Rainmeter Weather help

[mustangman16]

Hey guys,
I've been messing around with getting back into rainmeter again and for some reason i CANNOT get ANY weather skin to work. I've tried atleast ten and cant make this work. I know my weather code (USMO0787) and I assume i know where to change it in the notes, but it never displays any weather for me. I could use some help with this issue please.

-stang

 

[sromard]

I'm having the same exact issue

 

[symbiont]

Honestly I think the weather site that it updates from changed something again. Used to run into this with Samuarize configs too...mine stopped updating today also and has worked fine for about 2 months. It's not you.

 

[garbanzo]

it's a global issue

i've been reading over at the rainmeter forum where a member has been on the phone with weather.com for a while now. apparently this is the end. they only now realized now many people are 'abusing' their xml feed, and are going to cut it off.

this means basically all existing rainmeter weather skins (and lots of other stuff like DX widgets, avedesk, even some stardock stuff) need to be updated. accuweather has a good feed from what i hear.

so yeah, it's just gong to take time. i'll try to get my widget updated as soon as i figure out the format of the accuweather feed. apparently it's better anyway

 

[mustangman16]

@garbanzo,

Thanks for the info man. +1

Just a quick question, I went back to sidebar gadgets yesterday because my rainmeter skins wouldnt stay put after playing WC3. After i closed the game or tabbed out of it, they would scrunch to the the middle of the screen and rearrange themselves. And we all know how annoying it is to move the skins around! Anyone know of a solution for locking them in place besides unclicking draggable? Thanks again.

-stang

 

[Nax Shale Chan]

Well, this sucks. Anybody wanna try to fix Enigma's weather? I ain't that good with the code.

@Stang: If you play in a smaller resolution than you have set for your desktop, then it's because the skins are set to "Keep on Screen". If you uncheck "Keep on Screen", it'll stay in place. Just make sure you don't lose it off the screen edge.

-NSC

 

[mustangman16]

@Nax Shale Chan,
I guess i'll give it a go. Unfortunatley... I was so mad after spending all afternoon perfecting my rainmeter that I just deleted it all lol. Atleast I know all the skins I want, where to get them, and where they go lol. Hope it works! +1

-stang

 

[Nax Shale Chan]

No prob man.

Sooo.... Anybody have a weather skin that DOES work?

 

[garbanzo]

just relax people. rainmeter has made a deal with accuweather, they have full rights now, and they just put a huge post on their forum with instructions on how to parse the accuweather feeds. give it a couple of days, and the major configs like enigma will probably get updated...

 

[mustangman16]

Garganzo is exactly right. I just read throught the 3 pages of chatter and to sum it up, weather.com makes no money off us using their RSS feeds because they cant stick advertises on our desktop (thank god) lol. So they have restricted their feeds to requiring a user account id to access the feeds but i dont think even that works right now and it costs $'s. So rainmeter has pretty much endorsed accuweather and like garb said, all the skins should be converting from weather.com to accuweather. the sooner the better!

-stang

 

[Nax Shale Chan]

Well, none of us are freaking out. Just curious to know what's going on. I'll go look at the rainmeter forums now.

 

[t41]

READ this

and or this rainmeter page

this for your ini - location here

accuweather skin here

 

[t41]

I got mine to work for time being until more updated skins come out - registration

Not suggested by rainmeter forum, but I gave them all false info, and used old email i never use as well as not subscribing to anything they had to offer - we shall see what happens. Can always cancel.

winds up looking like this - http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/30339?cc=*&dayf=5&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=[PartnerID]&key=[LicenseKey]


rainmeter skins zip file

 

[garbanzo]

ugh i don't want to update my skin. i don't even use it anymore. but i suppose i should, it's pretty popular. stupid weather.com and their money-wanting ways

 

[t41]

i use moxaweather and 10foot Hud rockwell - those are ones I would like to see updated, i dont know how the new stuff works - thats why i signed up for that SH#@# yesterday. lol

 

[garbanzo]

accuweather is supposed to be better than weather.com. my beef with the old system is that there was no way to show a forecaset for the current day (hi/low). you could only show the current conditions.

my config is a mod of moxaweather, so as long as that gets updated, i'm golden. but it's an old one, so i doubt it will happen. i'll just have to sit down and figure out the new system to update my skin. then it will be easy work to use my INI to 'fix' moxweather.

 

[coojoe]

Accuweather for the 10-foot HUD!!!!!

got a little bored last night and found someone who had a simular layout on an Accuweather widget, re coded it and got it right. heres the coding, just copy and paste, and change the "location=" at the top to your local Zip Code. includes the accuweather logo. will be working on one that has the Icons for the current weather conditions before too long, (i hope) that is, if the wife dont expand the honey do list again.

 

[t41]

coojoe - thanks for this very nice, now i can delete my account on other weather site. can you post your clockk ini or ext - like your fonts better than mine
rep

weather.com vs accuweather - same zip code 10' degree difference - gotta laugh

 

[rihval]

Problem solved

Hi
Weather.com has backed down from their foolish position, but have replace the xoap to xml.
To solve ,in the configuration .ini of Rainmeter must be changed "xoap" to "xml" in the link. For example:

htp://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/SPXX0050?cc=*&unit=m&dayf=6

for

htp://xml.weather.com/weather/local/SPXX0050?cc=*&unit=m&dayf=6

Work right now.

 

[Labad Nana]

Garganzo is exactly right.
-stang

Its Garbanzo