It seems the update to plasma 6.5 has broken Condensed Weather (again). The default weather widget is ugly, huge, and does not work in the system tray but has to stay on the desktop, which I do not like.
Sadly, every other weather widget uses some sort of automatic configuration based on IP, which is idiotic as the external IP is nowhere near where I live (I live in Canada, and it can be hundreds of kilometers from the ISP), or asks to put in lat/long coordinates, but when you do, the weather is completely wrong.
Condensed Weather reports the following error:
file:///home/shad/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/com.github.zren.condensedweather/contents/ui/main.qml:12:2: Type LibWeather.WeatherData unavailable
file:///home/shad/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/com.github.zren.condensedweather/contents/ui/libweather/WeatherData.qml:10:1: module “org.kde.plasma.private.weather” is not installed
I’m not on 6.5 yet (it’s in a copr on Fedora due to release freezing). But in regards to the below…
I’ve found this is like relying on an IP address as it relies on the nearest weather station to your latitude / longitude which could be miles away. It also relies on the time of when the readings are updated by that station. I’m in Northern Ireland, the nearest observation station from me is only 15 miles away.
It can still report the wrong weather because it’s weather that is 15 miles away at the time of reporting and it can change quickly here, given that the UK and Ireland are subject to 5 air masses (tropical maritime, polar maritime, polar continental, arctic maritime and tropical continental).
I like having the weather widget in my panel to check predicted forecasts for the rest of the week. But if I want accurate readings for the weather right now, I look out the window.
I found Weather Widget Plus which uses OpenWeatherMap data and seems to be accurate. It also lives in the system tray, and seems to be working. OWM actually has data from the nearest town to where I live (about 10km/6mi). It is not the most legible widget, but it does a good job of presenting tons of information.
It gives you a link to the OWM city locator website where you can search for your city, then add the URL for OWM directly instead of using coordinates or IP guesses like Mateo. All the ones that use Meteo suck eggs. They are not even close to accurate.
The only complaint I have is performance. It seems to be using a lot of resources and is rather slow to load.