Plasma web-widgets not updating

[jack_sprat]

Hi,
I have several KDE desktop widgets (plasmoids) that use web-data (web-slice 2.4.1, and weather widget 1.0) - these seem to have been broken (or become unreliable) with upgrade to 15.4.

The web-slice plasmoids attempt to update, but don’t fetch new data.

It’s not network-related (Internet connection is fine) - does anyone else have (or is able to replicate) this issue?

thanks - JS

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.4
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150400.24.33-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD RENOIR

[jack_sprat]

I tried this:

And if you are willing to test, could you edit ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/cqcb.plasma.webslice/contents/ui/main.qml to change import QtWebEngine 1.8 to import QtWebEngine 1.10 Then, restart plasmashell (pkill plasmashell && plasmashell), and, again, does it improve or worsen the situation ?

from KDE Store, but it didn’t help any. It’s not particularly helpful that YAST notes libqt5-QtWebEngine version as 5.15.10-bp154.2.3.2, so whether that’s v1.10 or not, I’ve no idea.

[tannington]

@jack_sprat

and weather widget 1.0) - these seem to have been broken (or become unreliable) with upgrade to 15.4.

That weather widget is obsolete, it’s been replaced by:

weather-widget-2

An updated version of the “plasma-applet-weather-widget” by Kotelnik (a.k.a. clearmartin).

YR.NO have changed their API and the original Weather Widget no longer works correctly with their data, and the project seems to be abandoned. This is a modified version of his widget that works with the new API.

The new Met.no API uses Latitude and Longitude to download the weather data - this version comes with a built-in searchable location database to find that for you.

[jack_sprat]

Hi - thanks. I’ve updated that widget (although I was principally using the OWM forecast).