Re: Temperature?
Hi, The app I used to use doesn't appear to work properly anymore. There's a Notification Centre Widget called Fanny that puts basic info up in the Notification Centre, but not as detailed as you were asking for. It does fan speed and overall CPU temp. I have 4 cores and it only gave me one temp. There's supposedly another one in the App Store called "Monit", but I couldn't check it as it wasn't available in the Canadian AppStore. I believe it is more detailed, but can't confirm. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 21, 2016, at 15:13, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: Yeah, if you could check, that would be great. I obviously could do the same, and am willing to. I just didn't know if you all knew off hand before I went rummaging around, if there was anything that was definitely recommended/accessible. Again, as I said to Tim, same goes to you. Thank you very much for your help. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com <mailto:i...@gillandmarketing.com> Phone: (704) 256-8010. > - Original Message - > From: Jonathan C. Cohn <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com> > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:08 PM > Subject: Re: Temperature? > > I think there's a battery meter app in the App Store that does some of this. > I think they have other things from that same vendor. I don't have my > Macintosh want me to check. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > On Sep 21, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com > <mailto:kilbu...@me.com>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I used to use a product called Temperature Monitor. Not sure if it's still >> out there or if it is compatible with newer MacOS's, but it was accessible >> and was able to read all the sensors that mattered. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Sep 21, 2016, at 13:28, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com >> <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Are there any good, key word, free, as I don't have any money to spare right >> now, apps that will accessibly with Voiceover let me see the current >> temperature of all the cores on my mac, as well as the temp of my battery? >> It's a long story, but I'm in urgent need of such utility. It could at this >> point mean the difference in me having a system that catches fire or not. >> I'm leaving the system off until I can find a tool where I quickly can look >> at a few things. >> >> Chris. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com> and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is
Re: Temperature?
Yeah, if you could check, that would be great. I obviously could do the same, and am willing to. I just didn't know if you all knew off hand before I went rummaging around, if there was anything that was definitely recommended/accessible. Again, as I said to Tim, same goes to you. Thank you very much for your help. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Jonathan C. Cohn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Temperature? I think there's a battery meter app in the App Store that does some of this. I think they have other things from that same vendor. I don't have my Macintosh want me to check. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Sep 21, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: Hi, I used to use a product called Temperature Monitor. Not sure if it's still out there or if it is compatible with newer MacOS's, but it was accessible and was able to read all the sensors that mattered. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 21, 2016, at 13:28, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: Are there any good, key word, free, as I don't have any money to spare right now, apps that will accessibly with Voiceover let me see the current temperature of all the cores on my mac, as well as the temp of my battery? It's a long story, but I'm in urgent need of such utility. It could at this point mean the difference in me having a system that catches fire or not. I'm leaving the system off until I can find a tool where I quickly can look at a few things. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http
Re: Temperature?
That's such a vague name, Tim, would you by chance happen to know who made the app? I'll look, if not. Thank you very greatly for your help! --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Temperature? Hi, I used to use a product called Temperature Monitor. Not sure if it's still out there or if it is compatible with newer MacOS's, but it was accessible and was able to read all the sensors that mattered. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 21, 2016, at 13:28, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: Are there any good, key word, free, as I don't have any money to spare right now, apps that will accessibly with Voiceover let me see the current temperature of all the cores on my mac, as well as the temp of my battery? It's a long story, but I'm in urgent need of such utility. It could at this point mean the difference in me having a system that catches fire or not. I'm leaving the system off until I can find a tool where I quickly can look at a few things. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Temperature?
I think there's a battery meter app in the App Store that does some of this. I think they have other things from that same vendor. I don't have my Macintosh want me to check. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 21, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I used to use a product called Temperature Monitor. Not sure if it's still > out there or if it is compatible with newer MacOS's, but it was accessible > and was able to read all the sensors that mattered. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Sep 21, 2016, at 13:28, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Are there any good, key word, free, as I don't have any money to spare right > now, apps that will accessibly with Voiceover let me see the current > temperature of all the cores on my mac, as well as the temp of my battery? > It's a long story, but I'm in urgent need of such utility. It could at this > point mean the difference in me having a system that catches fire or not. > I'm leaving the system off until I can find a tool where I quickly can look > at a few things. > > Chris. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Temperature?
Hi, I used to use a product called Temperature Monitor. Not sure if it's still out there or if it is compatible with newer MacOS's, but it was accessible and was able to read all the sensors that mattered. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 21, 2016, at 13:28, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: Are there any good, key word, free, as I don't have any money to spare right now, apps that will accessibly with Voiceover let me see the current temperature of all the cores on my mac, as well as the temp of my battery? It's a long story, but I'm in urgent need of such utility. It could at this point mean the difference in me having a system that catches fire or not. I'm leaving the system off until I can find a tool where I quickly can look at a few things. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Temperature?
Are there any good, key word, free, as I don't have any money to spare right now, apps that will accessibly with Voiceover let me see the current temperature of all the cores on my mac, as well as the temp of my battery? It's a long story, but I'm in urgent need of such utility. It could at this point mean the difference in me having a system that catches fire or not. I'm leaving the system off until I can find a tool where I quickly can look at a few things. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: iMac Temperature
Hi. I just downloaded this programme and see a table with things like ambiant air and then a number and then the maximum and minimum limits appear blank. So what temperature should things be? thanks God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 05/11/2012, at 2:52 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is also one called Temperature Monitor, mostly accessible and works in ML. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 4:57 PM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there is a program called fan control. it does a similar thing. Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
iMac Temperature
Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iMac Temperature
I believe there is a program called fan control. it does a similar thing. Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iMac Temperature
Hi, There is also one called Temperature Monitor, mostly accessible and works in ML. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 4:57 PM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there is a program called fan control. it does a similar thing. Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iMac Temperature
Hi Max, Chris, Tim, and Others, If it's the same Temperature Monitor application we've been using since Tiger, then the URL is: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html It was usually advisable to read the notes at the web site, because there were sometimes performance issues for different specific hardware configurations. Tim, I haven't tried running this recently. what is the mostly accessible qualification under ML? Cheers, Esther On Nov 4, 5:52 pm, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is also one called Temperature Monitor, mostly accessible and works in ML. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 4:57 PM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there is a program called fan control. it does a similar thing. Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iMac Temperature
Hi Esther, Mostly accessible may have been the wrong phrase. I've just noticed that in some cases the temperature is not read out, it just says blank or nothing at all. You can navigate up and down sometimes or sometimes VO-c will read the Column Header and then read the temperature out loud. So, I guess it's more a consistency issue than an accessibility issue. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 9:09 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hi Max, Chris, Tim, and Others, If it's the same Temperature Monitor application we've been using since Tiger, then the URL is: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html It was usually advisable to read the notes at the web site, because there were sometimes performance issues for different specific hardware configurations. Tim, I haven't tried running this recently. what is the mostly accessible qualification under ML? Cheers, Esther On Nov 4, 5:52 pm, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is also one called Temperature Monitor, mostly accessible and works in ML. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 4:57 PM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there is a program called fan control. it does a similar thing. Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iMac Temperature
Also to clarify: there is a larger software program called hardware monitor that does a number of things. Temperature monitor itself can be downloaded separately and is free. I thought I should point it out because when you go to the website you almost immediately hear something about full software, not an app; definitely not available on the app store. Then it goes on to explain if you keep looking. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Esther, Mostly accessible may have been the wrong phrase. I've just noticed that in some cases the temperature is not read out, it just says blank or nothing at all. You can navigate up and down sometimes or sometimes VO-c will read the Column Header and then read the temperature out loud. So, I guess it's more a consistency issue than an accessibility issue. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 9:09 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hi Max, Chris, Tim, and Others, If it's the same Temperature Monitor application we've been using since Tiger, then the URL is: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html It was usually advisable to read the notes at the web site, because there were sometimes performance issues for different specific hardware configurations. Tim, I haven't tried running this recently. what is the mostly accessible qualification under ML? Cheers, Esther On Nov 4, 5:52 pm, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is also one called Temperature Monitor, mostly accessible and works in ML. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-04, at 4:57 PM, Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there is a program called fan control. it does a similar thing. Chris Bruinenberg cbrui...@gmail.com On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, is there a way of telling what Temperature the iMac is running at? On the PC I had a program called Speedfan to do this. Thanks for any help. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: looking for a good temperature monitoring app
Hi Ray, Now that Tim reminded me about this, I pulled the reference for Temperature Monitor from one of my posts on the old macvisionaries list archive: Here's the web page for Temperature Monitor: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html There are links for the download, online manual, and notes. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, go to www.versiontracker.com and search for Temperature Monitor. Should be the first one in the list. It's free and everything you need to get the temperature of is accessible. There's probably some graphics that aren't visible but that's no consequence to you reading all the necessary temperatures of the sensors. Later... On 2012-03-19, at 6:56 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Hi, subject line says it all. anybody know of a good accessible app for monitoring GPU temperature and so on? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
looking for a good temperature monitoring app
Hi, subject line says it all. anybody know of a good accessible app for monitoring GPU temperature and so on? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: looking for a good temperature monitoring app
I've not played with it but iStat is a widget which will give you temperatures of various components. It's free so give it a whirl: http://islayer.com/apps/istatpro/ I also found two temp monitoring apps in the app store which show the various system temps, but they were not free: Temperature Gauge - $8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/temperature-gauge/id467830521?mt=12 Desktop Monitor - $2 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/desktopmonitor/id432948323?mt=12 There is also Temperature Monitor which is free and has a terminal interface: http://www.bresink.de/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/download.php5 and supposedly you can then do tempmonitor -ds -c -a -l | grep DIODE | sed -e 's/^[^:]*: //' to get the temperature output. There is a command called ioreg in the terminal that supposedly has everything in it somewhere but I couldn't figure out where the GPU temp was in that long blob of text. CB On 3/19/12 8:56 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Hi, subject line says it all. anybody know of a good accessible app for monitoring GPU temperature and so on? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 http://m.facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1?refid=0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: looking for a good temperature monitoring app
Hi, go to www.versiontracker.com and search for Temperature Monitor. Should be the first one in the list. It's free and everything you need to get the temperature of is accessible. There's probably some graphics that aren't visible but that's no consequence to you reading all the necessary temperatures of the sensors. Later... On 2012-03-19, at 6:56 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Hi, subject line says it all. anybody know of a good accessible app for monitoring GPU temperature and so on? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Nice. Glad to hear that you got a work around going. I am playing with removing the say part of that string and setting all that up as variables in the Apple Script itself. Seems to run a little faster. Keith On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Just tried is on Snow Leopard and got an error on the -r argument so it must be new to Lion. For non-lion users I managed to prepending the rate command to the text using sed which worked fine: curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | sed s/^/[[rate 900]]/ | say CB On 9/11/11 5:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote: Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of it because I set it to 1000 and was able to understand every word. Maybe Alex tops out at around 600 or so. Anyway, having fun playing around with all this myself. Now if only I could get Tessa to cook me a nice dinner I would be in heaven. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to say -v Alice, for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the say command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the r switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.) Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here *** Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. *** Code starts on next line. *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here. *** If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, but it does not require any additional installs. Have fun. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Rate argument works fine in Lion. I've adjusted it to various values and it's great. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote: Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of it because I set it to 1000 and was able to understand every word. Maybe Alex tops out at around 600 or so. Anyway, having fun playing around with all this myself. Now if only I could get Tessa to cook me a nice dinner I would be in heaven. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to say -v Alice, for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the say command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the r switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.) Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here *** Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. *** Code starts on next line. *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here. *** If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, but it does not require any additional installs. Have fun. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Just tried is on Snow Leopard and got an error on the -r argument so it must be new to Lion. For non-lion users I managed to prepending the rate command to the text using sed which worked fine: curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | sed s/^/[[rate 900]]/ | say CB On 9/11/11 5:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote: Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of it because I set it to 1000 and was able to understand every word. Maybe Alex tops out at around 600 or so. Anyway, having fun playing around with all this myself. Now if only I could get Tessa to cook me a nice dinner I would be in heaven. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to say -v Alice, for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the say command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the r switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.) Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** *do shell script* curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here *** Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. *** Code starts on next line. *** *do shell script* curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here. *** If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, but it does not require any additional installs. Have fun. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Hi Chris and Keith, Chris, that was a clever use of sed and regular expressions to prepend the rate argument to the beginning of the text being piped to the say command. Keith, if you want to play around more with the other embedded commands for speech, you'll find them in the Apple Developer Connection documentation. The site is: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/index.html (That's all one line.) Embedded commands are described in the section titled Techniques for Customizing Synthesized Speech - Use Embedded Speech Commands to Fine-Tune Spoken Output. There are a whole lot of 4 character embedded commands besides the rate command that Chris used, and they're all enclosed in a double set of brackets. Here are some: char speaks the following word letter by letter cmnt lets you insert a comment that isn't spoken ctxt identifies a context for speech synthesizer pronunciation (I've never tried this) dlim lets you change the delimiter characters used for embedded speech commands emph lets you increase or decrease emphasis of the next word (takes an argument of + or -) inpt lets you change the pronunciation model from straight text to options like phonetic (takes an argument) nmbr lets you speak numbers digit by digit if you use the LTRL argument instead of NORM pbas changes current speech pitch (takes an argument with + or -) pmod changes pitch modulation range (takes an argument with +' or -) rate sets the speaking rate; can be used either with a value or by increasing or decreasing (with + or -) rset resets speech parameters to default values (may need to be rset 0) slnc lets you add a period of silence (takes an argument) volm lets you set or increase/decrease volume (takes an argument) There are a few more sequences described in the document for fancier functions. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:00, Chris Blouch wrote: Just tried is on Snow Leopard and got an error on the -r argument so it must be new to Lion. For non-lion users I managed to prepending the rate command to the text using sed which worked fine: curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | sed s/^/[[rate 900]]/ | say CB On 9/11/11 5:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote: Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of it because I set it to 1000 and was able to understand every word. Maybe Alex tops out at around 600 or so. Anyway, having fun playing around with all this myself. Now if only I could get Tessa to cook me a nice dinner I would be in heaven. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to say -v Alice, for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the say command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the r switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.) Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Hey Keith, Thanks for the tip on the lynx app, it made me explore every command in the usr/bin and gave me a few more shell script ideas. Like the fact that it can also be mapped to anything, key, gesture, voice, whatever :) Best regards, Yuma On 11/09/2011, at 6:36 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Johnathan, Tried curl. Unfortunately the dump is not plain text as in lynx. It more resembles xml than anything else. I am not far enough into learning Apple Script to be able to handle parsing text strings yet, so chose this method. Attempted to use python to do it, but it wanted to open a terminal every time I ran it. Got pissed off so went in another direction and wound up with what I posted. If there is anyone familiar with how to parse the curl output I would appreciate the input. Thanks, Keith On Sep 10, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: I don't believe you need to actually use lynx for this... And if you don't need lynx then you don't need the developer tools and a UNIX port program (macport and/or fink). The Macintosh has built-in for the command line the curl command that can take a ftp and/or an http request and download (and possibly upload) a file or set of files. So you should be able to replace the lynx command with a slightly different curl command. Also, AppleScript has had for over 10 years the ability to directly retrieve URL's in the standard suite. Hope this helps and best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Keith Watson wrote: Hi All, Disclaimer Those of you who choose to follow these steps do so at their own risk. I take no responsibility for any problems or issues you may encounter. These steps are straight forward but not for the faint of heart. Ok, so now that I got that out of the way lets begin. Step 1: If you do not already have it installed go to the Mac App Store and get Xcode. Once it has completed downloading go to Applications in the Finder and open the Install Xcode installation package. Follow all the install prompts. Step 2: Go to http://www.macports.org and get the latest install for your version of the operating system. They have Lion. Once it's downloaded open the DMG and then the PKG and follow the install instructions. Step 3: Open a terminal and at the prompt type the following command: sudo