Meteor showers not updating

[StellariumUser20]

I reported this bug before this at: http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/254833-stellarium-meteor-showers-plugin

Hi there, I have a Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit PC with Stellarium 0.13.3 installed.
The meteor showers in Stellarium showed only generic and not real data.
I tried updating it by the 'Plugins' section in the 'Configurations' window but it didn't work. Apparently the downloading bar starts at 0% and the the bar disappears, I'm guessing the download failed.
My internet is fast enough, in an hour I can download an 100–150 MB file.

Later I found the file responsible for the display of meteor showers in Stellarium, named showers.json
Path to the file: C:\Users\(Your user's name)\AppData\Roaming\Stellarium\modules\MeteorShowers\showers.json
It's size is about 31 KB. Is it supposed to be that size? I've checked the file (using notepad) and found out there was no data for the year 2015.
Perhaps Stellarium itself isn't providing data for this year?

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

MeteorShower plugin was updated. Can you try the current beta?

[Marcos Cardinot (cardinot)]

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for your report!

> The meteor showers in Stellarium showed only generic and not real data.

Maybe we just don't have real data for the date that you were in Stellarium...

The latest catalog of meteor showers can be found here:
http://www.stellarium.org/json/showers.json

As you will see, we actually do not have too much data for 2015 as we have for 2014, 2013, 2012...

Most part of our data comes from IMO catalog (imo.net). We have a script to copy automatically the data from IMO catalogs in HTML format. The problem is that since the catalog of 2015, IMO is no longer publishing the catalogs in HTML format (only in pdf).
http://imo.net/calendar

I'm going to see what I could do to sort it out, and copy the data from PDF files as well.
Otherwise, we would have to add each of them manually.

> I tried updating it by the 'Plugins' section in the 'Configurations' window but it didn't work.
> Apparently the downloading bar starts at 0% and the the bar disappears, I'm guessing the download failed.
> My internet is fast enough, in an hour I can download an 100–150 MB file.

As you saw, the JSON file is very light, that's the reason why the downloading bar disappeared so fast.

[StellariumUser20 (kishenrao-20)]

Thanks for the replies. Glad to know everything is being taken care of! :)