SFOS ≥ 4.6 (Foreca / MeeCast): How to (re-)enable weather infos in Events View

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#62

There is no issue filed WRT country selection, see: Issues · Meecast/meecast · GitHub

Consequently this will not be worked on, until a proper issue description is filed there.

P.S.: BTW @hattu, addressing in this thread is completely off-topic.

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#63

I’m not sure if it’s only me but all my SFOS devices cannot get any weather info via MeeCast anymore. It basically crashes since of yesterday (Monday the 15th of July). What is going on?

#64

Yes! I just tested my device after reading this and I am experiencing the same result. Last week I was pulling data from weather.com and now Meecast borks when you try to update it.
X10 III
SFOS 4.6.0.13
Mecast apps from Olf’s post

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#65

Probably provider related. yr.no works as expected.

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#66

MeeCast crashing is not provider related. It seems to crash with whichever provider I try, including yr.no, so this is something else. However the crashing behavior is different on 64-bit (e.g. Xperia 10 III instantly crashes without been able to fetch weather data) vs. 32-bit versions (e.g. Xperia 10…crashing slowly but is still able to fetch weather data), both running SFOS 4.6. Restating MeeCast shows in case of the Xperia 10 III some old data, so no update is possible since yesterday.

#67

I switched provider and now I can happily retrieve data.
I’m using OpenweatherMap and Foreca

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#68

Also, I think think it’s not related to SFOS 4.6. I have still 4.5.0.21 (on XA2) and this morning while forcing a refresh I noticed it crashes (i have 4 locations with 2 providers, Foreca and WeatherChannel)
I’ll try to take a look at the logs

UPDATE: The cause of the crashes must be caused by weather.com that has changed format.
In the logs I saw something like:
lipstick[4516]: /home/nemo/.config/harbour-meecast/weather.com_FIXX0002.orig:168: HTML parser error : Tag rect invalid
In fact after I removed those two locations from WC, Meecast doesn’t crash anymore.
I’ll file an issue ticket for the app

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#69

Since the last and recent update of meecast the weather is not updating itself automatically according to the interval in settings. Manual update works fine. Is anyone else having this problem?

#70

Mine says version 1.1.40, “The Weather Channel”, SFOS 4.6.0.13, Xperia X and looks ok. I had to force refresh once after installation, it was failing since 15th July like described above.

Edit:
Well, app was running. Without the app running, the event view is not updated, as far as I can see…

#71

Yes, last 6 post above you already talk about this problem. So now after weeks and weeks we finally have a widget again but it doean’t update. I suppose @olf is going to pretend this is not an issue until someone makes a post about on github, posts here on the forum don’t seem to count for him.

#72

Meecast for me updates with no issues.
Do you have the versions from here?
You can then update Meecast from here.
See how you go. :slightly_smiling_face:

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#73

I just checked chum and there was an update. It was not there yesterday evening so it was added recently. With this new update the app seems to update again (weather channel provider). The event view hasn’t updated yet but maybe it takes until the next auto-update cycle?

Thank you whoever pushed this update (@olf?), at the very least we can manually check the weather again. Let’s hope that the widget will also start to refresh :slight_smile:

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#74

LOL!
I am not “pretending” anything, in general “does not work for me”-messages in a forum are never ever proper bug reports for a multitude of reasons.
One of the many is pointed at by your misconception “a post about on github, posts here”: An issue filed in a bug tracker bears many properties a forum post (or rather thread) does not have, which makes posts in a forum thread very badly suited to discuss bugs.

Specifically for MeeCast, Vasvlad who created much of MeeCast’s code and maintains it does not read this forum, hence all talk about functional bugs here is just chit-chat.

Yes.

Now, does it?

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#75

If one uses SailfishOS ≥ 4.6.0, please for now only use the MeeCast-Eventview package (harbour-meecast-event) from SailfishOS:Chum, regardless if installing or updating it.
The most convenient approach is to install and update all MeeCast packages from SailfishOS:Chum when using SailfishOS ≥ 4.6.0.

Background: To make the harbour-meecast-event[view] package offered at OpenRepos work properly on SailfishOS ≥ 4.6.0 requires some additional packaging work (as denoted earlier), I currently have no time for.

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#76

Unfortunately it doesn’t, it’s stuck at the last time the app was opened/refreshed.

#77

Well, works fine for me.

#78

Works for me too, Xperia 10 III, SFOS ≥ 4.6.0, installed from Chum.

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#79

I think Vasvlad and I have fully resolved installing MeeCast’s Eventview from OpenRepos (preferrably by using Storeman) on SailfishOS ≥ 4.6.0.

I would appreciate very much if someone tests this:

  1. As usual, please remove the harbour-meecast package first (which should also remove all other MeeCast packages: Please check with pkcon search name meecast that none is still installed).
  2. Then install the MeeCast’s Eventview package using Storeman (which should automatically also install the MeeCast Demon and MeeCast proper).

a. Is the installation working fine?
b. Does MeeCast’s Eventview work fine then?

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#80

I couldn’t install Event View itself as it reported “missing application” from Storeman. I did it manually and all is working well

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#81

Thank you very much: Will investigate why Storeman / Packagekit does not get this right.

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