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Published: 2015-06-29 14:50:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 66800; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 7150
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Complete Overhaul! Now using "The Weather Channel" JSON as source!Version 2.2021.07.08
Current weather details on first panel will fade to 3-day forecast on second panel
Click Title to toggle current/3-day
Data provided by The Weather Channel JSON.
Set your location by editing the Latitude and Longitude values; right-click, select 'Custom skin actions', 'Edit weather variables and follow the instructions. Save that file and refresh the skin.
Requires the latest Rainmeter beta (4.3.0.0), available here rainmeter.net
Version 2.2021.08.07
Corrected wind direction display (Thanks IOgens!)
Version 2.2021.07.08
Corrected language translations... Thanks for the heads up, IOgens!
Version 2.2021.06.11
Corrected to use JSON data
Version 2.2016.05.14
Changed the Website accessed for Weather data
Version 2.2016.04.19
Corrected Celsius temp unit display
Version 2.2016.04.18
Hid unneeded separator lines in Locator lookup
Modified Location to display longer names on 2 lines
Version 1.2016.04.18
The Weather Channel as new source
Added Locator skin to lookup your location
Measurement type (Imperial/Metric) select-able from context menu
Version 1.2016.03.25
Using alternate site for weather Yahoo data (thanks moshiAB)!
Version 1.2016.02.10
Removed ActionTimer.dll
Corrected test for celsius; now test for 'c' and 'C' (thanks jmward007!)
Version 1.2015.12.07
Modified to allow toggle between current/3-day by clicking title
V 1.08.30.2015
Corrected 2 issues causing previous skin to bleed-through (not totally hidden on change)
V 1.08.03.2015
Updated the ActionTimer.dll to prevent issues with some commands
Requires Rainmeter V3.3.0.2423
V 1.06.30.2015
Modified Wind Direction to display Compass Cardinal directions rather than degrees
(Edit 'meterValue2' if you want degrees used instead)
V 1.06.29.2015
Initial release
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Sometimes it fails to update weather and does not show any values in any field.
I'm not sure why it happens, my guess is it receives no data from weather.com due to fetch limits. If it uses your API, please tell me how I can change the API to my own. Thank you!
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It uses weather.com as the data source; it can be unavailable from time to time.
I would be patient and wait a short time, for me it usually is never down for more than a few hours.
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Can you tell me how I can stop the widget from switching automatically to the 3 day panel? I like the widget, but it's annoying me. Thank you.
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Right-click the skin, select "Edit skin" from the menu. You need to edit the [Variables] section of the skin file and set the value of 'ChangeWeatherTime' to zero. You can still click the title to toggle between the 2 pages.
[Variables]
...
ChangeWeatherTime=0
...
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Great Skin, can you tell me how often the current data should refresh? Can it be changed?
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The update rate in the skin is set to update every 30 minutes. You can change this by lowering the value of UPDATERATE= in the [measureW0] section to 1800 (15 min), or remove it completely and the default 600 (5 min) will be used.
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[measureW0]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WebParser.dll
UpdateRate = 3600
...
I don't remember how often 'weather.com' updates the info, but that will determine how long in between changes.
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Thanks for the help, still new at this. Is the date and time at the bottom of the Weather screen supposed to reflect the last update time?
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Yes, it is the last update time... NOT the current time
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I have a weird glitch happening with this skin. I set it to my area's zip code (55709 for Bovey, MN), which does return my actual local weather for bovey from TWC. However, when i set it with the locator, or adjust the settings in the IllustroWeather settings, It keeps on showing my Grand Rapids, MN's weather, instead. Even though the settings have the proper zip code.
Here is what I mean
i.imgur.com/4bu4ROd.png
Location: Grand Rapids in the Weather tab, however in location settings it's Bovey, MN. This makes a big difference because Grand Rapids is 15 miles away and temps and weather can often be very different.
I also tried using the location code for bovey from TWC, (USMN0086)
i.imgur.com/UMqGWOA.png
I have reloaded the skin multiple times, even tried restarting my pc, restarting rain meter, switching to different cities and then back.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
BTW using RainMeter 4.0.0 r2746 64-bit (Jan 1 2017)
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (build 14393)
Forgot to show the log!
Here is the log that is produced upon using the location setter to set my location
i.imgur.com/TTvxCsG.png
I think this MAY be the issue. I have a fair amount of coding experience in C++ and Java, so I am going to attempt to debug it, but if anyone else has run into this issue and knows a fix, I would be very grateful.
Thanks again!
Sorry for long post!
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After looking deeper it's because it is showing the weather station's name. Ignore me, carry on.
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Thanks for the update, what i was doing this morning looking to see what the new URL was .
Thanks for the update hun. Hugs
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small gripe. It's Friday the 13th (May) but shows 14th on the forecast
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Well that info comes from the site (nothing I can do to change that), it may not be the same time as where you are...
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thanks for the update working great and the new source i love more. Thanks again
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Updated skin to use The Weather Channel as it's source
Added a skin to locate your weather code.
Adios Yahoo!
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Hello,
thank you for your good work. I corrected url as you suggested and everything should be ok, but is not. I have still weather of 11th april and the day does not change. I remember the same case happened a couple months ago.
What is wrong? Could you help me?
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The Yahoo feed has been making a lot of changes in the past few weeks and until that settles down, almost anything might not work with this skin.
I am considering rewriting it completely, to use the weather.com feed... but that is not as simple as changing the URL!
I would try to be patient, and see if the Yahoo feed "self-corrects" in the a few days (weeks?); if it doesn't, then I will do an overhaul of this skin.
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Yea, yahoo is driving me nuts also. weather.com I liked better anyway lol
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Thanks for the continued support. I agree that it is a pain in the butt when feeds change out of the blue and with no documentation of the new layout. I wonder if weather.gov would provide more reliable feeds with little to no unexpected changes.
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Good question, i think for the few ppl that do use weather.com not heard much about them changing up the feed code. But then again I have not stayed upto date with them.
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