SP Weather module updated with new API and performance boost
There is an English proverb “A ring around the sun or moon, means that rain will come real soon”. The nature is full of mystery. Weather is one of its most fickle elements. The ancient human being used to observe the surrounding signs to predict the weather. But today, you don’t have to look here and there. Weather update is now at your fingertips through lots of tools available on different platforms.
For Joomla websites, we have the SP Weather module to show the weather updates and forecasts on board. And today is a good sunny day for all of the SP Weather users. Because the module has just got an important update. Let’s check what’s new in SP Weather v2.3 starting with the changelog.
SP Weather v2.3 changelog
- Update: Introduced OpenWeatherMap API
- Update: Dropped Yahoo Weather API
- Update: Caching improved
- Update: Performance improved
New OpenWeatherMap API
The SP Weather module was originally based on Yahoo Weather API. Recently, we have been receiving user reports that the Yahoo Weather API unexpectedly causes errors and the forecasts go offline. You put the module on your site to show weather information to the visitors, but if they don’t get it, that will turn out to be a bad UX. With today’s update, we’ve solved this problem.
The Yahoo API has been dropped and replaced with the new OpenWeatherMap API. The latest one has a good reputation and track record of stability and service. Most importantly, you will no longer face the issues you’ve been experiencing.
SP Weather Demo: The weather is now awesome. Enjoy your time!
How to use OpenWeatherMap API?
Step 1: At first visit the official OpenWeatherMap registration page and signup for an API key. After logging-in to your user account there, you will see an API keys tab on the dashboard. Click that, and copy your API key.
Step 2: Login to your Joomla site’s admin control panel. Click Modules on the left. Find the SP Weather module in the list appeared. Click SP Weather, and that will take you to its backend. There you will find the API KEY field to enter your OpenWeatherMap API key. Paste the API key (which you’ve just got in the step 1) in the API KEY field and save.
You can also adjust the module settings to modify the appearance of the weather update information on your site.
Along with the weather API update, we've improved the caching system and overall performance of the SP Weather module. Try yourself to feel the change.
Good to know
The SP Weather module helps you display the current weather condition and forecasts on a Joomla site for a given city. You can set the city name, translated name of the location, weather status, humidity, wind condition, forecast and so on.
The forecast display can be customized using options like block/list layouts, number of forecast days, separator, temperature unit etc. The module has a cache functionality that makes the weather condition loading faster. The cache cleans automatically at a preset interval.
I’m really excited about the SP Weather update that will bring the weather information back to all of the Joomla sites that use this module. Kudos to our R&D team for the update. Please let us know your feedback and suggestions. Thank you!
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so WHAT's the CASE??
Thank You for analize that. I waste a lot of time
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SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url] with 5 API platform.
Thanks for using SP Weather module. Could you please share your issue what you are facing?
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[code type="xml"]
Can't forecast decode data. Also make sure your location is current. Verify your location from here https://openweathermap.org/find
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This is on a website based on a UK server but a holiday rental site for Lanzarote. I have checked on open weather and have the correct place name Arrecife, ES
Just not showing the weather
rsharipov about 3 days ago
I have the same problem (I checked different cities):
Can't current decode data. Also make sure your location is current. Verify your location from here https://openweathermap.org/find
Can't current decode data. Also make sure your location is current. Verify your location from here https://openweathermap.org/find
Thanks for using this. Could you please share your city name?
Generated a new API key just to be sure... no difference.
Thanks.
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url] with 5 API platform.
I am facing the same issue, pleas update if you have any solution
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url] with 5 API platform.
So I did some digging.
The problems is that the module strips out
orig:
$this->location = str_replace(' ', '', $this->params->get('location', 'Dhaka,BD'));
patch:
$this->location = str_replace(' ', '%20', $this->params->get('location', 'Dhaka,BD'));
It would have been neat if your GitHub repository was updated and I could have done a pull request.
But you’re welcome.
But your solution did not solve the problem.
There are more issues so this is clearly not a quality product. Like why present temperature with 3 decimals? One is more than enough. It is "m/s" not "METER/SEC" etc.
To comply with our spec's we ended up in reading OWM JSON returns as we haven't found someone providing a really nice ready-to-go weather module.
As we are a community platform provider a city id fixed in a module does not make any sense to us. JoomShaper has stopped here half way. We'ld buy a SP Weather Pro version when city is a variable which we will get from our member's geolocation.
[code type="xml"]Can't forecast decode data. Also make sure your location is current. Verify your location from here https://openweathermap.org/find
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Peter's solution didn't help :/
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url] with 5 API platform.
I appreciate that this is a free extension, but it would be [u]really[/u] helpful to everyone, if some kind soul from Joomshaper could kindly respond here with an explanation as to why it's not working.. at least so that we can get it working correctly.
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url] with 5 API platform.
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url] with 5 API platform. The free forecast is also included there.
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url]
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url]
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url]
i had the same problem as everyone here:
"Can't forecast decode data. Also make sure your location is current. Verify your location from here"
I tried to disable the forecast through the module's admin and it did work for me.
However, this is not an acceptable solution...
Has the support team found a way to properly solve this?
Please let us know, because it is not right to offer a module that dysfunctions..
Thank you
SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url]
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Page Error: https://app.box.com/s/5pqjeacdeh7sjqsde8zfwsaeehjx6ms7
SP Weather Setting: https://app.box.com/s/18lw4exxwftm5dcmyv4fit2x23ykv64b
Thanks,
SP Chaudhary
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SP Weather 3.0 is released: [url="https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/update-sp-weather-3-0-is-here-with-5-api-platforms"]here[/url]
Thank you
Nothing works.
[code type="php"]$data['query']['results']['channel']['item']['condition']['temp'] = round($data['query']['results']['channel']['item']['condition']['temp']);[/code]
We will add this option on the future update.
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We are sorry for this inconvenience, Could you please try this solution: https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/sp-weather-module-updated-with-new-api-and-performance-boost#comment-9475,8402
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Después de pelearme bastante, he descubierto cómo redondear la temperatura.
Yo lo he probado con la API de Yahoo, que es la que uso; pero supongo que funcionará con todas.
En el mod_sp_weather, aproximadamente en la línea 112 has de sustituir el código que hay por éste:
} elseif ($platform == 'yahoo') {
$data['query']['results']['channel']['item']['condition']['temp'] = round($helper->tempConvert(round($data['current']->condition->temperature, 'c')), 2);