PeterGV wrote: > Bravo, *tcutting*. You're further along than I am. I've gotten the > free developer key and managed to write a stand-alone perl program that > displayed weather data. > > The only time I've ever coded in perl is in trying to fix this plug-in > over the years. It's not that much fun. I can see how *plympton *could > have been traumatized by the experience. :) > > I'm doing this on Windows, and this seems to increase the complexity. It > seems that Perl isn't *really* installed with SqueezeServer on > Windows... it's auto-packaged as part of the service (I *guess*). That > means no automatic installation of CPAN routines like you could do on a > real perl installation -- You have to package all the modules you want > to use as source code in the .PM file. And then there's the issue of > compatibility with a given version of perl. Arrrgh. > > In the interest of sharing (I know *I* can use all the help I can get) > from looking at the Greg's code, which is pretty well structured, and > the Weather Underground API, I can share the following observations that > may or may not be helpful: > > > > - The number of forecast phrases (such as "partly cloudy") is > significantly smaller in the new API than it was on the previously > scraped page. - The new icon numbers do *not* correspond to the old icon > numbers... so the icons are going to need to be remapped. - One nice thing is that the API returns all the measurements in > both US and Metric... so no conversions are required anymore. Yay! - It's not clear if the new icon set will work in place of the old, > due to the geometry of the new icons. - In using the WWW::Wunderground::API module from CPAN, issuing the > request and getting the reply is made trivial (the JSON reply is > pre-parsed and returned in an array, for example the current temp F > is returned in "$wun->conditions->temp_f"). One call for > "conditions" appears to be returning *all* the data needed... which > I don't really understand, because when I issue the same call from > the Apigee Console on Weather Underground I *just* get the > conditions. Odd. - > > > > > I'm going to try to build a PM file today containing source from > WWW::Wunderground::API, Cache::Cache, and whatever prerequisites these > require. > > I would **greatly** appreciate anybody working on this API to share > their thoughts and findings (minus their API key :) ) -- I'm happy to > do likewise. For ME, the programming itself doesn't seem like it'll > be the hard part (assuming use of the WWW::Wunderground::API > module)... it's all the associated infrastructure around using perl as > part of SqueezeServer on Windows.
I think I would want to find a way to map from the returned 'weather' to Greg's icon numbers so his icons are used. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
