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Anybody recommend a weather app for UK

Hi
I'm using PocketWeather at the moment, but it gets it's info from msnbc in the states. Some other programs also seem to get their info from US sites as well, e.g. Journal Bar. PocketWeather uses city codes to retrieve weather info and I have the city (or village anyway) code for use on uk.weather.com. Unfortunately, although it is possible to add the city (village) code to the list for PocketWeather it is unable to retrieve weather info 'cos msnbc doesn't recognise the city(village) code.
Is there a good weather program out there where info is retrieved from a UK weather site and where it's possible to identify city(village) codes other than the main recognised cities?
Cheers

mvsmith07 said:
Is there a good weather program out there where info is retrieved from a UK weather site and where it's possible to identify city(village) codes other than the main recognised cities?
Cheers
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Try this:
http://www.s-church.net/otherprojects.htm
it uses weather.com, it updates through gprs and Activesync and it is FREE ! :lol:
Bye

Cheers dave, I saw this, but again it is getting info from an international, i.e. USA biased web site. Just looked at weather.com and closest match I can get to my location is Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, which is what PocketWeather can give me. I'd really like to put in my specific village, which is available for forecasts on uk.weather.com.

I use WeatherPanel in Canada... It gets the information from www.theweathernetwork.com

i use ajosoft pocket weather
i think it get it's info from bbc at least thats the url it got typed in

Rudegar said:
i use ajosoft pocket weather
i think it get it's info from bbc at least thats the url it got typed in
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Aha, that's where PocketWeather confuses us. The radar and satellite images appear to come from the BBC website, but the actual weather forecasts come from msnbc as far as I could make out.
The software has been taken over by SBSH Mobile Software (http://www.sbsh.net) who have a forum on PocketWeather and having taken a look at some of the configuration threads there I understood the source of the forecasts was msnbc.com

If you could use the other features of http://www.mobimate.com/ppc/worldmate/index.shtml then you'd have weather forecasts (weather.com > GPRS) included. One of my must-have applications.

Xelar said:
If you could use the other features of http://www.mobimate.com/ppc/worldmate/index.shtml then you'd have weather forecasts (weather.com > GPRS) included. One of my must-have applications.
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The $30 version is restricted to 250 cities worldwide, so I think I'd end up with Newcastle being the closest again. The $70 version looks promising with over 38,000 locations, but I think $70 for a program I'll probably only use for weather is not going to go down well with a certain person - know what I mean :wink:

Use pocket weather myself - free and actually lists my cities

I think I might have been fooled into thinking I could get a localised forecast for my village since I can specifically find it on uk.weather.com. However, having looked at uk.weather.com and bbc.co.uk/weather for my local area they both use the same weather station. And that weather station is at Newcastle Airport. So, I don't think it is possible to get a more accurate forecast than that predicted for Newcastle anyway since that is where the weather station is. Not sure how they slightly adjust the forecast for a village, 'cos it is slightly different from the forecast for Newcastle itself, but I think I'll be sticking with PocketWeather as, like dangel said, it's currently free and in my opinion a good weather app.
Thanks everyone for your various suggestions.

Try this!
I've tried several that I like that you might want to take a look at. Despite the little flag next to my name, I live in the UK.
PoceketWeather
Journalbar
PocketWeather is great, I'm using it now having decided that its better than journalbar. PocketWeather is freeware (i think) and it has loads of options. You can even get Satellite and Radar images, but those are best left off the today screen as they're too small - much better viewed in options. I don't have the link handy but it should be pretty easy to track down.
PocketWeather does need a little jiggery-pokery to get the placement to look right on your today screen, let me know if you go with it and I'll tell you my settings.

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PocketWeather does need a little jiggery-pokery to get the placement to look right on your today screen, let me know if you go with it and I'll tell you my settings.
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Yep, already using PocketWeather and have been for a few weeks and I agree with you and will be sticking with it. You're right about the satellite images as well. Don't why the option is there to display on today screen.

