RC2 5744 Weather Sidebar Gadget does not work

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)

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)
>

Hi,

I actually get no data at all! I just get a message that the service is not
available (when attached to the sidebar). When detaching it from the sidebar
I get the message that the seervice is not available in my region or
language.... (see attached) strange. As late as yesterday I had no problem
with the weather using build 5728.

//hannes

"PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0BEEE3D1-D388-4941-81C9-49FB6452201C@microsoft.com...
> 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)
>>

Have you tried a different region?

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:465668DD-E7AE-4205-B723-2E27BAC4BEDD@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I actually get no data at all! I just get a message that the service is
> not
> available (when attached to the sidebar). When detaching it from the
> sidebar
> I get the message that the seervice is not available in my region or
> language.... (see attached) strange. As late as yesterday I had no problem
> with the weather using build 5728.
>
> //hannes
>
> "PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:0BEEE3D1-D388-4941-81C9-49FB6452201C@microsoft.com...
>> 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)
>>>
>

I changed my location (in ctrl panel regional and language options) to US
but I can not change language to English and keep using a Swedish keyboard -
no effect! Is there any specific "region" setting available apart from this?

//Hannes

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
news:ee5YpWk6GHA.4592@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Have you tried a different region?
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
> http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "Hannes" <hannes.helander@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:465668DD-E7AE-4205-B723-2E27BAC4BEDD@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I actually get no data at all! I just get a message that the service is
>> not
>> available (when attached to the sidebar). When detaching it from the
>> sidebar
>> I get the message that the seervice is not available in my region or
>> language.... (see attached) strange. As late as yesterday I had no
>> problem
>> with the weather using build 5728.
>>
>> //hannes
>>
>> "PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:0BEEE3D1-D388-4941-81C9-49FB6452201C@microsoft.com...
>>> 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)
>>>>
>>
>
>

"Hannes" wrote:

> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>

I have the same issue.

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
news:03714105-4AC0-4F46-A3CB-03886D7D46FA@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "Hannes" wrote:
>
>> Anyone experiencing the same problem?
>>
>
> I have the same issue.

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)

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
news:%23wuB24u6GHA.4276@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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)
>
>

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)
>
>
>

"Wu" <Wu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D7F6B161-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.

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)
>>
>>
>>

Hi everyone!

Since yesterday I tried alot of different settings and in the end found a
way to get the weather gadget to work.

Problem:
The weather gadget only gave a "service not available in your region or
language" message. I could not even get data for the default "Redmond .
Furthermore I could not enter any new city in the search box (gadgets
options) since it also gave a "service not available" message. The result
was that the gadget only showed a blue background without any data.

Cause & Solution:
In the "Regional and Language Options" first tab: "Formats" the current
format was in my case set to Sweden. When I changed to "English (United
States)" it started to work again as soon as I reloaded the gadget. Changes
in the other tabs "Location"...etc did not seem to matter only the "Current
Format" setting had any effect.

If you can live with English settings you can get the gadget to work again
(of course you can alwayschange the details like comma, grouping etc by
usiing the "customize.." button.) If you can not I guess you will just have
to wait until RTM or longer...

//Hannes


"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)

Still doesn't work... everything is set to US (English), but still no luck.

"Hannes" wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> Since yesterday I tried alot of different settings and in the end found a
> way to get the weather gadget to work.
>
> Problem:
> The weather gadget only gave a "service not available in your region or
> language" message. I could not even get data for the default "Redmond .
> Furthermore I could not enter any new city in the search box (gadgets
> options) since it also gave a "service not available" message. The result
> was that the gadget only showed a blue background without any data.
>
> Cause & Solution:
> In the "Regional and Language Options" first tab: "Formats" the current
> format was in my case set to Sweden. When I changed to "English (United
> States)" it started to work again as soon as I reloaded the gadget. Changes
> in the other tabs "Location"...etc did not seem to matter only the "Current
> Format" setting had any effect.
>
> If you can live with English settings you can get the gadget to work again
> (of course you can alwayschange the details like comma, grouping etc by
> usiing the "customize.." button.) If you can not I guess you will just have
> to wait until RTM or longer...
>
> //Hannes
>
>
> "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)
>
>

haha,i have the same issue.I'm in Beijing.

"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)
>

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