Bug 487437

Summary: Major Metro Area Now Has No Available Stations
Product: [Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons Reporter: David Hart <dc.hart>
Component: WeatherAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.0.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description David Hart 2024-05-23 17:44:26 UTC 
Presumably, the "weather applet" is the weather report widget. Is it? I have been doing this for a long time and I have never seen a "weather applet."

I live in Jacksonville, FL, the state's largest city. Up to now, I have configured the weather widget to use Jacksonville International Airport (NOAA). It worked just fine up until today. IT HAS BEEN REMOVED from the application. I now have two choices:

1. wetter.com which does not display the temperature and is thus useless.

2. BBC which is profoundly inaccurate and is without many details and forecast information. Utterly useless.

I need JAX-NOAA back! I find it hard to believe that in 2024 I cannot get an accurate understanding of weather on my screen.

I do not have gnome installed but, apparently, its weather widget works.

BTW, this bug reporting system is going to drive a newbie crazy. Some genius removed version information from "about KDE" in applications. "About system" is MEANINGLESS without adding "from Info Center."

Moreover, exactly who decided that you can no longer add widgets with a right click on the desktop? Now you have to do so through "enter edit mode" which, by the way, interferes with some widgets if left open. Some people have too much time on their hands and they are "fixing" things that aren't broken. 


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 

RPMs from Fedora 40.

(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:  6.04
KDE Frameworks Version:  6.30
Qt Version: 6.70

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-05-23 19:28:04 UTC 
I think NOAA had some kind of outage today. All my NOAA-based weather stations also disappeared. But they seem to be back now.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2024-05-23 19:51:01 UTC 
We can probably improve the error placeholder message though. I'll work on that.
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2024-05-23 20:03:00 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/588
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2024-05-23 21:04:09 UTC 
Git commit 363797d4e7f37c1ee8cfc8f194d803e6677facf2 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 23/05/2024 at 20:40.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

applets/weather: improve error reporting

Sometimes weather providers can be a bit flaky, going down for a few
minutes or hours. For this reason, advise people to just try again
later.

M  +2    -1    applets/weather/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml
M  +1    -0    applets/weather/package/contents/ui/config/ConfigWeatherStation.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/363797d4e7f37c1ee8cfc8f194d803e6677facf2