Gnome shell weather extension is not showing correct weather information

Question

I am on Ubuntu 11.10 and I have installed Gnome shell extensions.

For the weather extension the problem is that it is only showing the temperature that it showed when installed for the first time. That means while the current temperature is 25 it is continuing to show it as 32.

I have entered the correct WOEID.

Need your help to solve this issue.

Solution 1

This is what i did:

1. go to http://weather.yahoo.com and enter your location
2. klick on "RSS" (on the right side)
3. your location code is shown in the address-bar (eg. weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=GMXX0087&u=f)
4. copy your code (GMXX0087 in my case) and open a terminal

5. set location and city with

   gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather woeid "'GMXX00187'"

   gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather city YOURCITY

6. logout & login again

Solution 2

Hmm, after I used the 3 letter code additional to my WOEID code it was successful.

Solution 3

Alternative:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/my-weather-indicator-adds-geolocation-support/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28OMG%21+Ubuntu%21%29

A new ‘My Weather Indicator’ Adds Geolocation Support

Comments

[Arindom]

I have only mentioned the six character code of my city. That means I need to add three more letters code to it? Can you please specify more about three letter code and how to get it?

[brubaker]

City: "FRA" (Frankfurt, Germany) WOEID: "GMXX0040" (changed to this after given the correct WOEID; I don't know your city)

[Arindom]

Thanks for the link but will that work for gnome-shell (Sorry that I didn't mention specifically) ? I think it is meant for Unity.

[Arindom]

I am trying for city "Kolkata, India", for which the WOEID is "INXX0028".

[Arindom]

Thanks for the steps. Actually I did all the steps earlier and tried them again now. But for some reason my temp still shows "Haze 34 C" while it is actually Haze 28 C (I logged out and then logged in). The city for which I am trying to the get the temp is "Kolkata, India" WOEID is "INXX0028"

[KD353]

As soon as I put those commands into terminal (with my details) the extension worked, did not even have to log out. Thanks

[Cerin]

Thanks. Although it's weird the "new" applet does not have the ability to enter your location directly, whereas the "old" one did.

[Mitch]

This does not provide a sufficient answer to the question. Try to add more information, and / or examples.

[MadMike]

"The above suggestions" is really relative, since answers are always sorted by their voted score. So the order might change in the future.

[MadMike]

I've changed your answer make easier to read. You can always change it back if you don't approve.