Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update
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@MarkNagy sounds good! Will keep an eye out for it and advise.
I am on a Oneplus 9 Pro.
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I confirm that they don't work properly.
The Windy Radar needs reinstallation from scratch (after the last update I deleted it from my home page and then I installed it again). Also the play button needs to be pressed 2-3 times, 2-3 seconds to start working.
The live camera needs much time to start working every morning after reconnecting to internet.
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Sorry to say but I disabled battery optimization on my Huawei p30 lite, yet windy widget is several hours behind. It says 37 degrees right now but it's 29 o Urla İzmir..
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@ArendvanE said in Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update:
Update: only the temperature is not updated in widget.
Enabling notifications fixed the widget forecast auto refresh to me, however the current temperature is not updating not even when I manually refresh the widget.
@madjoe said in Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update:
There's one interesting addition to it: when you change location, then manually refresh it, the widget updates successfully. It's not successful when you don't change location.
Same behaviour here.
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@MarkNagy I saw v39.1.4 (July 28th) show up in the App Store this morning. Same issues after updating but not sure if this release has the hot fix.
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@sethro2 it stopped working again. Wasn't refreshing for few days and now it's blank again...
App Version 39.1.4Btw I've been using windy for years and the widget always needed manual refreshing. Never updated on its own.
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So here's a small update from my side.
I checked the play store today and there was an update for Windy which I installed.
Did the usual stuff.....uninstall, reinstall, reconfigure, login to premium, setup widgets, gave all permissions, ensured background data access and disabled any battery saver logic.I configured the widgets at 16:10 and so far they did an update at 17:10, 18:10 and just now 19:10
So it looks like an hourly update currently works.My feedback to this is, that this is a step forward but this is still not usable for me.
On my IPad for example, the widget is on the first page and once I wake the IPad from sleep, I can see the widget immediately updating so usually the data displayed on the weather radar is a maximum of 10-15 minutes old and this is off course what I need. There's no other purpose of a weather and weather radar widget for me, otherwise I could just launch the app.So what I would expect is to get back the old behavior.
On my Android phone, I don't have the widget on page one and I don't expect it to continuously update while I don't use my phone. In fact that's what I would not want, because why should the widget constantly fetch data and drain the battery while my phone is in standby.
But when I wake my phone and check the screen, then I would expect the widget to fetch the most recent weather and weather radar data, since this is what I need it for. A quick check for the radar, for example when hiking and checking if a critical weather situation might come up or not.So I'll continue to wait for the next update.
Since there have been also other comments stating that this never worked before, always manual refresh was needed etc. to be clear here: This worked on my phone prior to v39.4.1 exactly like described before. When I checked the weather radar widget it always showed me data that was a maximum of 10-15 minutes old and I also have the weather app of the German weather services and this widget behaves exactly like that - so this is definitely possible on my device, with my Android version and my setup.
One observation I made now multiple times with the Windy weather radar widget is, that if it's stuck, it sometimes shows the spinning data loading circle in the top left corner. If I then manually refresh, it immediately fetches the data.
So one thing that it obviously not working is, that your implementation doesn't deal right with the situation that data transfer didn't work for example due to loss of connectivity but that is just one point, it does not solve or improve the fact, that the widget is currently only refreshing every hour while sitting on my desk with perfect connectivity.Best Regards,
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The only workaround for me is to remove v39.x and "downgrade" to v38.1.5. All functionality is back at that point on my Android device.
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@thomasn-1 Thanks for the suggestions. As you mentioned, 15 minute updates would be using the battery much more. Unfortunately widgets are not designed to fetch data when you check the screen with the installed widgets - in fact the widget does not have a trigger which indicates this action. Anyway we will consider implementation of a much more frequent widget update option.
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@sethro2 @freezoid As @thomasn-1 mentioned widget reconfiguration should help resolve your issues. The steps are described in this post: https://community.windy.com/topic/27159/android-v-39-widget-loading-issues?_=1690471297746
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@MarkNagy hi, if you read my posts you can see, that I followed all these steps with no luck - multiple times, after each update.
