[BUG] Wrong Weather location and coordinates being ignored

[zaphbbrox]

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Step 2. Version info

Version info

Packages:
    caelestia-shell-git 1.4.0.r6.g1b4b90a-1
    caelestia-cli-git 1.0.2.r20.g55d75a1-1
    caelestia-meta r151.cadf1e2-1

Caelestia:
    Last commit: df9a042df027be30ad414360a4aa84dced9897ca
    Commit message: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' 

Shell:
     caelestia-shell 1.4.0, revision 1b4b90a3ad9532f7002ef2593d8efb68443f21f3, distrubuted by: AUR (package: caelestia-shell-git)

Quickshell:
    quickshell 0.2.1, revision 6742148cf4a8415a9c51fdeb11d8c3ea716c2e14, distributed by: AUR (package: quickshell-git)

Step 3. Describe the issue

Since the issue #1038 is a feature request, I decided to open a new issue describing the encountered bug:
The auto-detection of the weather location doesn't work, it always shows the wrong city.
Additionally the coordinates in .config/caelestia/shell.json are being ignored.

Logs

Calling caelestia shell -l throws:

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['qs', '-c', 'caelestia', 'log']' returned non-zero exit status 255.

Calling qs -c caelestia log throws:

[READER] ERROR: This log was encoded with version 3 of the quickshell log encoder, which cannot be decoded by the current version of quickshell, with log version 2

Reminder

• I agree that it's usually impossible for others to help me without my logs.

[BlackInOne69]

im also facing the same error and i think its a bug too

[Unrectified]

The default location has always been wrong for me but using coordinates is still working for me (I use the freshiest caelestia version)

[zaphbbrox]

Ah sorry, never mind.
It seems the config value was moved from the dashboard section to services.
After updating my config, using coordinates works!

[BlackInOne69]

@zaphbbrox could you elaborate, im also facing same error

[zaphbbrox]

@zaphbbrox could you elaborate, im also facing same error

Sure.
The weatherLocation config value was in section dashboard in .config/caelestia/shell.json.
After looking at the example configuration I noticed, it should be in the section services, which didn't exist in my config.

So I added the following lines to my shell.json:

    "services": {
        "weatherLocation": "37.2343,-115.8066"
    },

If you add it as the last section in your config remove the comma.

[BlackInOne69]

"services": {
"weatherLocation": "Bharatpur,NP",
"useFahrenheit": false,
"useTwelveHourClock": true,
"gpuType": "",
"visualiserBars": 45,
"audioIncrement": 0.1,
"maxVolume": 1,
"smartScheme": true,
"defaultPlayer": "Spotify",
"playerAliases": [
{
"from": "com.github.th_ch.youtube_music",
"to": "YT Music"
}
]
}, its already under services tab and im still facing same error, showing kathmandu even when im at bharatpur

[zaphbbrox]

You have to enter the coordinates instead of the city name. So for Bharatpur in Nepal:

"weatherLocation": "27.68119,84.43017"

If its another Bharatpur you can find the coordinates here for example: https://latitude.to/

[BlackInOne69]

yes this works but i want it to show bharatpur instead of kathmandu

[soramanew]

The city name issue should be fixed in the latest git version, however it has not hit the latest release yet

[CtrlLuzzio]

Setting coordinates instead of city names crashes the shell