Weather Widget in Dashboard not working

Drew017 · Jan 11, 2013, 04:45 PM

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 · Jan 11, 2013, 04:50 PM

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 · 05:47 PM

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.

Drew017 · Jan 11, 2013, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WeepOzymandias

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.

thought it might be a yahoo issue

hmm anyone know of any good alternate weather widgets for OS X?

mrapplegate · Jan 11, 2013, 06:04 PM

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.

WeepOzymandias · Jan 11, 2013, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drew017

anyone know of any good alternate weather widgets for OS X?

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.

Drew017 · Jan 11, 2013, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WeepOzymandias

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.

thanks... I found this one to do the job just as well as weather underground

Tucson Allen · Jan 12, 2013, 12:54 PM

OS 10.8.2, late 2012 iMac 21.

Drew017 · Jan 12, 2013, 04:26 PM

Seems to have fixed itself today… weird

WeepOzymandias · Jan 12, 2013, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drew017

Seems to have fixed itself today… weird

same here.

Tucson Allen · Jan 14, 2013, 07:30 PM

You’d think “someone” would notice the app was broken and fix it.

mrapplegate · Jan 14, 2013, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Tucson Allen

You’d think “someone” would notice the app was broken and fix it.

Why would they ? Their app is not broken. The app gets data from yahoo. It was their issue

Jan 11, 2013, 04:45 PM	#1
Drew017 macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2011 Location: on one of my  devices	Weather Widget in Dashboard not working 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) __________________ "A little bit of this… and a whooole lotta that"  MacBook Air 11 inch (Mid 2011); Intel Core i5; 2GB RAM; OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion  iPod Touch 4th Gen; 32GB; iOS 6.1.3
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Jan 11, 2013, 04:50 PM	#2
balamw Demi-God (Moderator) Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New England, USA	I've been having similar problems with Weather on iOS 6. Limited just to my town. So I suspect the data source. B __________________ MBA (13" 1.7 GHz 128GB), UMBP (15" SD 2.8 GHz), UMB (13" 2.4 GHz), iMac (17" Yonah), 32GB iPad 3 WiFi+LTE, 64 GB iPad WiFi, 32 GB iPhone 5, Airport Extreme
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Jan 11, 2013, 05:34 PM	#3
WeepOzymandias macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013	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. __________________ 💻 iMac 21.5in mid 2011; 2.7GHz i5; 12GB RAM; OS X 10.8.2 📱 iPhone 4, 16GB, iOS 6.0.1, AT&T 13.0 Last edited by WeepOzymandias; Jan 11, 2013 at 05:47 PM.
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Jan 12, 2013, 12:54 PM	#8
Tucson Allen macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Tucson, AZ	No weather, no stocks OS 10.8.2, late 2012 iMac 21.
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Jan 12, 2013, 04:26 PM	#9
Drew017 Thread Starter macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2011 Location: on one of my  devices	Seems to have fixed itself today… weird __________________ "A little bit of this… and a whooole lotta that"  MacBook Air 11 inch (Mid 2011); Intel Core i5; 2GB RAM; OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion  iPod Touch 4th Gen; 32GB; iOS 6.1.3
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Jan 11, 2013, 06:04 PM	#5
mrapplegate macrumors 68020 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Cincinnati, OH	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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Jan 14, 2013, 07:30 PM	#11
Tucson Allen macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Tucson, AZ	Still no weather, no stocks You’d think “someone” would notice the app was broken and fix it.
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