indicator-weather doesn't display an icon for some cities

[Alan Hill]

The indicator runs and takes up space in the panel but doesn't display an icon for certain locations. I've set up the following cities:

Indianapolis, IN (mostly cloudy) - blank
Edinburgh, UK (partly cloudy) - shows icon
Berkeley, CA (partly cloudy) - shows icon
Indianapolis, IN (mostly cloudy) - blank
Fort Wayne, IN (cloudy) - blank
Chicago, IL (cloudy) - blank
Detroit, MI (cloudy) - blank
New York, NY (partly cloudy) - shows icon

Indianapolis was tested twice; first using the wizard on the initial run and then added manually to be sure the wizard wasn't at fault. The second instance has a different label.

Those locations without an icon are in the same geographic area (midwestern United States), for what that's worth. They also have different conditions so it doesn't seem to be a missing icon.

I'm running it from a terminal and see no errors, just a message whenever it updates.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thanks for this full investigation of the problem!

[Daniel Holm (danielholm)]

Västervik, SWE too. No matter what condition.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Currently, Weather indicator is being moved to a new backend (gweather + pymetar), which will make gathering of weather data more stable.
Citites, which will be avialable for selection, will be the same as in Gnome Weather applet.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Now the data and an icon seem to be picked up correctly.

Call for testers - see Unstable Builds PPA in Weather Indicator Team (https://launchpad.net/~weather-indicator-team/+archive/unstable) for updated packages

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

 I forgot to add, that citites are stored on other format.

For now, user has to manually reset cities - start gconf-editor, navigate to "/apps/indicator-weathe" and reset "places" setting. You will have to add citites again

Weather Indicator now logs some debug data to console - please, attach the ouptu if any error occurs

[Alan Hill (hundredsand100s)]

Same problem, I'm afraid. Indianapolis doesn't show an icon, Edinburgh does. I attached the terminal output.

[Alan Hill (hundredsand100s)]

Gah. That's with version 11.01.16+bzr111~maverick1 from the unstable ppa. Sorry, it's 5am here :/

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Reopening per last comment.

Alan, could you please try this on more locations and, possibly, weather conditions - the more the better.
The problem is that NOAA doesn't have a list of available conditions, so we have to gather the list of conditions ourselves.

[Alan Hill (hundredsand100s)]

I tried 13 more cities, trying for different weather conditions and locations (not much luck on the conditions; pretty much everywhere seems to be cloudy right now). Results are:

Indianapolis, US (now works, somehow)
Edinburgh, UK
Fort Lauderdale, US (doesn't work) Few clouds / 21.7C
Johannesburg, South Africa ("BUG: Condition name is empty!" is displayed)
Quito, Equador ("BUG: Condition name is empty!" is displayed)
Chicago, US
Detroit, US
Fort Wayne, US (doesn't work) Few clouds / -14.14C
Bangkok, Thailand ("BUG: Condition name is empty!" is displayed)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Muncie, US
Jacksonville, US
Honolulu, US
Bishkek, Krygyzstan ("BUG: Condition name is empty!" is displayed)
Moscow, Russia

Indianapolis worked this time. I'll try to isolate why and test more cities later today.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thanks for this massive amount of debug information, Alan!

Will continue to work on a list of weather conditions and update unstable
PPA.

[Alan Hill (hundredsand100s)]

I came across this page a few weeks ago; is it by chance what you're looking for? It lists possible return values for weather type, coverage and intensity along with a human-readable string NOAA uses for their NDFD feed.

http://www.weather.gov/xml/xml_fields_icon_weather_conditions.php

[Alan Hill (hundredsand100s)]

I tested 68 locations (I took every 100th one from the list of ICAO codes). They're all showing icons except:

DAFH - Tilrempt/Hassi R'mel - Few clouds
KEFD - Houston / Ellington - Few clouds
KOVS - BOSCOBEL AIRPORT - Few clouds

So it looks like "Few clouds" is the problem.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

It seems, that some icon sets are not displaying "weather-clouds" icon.
Alan, which icon set are you using? You may check /usr/share/icons/<your
icon set name>/status/scalable/weather-clouds.svg

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Pushed another fix for icons - added more weather conditions