The xfce4-weather-plugin for Xubuntu 18.04 and now 20.04 has stopped working and gives "No Data".
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The xfce4-weather-plugin for Xubuntu 18.04 and now 20.04 has stopped working and gives "No Data".
Best Answer
Update 2021-03-19: Just received an update today on the bug that they pushed the
xfce4-weather-plugin
version 0.10.2 to the focal-updates repository that does not have this issue. Feel free to reinstall from the Ubuntu Repos.Update 2021-03-04: The plugin version from the 20.04 repository stopped working recently due to shutting off the 1.9 API: https://api.met.no/blog/2021-02-04-extremeswwc on March 1st.
This affected version 0.10.1 that is in the Ubuntu Repository. The git build below now installs version 0.11.0 which fixes this issue.
The reason for this is that the API from https://apt.met.no has changed the version number that the plugin is calling.
Old code calling: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecastlts/1.3
The page gives this error message:
API expecting: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0
I have filed a bug report for this to get new API added to the code here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-weather-plugin/+bug/1895246
There is a bug filed at the Xfce GitLab:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/27
Apparently there has been a fix pushed upstream it is available in git repo xfce4-weather-plugin except there is an issue that the
xdt-autogen
version required to build this is 4.14.0. The version in Xubuntu 18.04 is version 4.12.0 as the highest. The version in the git is looking for isn't available in thexfce4-dev-tools
package for 18.04. However, I was actually able to get a git version to build with version 4.12.0 with some quick modifications to theirautogen.sh
script. I have the instructions below.Git repo install:
I found the version that comes with 18.04 actually has a problem with showing when it is evening outside as I was seeing the icon showing a moon when it was only 4 pm. I updated to the version, I believe is version 0.10.1, in the git repo and that corrected it.
Remove Weather plugin from panel and after remove existing plugin
Now add prereqs:
or
If running 20.04 also install the following:
NOTE: All of these
-dev
applications are only used for the build from source. Once the install process is complete, you can remove all these-dev
applications safely as they are no longer needed.Now get the git version, build and install
If you are running 20.04 or newer the next line is not needed:
Continue with the build:
Re-add the weather plugin to the panel and it should now work now. =)
Quick screenshots of it: