haikuarchives/weather

A weather app for Haiku

Weather

Weather is a Haiku application that displays the constantly-updated weather of a specified location (Weather --> Change location). It shows the current condition there and a forecast of the next 5 days. The temperature can be displayed in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit (Weather --> Preferences).

Weather displays daily highs/lows and cloudiness, precipitation, and sunlight. As a replicant, Weather can be easily integrated into the Desktop.

You can drag & drop colors, e.g. from Icon-O-Matic, onto the Weather window or the replicant to change the text or background colors. The replicant shows a transparent background by default.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Weather started as tasks for Google Code-In 2014/15 and has been improved substantially since then.

weather's Issues

Font issue

The app font and the replicant font do not match.
see http://coquillemartialarts.com/jim/fontshot.png

Unable to resize choose location window

1. Open Weather
2. Go to Change Location
3. Click Resize window button
4. Repeat step 3

Expected result: There is no resize window button or the window resizes both times.
Actual result: The window resizes only one way.
issue.zip
Note: The zip file contains 2 video files. They only play on Firefox.

Add weather alerts

Investigate alternative weather APIs

US Govt, HamWeather, World Weather Online, WeatherUnlocked, Weather Underground, WeatherBug, Norwegian Govt, AccuWeather, Microsoft Climate, forecast.io, Open Weather Map, MetWit

Some services are more generous than others and some provide more locations in some parts of the world compared to others.

Add precipitation forecasts

Haikuweather needs an application key

As discussed in #3 the app needs an application key

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e. If your product or service uses or is based upon the Yahoo APIs, then YOU SHALL comply with the following:

i. The Yahoo Developer Network Attribution Policy located at http://developer.yahoo.com/attribution/.

i.. All instructions provided in the Yahoo APIs and their associated documentation on the Yahoo Developer Network to place application identification information (API Key) into any application or service you develop that incorporates or makes any use of the Yahoo APIs. You may only create a single API Key per application or service and such API Key must accompany all web services requests coming from that application or service. You can sign up for an API Key at http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/ for BBAuth API Keys and at http://developer.yahoo.com/dashboard/createKey.html for OAuth API Keys. You must provide accurate identification, contact, and other information required as part of the registration process. You SHALL NOT create any script or other automated tool that attempts to create multiple API Keys.
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From https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/api/api-2140.html

App crashes after input some special characters in the change location window

Alt-L-> > or < or " -> Go
App: 0c9ab27
Haiku hrev50408

Weather-41365-debug-11-07-2016-09-05-26.report.zip

Re-enable recipe

I've seen that a recipe exists for Weather, maybe we could re-enable it?
Although the Deskbar replicant is still broken, We have enough positive feedback to justify it.

Feature request: Use location services

App should use location services to determine user's location to display local temperature and weather.

[RFC] With or without flags?

Update and add more translations

If anyone wants to update translations with missing strings or add strings for more languages, please visit Polyglot. You can log in with your GitHub account.
Thanks!

Remove preferences / merge with location setting

Currently the only option is to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit.
IMO Weather should just use the system's locale setting and be done with it.

One could think up other preferences like the refresh frequency, but I'm not a fan of this micro-management. A good default setting should suffice.

If there are actually useful options (maybe selecting the weather service if there are more available), they could all be put in one panel together with the location setting, which is a preference after all.

Breezy weather condition has no icon

There is no icon for the Breezy weather condition as seen below. To reproduce it, you have to keep searching until you find a city with the condition breezy.

Add visibility data

Add visibility along with temperature.

Deskbar replicant broken

The deskbar replicant is currently broken, this should be fixed before v1.2 release

Add a compact mode (without forecast)

User should have an option to minimize app to see today's weather and temperature by clicking on the top part of the weather panel. The same option is available on Mac weather app in the dashboard.

App does not give options for places with same name or postal code

1. Open Weather
2. Go to Change Location
3. Enter a name that has 2 cities in different places

Expected Result: The app should give options to select desired city
Actual Result: The App chooses 1 location without giving options
Haiku-2018-01-04T03-55-59-392554000Z.webm.zip

Weather app crashes when changing location

Attempting to change the location causes a crash

EOL weather yahoo API: Weather needs credentials to work again

https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

Show data on hourly bases

Temperature can shown on hourly bases for the current day

Desktop icons show through part of the window when in replicant mode

Not sure if this only affect the weather app or not, but desktop icons are partially showing through the weather app when it is used as a replicant. Might also be an issue in normal mode, I haven't checked that yet.

Show wind data

Add wind data along with temperature.

Temperature format should default to locale standard

There was some discussion on pull request #3 on how to add this functionality, but it seems some work on Locale Kit needs to be done first.

(mmuman said...) headers/os/locale/FormattingConventions.h seems to have a B_METRIC / B_US BMeasurementKind enum, not sure how to get it, but it should give a hint to C vs F (although ideally you'd want to support Kelvins as well :D)

(pulkomandy said...) The locale kit does not expose default formatting units (yet). This should be implemented with http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classicu_1_1MeasureUnit.html, http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classicu_1_1Measure.html and http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classicu_1_1MeasureFormat.html in the Locale Kit, exposing a BLocale::FormatMeasure and with integration in BMessageFormat.

and so on.

Add clickable link to current weather source

Add a link to the current source of the weather data. This might be a better solution than some of the other feature requests. Make it easy for a user to click somewhere on the app in order to open a web page showing more detailed weather for their selected location.

