peterw;508378 Wrote: > Hmm, maybe wunderground isn't the answer. My display just reverted to > the wrong data again. I went to the SDT web settings, removed my > wunderground station code, and tapped + on the remote to refresh data. > All's well again. Looks like my friendly wunderground neighbor must be > pushing bad data. Maybe I'll look up the closest wunderground airport > code and see if that's any better.
Wrong again. I saw the bad temp again this AM, so I restarted SC/SBS with no wunderground setting, and soon saw bad data again. So I tried manually fetching www .weather.com/weather/local/MyZIPHere. It took fewer than 10 fetches for me to get a www. weather.com/weather/today/City+ST+NNNNN web page with the bad data. So it seems that weather.com is intermittently returning bad data. The HTML for the bad data is very, very similar to the good -- the only good telltale sign I found (and I confess not to have scoured the really long bits of markup and JS that differed) was an SGML comment that includes a number when the data is real, and an empty string when it's bad. I've added a safeguard in my code to look for that sign. There was one other -- the sunrise/sunset times were off by hours, as if it understood where my ZIP really is and that the forecast it was showing me was for somebody living ~30 degrees west of me. But I don't have a sunrise/sunset algorithm handy, so that's not much help. So I'm back to thinking that wunderground XML is the way to go. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
