Provide custom location

[Geobert]

Hi,

Fun little CLI tool :D

Maybe you might consider an option (and/or config file) to specify the location manually, because I'm on VPN and it doesn't reflect the correct location for me ^^'

[silvioprog]

Hi @Geobert, glad you are enjoying it! 😃

I don't have experience with VPN (and proxy), but if you know how to implement it, please feel free to send a PR. (or add it into wish list)

References about it are welcome too!

[Geobert]

what I meant is that the location resolver uses the IP address to guess the location. Using the VPN, the IP is the VPN's server one, not mine. Hence the wrong location

So the idea was to provide the location manually (City + country)

[omac777]

I'm trying hard to get it to work for my wife's hometown, but it doesn't succeed to display the correct weather.
Please if you could provide a means to specify via Lat and Long, that would help. You display different cities with different LAT/LONG's but I can't select among the ones listed.

Here's an example:

$ wethr Changchun,Jilin,CN,43.897,125.326
Error: Returning 2 cities, please choose one:

City: Changchun
Country code: CN
Coordinates:
  Latitude: 43.88
  Longitude: 125.3228

City: Changchun
Country code: CN
Coordinates:
  Latitude: 26.7286
  Longitude: 120.0401

davidm@pop-os 2021-09-24_06:33:11_EDT : ~
$ wethr 43.897,125.326
, N/D: 25.79C ☁️☁️

That weather information after requesting with LAT/LONG is totally incorrect since it's 16C there at the moment.

Thank you for listening.

[silvioprog]

@Geobert What do you think about us providing something like wethr -p 'ip-address or host-address'? Let me know if this option could solve the problem. If so, we can start a new branch called "custom_location" to try this possible new feature.

@omac777 thanks a lot for reporting!

What do you think about selecting the option by index? For example:

$ wethr Changchun,Jilin,CN
Error: Returning 2 cities, please choose one:

1) City: Changchun
Country code: CN
Coordinates:
  Latitude: 43.88
  Longitude: 125.3228

2) City: Changchun
Country code: CN
Coordinates:
  Latitude: 26.7286
  Longitude: 120.0401

This away, we could:

$ wethr 2

Where 2 is the second option shown in the output.

For a while, could you try other location providers? There are four (0..3), and you can choose one by -p parameter, for example: wethr -p1 (this selects the second location provider).

[Geobert]

To be honest, I totally missed that we can provide city and country already ^^' so my report is invalid. but @omac777 issue is valid though :)