Kurt;198593 Wrote: 
> Hi Greg - I've been enjoying the plug in for some time now.  One thing
> I'm curious about is have you ever gotten a request to give the option
> to display a current temp directly from a personal weather station or
> other temperature acquisition method?
> 
> For instance I currently take the current temp from the wunderground
> station located in Uptown.  It works great, but it's still about 4
> blocks from my place.  I don't know if you're familiar with Homeseer,
> but it's a DIY home automation system.  I curently use it to control my
> lights, home theater, and it has temperature sensors I can place
> anywhere.  Assuming I can write the temperature data to a text file say
> once every two minutes, would there be a way to display this field from
> within your plugin?
> 
> Just curious how hard this would be.  My Perl skills aren't exactly
> current.
> 
Hey Kurt-

I've been using the wunderground station at Depaul (I'm in Lincoln
Park) and have been surprised how different it's reading are from
weather.coms...

As a matter of fact, I was just looking at Homeseer over the weekend as
I have some Insteon switches that I'm looking to control via software (I
think I'll probably end up doing a Insteon plugin for SlimServer too so
I don't have to get up off the couch to control the lights...).  But to
address your question, have you looked at posting your Homeseer sensors
to wunderground and then having SDT pull from there?  A quick Google
search for wunderground and homeseer produced many results.  If not,
it'd be pretty easy to write a new plugin that utilizes the new
enhancements to the SS7 version of the plugin to display the info as a
left/right item (like a Cubs game score).  I'll probably eventually add
an option to add up/down stuff, but I havent gotten to it yet.

-Greg


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