Overview

 If you have some trouble with specific locations, please use the following guide to find the correct settings.

Troubleshooting current and forecast weather condition data

Foreca

1. Open your preferred browser.
2. Enter the URL "http://weather.service.msn.com/data....&culture=en-US&wealocations=wc:<code>2".
3. Check the browser output.
   • If the result shows “validwcode=’false’”, the selected location cannot be determined.
   • If the result contains a string like “entityid" the selected location is valid.
4. Retry steps 2 and 3, until your location can be found, otherwise copy the city code string into your WorldWeather Lite profile and save the configuration.

Yahoo

1. Open your preferred browser.
2. Enter the URL "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=<code>2" for international city code or "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=<code>3" for Where On Earth ID.
3. Check the browser output.
   • if the result contains a string like “City not found“ the selected location cannot be determined.
   • if the result contains a string like “Conditions for…" the selected location is valid.
4. Retry steps 2 and 3 until your location can be found, copy the city code string into your WorldWeather Lite profile and save the configuration.

World Weather Online

1. Open your preferred browser.
2. Enter the URL "http://free.worldweatheronline.com/f...eather.ashx?q=<location>1&num_of_days=5&format=xml&key=<key>5".
3. Check the browser output.
   • If the result contains a string like “User account does not exist“, your API key isn’t valid.
   • If the result contains a string like “Unable to find any matching weather location to the query submitted” the selected location cannot be determined.
   • If the result contains a string like “City" the selected location is valid.
4. Retry step 2 and 3, until your location can be found, copy the location data into your WorldWeather Lite profile and save the configuration.

Weather Underground

1. Open your preferred browser.
2. Enter the URL "http://api.wunderground.com/api/<key>6/conditions/q/<country>4/<location>1.xml".
3. Check the browser output.
   • If the result contains a string like “keynotfound“, your API key isn’t valid.
   • If the result contains a string like “display_location" the selected location is valid.
4. Retry step 2 and 3, until your location can be found, copy the country/location data string into your WorldWeather Lite profile and save the configuration.

Troubleshooting Footnotes

1 <location> is a string and can contain spaces and lower/upper case letters.
2 <code> is a string and cannot contain spaces.
3 <code> is a string and cannot contain letters or spaces.
4 <country> is a string and can contain spaces and lower/upper case letters.
5 <key> is your personal API key from World Weather Online, to register please go to this page.
6 <key> is your personal API key from Weather Underground, to register please go to this page.

Related

• Setup