'weather forecast not available' on startpage (flag)

[A Former User]

A Former User @severalpeople last edited by

@severalpeople Go to opera://flags and enable Weather on Startpage.
After that go to Settings>Privacy and Security and uncheck Location (see picture). I had the same issue and with this i fixed it.

[severalpeople]

severalpeople @Guest last edited by

@oliveira56 no bro im not risking my security for that, any site I go to will have my location

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The opposite to Ask is Never, if you turn it off then no one will be able to use geolocation. (Many sites will still guess your location based on your IP address, but they do either way.)

[severalpeople]

severalpeople @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse checked and it is already on https://i.gyazo.com/22cf653fad8143902efc155e21d97aad.png still wont work

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @severalpeople last edited by

@severalpeople You can't even set a location? Or you already set up one but the weather tool isn't working?

[severalpeople]

severalpeople @leocg last edited by

@leocg cant set location up i get this

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

same here.
location enabled, widget enabled.
but still "Weather forecast not available".

This has been happening since the last 2 updates i got. Prior these 2updates, it was working.

On "normal" Opera browser it is still working, only in GX is now not working anymore.

[Amiyo]

Amiyo @Guest last edited by

@rabid7 It is not working even on my normal browser

[imawizard]

imawizard last edited by

Apparently, it becomes like this when you select decline the first time the weather's dialog is shown (where you would otherwise set the location manually or select accept and let your location being handled automatically). After doing so there was somehow no way to reconfigure it.

To resolve this limbo-like status, close down Opera via ⌘Q, open ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Preferences in a text editor and search for weather, which leads you to:

"weather":{"custom_location":"","enabled":true,"onboarding":false}

There, change onboarding's value to true and reopen Opera, which should make the weather's dialog appear again upon clicking the widget, so you can then either choose accept or enter a location manually.

On Windows, it should be analogous and the path is probably something like %APPDATA%\Opera Software\Opera\Preferences.

[perfectday]

perfectday last edited by

Not working on normal Opera after the last update

[naheed]

naheed @perfectday last edited by

@perfectday please follow the above mentioned steps.
I hope it will start working. Moreover, you can also roll
back to the previous version.

[perfectday]

perfectday @naheed last edited by

@naheed Thank you for the advise, but before posting I tried to do everything mentioned here. Perhaps some preferences in MacOS preventing widget work. So yes, probably the only chance to fix is rolling back to the previous version. Thank you.

[bsod]

bsod last edited by

How to fix "Weather forecast not available" (Windows guide, i don't know if will work on MacOS, you can try)

(Before doing, close your opera)
Go to desktop, press Alt + R and write %appdata%
Hit Ok
and go to Opera Software -> Opera Stable. Scroll down, inside there should be file called Preferences.

Move it to desktop, then open it using notepad.

Next up open Opera. All your settings will be gone but everything will be back to normal later. Choose where you live and close Opera. Then go to folder where from we moved preferences, and there will be new file called preferences. Open it using notepad and put it aside.
Like that:
Then on Preferences on left side press Ctrl + F and search "onboarding"
it should find this line (look at photo).

Copy this line that i highlighted. Now on the Preferences that was put aside Ctrl + F and find "onboarding", it will lead you to same line. Now before that line i highlighted press Enter, so you can have something like that (look at picture)

Now delete that line i highlighted and paste the line that we copied on the place of deleted one.
So it will look like that:
Now close and save changes to right and left Preferences, then move the Preferences from desktop to Opera Stable folder and choose replace files. Then open Opera and Boom

[bsod]

bsod @bsod last edited by

@bsod Edit: press Windows button + R instead of alt

[perfectday]

perfectday @bsod last edited by leocg

@bsod It's working, thanks a lot! But I did it directly in preferences file on Mac. In my file the only difference was like empty location value and "enabled" key presence. After adding your location 349727 and removing the "enabled" key and value - it started to work. Even no reason to create preferences once again.
so instead of
"weather": {"custom_location":"","enabled":true,"onboarding":true}
it became
"weather": {"custom_location":"349727","onboarding":false}
of course after launching Opera New York location should be changed to yours

[bsod]

bsod @kuriboi1 last edited by

@kuriboi1 check last post in this topic.

[haruseok]

haruseok @bsod last edited by

@bsod Thanks for your amazing input but sadly it didn't work for me. The weather forecast has worked for me for at least a year but now it doesn't. I don't know what to do. I tried doing everything on this page but doesn't work at all. I downloaded Momentum just to get the weather but it doesn't start on startup so my problem is still not solved. Do you have any other idea?

[bsod]

bsod @haruseok last edited by

@haruseok hmm, maybe delete preferences

[haruseok]

haruseok @bsod last edited by haruseok

@bsod I did and it worked! It didn't delete any of my setting either, it only reset my speed dial page, but the wallpapers are already there for you to quickly choose. It also didn't touch the sites under the search bar. It was that easy, I can't believe why I didn't think about this. Thank you so much!!