[RELEASE] Weather Underground (default xbmc weather addon)

redzot · 2011-12-26 20:03

I have the Eden Pre-build (love it so far!) and I have configured weather to my city via zip code just fine. Works great except for one thing - My Wife and son have no idea about Celsius. The walked into my office from the living room all Shocked

and I was all Wink

till i couldnt figure it out and now I am all Confused

. How do I enable Fahrenheit so this makes sense to them?

**ronie** · 2011-12-26 20:06

redzot Wrote:I have the Eden Pre-build (love it so far!) and I have configured weather to my city via zip code just fine. Works great except for one thing - My Wife and son have no idea about Celsius. The walked into my office from the living room all and I was all till i couldnt figure it out and now I am all . How do I enable Fahrenheit so this makes sense to them?

whether you get C or F depends on this setting:
Settings > Appearance > International > Region

Roman_V_M · 2011-12-29 09:28

The plugin seems to be not fully compatible with translations. Most strings are taken from the main strings.xml as they should, but others like some wind directions and weather descriptions are taken from God knows where.

For example:

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3rd and 4th rows show "Chance of" in Russian translation. I've worked on corrected/updated Russian translation and I'm sure that I haven't missed anything - those strings are not in the main strings.xml or in Confluence skin or even in the plugin's own strings.xml.

**ronie** · 2011-12-29 10:02

Roman_V_M Wrote:The plugin seems to be not fully compatible with translations.

true, there's a pull request on git to correct this:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/575

**ronie** · 2011-12-31 15:35

in case you're wondering why weather retrieval fails in xbmc at the moment:

Quote:Weather Underground
As some of you have noticed, we are experiencing a network problem and are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for any inconvenience.

update:
the issue is fixed now.

jonathan.holvey · 2012-01-01 21:17

ronie Wrote:

yesterdays weather

....

Hi,

Does this mean that there will always be yesterday's weather displayed in the forecast panel? I have noticed that the new Weather Underground addon does this, and I was wondering if it is intentional.
If so would it be possible to have an option to choose a starting point for the forecast of yesterday, today or tomorrow, as currently there are only two actual forecast items?

Thank you for the update, it works very nicely otherwise.

Cheers,
Jon

**ronie** · 2012-01-01 21:49

jonathan.holvey Wrote:Hi,

Does this mean that there will always be yesterday's weather displayed in the forecast panel? I have noticed that the new Weather Underground addon does this, and I was wondering if it is intentional.

no, i was just saying i will add the option to fetch yesterdays weather in a future version of the addon.

i'm not sure what gives you the impression it's serving up yesterdays weather atm?

jonathan.holvey · 2012-01-01 22:16

ronie Wrote:i'm not sure what gives you the impression it's serving up yesterdays weather atm?

Hi,

Well, today is Sunday, and the weather I'm being shown is from Saturday to Tuesday. I'm using the Beta 1 release of Eden, and you can see what I mean from this screenshot.

I'll check later to see if the same thing is happening on another install of XBMC.

Cheers,
Jon

PS. I've checked the information against the forcast given on the Wunderground website. The weather for each day is correct so it is displaying the wrong forecasts, not just incorrect day labels.

**ronie** · 2012-01-01 22:21

jonathan.holvey Wrote:Hi,

Well, today is Sunday, and the weather I'm being shown is from Saturday to Tuesday. I'm using the Beta 1 release of Eden, and you can see what I mean from this screenshot.

I'll check later to see if the same thing is happening on another install of XBMC.

Cheers,
Jon

PS. I've checked the information against the forcast given on the Wunderground website. The weather for each day is correct so it is displaying the wrong forecasts, not just incorrect day labels.

cheers mate!

you're entirely correct, i'll look into what the hecks is going wrong here :-)

**ronie** · 2012-01-01 22:43

ok, just checked and by the looks of it, their api got stuck in 2011.
it's lagging by 1 day in the forecast api section.

current conditions are accurate though.

i'll give them a ping if things don't get fixed over the next few days.