Error retrieving condition

[Alin Andrei]

I'm using the latest 11.02.13 and even though the temperature seems to be displayed ok, Indicator Weather displays an "Error retrieving condition" message. See this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/avUZr.png

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

On this release we are relying on data from NOAA. Sometimes an empty data is returned - and we are unable to do anything to do something about this. When data caching will be implemented, we shall display previous state - but for now this error will be displayed.

Error with forecast for US units has been fixed - fix will be uploaded in a short period.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

I'm not using US units... actually US units work just fine here.

And you say "Sometimes an empty data is returned" but for me that's all the time.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Actually, NOAA data is being updated once in 15 minutes - I guess, correct condition should be picked up.
indicator-weather-11.02.13_maverick2 contains a fix for forecast exception (though, it is not related to 'error condition').

If condition is still 'Error retrieved condition', please attach a log file ~/.cache/indicator-weather.log or try 'apport-collect 718053'

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Yes, the forecast was fixed but I still get "Error retrieving condition" - this never seems to have worked, so I'll attach indicator-weather.log

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

After a log analysis, NOAA returns empty data and there is nothing we can do about it. After some refresh the data may appear - but now it in NOAA hands.

The only thing which can possibly be done is making the 'Error retrieving conditions' text more clear - got any ideas?

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

What is it supposed to display - if I don't get this error, what would be there? I see all the info there except that his error shows up too - and it wouldn't bother me so much if it wouldn't break the pretty icon too - because of this error, there's a gray question mark icon displayed for the appindicator.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Here is a sample image - http://imgur.com/9m0Rr. You may try adding other locations - I hope, they will be displayed correctly.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

That's the thing... it looks exactly the same for me (all the data is there) except there is also an "error retrieving condition" in the indicator and a broken appindicator image... but the rest is there: http://imgur.com/64nbP

Changing the location didn't help.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Icon to be displayed is selected from condition, so the special icon for 'empty condition' is displayed.
The problem is in eliminating 'empty condition' situation - but for now this is impossible. The only workaround is to wait for NOAA to update their data.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Thing is... I see NOAA works: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LRBS.html

[Patrick Ulbrich (pulb)]

Hi folks, I've got the same problem.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

NOAA page actually shows empty value in "Weather" column - compare with
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/UMMS.html

[Patrick Ulbrich (pulb)]

Hmm ok, i see.
But the legacy weather applet does not have this problem, does it use a different weather service?

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

I have no idea what the default weather applet in Maverick uses, but I've never had this problem...

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

GWeather applet uses weather.com, which is a much more reliable data source.
But for now this libgweather doesn't have a python binding to get weather
data - it is planned for version 3.0, so when Gnome 3 will be released, this
source will be used as primary, and NOAA as a fallback.

[Patrick Ulbrich (pulb)]

Good to hear that, thanks :-)

[redman (patrick-libert)]

Problem with receiving weather condition, also the indicaoter icon is a question mark.
Attaching log.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

The issue is solved by using Google and Yahoo as weather data providers.
Check 'Unstable builds' PPA in Weather Indicator Team for a new version with the fix