The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. 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! 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. > 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 > 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. > 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. >> 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 > 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. >> 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 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: 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: weather.admin.niu.edu ** Twitter: twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** Facebook: 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 li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/libgweather6 -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! 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. > 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 > 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 > li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/libgweather6 > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > 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. >> 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 >> lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers