Bug 251481

Summary:	LCD weather station never updates
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Guy Mac <guymac>
Component:	widget-weather	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, holy, lamarque, shawn.starr, theunfor
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Guy Mac 2010-09-16 20:07:09 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.2) 
OS:                Linux

I have it configured to use NOAA's KTUS station (Tucson International Airport), and updates scheduled every 35 minutes. But it never frakkin' updates EVER. I can force it to update by making a config change (e.g. changing the schedule to every 40 minutes), but it NEVER updates automatically. It also never updates when clicking the reload icon.

Also, the tooltip shows 'Last Updated at 4:27pm', which is incorrect, because it has not updated, and it has yet to be the afternoon. The message should read last updated X minutes / hours / days / weeks / months ago.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-09-16 21:48:55 UTC

if you use the "Weather" widget instead with the same configuration settings, does it update?

Comment 2 Guy Mac 2010-09-17 05:56:01 UTC

No, it doesn't....

Comment 3 Tim Holy 2011-01-03 14:19:05 UTC

I have what appears to be the same issue. I can't be sure it never updates, but just now it was at least three and a half days out of date (with an update interval set to 30 minutes). I can force updating by right click->Weather Forecast Settings->OK.

I'm guessing it works properly for many people, or this would have been fixed long ago. So I bet this bug depends upon the configuration. I even have a guess (based on pure speculation!) about what's going on. My laptop travels between work (wired connection) and home (wireless). I suspect the crucial detail is that my KNetworkManager requires a password, my KWallet password, to set up the network (I have it storing my WEP key). Thus we get the following sequence of events:
1. When I boot up/log in, the network is not yet available, because I haven't been given the opportunity to type in my password to start the network.
2. KWeather gets started first, and tries to fetch the forecast. Obviously, this fails.
3. I then type in my KWallet password, and the network connects.
4. If I wait a few hours, I'm pretty sure (~90%) that the weather applet does not update on its own, but I haven't tested this in a while.
4. I force the weather applet to update (right click->Weather Forecast Settings->OK).
5. Unfortunately, the weather applet does not seem to recover from its initial confusion. Perhaps there's a time-scheduling bug (note I also use ntpdate to set my clock, and this too requires the network, although the time is still available through the hardware clock when this fails), or a "disable updates if network is unavailable" bug, or something along these lines.

If there's some way I can check on my system for when the next "run the weather update" process is scheduled, I'd be happy to look.

Comment 4 Tim Holy 2011-04-29 13:56:18 UTC

Two notes:
1. This is probably a duplicate of bug 226022
2. Kubuntu updates (maverick, not natty) seemingly just fixed this problem for me

I suspect I am using the widget; not quite sure what "LCD weather station" means.

Guy, is it working for you now?

Comment 5 Tim Holy 2011-05-14 10:54:47 UTC

Further update: the fix is only partial, see my comment in bug 226022.

Comment 6 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-10-15 21:57:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 226022 ***

Comment 7 JoseLuisT 2013-11-25 19:06:53 UTC

It is resolved? I have KDE 4.10 in Opensuse 12.3, and this widget never downloads anything... I have the default site wetter.com, and the other weather widget works withour problem, in just a second it downloads the information of my city, but the LCD just a time out....what's wrong?.