Jeff LaCoursiere writes:
> On 12/16/2015 11:24 AM, Ryan Crowder wrote:
>> http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/
>
> Awesome! Perfect!
>
> Cheers,
>
> j
>
>>
>> -Original Message-
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>> d...@donkelly.biz
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:20 AM
>> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] weather.agi
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
>> LaCoursiere
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:11 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: [asterisk-users] weather.agi
>>
>> Here is a funny story. We mostly do hotels in the Caribbean, and one of our
>> first clients (going on ten years now) used the sample "weather.agi"
>> that used to be shipped with... asterisk@home? Trixbox? Can't even recall
>> where we originally got it from.
>>
>> This perl script uses festival to speak a brief weather forecast to the
>> caller. We told our hotels this was a feature for guests, and assigned a
>> function code to execute it. They have been using it for years. In fact
>> the front desk used to just dial it in speaker mode for guests checking in.
>>
>> Here is the funny part - the text for the weather forecast was coming from
>> an anonymous FTP site at tgftp.nws.noaa.gov. Sometime in 2013 they stopped
>> updating the forecast! So ever since then the caller would get the forecast
>> for June something 2013. But because the weather in St Thomas is nearly the
>> same year round, NO ONE NOTICED! Well, until just recently.
>>
>> After we stopped laughing about it, they now want me to fix it. But I can't
>> seem to find a new source of textual summary weather data.
>>
>> So... has anyone else run into this and fixed it by chance? Or can point me
>> to weather data?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> j
>>
>>
>> Does something here work for you?
>> http://search.usa.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov=web+service
>> e=nws.noaa.gov
>>
>>--Don
>>
>> --
There is an open alternative that you might consider:
http://openweathermap.org/
Joris
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