Hi Ed, Thanks for your input. Issues reporting is highly appreciated. Let's make it easier for other users too and use
github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-server/issues
In your very case, it's not really an issue, but I understand that user manual would make it easier. Especially for new features introduced in this version.
Astro Panel (accessible in the sliding menu) determines location in the following order:
- user weather file (/home/astroberry/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-astroberry/panels/panel)
- system weather file (/etc/xdg/lxpanel/LXDE-astroberry/panels/panel)
- config file (/etc/astropanel.conf)
- GPS
At the first boot only
system weather file exists, so default location for weather and Astro Panel are Warsaw, Poland.
As soon as you customize your Taskbar
user weather file is used. BTW If you set the location for the first time use Panel Settings / Panel Applets and scroll to Weather Plugin, then click Preferences. Otherwise the settings will not be saved. It should not be a problem for subsequent changes. This comes from the panels logic (I do not program this part) - the first customization of Taskbar makes a copy of
system weather file (default) to
user weather file.
Anyway, when changing Weather Plugin location you need to be online, because the Weather Plugin uses Open Weather Map as source of location and weather data.
Nevertheless, you can create your own configuration (see
config file above). This should make Astro Panel ignore Weather Plugin location data. It should but it
does not at the moment due to my mistake.
As the matter of fact the proper order should be:
- config file (/etc/astropanel.conf)
- GPS
- user weather file (/home/astroberry/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-astroberry/panels/panel)
- system weather file (/etc/xdg/lxpanel/LXDE-astroberry/panels/panel)
I realized this fact after I have released the system. It will be changed in the future versions. It will come with regular system updates so you don't need to worry.
As for now just set a proper location in Weather Plugin and you will be fine, both for weather and Astro Panel.
And last but not least, yes the Astro Panel can use GPS data as a source of location