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
4 years ago

The only thing I can think of is you are experiencing this issue:
https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget/issues/6

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ipminimalist
4 years ago

The "Render Meteogram" feature is not rendering wind direction and cloud cover.

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clearmartin
4 years ago

Thanks, I'm aware of that and I intend to fix it in future versions. Although rendered meteogram for yr.no will lack cloud coverage since they are not providing it through api.

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PositronicTomato
4 years ago

The temperature that appears on the panel or desktop isn't accurate when the temperature is rapidly changing. It appears to be showing what the forcasted temperature will be several hours in the future. I need to use 2 weather apps because of this (I want to know what the current temp is and the trend for the next several hours).

It isn't clear what temperature is being displayed when you hover over the widget (the "~>" temp). Is this the "feels like" temp? Is it the actual temp? It is often different from the panel/desktop temp.

It would be helpful if the the headings for rows at the bottom (starts at 0h . . . 24h) were replaced with actual times. It isn't clear what they refer to. Does 0h mean right now and 24h mean 24 hours from now? Or is 0h midnight for the day and 24h mean midnight for the upcoming day? If it does, then it's also not clear because you'd expect the upcoming 24h for one day to always match 0h for next day, but it doesn't.

If it covers a range of times (for example 0h representing between 1am and 3am), I think it would be better to show what that range is.

It would be (really really) nice if there was a setting to toggle display of times between 12h am/pm and 24h. 24-hour time always takes me a couple of seconds to figure out and I really don't like using it. Because of this, I've enabled “render meteogram for yr.no” but then I also lose some of the data from the non-rendered page (it's nice seeing the weather symbols over different points on the graph).

The graph generally starts at some point in the future. It would be nice if it started at the current time (though understandable if the data feed doesn't supply that information).

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clearmartin
4 years ago

Hello. Thanks A LOT for your feedback and suggestions. So in order:

1)
Unfortunately yr.no is not providing current weather data, only the mentioned 1-3 hours in the future. This can be fixed by caching "historical" data and show them as current. I'll try to do that for yr.no provider but it still doesn't feel ideal. OWM on the other hand is providing this service and I'm in the process of implementing a support for it right now. OWM is also providing humidity and cloud coverage so this will also be showed in tooltip as a bonus.

2)
I've also changed the "~>" mark with more sensible "near future" text which is what it shows.

3)
I've changed the 0-24h legend with actual approximate hour of day referring to each temperature row. Now it will show 3h, 9h, 15h, 21h (or AM/PM alternatives) so the range is 0-6h, 6-15h, etc.). Do you think I should still show the ranges? Or is it understandable this way?

4)
Unfortunately there is no way to get meteogram from yr.no showing other units or time format. This (and because of other reasons) is why I've done the rendered meteogram. I am aware of the missing features of rendered meteogram and I intend to fix it.

5)
Like I said in 1) I try to fix that by remembering "historical" data but that will not show the current weather immediately when plasma starts. Especially if you use ".plasmoid" widget version (no offline cache). So you are better off with OWM provider.

Mentioned changes will be iteratively added in upcoming versions.

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oshunluvr
4 years ago

Any chance we could get (or you could advise where to edit) to get inches of mercury rather than hectopascals and MPH rather than m/s for wind?

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clearmartin
4 years ago

Sorry, this is not yet editable. I will add this settings to the next release.

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eyeconic
5 years ago

I've been at this since RedHat 7.x but I simply cannot figure out how to install this thing. KDE is looking for a file *.plasmoid.

KDE Frameworks 5.16.0
KDE 4.14.14
Fedora 23

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clearmartin
5 years ago

Hi! Unfortunatelly this plasmoid is only compatible with Plasma 5. You have the older version of KDE suite...

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hen-rooster
5 years ago

I absolutely love it.
Was real easy adding my canadian location.
Great work, thanks

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clearmartin
5 years ago

It's always nice to hear such words :)

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tanghus
5 years ago

I've been having problems find a decent weather forecast for Plasma5, but this one done the job.

FWIW I had to reboot (maybe relogin is enough) after installing qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel and libqt5qml-graphicaleffects for it to work.

A minor issue is that it could use a default icon as it shows up blank in the widget list.

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clearmartin
5 years ago

Thanks for your feedback! :) Yes, the missing icon is a pain. I was unable to specify my custom icon other way then with absolute path to it which only works if the widget is installed by a package manager to system.

I've already asked a question in forums, but no answer yet: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=127363&f=289&sid=ab41974a77e76eae4d9c5a4363217f59#p338425

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kap3tan
5 years ago

Is it working ?
I can't enable it, it's not tickable.

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clearmartin
5 years ago

Not yet, sorry :) It will be once get to do it.

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alex10336
5 years ago

Missing vertical layout, but replace my current weather plasmoid, GJ !

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Teyras
5 years ago

Hi, thanks for the awesome plasmoid! Is there any reason for the popup that shows when clicking the system tray applet to be so different from the one that shows after clicking a plasmoid on the panel? It bugs me that I can't see today's forecast in the system tray applet's popup... Also the tooltip isn't very informative. Of course, this isn't too much of a problem as I can just put the plasmoid on the panel.

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clearmartin
5 years ago

Hi! Thanks for feedback. Actually there are 2 reasons.

The main reason is that systray expanded area has fixed width and height (content is typically only vertically scrollable) so I can't place the wide meteogram picture from yr.no.

The tooltip cannot be rich-text (I couldn't come up with working code) like in normal widgets in panel. But it certainly can contain more info.

That leads to the second reason: I was too lazy to make this systray mode more usable. So I plan to add today's textual forecast in the expanded area and enhance the tooltip a little.

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DiscipleOfDante
5 years ago

Glad to see the system tray support, a very sexy applet that works incredibly well.

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ochurlaud
5 years ago

the speed of the wind should be m/s and not M/s

It's nothing but...

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CarlosRomeroMartin
5 years ago

Good job, but it's possible to choice an other weather station, for example for all Europe.
Thanks
Carlos

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clearmartin
5 years ago

I don't think it is (or will be) possible. I plan (already started) to add support for Open Weather Map but I doubt one can receive aggregated weather info for all Europe. It is usually related to GPS coordinates right? Otherwise e.g. one temperature for all Europe would be useless. But I don't know much about meteorology so I may be wrong or I don't know exactly what you mean.

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xiceph
5 years ago

Hi,
nice widget.
One issue that confuses me is the moon (night) icon which appears early afternoon. Is this time parsing problem?

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clearmartin
5 years ago

Hi! No. the problem is that I was too lazy to do it right :-) I plan to fix it by reading and using sunrise/sunset time from the server. Thanks for reporting!

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rpoteau
5 years ago

Hello
thank you for this nice widget. (Un)fortunately, I am french and accented characters in the url address do not seem to be properly read (the forecast website appears to be offline), such as in:
http://www.yr.no/sted/Frankrike/Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es/Toulouse/
(originally : http://www.yr.no/sted/Frankrike/Midi-Pyrénées/Toulouse/)
Thank you for your help
Romuald

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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!