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Weather Widget in Dashboard not working

Drew017

Drew017

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Just today I went to my Dashboard and noticed my Yahoo Weather widget (Stock) isn't updating. I restarted the dock, removed the widget and added it back, but it wont even recognize my city... Anyone else have this problem?

(And yes I have a working Internet connection)
 
balamw

balamw

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I've been having similar problems with Weather on iOS 6. Limited just to my town. So I suspect the data source.

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WeepOzymandias

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Jan 11, 2013
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Same problem, first noticed today.

Neither weather nor stocks are updating on dashboard (OS X 10.8.2)—both use Yahoo! services, so I suspect somebody broke an API somewhere.

I’ve not experienced any problems on iOS.
 
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Drew017

Drew017

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WeepOzymandias said:
Same problem, first noticed today.

Neither weather nor stocks are updating on dashboard (OS X 10.8.2)—both use Yahoo! services, so I suspect somebody broke an API somewhere.

I’ve not experienced any problems on iOS.
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thought it might be a yahoo issue :confused: hmm anyone know of any good alternate weather widgets for OS X?
 
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mrapplegate

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If you check the console you should see the following errors:
Jan 11 19:02:56 DashboardClient[7816]: com.apple.widget.weather: Fetching data failed, no <response>
Jan 11 19:03:09 DashboardClient[7816]: connect() failed. errno:53, fd:8, port:5900

It looks like it is a server issue or an API issue on yahoo's end.
 
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WeepOzymandias

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Drew017 said:
anyone know of any good alternate weather widgets for OS X?
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I’ve always preferred Weather Underground’s widget because Apple’s pulls data from an airport that is in the same city as me, but actually quite a distance away. WU’s widget gives you more flexibility. Not quite as pretty though.
 
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