Hi all, just wanted to say how excited I was to discover a weather widget – as one of my favorite features on my MacBook Air is when it alerts me to sudden incoming weather changes!
Unfortuntately, the closest thing it has is just a vague entry for my “region” in Ontario, Canada! And the weather I get in my town is much different than the general region
Can you tell me which sites are included so I can do some investigating on the sites themselves maybe, or see if I can find my town using a postal code or something?
I feel the same about this as you do. I sent an email to the author of the weather widget concerning the situation. You may wish to do the same? At least then they may become more aware of the situation at hand.
Thank you for the reply, as it seems the topic only has 30 views after all this time – I’m guessing this forum isn’t checked on by any devs unfortunately
How did you find the contact information for the weather person? Much appreciated
Right click on the Weather Report widget in systray to open it. Go down to bottom left blue button named About.Then left mouse button click About. Then hover your mouse over the small envelope to the right of the authors name. You should see an email address displayed for the author. I believe this is how to contact the author.
The weather applet has several providers (NOAA, BBC UK Met, Environment Canada, DWD, wetter.com as a fallback with relatively wide coverage but very limited data). For Ontario, your best bet is probably the list of weather stations by Environment Canada:
I checked a few of them and almost all seem to be available in the applet if you search for the name there.
You may need recent Plasma though - there was a change on Environment Canada’s side in how they provide the data, and as I understand it the new format is only supported starting from Plasma 6.5.
The default widget is definitely a bit hit-or-miss depending on your area. I’ve found that switching the data provider in the settings (right-click the widget → Configure) sometimes reveals more local stations. If you’re in Canada, Environment Canada is usually the most accurate if it’s showing up for you - NOAA tends to be a bit vague outside the US.
Usually, you can enter airport names if you have an airport close enough. For example “Lyon Saint Exupery” for LYS airport, or “Paris Charles de Gaulle” for CDG airport.
I cant find the setting for changing the provider described by @cwo and @AmbeliaD03, not sure if Im missing it or is not an option anymore? Im on Plasma 6.6.2.
You can’t select the provider by itself. If you search, it will query all supported providers, and show them in the results list, with the provider name listed - for major cities you may have several providers per location and can then select the provider you want.
Also try spelling variations or different names (if applicable) - some providers are a bit particular about when and how they match.
Oh, I see, thank you. My location does not show up even if some of those providers do have it on their sites (ie: wetter). I guess the APIs dont return all the locations they show on the site search. Kind of confusing
