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Weather Docklet does not work

Weather Docklet by Jeff Barmann Version 1.6 and Stardock

from WinCustomize Forums
After a recent update I was hoping the weather docklet would updated. It has !!! But it still does not work.I tried Brisbane Australia I tried Oceania Brisbane Australia. No Good.
Maybe it only works in the US. Pity I do not live there. Neither do a lot of your customers
Global what's that?
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Reply #106 from Stardock Forums Top
Mine doesn't work and I live in Houston, TX, USA. It always says N/A. On mouse over, it eventually says "feed not available".
Reply #108 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Still no weather for Worthing,UK


From the dev:
A couple notes about the weather docklet, good news is that we've been working closly with our official partner AccuWeather on improving this, and will be rolling out an updated system later this summer that should significantly improve the situation. As is, some international locations can have some trouble, but on the whole the system has shown to definitely pick up most US locations fine. Second, the weather docklet is freely available as part of the no-charge version, so you can try it out before buying!
Reply #109 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine doesn't work and I live in Houston, TX, USA
We're neighbors!  I'm in Kingwood and 77339 works great!
Reply #111 from Stardock Forums Top

I have the same problem in Durango, Mexico.

Americans: Please remember that WWW stands for WORLD Wide web.

There is five Durangos in diferent states. I foud some support groups which seem to help everyone else, but it did not work for me. When I put Durango, Mexico into accuweather.com I get:

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We have found the following matches to the city you entered durango, mexico

* Durango, Mexico (Baja California)
* Durango, Mexico (Chiapas)
* Durango, Mexico (Chihuahua)
* Durango, Mexico (Durango)
* Durango, Mexico (Hidalgo)


Go To your Cookied Location( DURANGO, Mexico (Durango))

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Reply #112 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Attention everyone, please be aware that there is an update available that takes care of this issue. Support for ALL of our customers is very important to us! We just had to do this one step at a time. We've expanded our relationship with AccuWeather to cover more locations, and have built in location searching. All locations will now turn up and report super-up-to-date data

The beta for this update is available for ObjectDock Plus customers right now on Stardock Centeral, and will be made generally available in ObjectDock's free version once it completes beta.

Thank you

-Jeff Bargmann
ObjectDock Developer

Reply #113 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Installed and testing right now. Really can't tell at the moment until the temp. changes on the accuweather site. The 5 day forecast is spot on.

It would be nice to have some more options for the docklet. The caption pretty much just puts into words what the icon displays, ie, it says cloudy (and my city) while the icon is the cloudy one. Kind of redundant.

I would like to see the current days forecast in it's place. I'm sure you can pull all kinds of info from the feed and make it an option.

Let you know if things are OK.
Reply #114 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The beta appears to be working great for me. All the info on the docklet is up to date
so far as the length of the update interval is. Doing an update now works for me too.

btw... what is the interval for automatic updates? Sniffing around it appears to be an hour. Any chance we could get an option to specify our own interval?

Reply #115 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well it looks like all isn't well with the weather docklet afterall.

Right now the docklet displays a clear moon icon and 66F. The label says Clear 66F also.

Going to the accuweather site it says cloudy with a cloudy icon and 66F.


*** update

I removed the icon and then added it again. Now it matches the AW site.
Reply #116 from Stardock Forums Top
Trying out the latest beta and was pleased to see that my village in UK now has weather details for it.

2 problems to report though:

1. Bogota, Colombia does not give weather for the capital of the country, just tries to suggest some provinces in the rest of the country.

2. I have a tab called Weather where I keep some weather docklets for various cities. However, when in a tabbed folder, there is no flyout effect on mouseover, only when I click on a docklet. No problem with flyout effect on mouseover when it's just in a dock. I can provide screenshots if I'm not making myself clear.

Please try to sort those problems out, thank you very much.
Reply #117 from WinCustomize Forums Top
2. I have a tab called Weather where I keep some weather docklets for various cities. However, when in a tabbed folder, there is no flyout effect on mouseover, only when I click on a docklet. No problem with flyout effect on mouseover when it's just in a dock. I can provide screenshots if I'm not making myself clear.


I believe this is by desgn.  Will have to wait for Jeff to respond to be sure.
Reply #118 from Stardock Forums Top

I believe this is by desgn.  Will have to wait for Jeff to respond to be sure.


Thanks, if this is by design then I think it's a hiccup. If the there is a flyout on mouseover in dock and the folders slide out on mouseover too then why not combine the 2 and have it so when I move the mouse over the tab the folder slides out and when I move the mouse over the weather docklet in the folder it flies out like if it's in a dock?

Please resolve this. Maybe not enable it by default but at lease give the option

Cheers,

iVAN

P.S. Also please add weather data for the capital I mentioned in the first post. I can't get any data on it on Accuweather.com website, which is ridiculous because every self-respecting weather site should have data on every capital in the world.
Reply #119 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also please add weather data for the capital I mentioned in the first post. I can't get any data on it on Accuweather.com website, which is ridiculous because every self-respecting weather site should have data on every capital in the world.
This is more an issue with Accuweather than Stardock.  I get the same responses from the website as with ObjectDock.  Everything appears to be working as designed.
Please resolve this. Maybe not enable it by default but at lease give the option
I tested my tabbed-dock weather.  Turned off the flyout onclick from the properties and verified that fly-out on mouseover was checked but got no love.  In fact, I was unable to uncheck the flyout on mouseover at all.

I'll alert the dev.
Reply #120 from Stardock Forums Top
This is more an issue with Accuweather than Stardock.  I get the same responses from the website as with ObjectDock.  Everything appears to be working as designed.


You are right, it's working as designed. No argument there. Therefore, is it possible to use alternative feed(s) for places which aren't covered by Accuweather. If I were you, I'd give them an earful for missing a capital of a rather significant country from their data and including other minor regions.

I tested my tabbed-dock weather.  Turned off the flyout onclick from the properties and verified that fly-out on mouseover was checked but got no love.  In fact, I was unable to uncheck the flyout on mouseover at all.

I'll alert the dev.


Thanks for giving dev a heads-up. I hope my suggestion will make sense for him   
Reply #121 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ah, yes flyout on mouseover is not currently available for tabbed docks. The checkbox should be disabled when you configure the weather when it's on a flyout...looks like I may have left that out when I redesigned the dialog for this beta release! I do hope to get that behavior in to tabbed docks at some point as well though, fyi

Thanks for the heads up

Reply #122 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks Jeff!
Reply #123 from Stardock Forums Top
Ah, yes flyout on mouseover is not currently available for tabbed docks. The checkbox should be disabled when you configure the weather when it's on a flyout...looks like I may have left that out when I redesigned the dialog for this beta release! I do hope to get that behavior in to tabbed docks at some point as well though, fyi

Thanks for the heads up

-Jeff Bargmann
ObjectDock Developer


Cheers Jeff, implementing this would be very much appreciated. I'm very willing to test it out if you will be planning another beta release for this addition. I also hope to see it before version 2.0 arrives (when is that just out of curiosity?), but I'll still upgrade   
Reply #125 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi #42...

With the new beta version up for testing on Stardock Central right now, all of the above that you listed now work (Lyngby, Denmark - Ordrup, Denmark - and Copenhagen, Denmark)