"Clocknews" never updates news

[brad1138]

I found and installed Rainmeter a few months back. I can't remember if "Clocknews" was a default or 3rd party/add-on skin. But the news part of Clocknews has the same 4 articles it it had the day it was installed.

I assume the news is supposed to update at some point...

[Yincognito]

I'm not going to tackle rewriting the skin you're using, but if by any chance the feeds are from CNN, this happened to me as well in my feeds skin a couple of months back, was getting the same items for weeks (the issue didn't happen for FoxNews and the other sports and local news feed sites I had on my skin, by the way). It turned out that my feeds skin was fine, I just had to adjust the CNN feeds URL to a more up to date one, and then the issue was gone. Not sure if this helps in your skin's case, but this was my similar experience with it.

[brad1138]

I'm not going to tackle rewriting the skin you're using, but if by any chance the feeds are from CNN, this happened to me as well in my feeds skin a couple of months back, was getting the same items for weeks (the issue didn't happen for FoxNews and the other sports and local news feed sites I had on my skin, by the way). It turned out that my feeds skin was fine, I just had to adjust the CNN feeds URL to a more up to date one, and then the issue was gone. Not sure if this helps in your skin's case, but this was my similar experience with it.

Thanks, that makes sense. I'll see if I can figure out the correct feed.

[brad1138]

Thanks, that makes sense. I'll see if I can figure out the correct feed.

Not as easy as I thought, I thought maybe there was just 1 address line to edit... Looks a lot more complex than I want to bother learning.

Thanks again

[Yincognito]

Not as easy as I thought, I thought maybe there was just 1 address line to edit... Looks a lot more complex than I want to bother learning.

Thanks again

Normally, it should be easy indeed:
- you have to locate the file where the relevant code is, starting from the .ini file of the skin and based on whatever @include lines that exist in the checked files and where they point to
- the relevant code should be a [section] that contains lines like Measure=WebParser and URL=YourFeedLinkHere (or even URL=#SomeVariableHoldingTheFeedLinkHere#)
Then, based on checking for the proper link that gives up to date feeds in the browser, you'd accordingly change either the plain link coming after URL= on that line, or the value of whatever #variable# used there (that variable might be located in one of the @include files, if the said file contains a section called [Variables]).

So, if the issue is indeed the address used to retrieve the feeds, there actually is (or should be) a single line to edit, you just have to find it, that's all. Not incredibly complex either.