Author Topic: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app) (Read 755,706 times)

mouser · « **Reply #300 on:** August 25, 2014, 01:33 PM »

That is just awesome to hear. I think martin really summed it up well in his review:
"Recommendation
If you want a lightweight program that provides you with excellent forecasts and all the information you can possibly want, then sWeather is the first of this list that you should take for a test ride.
While it may be too bare bones for some, it makes up for that with low memory usage and being portable."

Weather app's can get really elaborate (and often beautiful), but many of us are interested in something lightweight, clean, efficient, ELEGANT, and free of ads, and sWeather just rocks for that.

Congratulations, skwire

skwire · « **Reply #301 on:** August 25, 2014, 03:33 PM »

Quote from: msteph on August 25, 2014, 03:49 AM

ghacks today (8/24) has a review of 9 desktop weather apps and Martin gives sWeather the top recommendation.

Thanks for the heads up, Mike. =]

Quote from: mouser on August 25, 2014, 01:33 PM

Weather app's can get really elaborate (and often beautiful), but many of us are interested in something lightweight, clean, efficient, and free of ads, and sWeather just rocks for that.
Congratulations, skwire

Thanks, mouser. sWeather is a favourite of mine (are we allowed to have our own apps as favs?

) and it's rather humbling to see it get that kind of recognition.

Gadgetman496 · « **Reply #302 on:** November 28, 2014, 02:43 AM »

When I enable the 5 day extended forecast and turn on the "Show dates in extended forecast" It is displaying the incorrect dates. The date for each day are one day forward, example, as I type this post it is Fri 28th Nov 2014 but sWeather is displaying Fri 29th (see attached screenshot)

It's as if the date is incrementing but the name of day is not doing so until quite a bit later.

kevlar_heart42 · « **Reply #303 on:** December 05, 2014, 03:23 AM »

Based on the recommendation in GHacker, I have installed sWeather. I agree that for a low footprint/high content application your software is hard to beat. Count me in for a donation after I futz around with it awhile. Many thanks -- all of my former "go to" weather applications got smashed when their RSS feeds were changed or became too costly. If you have a Beta program, sign me up.

skwire · « **Reply #304 on:** December 05, 2014, 02:35 PM »

Hi, Gadgetman496 & kevlar_heart42, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: Gadgetman496 on November 28, 2014, 02:43 AM

It's as if the date is incrementing but the name of day is not doing so until quite a bit later.

I've noticed this as well at times and, like you mention, it happens if the RSS feed is late/incorrect. Fixing it might be a bit tricky but I'll see what I can do.

Quote from: kevlar_heart42 on December 05, 2014, 03:23 AM

Based on the recommendation in GHacker, I have installed sWeather. I agree that for a low footprint/high content application your software is hard to beat. Count me in for a donation after I futz around with it awhile. Many thanks -- all of my former "go to" weather applications got smashed when their RSS feeds were changed or became too costly. If you have a Beta program, sign me up.

Thank you for the kind words and donation. They're much appreciated. There is no official beta program, but I do sometimes release early builds that are announced on this thread.

skwire · « **Reply #305 on:** December 15, 2014, 07:06 AM »

Website | Download v1.5.4 - 2014-12-15 + Added 'Feels like' temp to the tray tooltip. (Thanks, Ken Z.) ! Hopefully fixed a long-standing bug with the temperature icon not displaying the correct temperature. This had to do with the fact that Windows 7, at least, does not appear to like 1-bit colour icons in the tray. Crazy...

kevlar_heart42 · « **Reply #306 on:** December 15, 2014, 12:28 PM »

Quote from: skwire on December 15, 2014, 07:06 AM

Website | Download v1.5.4 - 2014-12-15 + Added 'Feels like' temp to the tray tooltip. (Thanks, Ken Z.) ! Hopefully fixed a long-standing bug with the temperature icon not displaying the correct temperature. This had to do with the fact that Windows 7, at least, does not appear to like 1-bit colour icons in the tray. Crazy...

