Weather Widget

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget

Description:

Plasmoid for showing weather information from yr.no and Open Weather Map servers.

Features:
- shows basic info (with font-like icons) in panel
- shows meteogram + long term forecast in expanded plasmoid
- shows more info and near future forecast in tooltip
- offline cache
- support for multiple places
- system tray support

Future plans:
- support for other providers (accu, yahoo)
- place picker

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
- qt5-xmllistmodel, qt5-graphicaleffects
- e.g. packages for kubuntu users: qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel, libqt5qml-graphicaleffects

HOW TO INSTALL
- EDIT: Preferred way: your distribution's package manager or build it yourself (https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget#requirements)

ANOTHER WAY TO INSTALL
- Add Widgets... -> Get new widgets -> Download new plasma widgets
- find this applet and install through the first item with .plasmoid extension
- NOTE: this version does not support offline data cache

Last changelog:

1.6.10 3 years ago

- fixed infinite reload timeout
- kelvin unit support
- code cleanup
- reduced OWM crashing (still happening though)

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clearmartin
3 years ago

Yes, I know about it and I already reduced the crashes but I know it is still crashing for OpenWeatherMap provider. It is most likely bug in Qt but I was so far unable to create a simple PoC to file a bug report on that. That is what I'm working on - find the actual problem and file a report or provide a fix... Sorry that this is taking so long.

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peerwal
3 years ago

Thanks very much for your reply. The issue is not much of a problem to me and I did not mean to push you in any way. just wanted to ask you about Its actual status.

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pieter
3 years ago

Great great plasmoid! But on my system (plasma 5.10.4) it doesn't work under a Wayland session.

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clearmartin
3 years ago

Thanks! I'll investigate.

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clearmartin
3 years ago

I tried the plasmoid on wayland and didn't have a single problem with that. Worked in panel as well as in tray. I have Plasma 5.10.5, KF 5.38. How exactly does it behave under wayland?

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sombragris
3 years ago

in Slackware64-current under Plasma 5.10 and Qt 5.9 the plasmoid (1.6.9) seems so far to work normally with no crashes. It *might* be affected by issue #54 but there's no current impact on system performance in my box. Thanks

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musikjunkie
3 years ago

Thank you very much for your work on this plasmoid. Very much appreciated.

Unfortunately, it more often than not crashes plama (5.10, but was the same with 5.9) when I click on it. If I rename one of the locations, it works OK for the rest of the time that plasma is up. However, on the next start it crashes plasma again. I'm running Kubuntu Zesty with all KDE backports installed.

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MavropaliasG
3 years ago

I have the same problem as schnelle, usually after suspend and wake, the widget in the taskbar keeps "loading" and does not recover even if I pause and unpause updating. In manjaro KDE with plasma 5.10.2

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clearmartin
3 years ago

This is fixed in version 1.6.10. I will provide an update here shortly.

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peter2m
3 years ago

Checking below bug seems that your plasmoid crashes periodically Plasma 5.9.5.
Could you please check this?

Bug 375860 - Crash in QTXML Patterns parsing
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375860

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clearmartin
3 years ago

Thanks for sharing this! I've actually experienced the crashes as well (on occasion) but couldn't figure what was doing it. I cannot reproduce it right now unfortunately... Anyway it seems like a bug int Qt rather then my widget. I'll investigate more and submit a bug report if necessary. When I do some further actions, I'll make a comment in the KDE bug you've just mentioned.

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Walternate
3 years ago

PL:EASE add support for an Accuweather (accuweather.com) data source. In Colorado, USA Accuweather is by FAR the most accurate source. For Colorado, Yahoo and OpenWeatherMap have poor accuracy.

Also, please extend the "Reload Interval" time range down to 10 minutes or at least 15 minutes. In Colorado, the weather changes VERY quickly; so much that there is a saying: "If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes."

The yaWP plasmoid (https://store.kde.org/p/999199/) uses data from Accuweather, so that code might be helpful for you to reference in your effort to include the Accuweather data source.

