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casasfernando / wingpanel-indicator-weather

Weather indicator for elementary OS Wingpanel
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Switch to OpenWeatherMap (OWM) as weather data provider #3

Open casasfernando opened 3 years ago

casasfernando commented 3 years ago

At the moment the indicator is using any available provider (mainly US weather office -IWIN-). Unfortunately this may be less reliable for locations outside the US (especially not major cities). Switching to OWM may improve things on this aspect and libgweather already supports OWM as a provider but OWM requires an API key for the application to use their API.

At the moment I couldn't find a way to pass the OWM API key value for libgweather to use it and this is blocking the progress to implement this. I opened an issue/question but it remains unanswered.

If anyone has the answer or can point me in the right direction to pass the OWM API key to libgweather please feel free to share.

Thanks.

casasfernando commented 3 years ago

My question above was answered. At the moment there is no way to pass the OWM API key to libgweather at runtime. They key must be compiled in when building the library so not much I can do at this but to find and alternative to libgweather that can also work with Vala.

Will leave this open for now in case I can find an alternative.

quequotion commented 2 years ago

This probably explains the issue I just filed, as I am using the indicator in Japan.