Meanwhile I downloaded 38.1.5 from apkmirror and installed it. Let me observe the behavior a bit, but currently it looks like it's back to what I was used to, I will report.
Also I got back the black border around the weather radar which I like more.So long story short.
As explained multiple times, I also have the app from the German weather service which off course only delivers data for Germany, so that's not my universal choice when travelling, that's why I appreciated the Windy widgets.
Their widgets are always up to date when I activate my phone. The widgets always display very recent data.
Yes, if I check battery consumption then Windy is in the 1% region and the German weather service app is reported with 3% but that's ok for me.
So if you have the possibility to let us chose, then I would chose 15 minute updates and spend some battery power for it!Best Regards,
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Firefox Android v. 115.2.1
Windy v. 39.1.4
Same problem here. All of July the widget went thru various stages of erratic behaviors:
1] Blacked out while icon spinning, unrelenting push notice saying "Updating Widget" but doesn't. Cannot "clear" this notice.
2) Currently can see everything just fine except the Temperature widget onscreen is static at 79
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So back on 38.1.5 the widget updated regularly yesterday evening and today morning I take my phone at 6:51 switch on the screen, flick to the launcher page with the widget and immediately see the weather radar from 6:50
That‘s what I was used to and what I want :-)
I‘ll stay with the older version now and keep an eye on this thread before I give the update another try.So I add this a bit later:
It‘s sad, but it looks like also the older version only refreshes every hour and it was just coincidence, that the refresh just took place a minute ago when I activated my phone this morning.
So at least the widget works consistently also the next day but I could swear, that it updated more frequently in the past.To the Windy engineers:
Could you please elaborate a bit what all has changed recently and how does the refresh mechanism work. Is this server triggered by push or does the widget do this based on a timer? Was there a change in refresh cycle times from shorter cycles to one hour now?
Or was it always one hour and I just always coincidentally looked at the screen when the last refresh wasn‘t too long ago and I notice this now, since I very thoroughly examine the behavior?If the refresh cycle time is controlled by the widget, then I would appreciate a setting where I can chose between every hour / 30 minutes / 15 minutes.
Best Regards,
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@thomasn-1 The refresh is triggered by the widget and the refresh time was always set to one hour. We made some changes under the hood - the old mechanism was unreliable because on most devices the automatic refresh did not work at all.
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@MarkNagy hi Mark, ok thx, that would have been valuable information, that the refresh was always one hour, so,then all my observations have been coincidentally.
Please consider providing options to have shorter refresh cycles, at least for the weather radar, if technically possible.
Best Regards,
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When I disable battery optimalization for Windy app it has big battery drain. CPU is forced to run on higher frequencies due it.
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I meanwhile setup a launcher screen with three weather radar widgets for comparison.
The one from Windy, one from the German weather service and one from wetteronline.deWindy has the lowest refresh rate at 1 hour.
Wetteronline.de refreshes every 15 minutes
The German weather services widget seems to refresh around every 5 minutesLooking at the optics, I like the Windy widet the most and it is international.
Wetteronline.de seems to be international as well, but I don‘t like the graphics very much and there‘s a fixed zoom factor which is very tight.
The one from German weather services does not allow to zoom at all, so I see the whole country which is less useful and it is Germany only, but the most accurate.Well……as said, I like the Windy widget the most, if it would just refresh more often :-(
If you could improve this, I‘m back to Windy again.Best Regards,
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Hi, as it was mentioned here already, we already released an update (version 39.1.4, build date 2023-7-28), which should help to solve major problems with widgets since the update to version 39. Please check this post for more info.
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@Ondřej-Šutera that I understood thx.
How about a refresh every 15 minutes to make the widget more usable. Is this something you consider? The Windy weather radar on my IPad does this. -
I think that @MarkNagy already said this here in Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update:
@thomasn-1 Thanks for the suggestions. As you mentioned, 15 minute updates would be using the battery much more. Unfortunately widgets are not designed to fetch data when you check the screen with the installed widgets - in fact the widget does not have a trigger which indicates this action. Anyway we will consider implementation of a much more frequent widget update option.
