Indicator-weather no longer retrieves data

[Cavia Porcellus]

As of July 26th, 2012, indicator-weather has stopped being able to retrieve any new weather data.

The log reads multiple errors similar to this one: [Fetcher] 2012-07-27 19:47:17,908 - ERROR - Weather: error reaching url 'http://www.earthtools.org/timezone-1.1/42.331427/-83.0457538'

It looks like earthtools.org is down, probably taken over by spammers. I'm not sure if it's proper to file a bug here, since it might come back up again, but perhaps the way in which indicator-weather retrieves its data should be changed.

Thanks!

[iLMagno (pmatias-87)]

Same problem here:

[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:42,032 - DEBUG - Weather: current condition: 'sunny', '('weather-clear', 'weather-clear-night', False)'
[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:50,549 - ERROR - Weather: error reaching url 'http://www.earthtools.org/timezone-1.1/-34.4260273084/-58.5796165466'
[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:50,550 - DEBUG - Indicator: updateWeather: waiting for 'Cacher' thread to terminate
[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:50,550 - DEBUG - Indicator: updateWeather: got condition 'Despejado', icon 'weather-clear'
[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:50,550 - DEBUG - Weather: day, show 'weather-clear' icon
[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:50,554 - ERROR - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'
[Fetcher] 2012-07-28 13:15:50,554 - DEBUG - Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/indicator-weather", line 1397, in get_new_weather_data
    log.debug("Indicator: fill in menu with params: city='%s', temp='%s', humid='%s', wind='%s', sunrise='%s', sunset='%s', puretemp=%s" % (self.places[self.placechosen][1], weather.get_temperature_label(), weather.get_humidity_label(), weather.get_wind_label(), weather.get_sunrise_label(), weather.get_sunset_label(), weather.get_temperature()))
  File "/usr/bin/indicator-weather", line 898, in get_sunrise_label
    return "%s: %s" % (_("Sunrise"), TimeFormatter.format_time(self.__sunrise_t))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/indicator_weather/helpers.py", line 248, in format_time
    return t.strftime(TimeFormatter.format)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'

[Turbo (joel-avery)]

From my logs, it appears that things stopped working on one of my machines with this log entry:

2012-07-27 11:12:12,709 - ERROR - Weather: error reaching url 'http://www.earthtools.org/timezone-1.1/45.4111650793/-75.6981182098'

I'm in the Eastern Timezone.

Visiting Earthtools.org gets you a page that looks like a new domain landing page. Perhaps they missed a payment and dreamhost yanked the site.

Either way, this tool in completely broken.

[Dino Conte (dermitdemdino)]

The same problem here, indicator no longer works correct. Logfile as Attachment.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

The my-weather-indicator (see http://ubuntuguide.net/weather-indicator-in-ubuntu-12-04-unity) is an alternative that still works. (It looks like it shows the sunrise/sunset times of the second city in local time, though.)