The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are there any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a custom radar map. As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock applet was using the same service.
Hm, this is bad. I was relying on this feature heavily. Let's see if there is a fix. I don't imagine RH will care about this on EL6, but maybe MATE guys could help. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message -----> From: "isdtor" <isdtor at gmail.com> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 24 August, 2016 15:19:20 > Subject: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. > http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are there > any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a custom > radar map. > > As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock > applet was using the same service. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Nux! writes:> Hm, this is bad. I was relying on this feature heavily. > Let's see if there is a fix. I don't imagine RH will care about this on EL6, but maybe MATE guys could help.The code for the respective applets is quite different. Mate uses weather.com, but I bet the API is different and a fix requires actual coding.
isdtor wrote:> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. > http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are > there any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a > custom radar map. > > As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock > applet was using the same service. ><rant> "Smaller" government, Cut taxes (for the rich). Make people pay for what they're already paying taxes to support.... </rant> Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they want to now charge you $3/yr for the service. mark
On Wed, August 24, 2016 10:46 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> isdtor wrote: >> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. >> http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are >> there any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of >> a >> custom radar map. >> >> As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome >> clock >> applet was using the same service. >> > <rant> > "Smaller" government, Cut taxes (for the rich). Make people pay for what > they're already paying taxes to support.... > </rant> > > Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they > want to now charge you $3/yr for the service.<rant> It would be good to have someone sue US government for that. According to US law, everything paid for by taxpayer's money should be freely accessible by everybody (including non-US entities). Compare, e.g., with GPS. </rant> Valeri> > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> isdtor wrote: >> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. >> http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are >> there any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a >> custom radar map. >> >> As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock >> applet was using the same service. >> > <rant> > "Smaller" government, Cut taxes (for the rich). Make people pay for what > they're already paying taxes to support.... > </rant> > > Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they > want to now charge you $3/yr for the service.The data is still there for free. The National Weather Service sent out a message several months ago that http://weather.noaa.gov and the data on that site would be shut down due to server consolidaton. Here's the official announcement, and where the data is available now: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm Gilbert ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: gilbert at niu.edu *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niu.weather * *******************************************************************************
On 8/24/2016 8:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they > want to now charge you $3/yr for the service.I'm getting DNS not found errors from anything in NOAA.GOV. anyways, 'climate' refers to historical averages by location/month/week/date. presumably the API involved here was for current weather conditions and forecast. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
I've patched libgweather with the same MATE patch and it seems to be working fine. Give it a try http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/libgweather6/ -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message -----> From: "isdtor" <isdtor at gmail.com> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 24 August, 2016 15:19:20 > Subject: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. > http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are there > any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a custom > radar map. > > As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock > applet was using the same service. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thanks Nux, works just fine on Centos 6.8 On 08/25/16 04:27, Nux! wrote:> I've patched libgweather with the same MATE patch and it seems to be working fine. > Give it a try > http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/libgweather6/ > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "isdtor" <isdtor at gmail.com> >> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, 24 August, 2016 15:19:20 >> Subject: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded >> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. >> http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are there >> any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a custom >> radar map. >> >> As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock >> applet was using the same service. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers