Since 29.05.2012 the weather widget doesnt get anymore information for degree celius or air pressure from the server "wetter.com" or "bbcuk". The other provider " (noaa)" seems to work correctly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Enter any city wirh wetter.com (e.g.London) 2. 3. Actual Results: Doesnt display information or diesplay wiered inforamtions Expected Results: Display correctly airpressure as well as degree celius.
Confirmed. As a clarification: We're talking about the 'lcd weather station', the 'weather forecast' works fine for me.
Confirmed. Same problem here.
Confirmed. From SUSE 12.1 on KDE 4.7.2. Lost wetter.com feed months ago, bbc uk feed last week. No doubt changes in feed format.
Although not a 4.9 regression per se, it renders the widget useless for the big parts of the world not catered by noaa. Therefore marking it as a regression, and a major bug (in this widget).
Either this is fixed before the first RC or I'll ask the Release Team to remove it. We cannot ship an applet that is totally broken.
Raising to critical: for Toulouse (France) there's no data whatever the provider
"Either this is fixed before the first RC or I'll ask the Release Team to remove it. We cannot ship an applet that is totally broken." a) please discuss these kinds of things on plasma-devel first before running off and making such requests b) it's the dataengine, not the applet, that is in question here.
I wrote exactly this in the "Bugsplashing" thread on plasma-devel m-l http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2012-June/019789.html so yes, I raised the problem already From what I understand there is no more free API to provide current conditions from bbcukmet or wetter.com. I did not look further at this nor at the data engine and I hope someone will try to fix it.
unfortunaely wetter.com makes explicit in their terms of use that users of the web api cannot legally retrieve the current weather condition. bbc.co.uk still has the current conditions in their web api, such as http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/3991/ObservationsRSS.xml but this is what they return: Temperature: N/A (N/A), Wind Direction: N/A, Wind Speed: N/A, Relative Humidity: N/A, Pressure: N/A, N/A, Visibility: N/A they decided to not provide this data anymore, and there is nothing we can do about. now, since noaa still provides that data, means there are still a good chunk of used well served by the lcd weather applet, so can't be removed causing a regression for them. what should be done is the lcd weather search field not returning cities from engines that don't support current conditions
*** Bug 302353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
At this time the yaWP KDE weather widget works for sites not covered by noaa. It is sourcing from Accuweather.com. Accuweather is commercial so I am not quite clear how yaWP is getting data for free, but it may be because the source data Accuweather uses is free. For example Accuweather's iPAD APP has advertising, but it also is a more fine grained forecast. Obviously the 5 day data provided by national institutions such as the UK Met Office is made freely available on the web but I would not have a clue how to "borrow" such data but am sure it could be done.
Confirmed. On Kubuntu 12.04 LTS KDE 4.8.3 weather forecast works fine but current condition not available
yaWP's Accuweather ion just screenscrapes the HTML.
AFAIK, the gnome-shell weather extension is using a Yahoo! API, but that API has some usage restrictions which made Fedora refuse to carry the whole extension, which is now in RPM Fusion, so that's also not an ideal solution.
Perhaps this helps in finding a new api for weather stuff: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=Weather&sort=date
Actually, it looks like the BBC is now delivering current data again (it wasn't working yesterday, it's working today).
Wow, you are right. In my case: "Buenos Aires, Argentina (bbcukmet)" is currently displaying wheater data, and it the data looks correct.
Marking as fixed, it looks like this was resolved on the server end.