SPB Weather Aussie Weather Source

Hi All,
As requested, find attached weather sources for SPB weather.
There are two scripts below, one basic and one detailed. Instruction on how to use are in the the templates, so just open in notepad to view the 'how to'. I use the basic one, but have a play as you can go down to each states weather centres.
Weather is then sourced from www.weatherzone.com.au.
I take no credit for this script and a big thanks to recrem (from the now closed Mtekk forum) for updating a while back.
Enjoy,
Dev

Thanks for the good work. Good to see an Aussie Weather Source

Thanks again Dev,
Just downloading your weather files now (after trawling through whirlpool all morning looking for your post). I was happy using the one in SPB mobile shell until today... it forecasts 30 for today and it is much closer to 34... all the news channels were saying 34, so obviously they got their data from a more reliable source.

Works great with SPB Traveler, but has anyone made it work with the SPB panel's weather? It seems to take its data from Traveler when Traveler is installed, but if you select a custom city, the panel's weather screen just tells you that "No weather data has been downloaded".

bedlam_au said:
Works great with SPB Traveler, but has anyone made it work with the SPB panel's weather? It seems to take its data from Traveler when Traveler is installed, but if you select a custom city, the panel's weather screen just tells you that "No weather data has been downloaded".
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There is no need to create a custom city (unless it's not in the list).
There are full instructions in the template file (open with notepad).
It is working fine for me... apart from a few issues with weather icons not showing up from time to time.

buzz83 said:
There is no need to create a custom city (unless it's not in the list).
There are full instructions in the template file (open with notepad).
It is working fine for me... apart from a few issues with weather icons not showing up from time to time.
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As I said, it works fine in SPB Traveler. Where it doesn't work is with SPB's custom X1 panel. The weather icon on its "Today" screen is just a sun with N/A where the temp should be. Tapping on that icon, which normally shows the next 4 days, has a message along the lines of "The weather data hasn't been downloaded.
I'm assuming it's because those scripts produce temperatures and icons in a slightly different format. Traveler can handle it but the Panel can't. It'd need someone with a bit more script nerdery than me to reformat those scripts to something the Panel's weather routine can read.

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As I said, it works fine in SPB Traveler. Where it doesn't work is with SPB's custom X1 panel. The weather icon on its "Today" screen is just a sun with N/A where the temp should be. Tapping on that icon, which normally shows the next 4 days, has a message along the lines of "The weather data hasn't been downloaded.
I'm assuming it's because those scripts produce temperatures and icons in a slightly different format. Traveler can handle it but the Panel can't. It'd need someone with a bit more script nerdery than me to reformat those scripts to something the Panel's weather routine can read.
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Yes, only SPB weather can read the scripts to display the correct icons. So if you don't have SPB weather loaded, its no good as Shell Panel doesn't work with it.
Dev

Revised Detailed Script to fix missing codes
Hi all,
It would seems weatherzone.com.au have now stopped displaying the city code number in the URL address as per the instruction in the template.
So I have modified the template so you can now get it to work if you don't know your suburbs code.
Instructions are at the top of the file, so just open with notepad and you'll be off and running.
Enjoy.
Dev

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Hi all,
It would seems weatherzone.com.au have now stopped displaying the city code number in the URL address as per the instruction in the template.
So I have modified the template so you can now get it to work if you don't know your suburbs code.
Instructions are at the top of the file, so just open with notepad and you'll be off and running.
Enjoy.
Dev
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You have proved yourself yet again dev.
SPB Weather was giving me the #$%s on the weekend, but I was house hunting and didn't have time to play around with it.
Looks like you've done the job very nicely.
Thanks again

For reasons I can't begin to understand, it would seem the issues with SPB Traveler messing with the SPB Panel's weather are resolved by installing SPB Weather.
If I was being scientific about it, I'd see if it works in isolation without Traveler or if this new version of the script has anything to do with it. But I'm not.
So for now, the combination of Traveler + Weather + current script by TheDeva = correct weather now being displayed in the SPB Mobile Shell Panel. Some weather icons are N/A, but at least the temperature is correct and not 10 degrees out like it used to be. (What are these other websites using as the source of their information??)

