RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work

Posted: 10-07-2006, 07:09 PM
I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that I
can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?

Anyone experiencing the same problem?

//Hannes

PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)

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RE: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-07-2006, 07:27 PM
No problems here, meaning I did my clean install of RC2 earlier this morning
and it connected to get information for Portland, OR. Any way to make it
manually update to see if it is really connected or just showing the last
retrieved data?

"Hannes" wrote:
> I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that I
> can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
> available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?
>
> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>
> //Hannes
>
> PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)
>
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RE: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-08-2006, 09:41 AM


"Hannes" wrote:
> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>
I have the same issue.
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Robert R. Johnson Jr
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-08-2006, 11:25 AM
When you say it doesn't work can you be more specific? Are you saing the
icon will not launch or that it will not refresh the temperatures of the
selected city?

regards
Robert
"BillD" <BillD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Hannes" wrote:
>
>> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>>
>
> I have the same issue.
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Bruce Williams [MSFT]
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-08-2006, 04:27 PM
There can be legal issues (our weather data may not meet governmental
requirements) or correctness issues (we don't have good weather data in our
gadget feed) that prevent us from showing weather for a particular region.
I don't recall any problems with Sweden, but I'm not really up to speed on
which regions are enabled and which ones aren't. Just because it used to
work doesn't necessarily mean anything - perhaps we showed data in the past
that we shouldn't have.

Oh, or the servers hosting the weather data may actually be down or
misconfigured - that's happened once or twice during the beta period.

These are all back-end service issues that don't effect the gadget bits in
the box - I would expect them to be resolved before RTM for the associated
languages. (Although I don't know enough about the issues to promise that.)

Just in case we do have some bug at play here, though, please do keep filing
the bugs when you see issues like this.

-Bruce

"Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that I
>can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
>available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?
>
> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>
> //Hannes
>
> PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)

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Robert R. Johnson Jr
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-08-2006, 05:06 PM
I am currently residing in the Netherlands and the feed seems to be just
fine. Thanks for the feedback!

regards
Robert
"Bruce Williams [MSFT]" <Bruce.Williams@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> There can be legal issues (our weather data may not meet governmental
> requirements) or correctness issues (we don't have good weather data in
> our gadget feed) that prevent us from showing weather for a particular
> region. I don't recall any problems with Sweden, but I'm not really up to
> speed on which regions are enabled and which ones aren't. Just because it
> used to work doesn't necessarily mean anything - perhaps we showed data in
> the past that we shouldn't have.
>
> Oh, or the servers hosting the weather data may actually be down or
> misconfigured - that's happened once or twice during the beta period.
>
> These are all back-end service issues that don't effect the gadget bits in
> the box - I would expect them to be resolved before RTM for the associated
> languages. (Although I don't know enough about the issues to promise
> that.)
>
> Just in case we do have some bug at play here, though, please do keep
> filing the bugs when you see issues like this.
>
> -Bruce
>
> "Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:83410B1E-AB06-48CF-9CE7-1D0944145F9B@microsoft.com...
>>I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that I
>>can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
>>available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?
>>
>> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>>
>> //Hannes
>>
>> PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)
>
>
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Wu
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-08-2006, 07:37 PM
I had RC1 and the weather gagdet worked perfectly (I live in New Haven, CT).
And ever since I upgraded to RC2, it stopped working no matter what US city I
entered. So I don't think it's a legal issue (US cities?) or a server issue
(showing the same error message for over two days?). Besides the weather
gagdet, all others work fine in RC2.

"Bruce Williams [MSFT]" wrote:
> There can be legal issues (our weather data may not meet governmental
> requirements) or correctness issues (we don't have good weather data in our
> gadget feed) that prevent us from showing weather for a particular region.
> I don't recall any problems with Sweden, but I'm not really up to speed on
> which regions are enabled and which ones aren't. Just because it used to
> work doesn't necessarily mean anything - perhaps we showed data in the past
> that we shouldn't have.
>
> Oh, or the servers hosting the weather data may actually be down or
> misconfigured - that's happened once or twice during the beta period.
>
> These are all back-end service issues that don't effect the gadget bits in
> the box - I would expect them to be resolved before RTM for the associated
> languages. (Although I don't know enough about the issues to promise that.)
>
> Just in case we do have some bug at play here, though, please do keep filing
> the bugs when you see issues like this.
>
> -Bruce
>
> "Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:83410B1E-AB06-48CF-9CE7-1D0944145F9B@microsoft.com...
> >I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that I
> >can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
> >available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?
> >
> > Anyone experiencing the same problem?
> >
> > //Hannes
> >
> > PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)
>
>
>
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-08-2006, 08:09 PM

