weather 1.4.0
First I would like to say thank you to everyone posting bugs and problems here on the blog. I do not have time or resources to test this on all combination of OS, coordinates, languages, time zones so your help is important to make this gadget as good as possible.
A new release (1.4.0) is now available for download at weather.larsolavtorvik.com. I planned to do a small bug fix release but when I started coding I found some major issues related to time zones so there are a lot of code changes in this release. Hopefully I have not introduced any new bugs… so please keep me notified here as always if you find any bugs 
- Changed the 9 day forecast to a 8 day forecast. There was a problem with the 9th day on some locations and at some times. I solved this by changing it to 8 day instead of 9 day. This might cause some problems with existing gadget you have in the sidebar if you used 9 day. To solve this you can either close the widget and open again, or just go into setting and click ok to save the 8 day flyout.
- Fixed a major problem regarding timezones and UTC. Now all times should be your locale time including summer time. Seems all times I have been showing have been UTC and not CEST as I expected. Sorry about that but I didn’t know the time I got from yr was UTC. Since yr.no do not give hour by hour forecast on the long term forecast the 8 day flyout need to show the forecast for 6,12,18,24 in UTC time. So if you are in CEST now in the summer you will get the times 2,8,14,20 and those times should also be displayed. Feel free to give me feedback if that works as expected for the ones of you not in CEST.
- Hopefully fixed the problem with , and . the Swedish users have been having. I haven’t been able to actually test this, so please tell me if it works or not.
- Added a moon up and down time in settings, default 22:00 to 05:00. In this time period the gadget will show the moon icon instead of sun on all pages.
- The default view of the gadget updates every 30 min to not hammer my server and to not use more resources on your computer then necessary (the first version updated every couple of seconds and caused some problems). If your internet do not connect right away when you turn on your computer that meant it would go 30 minutes until the gadget got the weather or until you opened and closed settings (also open and close the flyout will work on Windows 7 but not Vista). I have changed it so if error it will now update every 2min instead.
- If you opened the gadget for example 12:01. That would mean the main view would update the weather for the next hour at 13:29 since it checked for updated every 30min. Now it should update between 13:00 and 13:02.
- The IP location check I used to find your coordinated and city automatically didn’t work any more so I changed to a different service.
- I have started added some major cities like Stockholm, London, New York etc. All these none Norwegian countries have their country name after the city name and I use the English names like Copenhagen. Not sure if this is something people are interested in but I like to pay attention to the weather for locations I’m about to travel to before the vacation starts I except to be adding more locations later, but it slow and boring work to add locations manually so we will see how much time I want to spend on it!
As I said in the comment for the 1.3.1 release, there are very many Swedish user of this application. If people want this application in Swedish (or other langauges) it is just for you to volunteer to translate it for me and I will include the translation in the next release (as soon as I get 2nd person to validate your translation :-)).
If there are some cities you would like to get included for the next release tell me the name and coordinates and I will add it, unless it is to small and obscure
According to my records there are no outstanding bugs in the gadget now. For some reason I don’t think that will last for long, hehe.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:57:07
Hi
I downloaded 1.4.0. but get the response “could not fetch weather”. I have tried three times. I have not tried earlier versions.
stefan
July 18th, 2009 at 11:59:07
Hmm, strange the service is up now. Try and go into settings and make sure some longitude and latitudes is set and click ok. If that not work, could you please try some other widgets to make sure you are able to retrieve data in gadgets. No firewalls or anything blocking.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:17:07
Hi
Tanx for the tip. I tested and discovered that, when choosing Blindern Oslo, the lat and long is displayed with a decimal point. When closing the config box the point is deletet thus creating a weird lat/long. When maually replacing the period with a decimal comma (as we use in Sweden) the application works just fine.
Tanx agian for a nice widget.
stefan
July 18th, 2009 at 12:37:07
Hi
One more comment. If I open the config box after changing it to decimal comma it has changed back to decimal period again thus creating a new weird lat/long when closing. Just have to remeber to change it to decimal comma each time I open the config box.
Stefan
July 18th, 2009 at 13:14:07
Thanks for the feedback Stefan.