Thankyou to 'thedeva' for the modified spb weather script... the programs now works and it gives the same forcasts that we get on ABC weather.. so that accuracy helps alot.
One thing I have noticed is that there is never an icon for the next days weather. e.g. today is tuesday, and there is no icon for wedneday's forcast. Tomorrow after I update, there will be no icon for the next day. I have Ballarat and Melbourne as the cities I watch, but neither will display the next day's icon using this template... when i go back to the default spb scripts all is good, just lousy weather forcasts...
I have looked at the script, but I can't see where the fault lies... any ideas please ?
David

Hi All,
I have read all the templates and comments and cannot get the weather to display correctly. I have mobile shell installed as well as SPB weather. The custom city of melbourne has been added with directions supplied by 'thedeva'. I get the dreaded N/A on the professional Now screen. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Dan.

SPB v1.7 with Melbourne?
Hi guys,
I have SPB 1.7 (which is more lightweight than the current) and am trying to get it to work with the script.
It doesn't say in the script which "City Code Type" to use but I've tried all 3 (user defined, ICAO and GisMeteo.ru) with no luck.
I've set Custom City with "vic/melbourne/melbourne".
I get a "Error downloading data from site". I'm pretty sure I have connectivity as I see the HSPDA connection go and if it's in the crade the sync marks go (and other apps update).
Can anyone assist?
Cheers,
Gavan

I believe SPB Wather older than version 2 are obsolete and don't have any support/sources for them.

Thanks Orlesi - can anyone else also confirm it won't work with v1.7? I've been deliberately running the older version for a smaller simpler lightweight forecaster.

glimjoon said:
Thanks Orlesi - can anyone else also confirm it won't work with v1.7? I've been deliberately running the older version for a smaller simpler lightweight forecaster.
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Yep.
The custom template is for 2.0 on only. It's still a little buggy though.

I've come late to this, so hopefully someone is still monitoring it. I installed the script and my forecast now comes from the BOM. The only part I didn't understand when reading through the script is how to get the Mobile Shell widget to display the weather. I simply get N/A. Is this by design and unavoidable, or is it possible to fix it?
More importantly, my current temperature seems to be wrong. It seems to still be getting that part from the 'Default Source', even though I've disabled that. It's 37 degrees here today right now, and Weatherzone agrees. But SPB Weather is showing only 31, which is the temperature the 'Default Source' thinks it is. Also, when I tap the current temperature, it says the 'location' is 'Adelaide Intl', which again is the location of the 'Default Source', not the Weatherzone source. So even though I've set Weatherzone as default, and all the long range forecasts seem to be using it and are correct per the BOM site, the current temperature seems to be sourcing from the standard SPB Weather 'Default Source' still, even though I've said 'Don't use this source' (and under sources, it shows as 'This source is not used'). Is there something I need to change in the script to get it to display the current weather from the weatherzone source?
Sorry if I've missed something obvious.
EDIT: Please forgive me, I realised that I had used the default city in SPB weather, which I think is why I was getting the Default Source data for the current temperature. I set up a custom city and it seems to not be be drawing from the default source now. Except now, there seems to be no current temperature. Well, the field is there, but it's actually only showing the forecasted maximum there, not the actual temperature. When I tap it, all I see are the forecasted maximums, no data for when the reading was taken. I'll keep looking but if anyone has any idea why this is happening, I'd appreciate your input. I see there is something written about exactly this behaviour in the script, but I can't work out if that's just saying 'that's how it is' or whether there is a way to fix it? Sorry for being such a noob!

