ObjectDock Weather Docklet not working anymore

By kratonator Posted May 11, 2008 13:27:21

Hi all.

I had OD running for over one and a half years now and the weather docklet always worked. Since Thursday or Friday it only displays "Weather Information not Available". Is there somenthing wrong with weather.com?

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I've noticed this, too. Did weather.com change the source this information was being fed from?

which weather docklet?

The default weather docklet that's bundled with OD.

I'm having the same trouble, at first I thought it might have been because I'm in a city outside the US, and getting the docklet to recognize my city code was kind of a nuisance, but I tried entereing US cities and still nothing.

I hope it's temporary, I really like the default docklet.

In the meantime, any suggestions for possible replacements would be nice.

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depending on the version of Odock you're running the docklet either draws from weather.com or accuweather

if you do a search in the Odock gallery there's several in there - they just don't have flyouts that I recall

It's the one that draws from weather.com

And go me, I tried updating to the newest version, and it works fine. Why I didn't think of this before, I have no idea.

kratonator, have you tried just installing a new version?

http://www.wincustomize.com/download.aspx?skinid=2049&libid=29

For those of you having a problem with the weather docklet, since it was working before, did you make any changes in security programs or firewalls that could be blocking it getting access to update?

Just a thought.

Not intentionally, but there was a Windows update about a week ago, it's possible it closed a security hole that also interfered with this I suppose. The fact that it stopped working for both of us at the same time leads me to believe it wasn't an isolated incident.

No problems at all with weather updates in Stockton CA on XP and Vista. I very seldomly use it and added one just for giggles because of this forum post and it is working fine.

There are several questions you can ask yourself at this point, such as when was the last time it actually ran? What's changed in your system since? Could it be an issue from your provider or your firewall? Do I restore the system to the point before the weather stopped working? Do I archive all of my docks and uninstall then reinstall OD?

Take ownership of your system, you'll make the right choice.

G'Luk!

Cp

Hi all and thanks for the answers.

There are too many people who have the same problem so I suppose that there is something with a port or something (I have all my firewall ports open, just in case it matters). Well...I guess I'll have to investigate a little more...

Cheers,
krat

If you have an old version it is likely linked to weather.com which we are no longer working with. Simply update to correct the issue. If you have the current free version there were several server fixes that are available but only to the Plus beta. The free version will not be updated with these fixes until the next full version of Object Dock is launched.

If you have the Plus version and you are getting this issue please try out the current beta. If you have done that and still have troubles please let us know at support@stardock.com.