On further investigation, manual location seems to work for US locations. However, I'm in canada and I can't get it to work anymore. No idea if my syntax is just wrong (I've tried everything I can think of) or if it's just plain broken for non-US locations. I've found using auto-location not to be 100% reliable either so I think I'm going to start investigating watchmaker instead of facer. Weather does seem to work there and I'm a little sick of the lack of support from the facer dev...time to move on...