That mean the fix I did for Swedish user didn’t work 100%. Atleast it is now possible to save swedish dates, but not ideal that you need to manually change the decimals to comma. I will try again and fix this for the next release, but not sure when that will be.
July 19th, 2009 at 21:45:07
Hmm, I can’t see the weather past 20:00 now, only the moon at 2:00.
Any way to configure it like the old version? It doesn’t seem to remember the settings on Windows 7 either.
July 27th, 2009 at 08:05:07
Now working for Swedish cities, just copy the location data from yr.no ” Desimalkoordinater” and paste in under longitude and latitude in the weather 1.4.0 settings window
July 31st, 2009 at 22:43:07
I also got the error “Could not fetch…”.
I have set the long/lat to my home, alas it might not have a reference at yr.no as such. But if I open the settings panel and click OK it will fetch the weather data.
The error seems to me to be related to my computer waking up or starting up when the network connection might be down.
August 2nd, 2009 at 19:52:08
I also got another error; –> http://bildr.no/view/460373
Today, Sunday 2nd, is listed as Monday 1st.
August 2nd, 2009 at 23:51:08
I can’t get any forecast at all, no error messages, just background gray… Running on Vista Home Premium, do I need anything more installed?
August 3rd, 2009 at 02:01:08
Now it’s just started with error “could not fetch weather” so I added “,” in coordinates and there it is!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:14:09
Every time I log out/close down Windows (Vista Ultimate 64-bit), the comma disappear and all become blank.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:52:10
pr dato fungerer dette greit hos meg, erfaringen min er at sidepanel i Vista ultimate 32 0g 64 bit er noe konfigurasjonsømfintlig. Det henger innimellom, om det skyldes vistaen eller programmene er jeg usikker på.
Dette programmet er et fint tiltak jeg setter pris på. Jeg instalerte det i går.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:08:11
Sykt bra Lars! Du burde fått gadgeten opp på websiden til MS, for når jeg går på “Get more gadgets online” finner jeg den ikke.
November 13th, 2009 at 20:51:11
Hei!
Jeg har brukt gadgeten din en stund nå, og er godt fornøyd.
Tror det ville vært en forbedring om du kunne endret fargen på skriften som viser temperaturen slik at plussgrader fikk rød skrift og minusgrader fikk blå skrift, akkurat som på yr.no.
Mvh Øystein
November 13th, 2009 at 20:55:11
Beklager dobbel-post.
Grunnen til at jeg mener at det ville vært en forbedring (som skrevet ovenfor) er at nå er det litt vanskelig å se hvilke temperaturer som er over 0, og hvilke som er under 0. Dette har jo ganske stor betydning, spesielt for oss som sykler
November 15th, 2009 at 10:37:11
Få ikke inn noe værdata, gadgeten viser bare noe slags grå. Bruker Windows 7 64bit. MSN sin værgadget funker derimot fint, så der er antakelig ikke noe i veien med brannmuren tenker jeg. Få heller ikke noen feilmelding. Skulle gjerne har vist om det er flere med samme problem. Muligens hvet noen hvordan man kan fikse problemet?
November 15th, 2009 at 18:35:11
Nå fikk jeg feilmeldingen “could not fetch weather”. Tastet in “,” som Thomas anbefaler i en innlegg litt lengre oppe. Så fikk jeg inn værmeldinger med in gang. Når jeg åpnet instillinger en gang til for å velge en annen lokasjon, har “,” blitt til “.” og den der flere-dagers-oversikt er vekk. Åpner jeg instillinger for tredje gang, er “.” forsvunnet.
Dette skal forresten ikke være noe mas
jeg bare liker gadgeten og vil gjerne bidra til forbedringer… :-))
December 3rd, 2009 at 22:57:12
Værdata oppdaterer seg ikke automatisk. Jeg må stenge gadgeten og åpne på nytt for at værdata skal oppdateres. (kjøre 64bit win7 forresten).
December 9th, 2009 at 21:30:12
Nice widget.
If you’re interested, I could translate it in french…
January 4th, 2010 at 23:48:01
The french version could be interesting. Let see when I get a more stable version of the new release.