Mate panel weather plugin does not work

Weather data is not loaded or displayed. And if I set a new location by removing the old one, I get an error message that the plugin has crashed, I can refresh the panel, or delete the plugin. I also reproduced the case on Manjaro and EOS.

Makes me wonder who the weather info supplier is. There has been quite an upheaval recently in the ā€˜weather gameā€™, and many of the websites have changed their ownership, look and APIā€™s (or even eliminated them in some cases). Perhaps let us know who is supposed to be supplying the infoā€¦

I donā€™t know who provides the info. As I read, the Mate weather plugin is pretty problematic. https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/more-locations-on-mate-clock-weather-applet/8102

Most of them are pretty marginal, Iā€™m afraid. Unfortunately - the solution I know best is not a very ā€˜general useā€™ kind of thing :smile:

I ran into someone making a very nice job of adding weather (and more) to conky - a desktop information display system - and I use his Conkywx add-in. It is unfortunate though in that you need some scripting skills to get what you end up wantingā€¦

Iā€™ll add in my current screen setup - which monitors the system, and tracks the weather both at home and in other places around the world where I know someone. I have to admit to spending some time on it though! Here it is (slightly green at the moment)

As you can see - lots of information there - and it doesnā€™t care what DE youā€™re using either or OS for that matter (same setup on Xubuntu, Arch, Arcolinux, Mx-19 etc)

I would see if thereā€™s a way to use OpenWeatherMap and provide it with co-ordinates.

https://openweathermap.org/find

Thatā€™s the system I could get working on cinnamon.

Looks like this a known bug, related to libsoup: https://github.com/mate-desktop/libmateweather/issues/75

Thanks for your help. This error is not as significant, and the weather applet works nicely on Xfce desktop, for example.

Yes this is a known bug, yesterday I also found that the location cannot be changed. Regardless, the weather data isnā€™t visible right now either. Maybe the two are related.

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In the meantime, there is weather data again. Apparently, it could only have been a temporary outage. I could not reproduce the other error related to the change of location either.

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The joy was early. Weather data is missing again.

I think a weather stone should be employed. They have performed well for centuries.

See ā€œInstructions for ā€œanalyzingā€ weather with the weather stoneā€ in the included link.

Pudge

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You may be right. Joke aside, interestingly unlike the Mate, the Xfce weather plugin usually works normally.