Very cool. Because I am a bit dense (and new), is there a way to update sWeather without unzipping the file again to its directory?

skwire · « **Reply #307 on:** December 15, 2014, 02:35 PM »

Quote from: kevlar_heart42 on December 15, 2014, 12:28 PM

Very cool. Because I am a bit dense (and new), is there a way to update sWeather without unzipping the file again to its directory?

No, there is not.

Postal · « **Reply #308 on:** January 30, 2015, 12:55 PM »

Would it be possible to show the temperature overlaid on the main tray icon? This would help me de-clutter my systray.

skwire · « **Reply #309 on:** January 30, 2015, 01:09 PM »

Hi, Postal, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: Postal on January 30, 2015, 12:55 PM

Would it be possible to show the temperature overlaid on the main tray icon?

Without a huge amount of code refactoring, no, this isn't possible. Apologies.

Postal · « **Reply #310 on:** January 30, 2015, 01:50 PM »

Quote from: skwire on January 30, 2015, 01:09 PM

Hi, Postal, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: Postal on January 30, 2015, 12:55 PM
Would it be possible to show the temperature overlaid on the main tray icon?

Without a huge amount of code refactoring, no, this isn't possible. Apologies.

Never mind. Thanks for the prompt response anyway - and it's still a nice little add-on for my kit.

Mimori · « **Reply #311 on:** May 13, 2015, 07:07 PM »

sWeather is absolutely great.

I have just one question though, can it be possible to have sWeather check yahoo weather using port 443, so as to conceal the user's WOEID from potential eavesdroppers?

skwire · « **Reply #312 on:** May 14, 2015, 12:00 AM »

Hi, Mimori. Thank you for the kind words and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: Mimori on May 13, 2015, 07:07 PM

I have just one question though, can it be possible to have sWeather check yahoo weather using port 443, so as to conceal the user's WOEID from potential eavesdroppers?

Here you go:

Website | Download v1.5.5 - 2015-05-13 + Added a "Use https:// (SSL) when possible" option. (Thanks, Mimori)

the_joat · « **Reply #313 on:** July 27, 2015, 04:53 AM »

Hi. I recently tried to upgrade sWeather from v1.0.5 to v1.5.5 (on WinVista64). While the old version works fine, the new version doesn't seem to be able to get the feed.

Screenshot: https://flic.kr/p/wwUEMR

I tried clicking on the "Use https:// (SSL) when possible" option, but it doesn't seem to work. That is, I check the box and click on 'Save', but when I reopen the configuration window to loook, the box is unchecked.

Any ideas?

For now, I've reverted back to v1.0.5

M0g13r · « **Reply #314 on:** September 04, 2015, 01:14 PM »

maybe i found a solution for the not showing temp icon on win 7/vista

If ( Icon_Temp = 1 )
{
Tray_Icon_ID := Tray_Add( hGui, "OnTrayIcon", A_ScriptDir . "\images\tray-temperature\" . Image_Dir_Temp . "\" . sTemp . ".ico", "" )
Tray_Modify( hGui, Tray_Icon_ID, A_ScriptDir . "\images\tray-temperature\" . Image_Dir_Temp . "\" . Strip(sTemp) . ".ico", "" )
% ( Extra_Tray_Refresh ) ? ( Tray_Refresh() ) : ( "" )
}
GoSub, Gui_Refresh_Main
GoSub, Tray_Icon_Refresh <=inserting this fixed it for me .... also fixes the gap between the two icons after loading
If ( Start_Min != 1 )
{
Gui, Show, x%Posx% y%PosY%, % AppName
}

hmpf ... doesn't work ... sry :\
i swear it was working .... damn win7 suxx

AzureToad · « **Reply #315 on:** November 03, 2015, 07:11 PM »

Love sWeather, does what I need it to do very well, thank you.
I'm currently running v4.5.4 build 1 on Windows 7 Pro.

