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Open-Meteo weather data no longer available (using Breezy Weather) (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs_in_services@sopuli.xyz

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Breezy Weather has silently quit updating the weather from Open-Meteo, without announcement. The app /claims/ to have updated “1 min ago”, but there is no new data. I’m not sure if this is because I am using the gratis weather data that the app is preconfigured to use, or if they quietly abandoned the API of my version of the app (“6.0.12_freenet”).

FWIW, I am trapped on the last Breezy Weather version for AOS 5. Had to fetch it from Izzy’s archives. Would be interesting to know if newer versions can still get open gratis weather data.

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[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz [S] 1 point 1 week ago

Indeed the API would have to have changed on open-meteo. Alternatively, it’s also possible that open-meteo started blocking Tor (the only network I will use).

I doubt it’s a Tor block though, because of this other problem: when I first installed Breezy Weather, I configured it to get weather for 6 different cities. It all worked for a while. I could switch to any of the 6 cities and it would fetch the weather. Then after a couple months it failed to fetch 5 of the cities (luckily the cities I did not live in). Now it fails to grab weather for any city. BW indicates an error-free fetch “0 mins ago”, but shows no data. In fact, I’m calling it a software bug because BW is likely failing to show the user an error.

So it looks like two problems: OM changing their API and BW not reporting an error.

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