Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-12-23 Thread phred
The layout for this screensaver was originally by T Cutting. Many years ago I reworked it to my liking with some help from BoomX2. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to tweak it a little more and got stuck. Once again BoomX2 came to the rescue. I use these when my devices are off. One is for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-12-18 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > I'm glad to hear you got this working on your system. I'm glad that *you* got it working on my system. :) phred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52602 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-12-18 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > You might check your server log for clues on why Custom Clock Helper > isn't importing styles or applying changes you make. I discovered the reason why the formatted reasons weren't importing. Well, they were, but the were overwriting the existing since all I changed was the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-12-18 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > > Let me know if these work for you. First off, I can't believe you had the original ones from 2018. -AND- that you took the time now to update the Touch version. Thanks much. As for testing them, I can't get them to import into the Custom Clock Helper GUI. My originals are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-12-17 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > If you would post your modified Custom Clock Style file, I will take a > look at it to see if something pops out at me. The name of the original T Cutting's style was changed years ago when you helped me originally. The name of the file I've been working with is "Phr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-12-15 Thread phred
Using SDT 5-11-28 with LMS 8.2.1-1662271208 on Windows 10. I've been using an SDT screensaver for quite some time and wanted to make a small tweak to it today, but can't seem to get it to work as expected. I'm using the Custom Clock Helper GUI to make the change. I have the following to show

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-03-07 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > If you installed SDT automatically using the repository it should be > located in this folder on a Win10 system. > C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins\Plugins > > The Custom Clock *Helper* plugin will be in the same location. Custom > Clock is an applet and is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-03-07 Thread phred
I've been seen some really odd behavior over the past 24 hours. First there are some issues with LMS not scanning the media folders (see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?116076-Not-Scanning-Media=1049776#post1049776. This is still not resolved.) I'm using SDT v5-11-21 on a Win10

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-01-11 Thread phred
Apesbrain wrote: > I can't say that it will fix your issue, but there is little risk on > Windows of updating to the latest version of LMS. Well ... you saw that BoomX2 figured out the issue, but I had committed to updating to LMS 8.2 anyway. I did and so far I don't see any issues. Thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-01-11 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Try navigating to Extras->SDT on either your Radio or Touch and see if > you start seeing weather data after that. That fixed it on both devices. Thanks for doing what you do to keep this project alive.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-01-11 Thread phred
Apesbrain wrote: > I can't say that it will fix your issue, but there is little risk on > Windows of updating to the latest version of LMS. Thanks. I've stayed with my current version for as long as I have since I firmly believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Especially with something

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-01-11 Thread phred
Yesterday when this discussion started I reported not having any issue with SDT. Perhaps I didn't realize it at the time, but it was in fact not working. That was confirmed this morning when SDT showed 29 degrees when it was actually 9. I was thankful that BoomX2 was working the overnight shift

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-01-10 Thread phred
mbonsack wrote: > Just happened to me too. Pasting the > URL(https://api.weather.com/v2/turbo/vt1observation?apiKey==e=en-US=json=xx.xx,-yy.yy) > into a browser > EDIT: Looks like there is a 1-call limit (at 10 calls per minute) > at "The Weather Company" -- now owned by IBM. Looks like

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2022-01-10 Thread phred
Apesbrain wrote: > Sometime in the last hour SDT data stopped coming through for me > (20815:4:US). Seeing a lot of errors in log as below. Is it working > for others? No errors in the log and no issues with data updating. 02135:4:US

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2021-04-08 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: > No, you pay with your data. After you registered your PWS you get an ID > and an API key to use in other apps. > You can use your old station ID for a new PWS also. Thanks for clarifying. phred's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2021-04-08 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: > You may use a Personal Weather Station (PWS) and upload their data to > Weatherunderground. Then SDT shows your data in a custom clock that you > configured. It is also possible to use your own server for data, but > this is complicated. Does WeatherU require a paid API license

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2021-01-05 Thread phred
Stingracer wrote: > Hi BoomX2, > is there a way to delete an old style in CustomClock Helper? My old > style is an import. There I could not change anything so I had to import > a new one. > Load the style you want to delete into CustomClock. Next to the 'Export' box there is a check box

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-06 Thread phred
The issue is now resolved. SDT is showing data again. The server log finally started showing a few entries from today and among them I noticed it couldn't resolve the IP for all the repos I have along with a couple of other things. I check that my DNS IPs were correct (they were) and decided to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-06 Thread phred
BoomX2 - I really appreciate you patience and determination to get to the bottom of this. There are no entries whatsoever in the Server Log for yesterday Aug 5. Even though I stopped and started LMS. There are two entries from today: Code: [20-08-06 01:47:08.4560]

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-05 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > It looks like you restarted LMS after changing the SDT logging level to > Info. No - I never exited and/or restarted LMS during these attempts to get the logs. Unless just applying the logging changes restarts LMS, I didn't touch it. So now I have checked the 'save settings for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-05 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Set logging for SDT to Info level. Wait ~10 minutes and post the last > 10 minutes of your server log here. > To my untrained eye, something funky is going on here. I starting info logging on SDT at 21:05 local time. I have to assume that the timestamps in the log are also

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-05 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > The entries from just before your relocation and those from yesterday > look like your LMS server can not reach the internet. The entry in > your log file related to the repo.xml file should not matter since you > already have SDT loaded on your system. However, it also

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-04 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > What version of SDT plugin do you have loaded? Does your server log > provide any clues? If not, set logging for SDT to Info. Wait ~10 > minutes and post your server log here. SDT v5.11.1 There are a good number of these from just before I shut down for the relocation move:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-08-04 Thread phred
I just moved my residence and except for the IP from my ISP, everything is exactly the same as before the move. I'm setting up my Radio (Touch to follow once I find which carton it's in) and it finds and plays my music and my "favorites." My screensavers however, are not working as previously.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2020-05-07 Thread phred
@BoomX2- it might be a good idea to lock this thread since the new one thread is now active. phred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52602 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2020-05-06 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > This thread is for ongoing community support of the SuperDateTime (SDT) > screensaver plugin originally created by Greg Brown (@GoCubs). > Original SDT thread: >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2019-11-04 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > The SDT plugin defaults to 60614:4:US if the weather.com identifier is > blank or not in the correct format. See code below. It is possibly the > weather.com station identifier was inadvertently altered when making > another setting change to SDT. Thanks - somewhere along the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2019-10-30 Thread phred
On both my Touch and my Radio, the current weather from SuperDateTime v5.9.56 hasn't changed since late yesterday afternoon. It's showing the same temperature now as it did last night. And the temp has definitely changed. Also the next four day's forecasts are very different than what I'm seeing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2019-10-06 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Basic WU info can still be retrieved if the WU station you have entered > on the settings page is active. If you clear the WU station ID on the > settings page the messages in the log will go away. Thanks BoomX2. I'm almost embarrassed that I didn't think of the solution

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2019-10-06 Thread phred
I, like many others, made the switch to the weather.com version quite some time ago. And it has been, and continues to work well. However, I looked at the server log today and see this error which appears hundreds of times starting near the end of August: [19-10-06 08:31:19.3592]

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2019-09-28 Thread phred
I'm looking for a little help with troubleshooting a custom clock screensaver that was displaying and now isn't. LMS is on a Windows 10 box and I have a few custom clocks set up and assigned slots. Using a Radio, I see the screensaver in question and it is selected for Now Playing. But it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2019-01-19 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: > > Is SDT by tcutting still working? I recently changed to Weather.com by > BoomX2 because WU announced to close their API at the end of 2018. Can't answer your question since I too switched over to the weather.com version based on WU's API ending. Last I heard on the WU

