Weather Widget

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget

Description:

Plasmoid for showing weather information from yr.no and Open Weather Map servers.

Features:
- shows basic info (with font-like icons) in panel
- shows meteogram + long term forecast in expanded plasmoid
- shows more info and near future forecast in tooltip
- offline cache
- support for multiple places
- system tray support

Future plans:
- support for other providers (accu, yahoo)
- place picker

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
- qt5-xmllistmodel, qt5-graphicaleffects
- e.g. packages for kubuntu users: qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel, libqt5qml-graphicaleffects

HOW TO INSTALL
- EDIT: Preferred way: your distribution's package manager or build it yourself (https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget#requirements)

ANOTHER WAY TO INSTALL
- Add Widgets... -> Get new widgets -> Download new plasma widgets
- find this applet and install through the first item with .plasmoid extension
- NOTE: this version does not support offline data cache

Last changelog:

1.6.10 2 years ago

- fixed infinite reload timeout
- kelvin unit support
- code cleanup
- reduced OWM crashing (still happening though)

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myrkgard
2 days ago

9 Best weather plasmoid IMHO

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fabiano-rodrigues
8 days ago

9 9 excellent

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leo5sk
23 days ago

6 6 okay

Meteogram is not rendering properly for both services. Extra vertical lines are present. Posted an issue in github too https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget/issues/84

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floorek
23 days ago

9 9 excellent

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speedjoe
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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kdemichl
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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john853
3 months ago

10 This is definitely the best weather widget I have ever seen.
Both backends work great and way better than the default widget that Plasma comes with.
For example searching for Vienna in the default widget is very hard to find the real city (capital of Austria) because there are so many weird locations with the same name.
But with this widget works great on both backends.
Also I like that I can quickly switch my my location to the ones of my friends in other countries to see how's the weather there.
Integration with a dark theme also works perfectly.

This is really great widget and in my opinion it should've been the default one in KDE Plasma since it's way better than the other one.

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roctheme
3 months ago

10 10 the best

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phyrz
3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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pu4yes
3 months ago

I've been using this fantastic widget for several years now. I just rated it with a score of 10. However, I just got a problem related to YrNo.qml:18:1: module (QtQuick.XmlListModel).

I'm using Debian 10 Buster, KDE 5.54.0 / Plasma 5.14.5 (Kwin/Breeze Dark theme, gtk theme breeze gtk2/3) x86_64 Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64.

Here is the error message (sorry, it's in Portuguese):

Ocorreu um erro ao carregar o arquivo QML: file:///home/uvb76/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/main.qml:113:5: Type YrNo unavailable
file:///home/uvb76/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/providers/YrNo.qml:18:1: module "QtQuick.XmlListModel" is not installed

How can I make this work? Thanks

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pu4yes
3 months ago

10 10 the best

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phyrz
3 months ago

You must install qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel.

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martyd
5 months ago

10 Díky :)

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alex10336
5 months ago

10 10 the best

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leo5sk
6 months ago

Get the already mentioned error in manjaro too:
Error loading QML file: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/main.qml:113:5: Type YrNo unavailable
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/providers/YrNo.qml:18:1: module "QtQuick.XmlListModel" is not installed

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llewen
7 months ago

8 Thanks to whomever created this.

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saidbakr
8 months ago

I hope to add appearance's option that allow using transparent background.

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d3xt3r
10 months ago

9 9 excellent!

@clearmartin, could you add a custom font size option like in the Event Calendar widget? (https://store.kde.org/p/998901/)
Currently using the horizontal layout the font size is very large, see the image below:

https://imgur.com/blzM3oT

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freefreeno
10 months ago

10 10 the best

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ikhwan-arif
11 months ago

10 10 the best

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autotech
1 year ago

8 8 great

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luca-web
1 year ago

8 8 great

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cnovam
1 year ago

Lo solucione con este paquete plasma-applet-weather-widget del centro de software Mageia 7 version de plasma 5.15.4
saludos

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zhigalin
1 year ago

10 Very informative

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pc12
1 year ago

I managed to run it in a previous Plasma install and found it amazing, but now it doesn't want to run in my current KDE install. It throws the following errors:
Error loading QML file: file:///home/XXXX/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/main.qml:113:5: Type YrNo unavailable
file:///home/XXXX/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.weatherWidget/contents/ui/providers/YrNo.qml:18:1: module "QtQuick.XmlListModel" is not installed
Allegedly the xmllistmodel dependency is now included in the xmlpatterns package, but even when I install it, the widget doesn't work.