Thank you very much for your work on this plasmoid. :)

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piratejumbo
3 years ago

You can have in Italian language?
a plasmoid that in time, perhaps not likely to regret yawd, looking on like this, thanks

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hellasKronos
3 years ago

the best weather widget. Thank you.
But i have a problem, when i reboot the system, i loose all the locations i added. Is there a specific setting i missed or?
Thank you

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clearmartin
3 years ago

Hi! I tried to fix the not-updating after some time. Please try this updated version (1.6.8). Also my apologies for not responding here quite a long time.

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Lemmiwinks
3 years ago

Hey thanks for your awesome weather widget!
I noticed that there are updated files on your github repository including a fix for plasma 5.7. Could you also update the package offered here on this page?
I'm having a problem with the weather widget not updating anymore after some wakeups from suspend. Anyone else having this problem?

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thx1111
3 years ago

I've never actually been able to get this to work on Arch Linux. After configuring, all I ever see is the "spinner", and no information is ever loaded. Maybe there is some extra trick to installing this?
Currently have Arch plasma5-applets-weather-widget 1.6.7-1.

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jacobtey
3 years ago

It's a cool widget. I use it for a long time and have no problem. Well, what about wind's direction and power in the meteogram?

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gerrypg
4 years ago

Unlike other plasmoids this one doesn't seem to respond to global hiDPI scaling settings. So I've got a beautiful meteogram but it's about the size of a postage stamp.

Is this something that can
be changed he user or are we stuck, please?

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gerrypg
4 years ago

It is scaled properly in the system tray, it's only the meteogram which is microscopic

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bezolaam
4 years ago

By far the best weather tool in Linux. 10/10 for yr.no chart integration in desktop.
Many thanks!

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jerfly1
4 years ago

I love the chart, could you add a vertical red line, maybe 10 pixels wide for the current time so it's easy to see where in the trend we lie?

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Walternate
3 years ago

Excellent suggestion!

I second the request for this feature addition, please.

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schnelle
4 years ago

From time to time widget freezes. It stops/cannot reload and stays in that frozen state until logout/reboot. Plus circle constantly spins end eats cpu (pause does not stop the circle spinning).

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IronManCC
4 years ago

My weather source of choice is Weather Underground; so would love to see support for it.

https://www.wunderground.com/

Otherwise, recently decided to give this widget a try and have been enjoying it.

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1.6.10 3 years ago

- fixed infinite reload timeout
- kelvin unit support
- code cleanup
- reduced OWM crashing (still happening though)

Version 1.6.8 3 years ago

Attempt to ensure proper connection timeout (and sequential reconnect).

4 years ago

1.6.5
- loading OWM more reliable
- visible plasmoid version in settings
- localization support (requires installing through "make install" or your distribution's package manager)

1.6.3
- icons in rendered meteogram
- owm request cache fixed

1.6.2
- next days legend fixed
- stability fixes
- rendered meteogram has red/blue temp. colour
- UTC/local-time fixes and option; mmHg option
- tooltip improved

1.6.1
- WARNING: your current locations won't be preserved when updating to this version, I am very sorry for that
- Open Weather Map support
- american settings (mph, inHg)
- proper offline cache implementation (requires C++ extension, therefore offline cache is no longer supported when installing through Add Widgets button)
- rendered meteogram for OWM and optionally for yr.no (it allows to be used by e.g. fahrenheit users)
- bugfixes

1.5.1
- next-days temperatures load fixed
- theming fixes

1.5.0
- theming & layout & other issues fixed (thanks a lot to nowrep from github)
- in-tray & classic tooltip improved
- today info added to expanded part
- finally 3 layout options added
- cache data goes to ~/.cache/ folder instead of in-plasmoid configuration

1.4.1
- added option to pause updating

1.4
- sunrise & sunset time in tooltip
- 'ago' message improved for bigger time intervals

1.3.2
- system tray support
- bugfixes (change place fix; properly handling day/night icons based on sunrise/sunset; credit link fix; resizing on desktop fix)
- more bugfixes: day/night icons fixed, M/s -> m/s (thanks ochurlaud)

