Weather-App and Widget Connection Problem

Bug Reports
#43

I am just happy it stopped when the weather was nice, so that a sun icon with 17 degrees is shown now every day.
I really hope we get the service back, because any other option just doesn’t work.

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#44

Just curious how meecast is working with Foreca, is it scraping html instead of api, or is adoption so low some kind of endless trial key keeps working? If you click on location and then rightmost icon it also gives hourly forecast, so should be possible to pipe that data in to the OG widget to get daily graph, got kinda used to it

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#45

meecast uses Xpath to scrape. Not pretty, but it does work :slight_smile:

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#46

I’m just ordinary user. I don’t want to solve every week some problem in terminal with linux syntax. Sailfish is good system for me, don’t need Android or iOS, don’t need excellent speed or every second app on the market. But I just want to have system, which doesn’t surprise me with bugs. In this topic you wrote, go for meeast and so on, but is only way to hide the original problem.

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#47

I’m kind of surprised about the (lack of) handling of this problem.

It has been reported three weeks ago by several users (here, and on the Jolla Store as well). We have been given a very short (official?) answer from Jolla (by @rainemak) 20 days ago that they do know about it, they are working on it, and nothing since then. According to the discussion here it seems to be a simple API key renewal issue. How long could it take to fix this?

The Weather application is an official, pre-installed Jolla product, part of the base OS and the base functions, and it’s even part of the opening Events screen. I would expect a little bit more activity and feedback from the developer/provider/supporter on this matter. Or is this function abandoned for good now?

EDIT:
I wonder which app will be the next to stop updating. Clock maybe? :wink:

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#48

My guess is that this will probably just be left to die.

#49

Jolla tradition is to be rather silent.
If in addition they are under special admin mode, they can only comment less.
I guess that temporarily they can’t allocate funds to pay 3rd pties (like Foreca). Still on the speculative side, either they survive that admin mode and resume activities or they cease to exist the way we know them. Whereas I like their Weather app, its status is less a concern in these circumstances (at least for me)

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#50

“You failed to pay your subscription fee to time updates!” → Enjoy never ending weekend

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#51

Well… I wouldn’t care either (though I loved the icons), but it was one of the last functions still worked properly. It has now gone and we are left without any feedback. And that worries me.
If I were them I’d give a proper description about the problem (e.g. no funds to renew subscription), and suggest everyone to take care of their own API keys (which I’ve done anyway). Or any other kind of feedback would be appreciated.

#52

But the api keys are only valid for 1 month, right?

#53

The free trial lasts for 30 days, but you can have as many accounts at foreca as you wish (I haven’t tried it yet). Or you can subscribe to any of the paid services: the cheapest one is for 990 eur/year. Almost free. :wink:

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#54

I have extended it once already, the only catch so far is that you must provide a new email when requesting a new trial key for 30 days. Not a big deal for those who own a domain. Although it was so much nicer when it worked out of the box :neutral_face:

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#55

Is there any chance to change the weather service provider, e.g. to Location Forecast - Yr ?

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#56

I wonder if it would work with the email address extensions like the plus in gmail, where anything you add after a plus sign gets dropped before resolving the final mailbox name.
So you could use e.g. youremail+forecaMMYY@gmail.com

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#57

Dots (“." ) are ignored too

#58

I’d like to add some more arguments to change the weather service provider:

So why not try to convince Jolla to:

  1. change the weather service provider or
  2. change the Weather App to open source, so SFOS community could fix it?
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#59

More ideas could perhaps come from the Kodi project. It has a number of free and open-sourced weather addons (which don’t require a paid key/subscription).

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#60

From the opening page of the Sailfish OS site: https://sailfishos.org/
False advertising and the deception of the consumer is against the EU law.

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#61

Though the weather information can be now shown with Meecast and Meecast Event View from OpenRepos. I know it’s not a default feature anymore (or at the moment) and Meecast is a workaround, but still.

Therefore i personally don’t consider anything false advertising.

Also i don’t want anyone to be surprised that Sailfish needs a bit tinkering every now and then. I think it’s fun, even if it is a bit frustrating sometimes. But i think that’s what i signed up for.

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#62

Meecast and Meecast Event View (or any app from the OpenRepos collection) is not part of the operating system, while the Weather app is. The screenshot and the SailfishOS website above is talking about the default, built-in Weather application, which cannot show weather information anymore. So it is in fact false advertising actually.

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