Weather Widgets Not Working

Hi David, several reports, one just now that it works in 10.5 & not in 10.4...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3479034?tstart=0

10.4.11. 11/10/11 5pm PST. Cold spell. 🙂

This looks bogus, as it's more like 68-70 right now, plus I can't change the target area.

Hmmm.

Yeah, the feds think it's 70F at 4:53 PM PST...

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/

Gosh, you're right. We've been having a series of repeat days here so I hadn't really noticed that my widget was still showing Tuesday with partly cloudy and high of 46 vs. Thursday with partly cloudy and high of 41...

The newer Accuweather widget which I don't like as much is staying current, but the older one that came with Tiger originally seems to be in time stasis. If you're looking for a newer one on Accuweather.com make sure you scroll a long way down. There's some horror chimera by Adobe that's near the top that says it is for Mac, but it looks like our Intel-only Flash version friends are at work again. 😢

http://www.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/images/interest/downloadcenter/AccuWeathe r_com.zip

The URL in my previous post got messed up. It takes you to a different address from the one it says, and the one it says has a space in it which breaks it. I was editing it but our wireless antenna sees 50 other stations between us and our node a block away so streaming video often cuts our service out at unexpected times.

Anyway:

http://www.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/images/interest/downloadcenter/AccuWeathe r_com.zip

I disabled the weather widget and then re-enabled it. Got this in console:

2011-11-09 17:30:48.412 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 16:14:34.149 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 16:57:32.111 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 16:58:53.054 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 17:02:04.521 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 17:02:27.060 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 17:02:56.370 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 17:03:23.919 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

try the disable/enable at this point:

2011-11-10 20:30:43.291 DashboardClient[437] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 20:31:29.121 DashboardClient[4018] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 20:31:29.862 DashboardClient[4018] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

2011-11-10 20:31:44.413 DashboardClient[4018] com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <adc_Database>

Hmmm. Oh well, the newer widget seems to work OK.😎

Methinks it might be a Hard Coded URL that could possibly be edited. 🙂

I poked around in the widgets and their .plist files

As far as URLs go, I found -

Apple Tiger widget:

In parser.js:

function fetchWeatherData (callback, zip)

{

//var url = 'http://apple.accuweather.com/adcbin/apple/Apple_Weather_Data.asp?zipcode=';

var url = 'http://wu.apple.com/adcbin/apple/Apple_Weather_Data.asp?zipcode=';

Accuweather's widget:

In weatherdata.js:

var url = "http://apple.accuweather.com/widget/osx1/";

The URLs aren't directly exchangable and the old widget seems to work through Apple.com whereas the other widget (which is a third party widget) goes through acccuweather.com I think this probably par for the course in terms of Apple and Tiger (and maybe Leopard too since somebody was posting on this in the 10.5 forum too). 😠 Probably somebody pulled a plug.

Maybe if somebody with a higher level OS and working Apple weather widget wants to poke around we could do more, but I wouldn't think they would change only the URL just to irk us and not how it interfaces.

One can take the weather widget from 10.6 (wired to weather.com), but it has the same problem under 10.5, so I imagine it is not as simple as the URL

Yes, I noticed the included weather widget quit working here as well. (10.4.11)

(Same widget still working fine on my new MBP running Snow Leopard.)

Hope they fix it. What link should we use to submit a bug/feedback report?

I suspect that OS 10.5 is no longer supported

Is this the Widget people are using?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/weatherundergrounddashboard weatherwidget.html

EDIT: I guess not, sorry. 😟

Found the non-working one, looking into it now.

Not sure why they would kill a simple URL connection based on the operating system. And I can't imagine it would be more than a 2 minute fix to repair...

Hey, Apple. I promise I'll upgrade my workstation as soon as we see a Mac Pro with a Thunderbolt connector available. In the meantime, please fix the weather widget! 🙂

Hmmm, I can ping http://wu.apple.com/adcbin/apple/ just fine...

--- http://wu.apple.com/adcbin/apple/ ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss

But I put http://wu.apple.com/adcbin/apple/Apple_Weather_Data.asp? in a URl bar and it instantly redirects me to http://127.0.0.1, & reports...

Safari can’t open the page “http://127.0.0.1/” because Safari can’t connect to the server “127.0.0.1”.

having same issue...