Changed servers and now it works! Was set to closest (which is Frankfurt I think)
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Frankfurt server is normally quite quick but seems to be misbehaving today.
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@mick good glad it’s working that was going to be my next suggestion was to try different server. again glad it’s working
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Widgets were not updating. Restarting phone and re-adding the widgets has fixed that.
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Thanks to everybody for help.
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Got the same problem… will try the steps here.
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Yes had to change server also to USA as Frankfurt is not working.
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Awesome work debugging guys!! This is what I made the forum for.
You pretty much found the problem. Frankfurt server went down last night while I slept.
This happened to the forum and the New York servers yesterday. I’m not sure what caused it but restarting it seems to have fixed it.
Sorry about the problem.
Cheers, Duane.
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Yes, the forum is working as intended! 
Here is a sugestion/question:
How about having the flowx app try another server if the server selected is not responding (properly) (for some defenition of propperly)?
Cheers!
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Yes I did briefly think of that but this kind of failure is the first I’ve seen so it’s very rare. So putting time into it might not be worth it.
The other thing is that it adds complexity which may lead to a more common bug. For example, the servers might be out of sync so when you switch to another server, the data might not exist there. It might be out of sync by a few seconds but when you have 80k user a month and servers syncing some 100 times a day, there a many chances of this causing a bug.
I think it’ll be better to have messaging in the app, reporting server status and checking downloads as they come in for corruption or incomplete downloads.
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Yes, where to put the time is always an important question.
I trust your judgment, and I feel that I’m learning by reading your responses!
I feel that I must verry much show my appreciation for all the time that you take the time to explain that/why a question/sugestion is not the best to put time on.
And I’m completely with you an this one:
Did not think realize that “servers out of sync by a few seconds” could cause a problem, but that is of course a risk.
Keep it simple, as you so often say.
Cheers!
Hey guys,
Just wanted to join in your discussion. I don’t know of course whether it is a problem with my particular mobile setup, but maybe server issues are not that uncommon.
I had my app set to nearest server (Frankfurt) as well, which left me for I think about a week now with a widget showing only 1 or 2 days worth of data (see screenshot), the remaining days: blank. Also here re-installing didn’t do the trick.
Only after I followed your thread here I switches server to NY, and e voila, back to normal, widget complete again. I don’t know if others observed that but a verification whether the data set is incomplete might also be helpful to check server hiccups?
Cheers, Cornelius
PS: greatest wheather app, my all-time favorite!!
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Seams that the Frankfurt-server habe a return of the:
What data source are you looking at?
Does the same happen in the app or is it just the widget?
Cheers, Duane.
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Hey, it happened for both, widget and app.
Data source was Frankfurt.
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Frankfurt is the server. The data source is GFS, Icon, D2, etc… Can you send a screenshot of the app?
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