Weather stopped working

Malaki86 · 05-26-2008, 07:52 AM

I can't figure this one out - my weather stopped updating yesterday and is still out. Any chance the data goes through the fluxmedia site?

Edit: I tried changing the zip codes to different areas - still no go

ivanmx6 · 05-26-2008, 11:00 AM

Working OK here (UK)

nobb · 05-26-2008, 11:06 AM

Yea, my weather isnt working either. Everything just suddenly blanked out one day.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada here.

veetid · 05-26-2008, 12:35 PM

what version? this was an issue with versions prior to 2.0 RC2

david

Malaki86 · 05-26-2008, 02:31 PM

It's on RC3 - was working last night just fine.

Malaki86 · 05-26-2008, 07:23 PM

Still nothing on the weather. The system has been restarted a couple times with no luck.

midiwall · 05-27-2008, 05:34 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Malaki86

Still nothing on the weather. The system has been restarted a couple times with no luck.

Are you still getting a network connection? I see the green light in your screen shot, but be sure you can actually surf to weather.com from a browser.

Malaki86 · 05-27-2008, 09:21 PM

I was on my home pc when i took those shots. I had full internet at the time - I posted them from that pc and had been on the 'net all day.

I'm in my truck now and it's working. It may be that system - it's a Vista machine... I'll check it again when I get home this weekend.

Sonicxtacy02 · 05-28-2008, 08:16 AM

i dont know how centrefuse pulls its weather data but if its from weather.com its quite possible its bein affected the same way RR was affected. They changed they're XML feed.

Nola111 · 05-28-2008, 10:39 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i dont know how centrefuse pulls its weather data but if its from weather.com its quite possible its bein affected the same way RR was affected. They changed they're XML feed.

Good call, Sonic. Yes CF uses Weather.com However, I checked late yesterday and mine is working fine.

veetid · 05-28-2008, 04:05 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i dont know how centrefuse pulls its weather data but if its from weather.com its quite possible its bein affected the same way RR was affected. They changed they're XML feed.

this is the case, but we fixed the feed in RC3, it should be working for everyone unless they have old files on the machine somehow...

david

zarzavaturi · 06-04-2008, 12:50 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

this is the case, but we fixed the feed in RC3, it should be working for everyone unless they have old files on the machine somehow...

david

Can you fixed the feed in plugin for version 1.2 ?

I made a solution for CFWeather plugin to show weather at current position.

At following address http://www.batchgeocode.com/lookup/ I found latitude and longitude for every city.

I am from Romania.
At following address http://weather.yahoo.com/regional/ROXX.html , I found all cities from Romania that have informations on weather.com

I created the file weather.ini:

Quote:

[Arad]
cod=ROXX0024
lat=46.18026
lon=21.323225

[Bacau]
cod=ROXX0023
lat=46.48000
lon=26.22000

[Botosani]
cod=ROXX0018
lat=47.741155
lon=26.667415

[Braila]
cod=ROXX0001
lat=45.27112
lon=27.956545

[Brasov]
cod=ROXX0002
lat=45.64235
lon=25.58841

[Bucharest]
cod=ROXX0003
lat=44.4342
lon=26.102955

[Buzau]
cod=ROXX0004
lat=45.15534
lon=26.817075

[Calafat]
cod=ROXX0042
lat=43.5800
lon=22.5600

[Calarasi]
cod=ROXX0032
lat=44.196515
lon=27.33539

[Campina]
cod=ROXX0005
lat=45.106151
lon=25.745557

[Caransebes]
cod=ROXX0026
lat=45.409137
lon=22.220693

[Ceahlau Toaca]
cod=ROXX0021
lat=46.97751
lon=25.94994

[Cluj-Napoca]
cod=ROXX0022
lat=46.770135
lon=23.596885

[Constanta]
cod=ROXX0034
lat=44.17694
lon=28.65321

[Craiova]
cod=ROXX0007
lat=44.31887
lon=23.80172

[Drobeta Tr. Severin]
cod=ROXX0031
lat=44.6288
lon=22.6517

[Focsani]
cod=ROXX0008
lat=45.69581
lon=27.18407

[Galati]
cod=ROXX0009
lat=45.433265
lon=28.051575

[Gheorgheni]
cod=ROXX0035
lat=46.722382
lon=25.61038

[Giurgiu]
cod=ROXX0010
lat=43.915495
lon=25.97194

[Iasi]
cod=ROXX0020
lat=43.915495
lon=25.97194

[Oradea]
cod=ROXX0019
lat=47.05206
lon=21.938735

[Petrosani]
cod=ROXX0036
lat=45.41259
lon=23.369355

[Pitesti]
cod=ROXX0011
lat=44.850985
lon=24.879774

[Ploiesti]
cod=ROXX0012
lat=44.940618
lon=26.023406

[Prundu]
cod=ROXX0037
lat=44.833302
lon=24.9167

[Rimnicu Vilcea]
cod=ROXX0028
lat=45.105171
lon=24.373249

[Rosiori de Vede]
cod=ROXX0013
lat=44.096085
lon=24.99297

[Satu Mare]
cod=ROXX0038
lat=47.793295
lon=22.876675

[Sibiu]
cod=ROXX0014
lat=45.791681
lon=24.147604

[Sighetu Marmatiei]
cod=ROXX0017
lat=47.926845
lon=23.902035

[Slatina]
cod=ROXX0015
lat=44.4333
lon=24.3667

[Slobozia]
cod=ROXX0016
lat=44.5667
lon=27.3667

[Sulina]
cod=ROXX0030
lat=45.1500
lon=29.6667

[Talmaciu]
cod=ROXX0039
lat=46.599998
lon=21.883301

[Timisoara]
cod=ROXX0040
lat=45.753425
lon=21.223275

[Tirgoviste]
cod=ROXX0041
lat=44.918538
lon=25.480473

[Vf. Omu]
cod=ROXX0025
lat=45.4500
lon=25.4500

I use a function to calculate distance between 2 positions (x1,y1) and (x2,y2):

Quote:

function distance(x1,y1,x2,y2:double):double;
var dx,dy:double;
begin
dx:=abs(x1-x2);
dy:=abs(y1-y2);
result:=sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy);
end;

If my current position is (lat0,lon0), I calculate distances from current position to all cities from weather.ini file and I chose the city with smallest distance.

For example, if the smallest distance is from my position (lat0,lon0) and Slobozia (lat=44.5667,lon=24.3667) then I overwrite the file "c:\program files\flux media\centrafuse\plugins\weather\config.xml" with following content:

Quote:

<APPCONFIG>
<SKIN>Onyx WS Night</SKIN>
<APPLANG>English</APPLANG>
<WEATHERCODE>%COD%</WEATHERCODE>
<WEATHERCITY>%CITY%</WEATHERCITY>
<AUTODIAL>False</AUTODIAL>
</APPCONFIG>

where %COD% is replaced with "ROXX0016" and %CITY% is replaced with "Slobozia, Romania".

midiwall · 06-04-2008, 10:11 AM

VERY cool!!! Well done!

But, where is that function located? Who's executing it? Did you also write a vb app that's running on a timer to hot-patch the weather config xml?

zarzavaturi · 06-04-2008, 11:48 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by midiwall

VERY cool!!! Well done!

But, where is that function located? Who's executing it? Did you also write a vb app that's running on a timer to hot-patch the weather config xml?

I used Borland Delphi.
I made a scheduler.exe that uses following file scheduler.ini:

Quote:

[Scheduler]
Commands=2

[Command1]
Interval=120
Execute=c:\services\internet.exe

[Command2]
Interval=300
Execute=c:\services\weather.exe

The weather.exe overwrite c:\program files\flux media\centrafuse\plugins\weather\config.xml at interval of 300 seconds.

midiwall · 06-04-2008, 02:40 PM

Ahh, Pascal, how I love thee! (I missed the := operator in your source).

Are you reading your GPS through a split COM port? (Xport?)

Cool man.. Very cool.