Over the last few days or so, this weather template seems to have stopped working. I suspect that there have been modifications on the weatherzone.com.au website. If anybody has managed to fix the template, I would much appreciate it

_Robert_ said:
Over the last few days or so, this weather template seems to have stopped working. I suspect that there have been modifications on the weatherzone.com.au website. If anybody has managed to fix the template, I would much appreciate it
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Yep. I have found the same thing. Today is the last date for which data was downloaded and I guess that it was downloaded about 7 days ago. Without a fix I guess I will be forced to use a US source which will in fact render SPB Weather useless.

For the record I found that this one (http://www.pdagold.com/themes/detail.asp?t=16497) still works at least for Melbourne but it doesn't provide detailed weather the way the weatherzone one used to.

Question: Currency widget for HD??

Hi,
I like how i can edit the weather widget to match my city.
Question: Is there sort of a widget for touchflow, that i can configure to show me the today's currency values ?
I work a lot with money and such a tab woudl be very helpful, anyone has an idea? i tried searching the forum, maybe i searched wrong, but did not find something like that
Thanks in advance.

go to "Stock" tab, select Menu / Quote then enter the currency codes you need e.g. SGDAUD=X Singapore Dollar to Australian Dollar.
You can get the codes from Yahoo Finance.
Works well. There is some upper limit of the number of stocks or currency rates you can have but I'm not sure what it is.

Googling around i found:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-xchange-r8.html
works super nice and fast and found automatically the refference bank from my country.
Super cute
Amd just tried your suggestion, THANK YOU works as a charm !!

There's also WorldMate Live at https://www.worldmatelive.com/
It has currency exchange, weather, measurement converter, itinarary mgt and flight schedules plus a bunch of other goodies. I travel regularly for work so have found this invaluable.

HTC Weather city widget editor

Hello,
I am trying to add a user defined city to the HTC weather widget app on the HTC Incredible. I know that it gives you weather for your current locations, but i would like to know what the weather is at my father's house (Mathews VA) which is 300 miles away. The closest city in the default list is newport news, or richmond, which just isn't right. Or for another example, the closest city on the default list to christiansburg is not even Roanoke VA, it's probably Richmond. Anyways, you can see how the ability to add cities to the database would be beneficial.
As a reference, my previous phone was the Touch pro 2 and i used JVH3 weather editor http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=546141 and/or methods like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523698&highlight=weather+city+editor to add cities that are not in the default HTC database (this worked on the windows mobile TP2 - but obviously not on android). I cannot seem to find a way to do this on the HTC incredible (or on any other android phone for that matter). If anyone has come across this problem and found a solution, i would really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help

I second that request
I also had a TP2 and still do, but on my DINC would love to know the weather at the house 500 miles away. When I am there (Tuscumbia alabama) it shows up but I can not find a way to save the location, and it is not in the list either.

Adding cities to DB does not work
I was able to locate the database of cities and add new entries. However, when the new entries where selected in the widget, AccuWeather refused to return data for the new entries. It appears that HTC may be using an interface to AccuWeather that tells them it is coming from a phone and AccuWeather will only respond to approved cities. My new entries were identical to existing entries and I was able to select the new cities but they would not work. Thus my conclusion that there is an issue with the interface to AccuWeather. For anyone wanting to try some more, the db is located at: /data/data/com.htc.provider.weather/files/WP_0409WWE.db The file is in SQLLite format

plmwest said:
I was able to locate the database of cities and add new entries. However, when the new entries where selected in the widget, AccuWeather refused to return data for the new entries. It appears that HTC may be using an interface to AccuWeather that tells them it is coming from a phone and AccuWeather will only respond to approved cities. My new entries were identical to existing entries and I was able to select the new cities but they would not work. Thus my conclusion that there is an issue with the interface to AccuWeather. For anyone wanting to try some more, the db is located at: /data/data/com.htc.provider.weather/files/WP_0409WWE.db The file is in SQLLite format
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Thank you for this tip.
It’s working just fine! I used the SQLite Administrator 0.8.3.2 (PC)
The biggest challenge I had was to copy the WP_0409WWE.db to my PC.
With the help of Root Explorer it finally worked.
After editing the WP_0409WWE.db with my locations, The location codes I get from the AccuWeather gadget for Vista/Windows 7, I’ve copied it back to my Android phone, Rebooted it and everything is working fine!