port install lynx Please note that lynx is spelled l y n x. For those of you who are not familiar with lynx, it's a command line browser. Once the install is completed and you are placed back at a prompt, command q out of the terminal. Step 4: From Utilities open the Apple Script Editor and cut and paste the following code into the edit area. --- Code Starts Here --- # Script to have Voice Over speak the current temperature. # Written by Keith Watson on September 10, 2011. # # Using lynx get forecast from wunderground and dump to a text file. do shell script /opt/local/bin/lynx -dump http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -m 1 -A 1 Temperature /tmp/weather.tmp # # Convert text dump from lynx to UTF-8 format. # do shell script /usr/bin/iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 /tmp/weather.tmp /tmp/weather # # Have say parse the text file to Alex or your voice of choice. # The -r value is in words per minute. The higher the faster. # do shell script /usr/bin/say -v Alex -r 450 -f /tmp/weather # # Clean up after myself. # do shell script rm /tmp/weather* --- Code Ends Here Be sure to change my zip code for yours. 33617 to your zip code. Also for the fun of it you can change the line with -v Alex -r 450 to your favorite voice and a comfortable rate. Save the file in a location that you are going to remember. I have created a sub directory in my Documents folder called Scripts and save my Apple Scripts in there. You can test the script by running it with a command r. If all is well, exit the editor. Step 5: Open the Voice Over Utility and add the script to your favorite commander. I chose lower case w from the keyboard commander so that I could eventually add capital W for the full up forecast. Will post that script after I write it. I have a request for those of you who may be familiar with Apple Scripting. This script is not very elegant since I brute force converted it from an old bash script. I am just getting started with Apple Scripting and if you see a better way to do this please feel free to make any changes and post here. Thakns, Keith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the entire forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp is. Being from South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond memories. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less thing to load. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less thing to load. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less thing to load. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here *** Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. *** Code starts on next line. *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here. *** If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, but it does not require any additional installs. Have fun. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less thing to load. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Then there's always playing with scripts when you have a bit of time on your hands. That's basically what I was doing. I wanted to get the mac ports anyhow. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to say -v Alice, for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the say command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the r switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.) Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here *** Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. *** Code starts on next line. *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here. *** If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, but it does not require any additional installs. Have fun. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less thing to load. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
I am enjoying this thread. I agree that the weather widget isn't always up front in dash board. For me, it might be the translation app. Keith, if I use your second method with curl, is it that simple. I copy and paste that code into script edit, and while still in script edit, I hit command-r to see if I did it correctly? I'm so excited if I can do this! It is a silly thing, but a feature of window-eyes I have enjoyed! Thank you for working on this. Traci - Original Message - From: Keith Watson tkwatso...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 4:33 AM Subject: Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the entire forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp is. Being from South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond memories. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
It's just different schools of thought. Some mac users don't want to learn the terminal nor scripting as it is quite a complicated albeit powerful tool, while those who do have a comprehensive set of skills in unix and have delved into appplescript can actually find their ways into making their macs pretty unique in the way they use it. I can speak for those in IT as a lot of tasks are repetitive, involve many terminal commands, and those scripts are a real time saver. I'm in the latter school, and sometimes i need to tone myself down when i have a discussion with mates over beer and the subject of voice over, jaws etc, but most importantly the use of the computer hits the table. I get amazed by how some just don't google stuff they wish to know, or at least don't make it a form of extension of themselves. But i know that they will get to it one day, i just won't push them to. In the meantime, i prefer customizing my experience with a gesture and peter infovox telling me what temperature it is, nothing else. Just like the time script i wrote in my early days of scripting. Cheers On 12/09/2011, at 12:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less thing to load. On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? Cheers, Donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Works just fine here, thanks to the person who posted the whole thing on Dashboard, I used to hate it, now that it's configured differently, I like it vary much. On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Hey Keith, Thanks for the tip on the lynx app, it made me explore every command in the usr/bin and gave me a few more shell script ideas. Like the fact that it can also be mapped to anything, key, gesture, voice, whatever :) Best regards, Yuma On 11/09/2011, at 6:36 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they are full of it because I set it to 1000 and was able to understand every word. Maybe Alex tops out at around 600 or so. Anyway, having fun playing around with all this myself. Now if only I could get Tessa to cook me a nice dinner I would be in heaven. