I really jealous on the weather-forecast plugins, which render nicely on squeezebox boom and alike (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67655).
Just I don't like the way they work on my Controller - information only shows up in the extras menu - I'd rather like a real screensafer which shows nice icons when the duet is in the dock. I thought about doing this myself but there are still some design decisions to make and I wanted some input of the community before starting in the wrong direction. Specs: - should be a real screensaver for DUET. Based on SqueezeOS will work with high probability on Touch and Radio as well - should update data every 15min - should show current day as a big icon, forecast (3 days) below with 3 small icons - temperature alongside or below the images Open questions: 1) where to take weather data from ? I don't want to parse HTML-sites (like the other plugins), there should be a proper API and a specified stable result. Currently I favour 3 APIs: - Yahoo: (Example: http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=USNY0176&u=c). This seems to be based on weather.com - WeatherBug: (http://weather.weatherbug.com/Germany/Berlin%20-%20West-weather.html?nav_section=1&zcode=z6286). Seems to use own database. - Google Weather API (http://www.google.de/ig/api?weather=berlin) . Don't know where the data is coming from. Currently WeatherBug has one big advantage over the other - it provides real nice icons in different resolution (and transparent background), this is how different images would look like: Yahoo: [image: http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/we/52/28.gif] WeatherBug: [image: http://img.weather.weatherbug.com/forecast/icons/localized/120x101/en/trans/cond008.png] Google: [image: http://www.google.de/ig/images/weather/cloudy.gif] Any other suggestions ? -- bluegaspode One SB-Duet+Receiver. Server running on Linkstation NAS (LS-CHL). Needing one more device for bedroom and waiting for the radio :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67695 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
