Geeklets

These are fantastic and I like your arrangement of the geeklets. A little tweeking and a couple of additions, it I am loving it.

Thank you.

Everyone using this don't forget to make sure your refresh rate is something reasonable (like 3600 seconds or more).

Hm, this stopped working for me last night. Anyone else having the issue?

Looks like the site may be down, from mercury's comments maybe the site was getting too heavy a load? too bad, I spent friday writing the base for a  'location aware' geeklet, and wanted to use this code to get local weather for whatever city im in!

I'm having the issue, also.

Any other ideas? Suggestions?

According to the author of Gtwthr the site is down. See his comments below and also in the GTWTHR geeklet.

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Find me on twitter, @jdfwarrior or help@gtwthr.com

Unfortunately though, right now the site is down. Apparently there have been a large amount of users who couldn't follow directions to set the refresh rate, leaving it set to zero and creating a HUGE amount of load on the server. My host has killed it for now. If the users won't set the settings properly, this will continue to happen.

Came in here to post the same thing. Please set your refresh rate to something other than 0ms. I doubt you need to know what the weather is doing every millisecond of your computer using experience.

Can we rewrite some of these geeklets as scripts to ensure regardless of what is set in the geektool box, the webservice is only called on a periodic basis?

How do I get the temperature to display in Celcius rather than Fahrenheit?

[edit] Answered my own question by actually doing a bit of research!

Got it! go into the command for the temp. and change it from "temp" to "temp_c" and ur done

Forgive me.....new to this. How do I change to display my local (Houston) info?

Thanks in advance!

Hey my degree sign and "/" are on the line below the temp. Any ideas?

My degree sign and "/" are on the next line as well. I haven't been able to figure out why. Anyone know how to fix this?

@Jibuh, @sublevel4 - I had the same problem with the / being on the next line, and I figured out a way to fix it.

I just added a pipe to tr -d '\n'

This code simply grabs the temperature value and removes the '\n' from the end of it so our display looks nice all on one line:

curl http://gtwthr.com/USFL0163/temp | tr -d '\n'

echo "°/"

This project has been discontinued. And since all of the scripts go through his website, this is pointless to use or download anymore.

You are correct that gtwhtr web site has shut down (due to weather.com now charging for weather info). This geeklet will no longer function. Sorry. I'm trying to figure out how to get something else.