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1.6.10 2 years ago

- fixed infinite reload timeout
- kelvin unit support
- code cleanup
- reduced OWM crashing (still happening though)

Version 1.6.8 3 years ago

Attempt to ensure proper connection timeout (and sequential reconnect).

4 years ago

1.6.5
- loading OWM more reliable
- visible plasmoid version in settings
- localization support (requires installing through "make install" or your distribution's package manager)

1.6.3
- icons in rendered meteogram
- owm request cache fixed

1.6.2
- next days legend fixed
- stability fixes
- rendered meteogram has red/blue temp. colour
- UTC/local-time fixes and option; mmHg option
- tooltip improved

1.6.1
- WARNING: your current locations won't be preserved when updating to this version, I am very sorry for that
- Open Weather Map support
- american settings (mph, inHg)
- proper offline cache implementation (requires C++ extension, therefore offline cache is no longer supported when installing through Add Widgets button)
- rendered meteogram for OWM and optionally for yr.no (it allows to be used by e.g. fahrenheit users)
- bugfixes

1.5.1
- next-days temperatures load fixed
- theming fixes

1.5.0
- theming & layout & other issues fixed (thanks a lot to nowrep from github)
- in-tray & classic tooltip improved
- today info added to expanded part
- finally 3 layout options added
- cache data goes to ~/.cache/ folder instead of in-plasmoid configuration

1.4.1
- added option to pause updating

1.4
- sunrise & sunset time in tooltip
- 'ago' message improved for bigger time intervals

1.3.2
- system tray support
- bugfixes (change place fix; properly handling day/night icons based on sunrise/sunset; credit link fix; resizing on desktop fix)
- more bugfixes: day/night icons fixed, M/s -> m/s (thanks ochurlaud)

1.2.7
- fixed compatibility with KF 5.12

1.2.6
- bug fix: refreshing current place when places changed
- tooltip fixed for KF 5.11
- new widget icon by varlesh

1.2.5
- using avansert_meteogram instead of meteogram (thx to steelsnake for this suggestion)
- better moon icon (thx to jacobtey)
- hour legend
- place aliases
- bug fixes

1.2
- tooltip overhaul

1.1
- offline cache
- fahrenheit support
- support for multiple places
- long-term forecast in expanded plasmoid
- using night icons in the night

1.0.BETA
- initial import

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myrkgard 2 days ago 9 excellent

Best weather plasmoid IMHO

fabiano-rodrigues Aug 06 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

leo5sk Jul 22 2020 6 okay

6 okay Meteogram is not rendering properly for both services. Extra vertical lines are present. Posted an issue in github too https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-weather-widget/issues/84

floorek Jul 22 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

speedjoe Jul 10 2020 10 the best

10 the best

kdemichl Jun 24 2020 10 the best

10 the best

john853 May 14 2020 10 the best

This is definitely the best weather widget I have ever seen. Both backends work great and way better than the default widget that Plasma comes with. For example searching for Vienna in the default widget is very hard to find the real city (capital of Austria) because there are so many weird locations with the same name. But with this widget works great on both backends. Also I like that I can quickly switch my my location to the ones of my friends in other countries to see how's the weather there. Integration with a dark theme also works perfectly. This is really great widget and in my opinion it should've been the default one in KDE Plasma since it's way better than the other one.

roctheme May 14 2020 10 the best

10 the best

phyrz May 01 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

pu4yes Apr 25 2020 10 the best

10 the best

martyd Mar 09 2020 10 the best

Díky :)

alex10336 Feb 26 2020 10 the best

10 the best

llewen Dec 30 2019 8 great

Thanks to whomever created this.

d3xt3r Oct 06 2019 9 excellent

9 excellent! @clearmartin, could you add a custom font size option like in the Event Calendar widget? (https://store.kde.org/p/998901/) Currently using the horizontal layout the font size is very large, see the image below: https://imgur.com/blzM3oT

freefreeno Oct 05 2019 10 the best

10 the best

ikhwan-arif Aug 30 2019 10 the best

10 the best

autotech Jul 23 2019 8 great

8 great

luca-web Jun 24 2019 8 great

8 great

zhigalin May 28 2019 10 the best

Very informative

zinjanthr0pus Mar 14 2019 9 excellent

ewon Feb 25 2019 9 excellent

prolaser Feb 22 2019 9 excellent

+Now it shows the same pressure like on the website (Today 1030). Great ! :-)

mystress Dec 14 2018 9 excellent

marianarlt Dec 02 2018 9 excellent

Great plasmoid. Would it be possible to have an option to disable the blue text about "xxx minutes ago" in some future release? I is not at all legible in most panels or task bars and looks like broken pixels more than anything else. Would be awesome. Good work!