This falls under an enhancement request, I guess.
Having the current temp displayed in system tray is fine, however I typically auto-hide my taskbar/system tray so I don't see the temp unless I change my Windows focus to the taskbar.

What'd I'd like is to have the titlebar be configurable to display current information and to have an option to roll-up the display to just the titlebar and to keep on top of other windows.
The advantages to this are:

the information would be displayed in a small, unobtrusive bar
it would always be available without having to move/click the mouse or hit the Windows key
it would show the information I'm interested in at a glance

This is a mock-up of what my current sWeather window would look like with this change (yes, I know my theme isn't to everyone's liking...) :

offroad · « **Reply #316 on:** November 24, 2015, 01:11 PM »

looks like sweather is being blocked in windows 7 professional. Not sure if its the application that is being blocked, or the yahoo data link that is being blocked. either way sweather is now no longer working for me.

it was working fine over the last several weeks.

Temperature is showing data from a week or two ago.

skwire · « **Reply #317 on:** November 24, 2015, 02:25 PM »

Hi, offroad, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: offroad on November 24, 2015, 01:11 PM

looks like sweather is being blocked in windows 7 professional. Not sure if its the application that is being blocked, or the yahoo data link that is being blocked. either way sweather is now no longer working for me.

Seems to be working fine for me on several Win7 Pro/Ultimate systems I run/maintain. Any other sWeather users experiencing any issues?

offroad · « **Reply #318 on:** November 24, 2015, 03:07 PM »

okay now its working. not sure of the glitch in data. Now its not working. When I do a REFRESH I get data from last week being displayed. Only happens when I REFRESH, so not sure why.

the data displayed is old data. Notice the pictures say conditions as of Nov 13 and Nov 10. Today is Nov 24 and I just took these pictures.

Ath · « **Reply #319 on:** November 24, 2015, 06:18 PM »

I can confirm that it's displaying old data several times a day. Don't know how old, but I was blaming yahoo for that. I'll try to clean out my temp dir, but still suspect yahoo serving bogus data, as there seem to be other users having issues.
Or are we maxing out the amount of data that your api-key allows, Skwire?

mike000 · « **Reply #320 on:** November 24, 2015, 06:23 PM »

Yahoo weather API has been returning random old invalid data for over 3 weeks now.
I am surprised more here have not noticed. It has effected many apps in IOS and
Pebble watch, etc. Sometimes the API will return the current temp - but most times
it returns a temp from sometime in the last week or so. Ideally we should be looking
at another API such as maybe Weather Underground's API - as Yahoo has basically
been ignoring the problem.

Also I can only assume many havent noticed it here because they must live in a place
where the temp doesnt change much?? If you look at the timestamp of the temp
received after doing a refresh - you will see it is data from days ago more often than not.

tomos · « **Reply #321 on:** November 24, 2015, 07:26 PM »

Quote from: mike000 on November 24, 2015, 06:23 PM

Ideally we should be looking
at another API such as maybe Weather Underground's API

if that were possible it would be Wunderful

(seriously)

Shades · « **Reply #322 on:** November 24, 2015, 11:09 PM »

From earlier news posts I gathered that the state of current (US owned/operated) weather satellites is dire as they are old and failing. From that post I also understood that no-one is willing or able to spring for new ones.

So, for once, it could be possible that Yahoo isn't to blame for the rubbish data they provide

mike000 · « **Reply #323 on:** November 25, 2015, 02:54 PM »

As of this morning it is finally working okay now - apparently Yahoo finally fixed it?

offroad · « **Reply #324 on:** November 25, 2015, 03:00 PM »

yes everything seems to be functioning for now. Cant argue with free application data stream, so no real complaint about this service. Guess all those weather stations that must have the data synced every few minutes, and the communication protocols can get scrambled from time to time to receive at Yahoo.

Just glad its working for a while longer.