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2019-01-18 Thread phred
expectingtofly wrote: > Do you mean this one? : > I do indeed. Thanks very much. phred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52602 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2019-01-18 Thread phred
Does anyone know where I can track down the URL for the sleepicon for use in a Custom Clock layout as displayed in the default layout for 'Now Playing' on a Touch or Radio? Thanks phred's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-12-30 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: > phred- > As for the various icons, they are still posted on sourceforge at > "http://sourceforge.net/projects/superdatetimewu/files/CC_Icons/; but > there may be an issue with how SourceForge lets you access them - it > seems to always now invoke a downlo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-12-29 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: > One problem may be that LastFM doesn't provide the album artwork any > more. That makes sense. Is there any way for me to remove the call to LastFM from the code? I've done a search with a text editor and don't see a reference to it. Thanks.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-12-29 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: > I am posting the version of "PlayWithCoverAndClock" I use for my radio - > It utilizes the LastFM artwork in addition to the album art to make a > more interesting display. I don't recall if you need to install any > other plugins to make this work... > I've noticed that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-22 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > In the meantime I've pasted the 2 subroutines from the plugin.pm file > that stiff the data into the macro variables. They are pretty easy to > read to figure out what variables give you what data. > Thanks very much for posting this. It'sl certainly helpful.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-21 Thread phred
PasTim wrote: > Are these values documented anywhere? I really wish they were. Perhaps BoomX2 can point us in the right direction. In the meantime, there's this guide to Custom Clock Helper that has just about everything except the weather variables:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-21 Thread phred
korto wrote: > Thank you for the quick reply. > Still I need to change the temperature forecasts :( > What values should be changed? Are you asking how to change the temperature from F to C in the upcoming days' forecasts? If so, it's pretty much the same. Look for %t and replace it with %T.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-21 Thread phred
korto wrote: > > How do I change ºF to ºC ??? Glad to hear you like the theme. I couldn't have done it without the help of its original creator tcutting. And the help of BoomX2 for figuring out a problem I was having with displaying the days. Changing F to C is as simple as changing %t to %T.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-15 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > I also made an attempt to mimic more closely what you started with in > your WU version. The file named " Phred-BMX2-a 5 Day Color WC Weather > Details - radio.txt" starts the rotating forecasts with either "Today" > or "Tonight" depen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-15 Thread phred
chris49 wrote: > I'm looking forward to trying BoomX2's most recent scripts on my 2 SBRs. > How can I preview them on a Windows 10 PC? > I'm pretty sure you can't. You'll have to download them and import them to LMS using Custom Clock Helper and then select to view on the Radio.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-15 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > I've updated your radio CCH file to match what I did on the touch > version. It is attached in the file named "Phred-BMX2 5 Day Color WC > Weather Details - radio.txt" > > I also made an attempt to mimic more closely what you started with in > your

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-13 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Glad you got it working. I can edit the radio version tomorrow if you > like the way it works on the Touch. > If you really don't mind doing it, that would be wonderful. I've been taking a look at the differences and having a bit of trouble with it. Tomorrow, the next day,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-13 Thread phred
PasTim wrote: > So you've joined our club? ;) "I wouldn't want to join any club that would have me as a member." Groucho Marx phred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52602 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-13 Thread phred
Once I changed it to the new Phred-BMX2 template all is well. Sorry for dragging you around the block, BoomX2. And thanks very much to PasTim. Now to change the Radio settings to match the Touch and then I can go take a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-13 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Sorry about that. So you can see the differences I tweaked the name. > Look for Phred-BMX2 in the beginning of the name when selecting it in > the custom clock app. > Yes, I noticed that and that's what I imported. Then I selected it in Custom Clock Helper, appli

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-13 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Try this one. I can live with the changes you made, but I can't see any changes. It's possible I'm importing it incorrectly. I copied your text file and pasted into "import' in Custom Clock Helper. (Which is how I've imported every other layout.) Then clicked 'apply' and even

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-12 Thread phred
returned for d1 and d2, they are also off by a day. And in case it helps, I'm running LMS 7.9.2 - 1533559127 on a Window 7 box. +---+ |Filename: Phred 5 Day Color WC Weather Details - touch.zip | |Downl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-11 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Sure. It will probably be a couple days before I can spend much time on > it. > Great - I'm just happy someone else can take a look at it. > > Does the section with the Friday date rotate through other dates? You > want it to start with today instead of tomorrow? > Yes,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-11 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Can you post a pic of your screen? Sure can! Note that "Thu Oct 11" at the top center is correct. As is "Today" on the upper right under the weather icon. But under the right side of the time, "Friday Oct 12" is tomorrow. Thanks for taking a stab at this.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-11 Thread phred
A little further testing confirms that while today is Thursday Oct 11, the variable "d1:%_3 %_4" is showing as Friday Oct 12. And the variable "d2:%_3 %_4" is showing as Saturday Oct 13. Variables d3, d4, and d5 are showing as they should. Needless to say (but I will anyway) this is quite

