For those people who needs to lookup weather quickly on BlackBerry:Download BBWeather

Please Note: There are other excellent programs such as PocketDay and BBToday. They also do weather as a subset of their functionality such as displaying other status information (i.e. missed calls)

Does this download the data when you go to view it, or does it poll at some rate?

Congratulations,

BBWeather is a great small tool, two and a half things missing:
- proxy authentication support in case you have to run via MDS Server
- I would like, to keep data traffic low, to be able to increase the repeat interval further high (not only 120 Minutes for Actual Conditions and 240 for the forecast)
- Lookup of the location ID inside the tool or a small other 'tool'

I simply love this program. But, every other time I attempt to update it, I receive the message "Error: Malformed Address. Returning null connection"

Does anyone else get this error? How do I stop it?

I am on Cingular, BWC, version 4.0, with a 7290.

Thanks!

I too have the same problem with this weather applet within BBToday or "could not open tunnel - max timeout". I don't have any problems with the weather applet within PocketDay so it must be a problem with this free applet. I get similar problems with the stock tracker within BBToday also. If I ask it to update a couple of times, it will work fine for a while, but automatic updating weather and stocks is hit and miss. Can't really complain though - the price is right!
I too have a 7290 with operating system 4. I use BES with Rogers.

I had this problem with the weather inside of BBtoday on my 7520 but since i deleted the bbtoday and downloaded just the weather I havent had not one issue with getting my weather on time.

www.srh.noaa.gov/wml

Very accurate weather reports. It's easy to use.

I get this message:

"Error: Could not find a service book entry of IPPP."

what does that mean?

I also get that message.....any thoughts out there?

not trying to be a bump/jerk, but has anyone else encountered this?

hmmm, at least BBToday's weather works......would like to have the expanded capabilities of BBWeather's 10 day forecast and multiple profiles however. any help would be appreciated.

yep i had to turn off firewall to get it to work but since i turned it off it has worked flawlessly

dawg, is this the message you were getting?

"Error: Could not find a service book entry of IPPP."

yes it was

My firewall is already disabled

Love BBtoday, but have never been able to get the weather or stocks to work right.

could not open tunnel- max timeout

This happens to me all the time but when it does, I manually click 'refresh now' and it usually never fails.....usually.

Same here CLee

tried to manually refresh on the weather and stocks, "update now" showed up on the menu drop down. no go though. still max timeout

I run a 7520 and that always works for me

The only issue I have with BBToday, as with others, is getting max timeout or wrong DNS, which like others also is corrected by manually asking it to update. I have a 7290 running 4 on BES. I think it is just a delay issue in contacting and getting information back from the web site for updating of weather and stocks.
As stated on a different thread dealing with the new release soon of version 2 of PocketDay, I never get these issues with that program, but on the other hand, I think that the free BBToday does a much better job at handling stocks than the pay PocketDay. It does not look like there will be any changes to speak of in stock reporting in PocketDay 2.

Roger that, I have the same problem and I'm on Cingular, BWC, OS 4.0 with a 7290. Same device, same problem. I'll try to figure it out...

It doesn't seem to handle all fonts correctly. When I had my font set to bbmillibank and size 6 the text was at least 2X smaller inside of BBweather than on the rest of my system. If I change the font to System it displays fine.

Hi, I am very new in this forum. But I found something interesting for your problem. Go to option>TCP and enter APN wap address for your carrier. It will work.

Right, but this is a problem after the TCP settings have been entered. I assume that it is some sort of software glitch because it loads and functions properly except for every other launch it will not update normally without the error message.

Yes, I know what you mean. I guess it is also based on the location where we are to pick up enough signal strength to get update. I configured the duration of 4 hrs and found quite OK. I realized it is unable to update when I am in the building or subway. I did not try BB weather yet. I heard BB weather is quite smooth.

How do I go about changing the location for weather in BBTODAY?

When I look into the options, it gives USTX1351 but what exactly does that mean? How do know what Location ID I have at my location?

You can either change it to a zip code (which works) or determine the index by trial and error the weather.com code. You start with Country+State+####. as in USCA0182 for Carlsbad California. Format is strict - country (two letter code)+state (two letter code) and 4 numbers, which is actually city index sorted alphabetically within the state.

Someone here also posted a link where you can enter a city and state and it will show you the weather.com code. I can't find it anymore.


Hope that helps

Aloha

Is there anyway to make this as the standby screen?

There's a cool weather app at http://mobile.blackberry.com.

You can subscribe to your favourite city as well. (You have to use the Internet Browser on your BlackBerry in order to be able to subscribe though).

Or, just to view weather, click on the 'News / Weather / Sports' link, select, 'AccuWeather' from the 'Weather' links, and search for your city.

The weather forecast is a 5 day animated SVG page. Be sure to view it on your BlackBerry, (not IE), in order to see the animated version.

Good luck,
Petey

For those who got the Could not find a service book entry for IPPP error, here's how to fix it (at least it worked for me).

In BBWeather, go to options and click Disable MDS Proxy.

That should hopefully work!

i cannot scroll down once i am on the forecast page. ideas?

ok i went to check this out and it is showing up on my 7290 as text only - no animation and no images. i understand how all of the browser options work - yes they are all enabled with Blackberry emulation. why wouldn't the animation and/or images appear??

Its the browser, most likely. It has to be the HTML browser, not the WAP browser. (and HTML + WML must be turned on in the browser options). It also may be the software version running on your device. I think the weather will work on devices running 3.7.1 or higher...

I'm guessing that I have to set up my TCP settings for this to work?

Any notion of what such settings would be for T-Mobile (7290)?

Thanks.

I'm in Brisbane, Australia.

What is my Location ID?

Thanks.

Never mind, I found the "guide" answers. Also, I entered my correct settings, but it did not work until a rebooted my 7290. After that, success!

Bear...where did you find the "guide" I am having similar issues..Thanks

I downloaded it, unzipped it, now its in a folder on my pc and so.....now what? my desktop is just supposed to find it somewhere or what? because its not, how do i get it from my pc to my phone?
Dawg? quit laughing....

HA.....got it. Before Dawg could rip me LOL