I bought my Squeezebox Boom earlier this week. One of the first things I did was install SuperDateTime to display the temperature. This worked well for a few days and then stopped working. Temperature stayed the same and did not change.
Running a quick network sniffer on my SquezeCenter showed that wunderground.com was no longer supplying the info. SuperDateTime tries to load: http://www.wunderground.com//weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=%20ITHATCHA1&format=1 (Where ITHATCHA1 is my PWS). The reply from the website was: Time,TemperatureC,DewpointC,PressurehPa,WindDirection,WindDirectionDegrees,WindSpeedKMH,WindSpeedGustKMH,Humidity,HourlyPrecipMM,Conditions,Clouds,dailyrainCM,SoftwareType<br> <!-- 0.058:0 --> Which is missing the values! Which is why SuperDateTime is not working for me. Having used wunderground for other things I believe SuperDateTIme may be better off using the XML page which seems to be more reliable: http://api.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXCurrentObXML.asp?ID=ITHATCHA1 Because all I wanted on the display was the temperature as well as time, I copied the standard DateTime plugin, added a simple perl routine to grab this data: sub getTemp { my $station_id = shift; my $url_string = "http://api.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXCurrentObXML.asp?ID="; . $station_id; my $content = LWP::Simple::get $url_string; my $xml = new XML::Simple; my $data = $xml->XMLin($content); return $data->{temp_c}; } And then added the temp_c value to the display. Worked really well, and helped me understand a bit about how plugins work. The ability to customise the Boom is really great. I am tempted to buy another one for downstairs. Would be great if Logitech made a slightly bigger all in one device. -Steve -- swatts1000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ swatts1000's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23327 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
