aubuti, as I'm new to the 'weather-business' ;-) thanks for your very valued feedback.
aubuti;466772 Wrote: > I'm surprised to hear you say that the chance of precipitation is not > available in the data feed, because the WeatherDateTime (WDT) plugin for > the players with VFD screens has that info, and it also gets its feed > from wunderground.com. > Hhmm - I checked their sourcecode and they use the 'pop'-field (guess this means' percentage of precipitation') of the forecast, which was always empty for me :( See: http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=TXL if I take some city in the US I get some values indeed http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=JFK This is not fair ! > As for other animations, what does a sun with clouds flashing on/off > mean? For example, for tomorrow I'm seeing "Clear" with just a sun icon > on the wunderground.com site, but for the same location your applet is > showing a sun with clouds flashing on and off. Is that "chance of > clouds"? The following day is predicted partly cloudy, and the icons on > the web site and your applet are a static sun with clouds, which is what > I would expect. > In the forecast-XML I get two icons, one called 'icon' and one called 'skyicon'. The icon-field includes the 'chance of'-icons (which are shown with a question-mark on wunderground.com) but there is only chance of flurries, rain, snow, sleet and thunderstorms. So nothing sensible that matches your observation. If there is such a strange situation again you could help me by doing one of the following things (whichever is easier for you): a) go to wunderground-link posted above (but use your location in the end) and look at the 'icon' and 'skyicon' for the corresponding day. b) look in the /var/log/messages file on your controller. you will find infos from the applet there starting with "parseForecast - " and the icon-names as well. Maybe I have some mismatched icons or wunderground is sending strange data, which we maybe could filter. > > To my eye, the main weather icon takes up too much space relative to > the text. In my opinion the icon could be shrunk and either make the > text bigger or add a provision for a third line of data. > On what device are you looking (controller/touch/radio) ? Unfortunately it's very difficult to provide a good solution for all three devices (and even the desktop-version with arbitary resolution). Currently I cut the screen in 2/3 (current condition area) and 1/3 (forecast area). The forecast-area is divided into 3 areas of course. Then we have 4 areas which are again cut in 2/3 (icon) and 1/3 (text). As a small (exaggerated) test I cut the icon/text areas in half (see attached images). You see that this doesn't help much, as the fonts size/height is determined by its width. Scaling the fonts height would make look it ugly. I third line These screen sizes are really hard to handle :( > > Secondly, what about using the whole screen for current conditions, and > making subsequent days available via a button or wheel? I though about this too. But the nature of a screensafer (currently) makes this impossible. Whatever button you press (or if you scroll the wheel) -> screensafer is turned off. I might try to find ways to circumvent this in future releases, but as my vacation is now over, I won't find much time for such advanced hacks. Now I feel bad because I argued against any of your points. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: weather-touch.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8330| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- bluegaspode 1x SB-Controller+Receiver, 1xSB-Boom. Server running on Linkstation NAS (LS-CHL). One radio to come when its available ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68386 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
