WX Gadgets (third party)
On 12/28/18 11:19 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote: Hello, all.Â* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago.Â* I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com.Â* The gadget is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end.Â* Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works?Â* Thanks for your time and comment. If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to their weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a weather widget for local forecasts and may be better. Thanks for the quick reply, but to be clear, I'm not seeking alternatives to desktop gadgets/widgets. There's lots of places to get local weather reports on the web; I liked the convenience of having an auto-updating small display on my Win7 desktop with current temp, humidity, wind speed, etc. Sincerely, -- J. B. Wood e-mail: |
WX Gadgets (third party)
J.B. Wood wrote:
On 12/28/18 11:19 AM, Wolf K wrote: On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote: Hello, all. I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago. I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com. The gadget is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end. Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works? Thanks for your time and comment. If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to their weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a weather widget for local forecasts and may be better. Thanks for the quick reply, but to be clear, I'm not seeking alternatives to desktop gadgets/widgets. There's lots of places to get local weather reports on the web; I liked the convenience of having an auto-updating small display on my Win7 desktop with current temp, humidity, wind speed, etc. Sincerely, The only thing wrong with this article, is it's four years old, and the landscape could have changed a lot in those four years. https://www.ghacks.net/2014/08/24/th...s-for-windows/ You can use a win32 application, but it's a lot of extra work for the developer to make such a program look like a "gadget" with custom window masking. That's why the programs listed on that web page are "rather rectangular". Paul |
WX Gadgets (third party)
J.B. Wood formulated the question :
Hello, all. I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago. I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com. The gadget is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end. Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works? Thanks for your time and comment. Just curious, did you check the Win 7,8,10 Gadget Site? http://win7gadgets.com/weather/ I've been using the Main Weather one for a few years and it's still working. -- Zo "Dah Wong Path." -- A sign for a park path in Hong Kong. |
WX Gadgets (third party)
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says... J.B. Wood formulated the question : Hello, all. I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago. I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com. The gadget is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end. Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works? Thanks for your time and comment. Just curious, did you check the Win 7,8,10 Gadget Site? http://win7gadgets.com/weather/ I've been using the Main Weather one for a few years and it's still working. And I use one out of BgadgetPack has a few other nice gadgets included in it also. Weather still working, in fact noticed it said "getting data" as I write this. |
WX Gadgets (third party)
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:19:37 -0500, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote: Hello, all.* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago.* I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com.* The gadget is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end.* Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works?* Thanks for your time and comment. If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to their weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a weather widget for local forecasts and may be better. And the NOAA (weather.gov) is better still, IMHO. When storms are pending, and broadcasters like the Weather Channel are warning of a snowpocalypse, weather.gov takes a more measured tone, usually predicting lower winds and less precipitation than broadcasters, and usually coming closer to what actually happens. And weather.gov has a nice line graph of almost a dozen measures, hour by hour, over the next 48 hours. So you can tell how warm it will be at any time of the coming day, what the chances are of rain or snow at any time, how much rain to expect in intervals, etc. And you can customize the forecast to your exact location. We have microclimates around here, so the forecast for the airport (which is what I get if I just enter a zip code) is significantly different from the forecast at my house. I've got a Chrome bookmark on my phone, and a Firefox one on my PC, for my "extremely local forecast". -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
WX Gadgets (third party)
On 12/28/18 8:15 PM, Zo wrote:
J.B. Wood formulated the question : Hello, all.Â* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago.Â* I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com.Â* The gadget is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end.Â* Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works?Â* Thanks for your time and comment. Just curious, did you check the Win 7,8,10 Gadget Site? http://win7gadgets.com/weather/ I've been using the Main Weather one for a few years and it's still working. Thanks for your reply and those from others to my OP. I did try installing several (other than "WeatherCenter") of the Wx gadgets at that URL you provided but they failed to connect to whatever site was being used to provide the Wx data. Now, for some unknown reason my favorite "Russian" Wx gadget that I'd been using for several years, "WeatherCenter", is getting data again (currently from "The Weather Network") as of this moning, 1/1/19. For how long, who knows? -- J. B. Wood e-mail: |
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