KDE Weather Widget 2

[davemx]

Last autumn, I had a thread up about KDE Weather Widget. It was an excellent add-on for the KDE panel, even though it hadn't been maintained for some years. It could display a meteorgram based on weather forecasts from yr.no and OpenWeatherMap. There were two shortcomings, the yr.no forecast needed a workaround to set up, and the OWM didn't display wind direction or speed. This February, yr.no (which I understand is a Norwegian TV station whose forecasts come from the Norwegian meteorlogical service) discontinued the service that this widget used.

This was the thread: viewtopic.php?p=642181

Yesterday I took a look to see if there was an alternative, and the original author has been back to create a new version of the widget, KDE Weather Widget 2. The two differences between that and the original widget are:

1. It now gets its forecast direct from the Norwegian meteorlogical office, cutting out the middleman. It's also a lot easier to set up, you don't even need to visit its website, it's all handled in the setup dialogue.
2. The Open Weather Map forecasts now include wind direction and speed.

And so KDE has a good and usable weather plasmoid again!

P.S. If you did not have the previous version installed, you may find you need to install qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel for this widget to run.

[richb]

Do you mean this one?

[davemx]

No, that's Event Calendar. It's called Weather Widget 2.

[richb]

I have tried that and it will not run on MX 21. Gives an error.

[davemx]

I have tried that and it will not run on MX 21. Gives an error.

You have to install qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel using the stable tab from MXPI.

Because I already had it installed (from using the previous version) I forgot to mention it in the initial post. I will amend the post.

[richb]

I already have that instlalled file and the same error occurs. To verify you are you using MX-21 which has KDE version 5.20.5?

[markol]

I already have that instlalled file and the same error occurs. To verify you are you using MX-21 which has KDE version 5.20.5?

A restart between installing lib and widget helped in my case

[richb]

With a reboot the widget became functional.

[davemx]

Yes, using the latest MX-21 KDE fully updated.

[galaxysurfer]

As an aside you might want to check out meteo-qt v2.1, available in stable repo of mxpi, which runs on OpenWeatherMap.
It has a cute little icon on panel bar. I have mine displaying an icon & a customized font showing the current temp.

You can learn more about it here https://github.com/dglent/meteo-qt