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to say -v Alice, for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the say command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the r switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.) Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: All, Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code. *** Code starts on next line *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here *** Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. *** Code starts on next line. *** do shell script curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | say -r 400 *** Code ends here. *** If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, but it does not require any additional installs. Have fun. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that weather station. On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my $.02. Cheers, donna On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do you people want? Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it means just one less
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Tracey, Yep, all you do is copy that line into the Apple Script editor and then do a command r to run it. Once you see it is working you then save it off to a file and point the Voice Over keyboard commander at the file and away you go. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Traci wrote: I am enjoying this thread. I agree that the weather widget isn't always up front in dash board. For me, it might be the translation app. Keith, if I use your second method with curl, is it that simple. I copy and paste that code into script edit, and while still in script edit, I hit command-r to see if I did it correctly? I'm so excited if I can do this! It is a silly thing, but a feature of window-eyes I have enjoyed! Thank you for working on this. Traci - Original Message - From: Keith Watson tkwatso...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 4:33 AM Subject: Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script Nope, the intent was to only have the temperature read to you. Not the entire forecast. And I sort of like to have Tessa tell me what the temp is. Being from South Africa on my mothers side it brings back fond memories. Keith On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, You know what, For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your current weather? Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, including the Lynx browser. teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Hi All, Disclaimer Those of you who choose to follow these steps do so at their own risk. I take no responsibility for any problems or issues you may encounter. These steps are straight forward but not for the faint of heart. Ok, so now that I got that out of the way lets begin. Step 1: If you do not already have it installed go to the Mac App Store and get Xcode. Once it has completed downloading go to Applications in the Finder and open the Install Xcode installation package. Follow all the install prompts. Step 2: Go to http://www.macports.org and get the latest install for your version of the operating system. They have Lion. Once it's downloaded open the DMG and then the PKG and follow the install instructions. Step 3: Open a terminal and at the prompt type the following command: sudo port install lynx Please note that lynx is spelled l y n x. For those of you who are not familiar with lynx, it's a command line browser. Once the install is completed and you are placed back at a prompt, command q out of the terminal. Step 4: From Utilities open the Apple Script Editor and cut and paste the following code into the edit area. --- Code Starts Here --- # Script to have Voice Over speak the current temperature. # Written by Keith Watson on September 10, 2011. # # Using lynx get forecast from wunderground and dump to a text file. do shell script /opt/local/bin/lynx -dump http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -m 1 -A 1 Temperature /tmp/weather.tmp # # Convert text dump from lynx to UTF-8 format. # do shell script /usr/bin/iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 /tmp/weather.tmp /tmp/weather # # Have say parse the text file to Alex or your voice of choice. # The -r value is in words per minute. The higher the faster. # do shell script /usr/bin/say -v Alex -r 450 -f /tmp/weather # # Clean up after myself. # do shell script rm /tmp/weather* --- Code Ends Here Be sure to change my zip code for yours. 33617 to your zip code. Also for the fun of it you can change the line with -v Alex -r 450 to your favorite voice and a comfortable rate. Save the file in a location that you are going to remember. I have created a sub directory in my Documents folder called Scripts and save my Apple Scripts in there. You can test the script by running it with a command r. If all is well, exit the editor. Step 5: Open the Voice Over Utility and add the script to your favorite commander. I chose lower case w from the keyboard commander so that I could eventually add capital W for the full up forecast. Will post that script after I write it. I have a request for those of you who may be familiar with Apple Scripting. This script is not very elegant since I brute force converted it from an old bash script. I am just getting started with Apple Scripting and if you see a better way to do this please feel free to make any changes and post here. Thakns, Keith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