The application icon is not isometric

Something like the ReWeather presents in this pack would be very nice.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/40897190@N08/6776694282/in/album-72157621710657483/

Changing Panel Text color has no effect on Weather

1. Open Weather
2. Open Preferences
3. Go to Appearances
4. Open Colors
5. Go to Change Panel Text
6. Change the Text to any color

Expected Result: Weather also changes Text color
Actual result: Weather does not change Text color
Haiku-2018-01-05T22-16-01-982635000Z.webm.zip

Add support for K, °R and °D

Kelvin is widely used internationally, while Rankine has legacy usage in the US and Delisle has legacy usage in Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_units_of_temperature

Implement Search suggest drop-down list

Search suggest drop-down list could be implemented for change location.

Changing Panel Background color has no effect on Weather

1. Open Weather
2. Open Preferences
3. Go to Appearances
4. Open Colors
5. Go to Change Panel background
6. Change the background to any color

Expected Result: Weather also changes background
Actual result: Weather does not change background
Haiku-2018-01-05T22-13-38-324032000Z.webm.zip

Right clicking on replicant button on main window has no result

1. Open weather
2. Create a replicant
3. Right click on the replicant button on the replicant
4. Right click on replicant button on the main window

Expected result: The main window will show "about weather" as well as the replicant
Actual result: The main window shows nothing but the replicant shows "about weather"
Haiku-2018-01-05T21-08-35-122696000Z.webm.zip

[RFC] Hide or remove inappropriate units K R and D

• The Kelvin scale is widely used in science and technology.
• The Rankine scale may be used in engineering systems where heat computations are done using degrees Fahrenheit.
• The Delisle thermometer remained in use for almost 100 years in Russia (from 1732). Are we supporting a scale unused since 1832?

from wikipedia

I never saw another app with these scales, please leave your thoughts...

Implement multiple location support

probably a quick option to change between 2-3 locations?

Should re-try a few times when there's no connection

When used as a replicant, the internet connection (over wifi at least) isn't yet established when Weather tries to hook up with the weather service.
Would be nice if it tried to connect a few times for a few seconds.

Add a map which can be used to pin point location

Forecast is clipped

Triple clicking (or pressing Alt+R several times) shows text clipping:

The length is the same as "Loading..." string.

Haiku gives random cities when typing random characters

1. Open Weather
2. Open Change location
3. Type in something random like QWERTY and press ok

Expected Result: Change location does not accept invalid entry and asks user to enter again
Actual result: Weather app chooses a random city
Haiku-2018-01-04T23-57-50-148665000Z.webm.zip

Normal font does not change in weather

1. Open Weather
   2.Open Preferences
2. Go to Appearances
3. Change every font size to some thing other than default (For testing purposes, keep all font sizes the same for all 4)
4. Close and reopen Weather

Expected Result: Every font size in Weather should have changed.
Actual Result: Only the app title and app menu change font
Haiku-2018-01-04T19-07-56-664682000Z.webm.zip

"About" is missing

Pretty much every Haiku app has an "About..." to tell you something about the release version and author of the app. This is missing from Weather.

Weather app broken

Weather application broken across all tested builds (x86_gcc2h, x86_gcc5, x86_gcc5h, x86_64) with the following error message:

"Could not open "Weather" (Missing symbol: HeadersReceived__20BUrlProtocolListenerP11BUrlRequest)."

Temp. units do not sync with main window and replicant

1. Set San Francisco as the city.
2. Create a replicant of the main window.
3. Change the units from Celsius to Fahrenheit in main window

Expected outcome: The units of the main window should be the same
Actual outcome: The units of the main window were different from the units in the replicant

Not possible to refresh

A few days ago, refresh isn't possible, at least on my PC

Show only city name as location

As space is precious, the country name of the location is almost always truncated. Having "city, country" makes sense when choosing the location, but when presented in the GUI, showing only the city is enough.

Mismatch between icon Cloudy -> Mostly Cloudy at night

On the left the correct one.

Usually Cloudy is only a cloud mostly cloudy 2 clouds
I remove one cloud from mostly cloudy, do you think should be bigger?
As a small icon look ok in the button not so much

Use one "Weather" menu for all menu items

There are only relatively few menu items, which are currently split into an "Edit" and "View" menu. Those two contain items that don't fit their label. E.g. the "Desktop Replicant" doesn't fit in "View", "Quit" doesn't fit in "Edit".

I'd say, put it all in one application menu "Weather".

Some icons are missing

This is the list of missing icons, only the icons marked(*) are without a fallback icon
tornado
tropical storm
hurricane
severe thunderstorms
mixed rain and snow
mixed rain and sleet
mixed snow and sleet
freezing drizzle
drizzle
freezing rain
snow flurries
light snow showers
blowing snow
hail
sleet
*dust
*haze
*smoky
*blustery
*windy
*cold
mostly cloudy (night)
mixed rain and hail
isolated thunderstorms
heavy snow
scattered snow showers
snow showers
isolated thundershowers
*not available

You can find the documentation here https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/documentation.html

Allow users option to choose between various weather sources

Various trusted sources such as:
Weather Underground
Accuweather
The Weather Channel.

Forecast messages and days are not internationalized

I don't know if this is worth the effort. I will open a pull request, if is too much feel free to discard the changes. There isn't a solution for the name of the cities.
(BTW The service does not support i18n.)

Weather app crashes when trying to change location

Weather -> Alt+L -> Go.
Weather - 0.1.1_git-1 - x86_gcc2 from Haiku Depot
Haiku hrev50375

Weather-511-debug-28-06-2016-13-10-42.report.zip

Turkish translation added!

Feel free to pull it from Polyglot!

Enhancement: List multiple locations

It is often useful to know the weather in multiple locations such as when travelling.