"Wu" <Wu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I had RC1 and the weather gagdet worked perfectly (I live in New Haven,
>CT).
> And ever since I upgraded to RC2, it stopped working no matter what US
> city I
> entered. So I don't think it's a legal issue (US cities?) or a server
> issue
> (showing the same error message for over two days?). Besides the weather
> gagdet, all others work fine in RC2.
Weather gadget works fine here (UK)
>
> "Bruce Williams [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> There can be legal issues (our weather data may not meet governmental
>> requirements) or correctness issues (we don't have good weather data in
>> our
>> gadget feed) that prevent us from showing weather for a particular
>> region.
>> I don't recall any problems with Sweden, but I'm not really up to speed
>> on
>> which regions are enabled and which ones aren't. Just because it used to
>> work doesn't necessarily mean anything - perhaps we showed data in the
>> past
>> that we shouldn't have.
>>
>> Oh, or the servers hosting the weather data may actually be down or
>> misconfigured - that's happened once or twice during the beta period.
>>
>> These are all back-end service issues that don't effect the gadget bits
>> in
>> the box - I would expect them to be resolved before RTM for the
>> associated
>> languages. (Although I don't know enough about the issues to promise
>> that.)
>>
>> Just in case we do have some bug at play here, though, please do keep
>> filing
>> the bugs when you see issues like this.
>>
>> -Bruce
>>
>> "Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:83410B1E-AB06-48CF-9CE7-1D0944145F9B@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that
>> >I
>> >can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
>> >available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?
>> >
>> > Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>> >
>> > //Hannes
>> >
>> > PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)
>>
>>
>>
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-09-2006, 03:41 PM
Wu wrote:
> I had RC1 and the weather gagdet worked perfectly (I live in New Haven, CT).
> And ever since I upgraded to RC2, it stopped working no matter what US city I
> entered. So I don't think it's a legal issue (US cities?) or a server issue
> (showing the same error message for over two days?). Besides the weather
> gagdet, all others work fine in RC2.
Wu:

Works for me in Ridgefield CT (RC2 x64 clean install).

It's 62 degrees.

David Wilkinson
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Bruce Williams [MSFT]
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Re: RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work
Posted: 10-09-2006, 07:22 PM
does it give you the "cannot connect" error, or does it just not update the
weather in a timely fashion?

-Bruce

"Wu" <Wu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news7F6B161-FAE3-41AA-A5EF-E17011DFD3DA@microsoft.com...
>I had RC1 and the weather gagdet worked perfectly (I live in New Haven,
>CT).
> And ever since I upgraded to RC2, it stopped working no matter what US
> city I
> entered. So I don't think it's a legal issue (US cities?) or a server
> issue
> (showing the same error message for over two days?). Besides the weather
> gagdet, all others work fine in RC2.
>
> "Bruce Williams [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> There can be legal issues (our weather data may not meet governmental
>> requirements) or correctness issues (we don't have good weather data in
>> our
>> gadget feed) that prevent us from showing weather for a particular
>> region.
>> I don't recall any problems with Sweden, but I'm not really up to speed
>> on
>> which regions are enabled and which ones aren't. Just because it used to
>> work doesn't necessarily mean anything - perhaps we showed data in the
>> past
>> that we shouldn't have.
>>
>> Oh, or the servers hosting the weather data may actually be down or
>> misconfigured - that's happened once or twice during the beta period.
>>
>> These are all back-end service issues that don't effect the gadget bits
>> in
>> the box - I would expect them to be resolved before RTM for the
>> associated
>> languages. (Although I don't know enough about the issues to promise
>> that.)
>>
>> Just in case we do have some bug at play here, though, please do keep
>> filing
>> the bugs when you see issues like this.
>>
>> -Bruce
>>
>> "Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:83410B1E-AB06-48CF-9CE7-1D0944145F9B@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a clean install of RC2 which works great apart from the fact that
>> >I
>> >can not get the weather sidebar gadget to connect. It says service not
>> >available. Is this a RC2 problem or are the weather servers just down?
>> >
>> > Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>> >
>> > //Hannes
>> >
>> > PS: Connecting from Sweden via Bredbandsbolaget ADSL 2+ service (24/1)
>>
>>
>>
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