Today Scope weather shows wrong location / unable to set manually

[Jos van Houtem]

For privacy reasons and Battery saving, I have both Location detection and GPS switched off.
In the weather app, I have my hometown as a default, but in the "Today Scope", it refers to a different location, and I can not change it. I want the Today scope to show the weather in my hometown, or be able to choose a place manually.

[Olof Rydberg (0lof)]

This is very annoying, for me the location is rarely correct even with location enabled (not gps though), this will usually give me a position which is off by 600-1000km in south direction, which may result in a temperature difference of 20 degrees celsius in winter.

For this reason, I'm not using the weather part at all, as it doesn't show anything relevant and on top of that doesn't even show which location it uses, which is also a big problem.

No need to say, this problem affects every other location based scope as well, rendering them all useless (for me).

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Hi,

Sorry about this!

The problem is that the weather scope does not get its information from the weather app. So there is no actual connection between the two.

In general, GPS is needed to get an accurate location and is therefore required for high precision weather info.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Also, the Weather scope is *aggregated* by Today scope, but it is a separate project. It is developed in the ubuntu-rest-scopes project. So I am adding that and marking it Wont Fix in today scope.

[Jos van Houtem (jos-vh67)]

Will this bug be fixed in the Weather scope in the near future? Any progression or do we need to report a new bug. Should this bug be reported in "Canonical scopes"?
Having weather in the today scope, showing the weather 500 km away is really useless. And I cannot imagine people having GPS enabled all the time.