thanks!
Reply #17 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:11 PM
I tried the version of the dll above and I get the same result. I am in Austin, Texas. I have used Austin, and my zip code and I get an eroneous result. If I use a nearby city or town, I get no result at all. This was working perfectly until a little over a week ago. It is the same on all of my computers.
Reply #18 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:49 PM
Well, after a bit of hacking, it seems the weather docklet uses a custom StarDockWeather OCX to access the weather from SDCENTRAL.NET, as opposed to accuweather directly. I guess this is to minimize the traffic to accuweather. The weather docklet does correctly show the weather as SDCENTRAL.NET shows it, HOWEVER SDCENTRAL.NET doesn't seem to be updating from accuweather anymore. Somebody at StarDock wanna fix this before all my customers complain?
-=> Andrew
Reply #19 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:43 AM
Please fix!!! It's looking pretty silly with my computer saying 45 deg and it is freezing rain and 28 outside! It just started working. Same weather as on the accuweather web page.
Reply #20 Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:55 AM
I've had some problems with the dock giving the "No Information Available" message when I pull my laptop out of standby. However, if I right click and choose update it always starts right up. Otherwise, I'm not sure.
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Reply #1 Monday, May 12, 2008 12:58 AM