How to setup Location & Weather

[kimagure]

Hi

It may be a newbie question, but I did not manage to setup correctly the weather features of girder 5 (I want to display weather forecasts on a netremote screen).

Here is what I did :
- I've setup my location in settings/general (Lyon, France)
- I've enabled the Custom Weather component in Component Manager

I can see the location in the "Custom Weather" tab of Component manager, but no data is updated (last update date is 01.01.1970).
In settings/device manager, data for all "customweather" devices is "unknown"

How can I trigger an update of current conditions & weather forecast ?

Is there an updated help file for girder 5 ? The only references to the weather features I found in the help file were showing screens that do not exist anymore in girder 5...

Thanks

[Rob H]

Did you reset Girder after changing your location?

[kimagure]

Yes, I restarted girder (I even rebooted the computer).

I'm running the latest version (Girder-5.0.8 build 542) on Windows XP SP3.

In my DeviceManagerLog, the last line is :

01/01/09 00:51:13 INFO DM Event:  Add sumire\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.2 sumire\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 sumire\CustomWeather\Local.CurrentConditions sumire\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.3 sumire\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.4 sumire\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.5

I tried on another computer (running Vista) and it seems to work fine.
The weather data is visible in device manager. My logs shows that the data is correctly retrieved :

01/01/09 00:42:35 INFO DM Event:  Add MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.2 MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.4 MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.5 MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.CurrentConditions MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.3 
01/01/09 00:43:37 INFO Device Event:  Condition MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 Description Light rain early. Morning clouds. Cool. 
01/01/09 00:43:37 INFO Device Event:  Condition MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 DewPoint 32 
01/01/09 00:43:37 INFO Device Event:  Condition MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 Timestamp 01.01.2009/00:43:37 
01/01/09 00:43:37 INFO Device Event:  Condition MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 WindDirectionShort NE 
01/01/09 00:43:37 INFO Device Event:  Condition MADOKA\CustomWeather\Local.ForecastConditions.1 Sequence 1
....

I don't know why it does not work on my XP machine...

[Rob H]

Strange - any errors shown in the Lua console?

[kimagure]

Sorry, I found the issue on my XP machine...

It was a faulty firewall configuration that was blocking the update connection.

After having disabled the firewall, the weather update went fine...

Pfff...

Back to business

Happy new year !