1.2.7
- fixed compatibility with KF 5.12

1.2.6
- bug fix: refreshing current place when places changed
- tooltip fixed for KF 5.11
- new widget icon by varlesh

1.2.5
- using avansert_meteogram instead of meteogram (thx to steelsnake for this suggestion)
- better moon icon (thx to jacobtey)
- hour legend
- place aliases
- bug fixes

1.2
- tooltip overhaul

1.1
- offline cache
- fahrenheit support
- support for multiple places
- long-term forecast in expanded plasmoid
- using night icons in the night

1.0.BETA
- initial import

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throne Oct 30 2020 10 the best

FYI MANJARO KDE USERS: install the qt5-xmlpatterns package from the Community repository first and this widget will then work normally. Just tested and confirmed on Manjaro 20.1.2 Mikah (latest as of posting).

yar85 Oct 07 2020 3 bad

Outdated and doesn't work on Manjaro, unfortunately

pppppppp Sep 25 2020 3 bad

Hi kotelnik, thanks for great Weather Widget, anyway it does NOT work anymore in latest Manjaro Linux, probably due to some too new QT library... Here is my system: Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0 Qt Version: 5.15.1 Kernel Version: 5.8.11-1-MANJARO OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NV92 And this is the error I see clicking on the icon in the taskbar: Errore durante il caricamento del file QML: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/main.qml:113:5: Type YrNo unavailable file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/providers/YrNo.qml:18:1: module "QtQuick.XmlListModel" plugin "qmlxmllistmodelplugin" not found Hope you can solve or help me. Thanks in advance and have a nice day.

myrkgard Aug 12 2020 9 excellent

Best weather plasmoid IMHO

fabiano-rodrigues Aug 06 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

leo5sk Jul 22 2020 6 okay

6 okay Meteogram is not rendering properly for both services. Extra vertical lines are present. Posted an issue in github too https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget/issues/84

floorek Jul 22 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

speedjoe Jul 10 2020 10 the best

10 the best

kdemichl Jun 24 2020 10 the best

10 the best

john853 May 14 2020 10 the best

This is definitely the best weather widget I have ever seen. Both backends work great and way better than the default widget that Plasma comes with. For example searching for Vienna in the default widget is very hard to find the real city (capital of Austria) because there are so many weird locations with the same name. But with this widget works great on both backends. Also I like that I can quickly switch my my location to the ones of my friends in other countries to see how's the weather there. Integration with a dark theme also works perfectly. This is really great widget and in my opinion it should've been the default one in KDE Plasma since it's way better than the other one.

roctheme May 14 2020 10 the best

10 the best

phyrz May 01 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

pu4yes Apr 25 2020 10 the best

10 the best

martyd Mar 09 2020 10 the best

Díky :)

alex10336 Feb 26 2020 10 the best

10 the best

llewen Dec 30 2019 8 great

Thanks to whomever created this.

d3xt3r Oct 06 2019 9 excellent

9 excellent! @clearmartin, could you add a custom font size option like in the Event Calendar widget? (https://store.kde.org/p/998901/) Currently using the horizontal layout the font size is very large, see the image below: https://imgur.com/blzM3oT

freefreeno Oct 05 2019 10 the best

10 the best

ikhwan-arif Aug 30 2019 10 the best

10 the best

autotech Jul 23 2019 8 great

8 great

luca-web Jun 24 2019 8 great

8 great

zhigalin May 28 2019 10 the best

Very informative

zinjanthr0pus Mar 14 2019 9 excellent

ewon Feb 25 2019 9 excellent

prolaser Feb 22 2019 9 excellent

+Now it shows the same pressure like on the website (Today 1030). Great ! :-)

mystress Dec 14 2018 9 excellent

marianarlt Dec 02 2018 9 excellent

Great plasmoid. Would it be possible to have an option to disable the blue text about "xxx minutes ago" in some future release? I is not at all legible in most panels or task bars and looks like broken pixels more than anything else. Would be awesome. Good work!