6 Jan
2021
6 Jan
'21
10:59 a.m.
On Wednesday 06 January 2021 05:12:56 Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote:
Good day!
Has anyone noticed that kweather applet doesn't update weather data
anymore since some weeks?
More exactly, weather data for "Berlin-Tegel". Kweather comes
obviously with a database from which you can choose your location
(airport). For Berlin that used to be "Berlin-Tegel" and
"Berlin-Tempelhof" (which is dead since 2009). I checked with
"Braunschweig" and it shows actual current data.
Last time that happened the URL for retrieving the data had changed on
the part of the server (noaa.gov). This URL was hardcoded in the
source of the software and one of the developers had to change it (Tim
did that) and it worked again since.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S.
Department of Commerce offers a lot of services on nws.noaa.gov where
the local weather data used to be served as single html pages which
were named according to their respective ICAO-Codes (airport IDs).
I suspect they again changed something, but I couldn't find anything
relevant on their homepage in a couple of minutes.
"QCLCD ASCII Files are no longer available. Please use the
Global-Hourly File Access link above."
I don't know what "QCLCD" means. I'm only guessing here anyway.
Maybe only kweather's database of available airport weather stations
needs to be updated…
I know this is zip help, but I had a similar problem 6 months back, and a
phone call to the airport in question got it fixed the next week. Nobody
there was aware it had stopped working. I'm using the weather pluggin
for gkrellm, which uses that same data src system, in this case KCKB.
They may not even be aware its not working at your site.
This is not a high bandwidth system so give it 30+ minutes to update
after you set a new ICAO id.
Kind regards,
Stefan
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