Now we need a on phone app to be able to edit these just like the WM devices have.

Iceberger said:
Thank you for this tip.
It’s working just fine! I used the SQLite Administrator 0.8.3.2 (PC)
The biggest challenge I had was to copy the WP_0409WWE.db to my PC.
With the help of Root Explorer it finally worked.
After editing the WP_0409WWE.db with my locations, The location codes I get from the AccuWeather gadget for Vista/Windows 7, I’ve copied it back to my Android phone, Rebooted it and everything is working fine!
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Hmm, I wonder what you did differently? Could you post an example or two of the entries you made that worked?

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Hmm, I wonder what you did differently? Could you post an example or two of the entries you made that worked?
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Here you are

I am very interested in doing this because my town cannot be searched for in the widget, it only pops up if I am in the exact right spot. I have downloaded root explorer and the sq editor and located the WP files. I assume I need to open the Accuweather program on my pc. What do I need to do next? How do I enter the code for my town on the phone so I can actually search for it?

Anybody? Just need to know what I'm looking for

So, just edit "WP_0409WWE.db" - and all will be ok? I have same problem - my city isn't in list.

One question - is it possible to create an app to edit "WP_0409WWE.db" on the phone that doesn't have root?
I don't want to root my phone. By now.

No, you need root access to edit the file.

two months now and we don't have any news about the editor for default weather widget. Does someone know if there is a project which deal with this issue. I am not rooted and I want to add new cities in the default weather and until now I cannot do it except if I root my device.
Any news?
thanks in advance

bakxos said:
two months now and we don't have any news about the editor for default weather widget. Does someone know if there is a project which deal with this issue. I am not rooted and I want to add new cities in the default weather and until now I cannot do it except if I root my device.
Any news?
thanks in advance
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There's nothing we can do about this. You need to root in order to change the cities. It's a hard requirement.

I was able to add cities into the weather database. It's quite simple. I followed the instructions in this post. Thanks to all who contributed to this post.

Best Weather Server?

I'm currently using Touch Weather right now as my Primary Weather Application... and I have to choose my own weather server to get information from... can someone please tell me based on personal usage and experience which weather server proves to be the best and more accurate??
The selection of servers are..
AccuWeather
GisMeteo
GisMeteo_WAP
Intellicast
MeteoNova
WetterCom
Any type of information or suggestions towards the purpose of this topic will be greatly appreciated.. AND USEFUL for other members.. so please answer!

The winner is... Foreca! I using it for MSN Weather and long time ago in old Nokia N82 in Foreca Weather app and it was and is very, very accurate. Check it out.
EDIT: If someone know how to change Sense weather provider to Foreca then let me know.

Get THIS weather app (Weather Panel by Dunc/Davej):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707229
it is the most perfect, most reliable and most complete weather app You can get today.
I checked it now for 2 months and it gives the most reliable and correct data possible so I can use it for flight planning instead of costly aviation-sources.
It includes 10-day forecast, a collection of radar-map sources, moon-phase and and and .............
Enjoy it

Yup, this is very good app like you say, but it "eat" a lot of data (in memory card and from data plan ).
As separate app MSN Weather is enough for me. I need just to know how to change Sense weather provider (if this is possible) and i will be happy

ok that's great guys..
but does anyone actually feel like helping me out? out of what's listed which of those is the best weather server? I'm sure there are better ones out there.. but out of the servers that's i listed because that's all i can choose from... please? and what weather server does the hTC HD2 sense app use?

Did you read answers? I said you - Foreca is the best. You can use it in freeware MSN Weather if you want.
And Sense using AccuWeather provider (you can check it if you have manualy set your city:
Weather tab and click link "More details on-line" and it will opening browser with AccuWeather site.