Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote:

> You are talking about automatically updating stations.dat. This up to
> now never was a question or problem for me.
>  
> The problem is, instead, what I reported. See also
> https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdetoys/issues/9
>  
> I think, this should at least be investigated by someone with insight in
> the source code before.
>  
> 

The problem is that it is a static data you have once in stations.dat and a
second time in the desktop file. The service is using stations.dat (if I am
not wrong), but the applet is using the desktop file to provide the values
for selecting the stations.
This is what I see in the code (without too much digging)