Weather Weirdness!?

[dstanley]

Using Gemstone with my HD200's/HD300 and placeshifter setup - thank you for all your work - I love it!

Small issue with the weather - I am in Canada so I have it setup to Metric values - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't - I have seen it be 37C as well as 0F - and sometimes it is even the right temp!

Any suggestions on what I could try to fix it? I am using the Yahoo Option as it has a better/more accurate forecast than the Google option - the World option doesn't work for me.

[Comitizer]

I have the same problem. I didn't even realize that I could change the provider...regardless, my temp seems to be inconsistent.

[jusjoken]

Do not use the google option at all as it does not work and will be replaced with a way better provider from Weather Underground in the next release.

The 2 others should work... Let me know the specific location you entered on the options screen so I can test it out. A screen shot of the full weather screen could help as well

You could always try removing the location and setting each of the properties on the options screen as sometime a placeshifter will partly use other server based settings until the setting is changed from the placeshifter.

k

[TwistedMelon]

My weather with Yahoo (for Canada) always reads 0c. Postal code L9T 0N8 - it identifies correctly as "Milton"

The other providers in the list didn't work at all.

[jusjoken]

that's too cold

I will take a look to see what's up!

PS: is this from a placeshifter too or any client type.

k

[TwistedMelon]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

that's too cold

Ha! Says the guy from Minnesota. But it is cold enough here right now at around 3ºC

Originally Posted by jusjoken

PS: is this from a placeshifter too or any client type.

PC-client and Extenders, both HD200 and HD300.

[dstanley]

My location is N3T 0B4 (Brantford, ON) ... Last night the extender looked right ... Like I say - it is weird, sometimes it is wrong and then it somehow refreshes the screen and then it is ok - can't seem to figure out what happens to make it change though.

[jusjoken]

Are you just referring to the temp in the header or the weather in the main weather screen or one of the weather widget panels?

k

[vividweb]

My weather display in the top header and the widgets on my HD300/200's is usually off. It will ether say 29C or -2C or 29F, it seems to rotate around and do whatever it wants. If I go back in to options and look at the units it seems to fall back to standard, doesn't seem to keep the metric unit setting.

I'm in Canada as well.

[jorton]

Our weather has been upand down so much I guess I just never noticed I'll take a look too.

J

[dstanley]

Originally Posted by vividweb

My weather display in the top header and the widgets on my HD300/200's is usually off. It will ether say 29C or -2C or 29F, it seems to rotate around and do whatever it wants. If I go back in to options and look at the units it seems to fall back to standard, doesn't seem to keep the metric unit setting.

This seems exactly what I am seeing - it is the top header band that keeps changing and seems to want to revert back to STANDARD in the settings - only sometimes - and for some unknown reason.

[TwistedMelon]

I haven't seen it default back to standard from metric, but I can confirm that the report does change and sometimes works.

During one reboot it displayed the correct 6C and sunny icon today. Now it's back to cloud and 0 which is incorrect and what's displayed most of the time.

[jusjoken]

I can not recreate this with the new version we are working on and I made a number of changes in the weather area including the header display so hopefull this will go away in the next release.

k

[vividweb]

I'll see what happens when the update comes out.