>From some activity on the -users list it appears that mythweather is no longer working correctly due to some DNS changes by weather.com. In an attempt to prevent this from being a 'recompile mythweather' problem in the future I've made some changes that will allow an entry in the settings table of the db to specify the URL used for weather data and maps. There are hardcoded default values using currently working URL's so that missing settings shouldn't have any effect on current users. I also cleaned up some of the debugging output to use VERBOSE instead of plain old cerr calls.
In looking through the code it seems that we might want some more modular way to retrieve weather data in the case that we need to change data providers (or that a user would simply prefer to use something other than msnbc/weather.com). This patch certainly doesn't address that in any way, but it would prevent problems in the case that the URL for retrieving data changes, but the data remains in the same format. As far as a modular method to retrieve weather data, I was thinking that the best way would probably be to call an outside script/program that would have to conform to a specified output format. Myth could then read the predictable output from that program and gather the necessary data. This would allow users to create their own screenscraper/data parser, change the weather data URL's in the db and be off and running using whatever data source they'd like. Anyone have any input/suggestions towards this goal or is anyone already working on something similar? Brad
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