openweather GNOME plugin and forecast.io

Joseph Loo jloo20111002 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 00:58:25 UTC 2015


On 10/25/2015 10:27 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-10-24 at 19:30 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
>> On 10/24/2015 02:54 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> My issue is the reverse of the thread about openweathermap.org.
>>> Openweathermap.org is working fine for me in the OpenWeather GNOME
>>> plugin, but if I switch to forecast.io, nothing loads. This used to
>>> work fine a couple of months ago, but now it fails on multiple
>>> machines. I have API keys for both sources and I can log into both
>>> from
>>> a browser.
>>>
>>> I find the forecast.io reports more accurate than
>>> openweathermap.org,
>>> so I'd prefer to switch, if I could get it working again.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or related experiences?
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>>
>> Did you load the api key using the xxx.io registered key?
> 
> My API key appears in the OpenWeather settings window under Weather
> provider. Is that what you're asking, or is there something else I need
> to do? I can use that key to log into forecast.io's Web site.
> 
>>
I  am not sure, but remember there are 2 keys, one for .org and the
other for .io. Just a guess, since you are using the .io you might need
to get the api key from .io and put it in to make it work.

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org


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