[mythtvnz] help on myth weather

[Robin Gilks]

>
> On Tue, September 4, 2007 10:00 am, Hadley Rich wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:53:33 Barry Clearwater wrote:
>>> Ive been looking at weather applets under Ubuntu Feisty and gdesklets,
>>> they all seem to gather weather info from either Yahoo or weather.com.
>>> Each of these sites have nz weather available but the plugins don't
>>> seem
>>> to access them correctly.  It seems the foibles are hard coded in, so
>>> its possible the same issues lies within Mythtv.
>>> It needs some concerted coding effort by kiwi's  to work out this
>>> functionality.
>>> Anyone  know where it is within the code base?
>>
>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythplugins/mythweather
>>
>> Be aware that mythweather has changed significantly in trunk from the
>> version
>> in 0.20.
>
> The big merge of mythweather-revamp happened at
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/13867/trunk/mythplugins/mythweather
>
> This is a huge change and I don't expect to see it appear in 0.20-fixes
> unless someone here is brave enough to attempt it.
>
> Hads - You are usually running of SVN trunk, whats the new weather plugin
> like?
>

I'm running SVN and it works great for me using the unofficial weather.com
script from Simon Flood that is on the weather-revamp ticket #3337. A
couple of recent 'fixes' have added two 'degree' signs when using celcius
scale, otherwise its getting cleaned up quite nicely!

StuartM is putting together a BBC scraper script that will include NZ and
presumably not have the licensing issues the weather.com one has (although
I fail to see what the problem is since an individual user downloading the
data is not re-publishing it!!). Check for progress under ticket #3722

-- 
Robin Gilks