Wow, I'm impressed. I might get brave and try this. :) Thanks, Traci - Original Message - From: Keith Watson To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:43 AM Subject: Weather / Temperature Apple Script Hi All, Disclaimer Those of you who choose to follow these steps do so at their own risk. I take no responsibility for any problems or issues you may encounter. These steps are straight forward but not for the faint of heart. Ok, so now that I got that out of the way lets begin. Step 1: If you do not already have it installed go to the Mac App Store and get Xcode. Once it has completed downloading go to Applications in the Finder and open the Install Xcode installation package. Follow all the install prompts. Step 2: Go to http://www.macports.org and get the latest install for your version of the operating system. They have Lion. Once it's downloaded open the DMG and then the PKG and follow the install instructions. Step 3: Open a terminal and at the prompt type the following command: sudo port install lynx Please note that lynx is spelled l y n x. For those of you who are not familiar with lynx, it's a command line browser. Once the install is completed and you are placed back at a prompt, command q out of the terminal. Step 4: From Utilities open the Apple Script Editor and cut and paste the following code into the edit area. --- Code Starts Here --- # Script to have Voice Over speak the current temperature. # Written by Keith Watson on September 10, 2011. # # Using lynx get forecast from wunderground and dump to a text file. do shell script /opt/local/bin/lynx -dump http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -m 1 -A 1 Temperature /tmp/weather.tmp # # Convert text dump from lynx to UTF-8 format. # do shell script /usr/bin/iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 /tmp/weather.tmp /tmp/weather # # Have say parse the text file to Alex or your voice of choice. # The -r value is in words per minute. The higher the faster. # do shell script /usr/bin/say -v Alex -r 450 -f /tmp/weather # # Clean up after myself. # do shell script rm /tmp/weather* --- Code Ends Here Be sure to change my zip code for yours. 33617 to your zip code. Also for the fun of it you can change the line with -v Alex -r 450 to your favorite voice and a comfortable rate. Save the file in a location that you are going to remember. I have created a sub directory in my Documents folder called Scripts and save my Apple Scripts in there. You can test the script by running it with a command r. If all is well, exit the editor. Step 5: Open the Voice Over Utility and add the script to your favorite commander. I chose lower case w from the keyboard commander so that I could eventually add capital W for the full up forecast. Will post that script after I write it. I have a request for those of you who may be familiar with Apple Scripting. This script is not very elegant since I brute force converted it from an old bash script. I am just getting started with Apple Scripting and if you see a better way to do this please feel free to make any changes and post here. Thakns, Keith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script
I don't believe you need to actually use lynx for this... And if you don't need lynx then you don't need the developer tools and a UNIX port program (macport and/or fink). The Macintosh has built-in for the command line the curl command that can take a ftp and/or an http request and download (and possibly upload) a file or set of files. So you should be able to replace the lynx command with a slightly different curl command. Also, AppleScript has had for over 10 years the ability to directly retrieve URL's in the standard suite. Hope this helps and best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Keith Watson wrote: Hi All, Disclaimer Those of you who choose to follow these steps do so at their own risk. I take no responsibility for any problems or issues you may encounter. These steps are straight forward but not for the faint of heart. Ok, so now that I got that out of the way lets begin. Step 1: If you do not already have it installed go to the Mac App Store and get Xcode. Once it has completed downloading go to Applications in the Finder and open the Install Xcode installation package. Follow all the install prompts. Step 2: Go to http://www.macports.org and get the latest install for your version of the operating system. They have Lion. Once it's downloaded open the DMG and then the PKG and follow the install instructions. Step 3: Open a terminal and at the prompt type the following command: sudo port install lynx Please note that lynx is spelled l y n x. For those of you who are not familiar with lynx, it's a command line browser. Once the install is completed and you are placed back at a prompt, command q out of the terminal. Step 4: From Utilities open the Apple Script Editor and cut and paste the following code into the edit area. --- Code Starts Here --- # Script to have Voice Over speak the current temperature. # Written by Keith Watson on September 10, 2011. # # Using lynx get forecast from wunderground and dump to a text file. do shell script /opt/local/bin/lynx -dump http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -m 1 -A 1 Temperature /tmp/weather.tmp # # Convert text dump from lynx to UTF-8 format. # do shell script /usr/bin/iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 /tmp/weather.tmp /tmp/weather # # Have say parse the text file to Alex or your voice of choice. # The -r value is in words per minute. The higher the faster. # do shell script /usr/bin/say -v Alex -r 450 -f /tmp/weather # # Clean up after myself. # do shell script rm /tmp/weather* --- Code Ends Here Be sure to change my zip code for yours. 33617 to your zip code. Also for the fun of it you can change the line with -v Alex -r 450 to your favorite voice and a comfortable rate. Save the file in a location that you are going to remember. I have created a sub directory in my Documents folder called Scripts and save my Apple Scripts in there. You can test the script by running it with a command r. If all is well, exit the editor. Step 5: Open the Voice Over Utility and add the script to your favorite commander. I chose lower case w from the keyboard commander so that I could eventually add capital W for the full up forecast. Will post that script after I write it. I have a request for those of you who may be familiar with Apple Scripting. This script is not very elegant since I brute force converted it from an old bash script. I am just getting started with Apple Scripting and if you see a better way to do this please feel free to make any changes and post here. Thakns, Keith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
