Bugs item #1623167, was opened at 2006-12-27 22:48 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by duncanwebb You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=446895&aid=1623167&group_id=46652
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: plugins Group: 1.6.2 >Status: Pending Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Yesmad (yesmad) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Weather does not return correct information Initial Comment: The weather plugin does not return the correct weather information. For example: for Los Angeles the following URL is parsed by the weather plugin: http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=USCA0638 This data is corretly parsed, but the data does not always match: http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USCA0638 Reloading the first URL a number of times, generates different results, but never the correct results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Duncan Webb (duncanwebb) Date: 2006-12-29 16:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=104395 Originator: NO May be the best would be to write another weather plug-in for other data sources. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Gorka Olaizola (gorka) Date: 2006-12-29 11:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=309801 Originator: NO I've found this URL from Mythtv that points to the XML interface of National Weather service of USA http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Weather_sandbox#Sources Maybe it's better to parse the XML directly than to use another dependancy like PyMetar The only problem I can see with using this source is that the information seems relative only to USA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Yesmad (yesmad) Date: 2006-12-29 00:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1140558 Originator: YES With all due respect, but that is exactly the URL I mentioned above. I'll probably did not explain the bug correctly enough. The second url (in my first post) is to visually _verify_ that something goes wrong. The thing is that the second gives correct information, but the one used in the weather plugin does not (always). Thus, the 'makeWeatherObj()' contains outdated information (just hit reload a few times and look at the 'this.swLastUp' line). I am not expecting anything from freevo. I just wanted to post a bug, I am only suggesting that as a possible solution, it might be usefull to check out the RSS feed, which probably contains the same information, and possibly in an also easily parsable format (could be that I am mistaken about the information in this feed). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Duncan Webb (duncanwebb) Date: 2006-12-29 00:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=104395 Originator: NO I'm not exactly sure what you want freevo to do about this. Ryan Roth has written a plugin for weather updates called, weather_update :) In fact, these are not the url's use for weather It uses: http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=USCA0638 and the data returned is like: function makeWeatherObj() { this.swCity = "Los Angeles"; this.swSubDiv = "CA"; this.swCountry = "USA"; this.swRegion = "United States"; this.swTemp = "55"; this.swTempCel = Math.round((5/9)*(this.swTemp-32)); this.swCIcon = "12"; this.swWindS = "5"; this.swWindD = "E"; this.swBaro = "29.93"; this.swHumid = "88"; this.swReal = "55"; this.swUV = "0"; this.swVis = "1.50"; this.swLastUp = "12/27/2006 07:58:00"; this.swConText = "Heavy Rain"; this.swFore = "4|5|6|7|1|12/27/2006|12/28/2006|12/29/2006|12/30/2006|12/31/2006|11|32|32|32|30|43|24|24|24|4|61|63|66|69|72|60|0|10|10|10|45|31|29|33|29|15|11|4|23|4|42|40|43|45|48|"; this.swAcid = "USCA0638"; Which I believe is a visual basic object or something similar, much easier to parse. There is a simpler idlebar plugin for weather which is an ideal candidate for Pymetar. This would be a good little plugin for someone to re-write. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Yesmad (yesmad) Date: 2006-12-28 16:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1140558 Originator: YES Perhaps the plugin could monitor the RSS feed of msnbc? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Gorka Olaizola (gorka) Date: 2006-12-28 12:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=309801 Originator: NO I notice the same when doing the i18n changes to the plugin (Feature Request #1621819). The weather plugin could use Pymetar http://www.schwarzvogel.de/software-pymetar.shtml for receiving information from National Weather Service but we'll lose the four day forecast. If someone is interested I could add the code for selecting between the actual code and PyMetar fetched data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=446895&aid=1623167&group_id=46652 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
