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Feature request: Allow using City ID or String (City, Country) #137

Closed centauri61032 closed 3 years ago

centauri61032 commented 4 years ago

In the setup file, it says to define the weather location using the City and the Country Code. How do you include the State (in the US)? As an example, there are multiple 'Monroe' cities in 'US'. What do you enter in the config to select Monroe, LA over Monroe, WI?

Thanks again!

aceisace commented 4 years ago

@centauri61032 Looks like there is a bit of confusion in setting up the weather forecast city in the settings file.

The recommended and most accurate methos is to visit openweathermap and manually use the search option to search for the closest city with forecast data.

In the case below, The correct format for London (UK) is: London, GB (see the image below). You can search for your city and then copy the correct location to the settings file.

centauri61032 commented 4 years ago

OK, thanks for the info. But unfortunately that doesn't solve the weather problem...

The problem is that there are duplicate CITY, COUNTRY combinations in the USA. Just for an example, go to the openweathermap site you linked to, and search for 'Freeport, US'. Multiple locations will show up. And if you select any of they, they will all say 'Freeport, US' in the following screen. I need to know how to select THE Freeport, US at 42.297, -89.621. (Again, just using this as one of the many examples that we would have here in the US.)

If I do select the Freeport at those coordinates, the URL changes. It adds 'city/4893171' to the end of the URL. I am assuming that the number is some kind of city code that openweathermap uses to resolve this very issue on their site. Perhaps Inky-Calendar could also use this location ID code somehow?

If you have any ideas, let me know. Thanks!

aceisace commented 4 years ago

@centauri61032 Thanks for the info. Pyowm does have an option to use the city ID of openweathermap. There wasn't a record of where this could be useful in Inkycal, but now it makes sense to choose between the ID or the City, Country string. I'll change the topic of this issue and will implement this option soon.

aceisace commented 3 years ago

@centauri61032 I've implemented support for location ID in this commit. Some testing has been done to test it's functionality and so far it seems to be going well. This feature will be available for everyone in the next release. Since this issue could be resolved, I'm closing it now. If you feel a need to re-open this issue, please feel free to do so again.