Gunstar Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) I signed up and got my key, successfully entered it, but I don't see any difference at all in the info I get or any new info. What's custom about it for Weather.atr exactly? Maybe I'm trying to soon and have to wait for the 120 minute update? At first it said my key was invalid, then I checked at the site and saw that you had to wait a couple of hours for it to be activated, which I did and it was accepted then... Edited January 24, 2021 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) The system only updates the free data every 10 minutes, if you exceed that a few times... you get suspended for a bit or may have to get a new id. The app on the Atari should try to cache the data and only check every ten minutes. If you you exceed it and they email you, contact them and explain your testing your own retro app and they'll turn you back on. If you don't respond the suspension goes into full effect. A paid subscription gets around some of the limits etc.. Fun fact, you can have as many API keys as you need, getting around some of this if you use them round robin... By having more than one key/subscription you can skip holding on to the data. An just pull it fresh each time. This is slightly unique in that they're re processing the data for a hopefully more accurate forecast. NOAA and others used to provide similar services and data. (well they still do, but it can be a pain) Edited January 24, 2021 by _The Doctor__ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) @_The Doctor__ I don't think I've tried to access the free data (that is refresh the Weather program more than a few times a day), I'll check my email to make sure I haven't exceeded their limits, but as I said, I see no difference in the data Weather.atr gives me in the current weather data or forecast. What extra content should I be seeing with an API key? Edit: Ok, I found out on their site what I'm supposed to be getting with the free API account, but nothing has changed in the Weather.atr program, no new data, I still just get the current conditions and forecasts for the next 7 days, just like I got before I got an API key. I did reset my refresh interval from 120 minutes to 20, so I hopefully will get updated information more often now. Maybe that's all this program allows? Edited January 25, 2021 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 @Gunstar: You will not receive any new data. Custom API key allows you to set application refresh interval to custom value. You cannot do it on default key to not exceed daily limit of requests for regular users. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I don't know if I just didn't notice before, and if it's wrong data coming from OpenWeather or an issue with the Weather program, but right now it is 12:13 pm where I am at but program says it's 12:13 am! The time zone is right though, showing GMT-6. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 you've got me Fixed and uploaded to fujinet.pl. Thanks for spotting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 if greater than 11:59 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 (edited) New version of my weather application has been released! Improvements: - now you can limit number of decimal places in displayed temperature (0,1,2), - some bugfixes: location api change, am/pm bug WARNING! after first run your options will be set to default, so if you have custom api key, you will have to retype it I'm sorry! Subsequent updates will maintain it. Boot it from TNFS fujinet.pl /networking/weather.atr Edited January 26, 2021 by bocianu typo 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 I am getting ERROR 138 saying it cannot find my location. Also I have entered information like API key in the settings and its not saving. Maybe related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 18 minutes ago, vinniet said: I am getting ERROR 138 saying it cannot find my location. Also I have entered information like API key in the settings and its not saving. Maybe related? Have noticed that sometimes the geolocation api endpoint doesn't answer, so it times out... -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, tschak909 said: Have noticed that sometimes the geolocation api endpoint doesn't answer, so it times out... -Thom Any idea why my settings are not being saved? In the post it says they are saved in FujiNet, could there be issue with setting saved? Can we remove them and see if saves again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) No he said he updated the software and your old keys won't be there, you will have to enter them back in... any future software update should be able to retain your' api key so you won't have to put your' key in again for the future. make sure you are running the latest fujinet firmware and latest weather.atr Edited February 9, 2021 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said: No he said he updated the software and your old keys won't be there, you will have to enter them back in... any future software update should be able to retain your' api key so you won't have to put your' key in again for the future. make sure you are running the latest fujinet firmware and latest weather.atr Yes I am always at the most up to date firmware and I just entered the key, was accepted and quit the application. I went right back in and no settings were saved. I went to TNFS server fujinet.pl and used the weather.atr from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) NO, you need your own copy of the weather.atr... everyone can't load and save to the one on someone else's tnfs server! Edited February 9, 2021 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said: NO, you need your own copy of the weather.atr... everyone can't load and save to the one on someone else's tnfs server! *deep-breath* If I remember correctly, all of weather's settings get saved to appkeys, which were a way we came up with to store application configuration on the device, without needing to keep copies of the software. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) there is a limit to how many keys can be stored, and you shouldn't be using someone else's key, if the first key is used each time it leads to a time out for the key and if they were all stored in a pool... you would have to try another api key after a failure, or randomize which key is used on each launch or call of the software. deep breathe as well I don't remember anyone saying the keys are stored on the local device and then loaded by the external software for it's use. If it is supposed to do that, that's great. He still can't get that to happen evidently... There has to be a reason why the software works for some and not others... Perhaps it's working with all things local and writable, and can't pull the local data for some path issue... Perhaps there is a need to test that out and make sure it's working the way you implied. Edited February 9, 2021 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 7 hours ago, tschak909 said: *deep-breath* If I remember correctly, all of weather's settings get saved to appkeys, which were a way we came up with to store application configuration on the device, without needing to keep copies of the software. -Thom Is there way look at the appkeys or better yet delete them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzwald Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 10 hours ago, vinniet said: Is there way look at the appkeys or better yet delete them? They are stored on the sd card in the FujiNet directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 so if you give him the name of the file he can just go in and delete it, then try again... correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 I figured out the issue. Turns out pi.hole was blocking api.ipstack.com and that was causing weather app not store settings. Now I allowed it in pi.hole, everything is working just fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Just to clarify pi.hole is Network protection device that keeps blacklist and whitelist on DNS that carry ads or spam. That URL api.ip.stack.com was on the blacklist as suspected spam, I added it to whitelist so it passes through and allows it to be accessed. Bottom line if he does not reach that site settings are not saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 12 hours ago, vinniet said: Just to clarify pi.hole is Network protection device that keeps blacklist and whitelist on DNS that carry ads or spam. That URL api.ip.stack.com was on the blacklist as suspected spam, I added it to whitelist so it passes through and allows it to be accessed. Bottom line if he does not reach that site settings are not saved. Hello! Ok, thanks for reporting that issue, I will check it for sure. And tschak909 is right, settings are saved on SD card in the device, so you do not have your own copy of weather.atr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinniet Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 8 hours ago, bocianu said: Hello! Ok, thanks for reporting that issue, I will check it for sure. And tschak909 is right, settings are saved on SD card in the device, so you do not have your own copy of weather.atr. Correct and I found those files and moved them all. Allowing me to get to the URL is what fixed the problem. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 On 11/8/2020 at 3:32 PM, bocianu said: New version of my weather application has been released! Improvements: - now user settings and last location are stored, so it starts faster, - you can set and use custom API key, and then change auto-refresh interval - 2 new awesome visual themes by PG! - some bugfixes - It should work on all XL/XE computers, but not sure if it will work on 400/800. I don't have any of them to check it out, sorry ? - Now application starts from .atr image. Boot it from TNFS fujinet.pl /networking/weather.atr Make sure you have the latest version of the firmware installed on your #FujiNet device, otherwise saving options will not work. weather.atr 90.02 kB · 15 downloads It runs on my stock 48K 800 but it will not accept any keystrokes which means I can't select Forecast. Console keys do work. I'm running firmware 0.5.879c407c 2021-04-02 01:14:21 on a FujiNet 1.0. I love your program BTW (when using my 800XL)! Regards, SteveS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 5 hours ago, a8isa1 said: It runs on my stock 48K 800 but it will not accept any keystrokes which means I can't select Forecast. Console keys do work. If console keys do work, you can switch to forecast using START key. thanks for feedback, I will check this keyboard issue anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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