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Clock applet for Touch/Radio/Controller

2018-10-10 Thread phred
ich scrolls through the forecast for today, tomw, the next day, the day after that, and the day after day. For a five day forecast. But the first two of the cycle (today and tomorrow) don't match with the weather icon. Thanks for the help. +----

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2018-09-21 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Try removing the WU SDT repository. It has a higher version number and > is probably preventing the weather.com version from showing up. Thanks much BoomX2! That did the trick. phred's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2018-09-21 Thread phred
I've been using the WU version of SDT for quite a while, but I'm hearing that the WU API is going away at the end of the year. Therefore I want to give the weather.com version a try. I'm running LMS 7.9.2 - 1533559127 on a Windows 7 box with a Radio and a Touch. Using the web interface, I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2016-10-14 Thread phred
sbellon wrote: > However, after a few hours I got an email from Wunderground that my > allowed number of API calls has been used up and one of my raindrops has > been used. As a consequence I reduced the update interval from 5 to 15. > But the same thing happened the next day. So I reduced to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2016-09-17 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: > I checked the link for that missing logo - I did indeed point it to > wunderground.com > (http://icons.wxug.com/logos/PNG/wundergroundLogo_4c.png). I see the > logo ok from my own settings screen (in Chrome browser), as well as from > the URL. I wouldn't worry about not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2016-09-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: > Should be just the WU logo as you said. Don't recall if that page > points to a locally-stored logo image, or links to something on > wunderground.com. I can look at it this weekend. > The T's for using the weather underground API specifies using their > logo... this was the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2016-09-16 Thread phred
Running LMS 7.9.0-1473501469 on Win7 with SDT 2.10.24. I'm seeing this in the settings page in Firefox and IE. I'm pretty sure it's just the WU logo, but I can't remember with 100% certainty. Whatever it is, it's not causing any problems with data retrieval. 21105

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2016-03-05 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: > I have incorporated suggestion to update the moon phase icons with > transparent backgrounds. I was using the images available from > wunderground.com, but I was able to find a nice set of compatible moon > phase images which have now been incorporated. > Nice touch! Thanks.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-12-11 Thread phred
I'm using SDT 5.10.18 (T. Cutting's version) and I happened to look in my server log today and noticed these entries - going back at least to the beginning of December. Could've been before that, but I was culling old entries from the log and pared it back to Dec 1. Just updated LMS today from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-09-09 Thread phred
BoomX2 wrote: > Make sure that you don't have any sports teams selected on the advanced > settings page except for baseball. Okay, that's a start. I did indeed have one team in each of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL. I removed all but MLB and will keep an eye on the temp today to see what happens. Is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-09-08 Thread phred
@tcutting... Your version of SDT has been working quite nicely for quite some time. However, over the past few days I've noticed that the temperature is not updating automatically. If I manually turn off, and then on, my Touch and/or my Radio, the temperature updates. SDT is set to update

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-03-11 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I've been monitoring my wunderground query stats since the change. I've changed my refresh down to 5 minutes (was 10), and my total calls/day are about right - I'm seeing about 214 (a little short of the 288/day), and the maximum calls/minute have gone down from 2 to 1, as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-03-08 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: It looks you may have found a bug. I haven't seen the issue because my refresh is set to 10 minutes. Looking at my log, it looks like it's querying wunderground twice for most queries - not sure why. My stats on wunderground show about 230/day, which is more than what it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-03-08 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I believe I've found the issue. I've posted a new version to the repository. Also available directly at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/superdatetimewu/files/SuperDateTime_5_10_9.zip/download What was issue?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-03-08 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: The plugin was effectively calling the getWunderground two different ways. So by rights I should see the number of hits cut in half. And be closer to the calculated 288. Nice. Thanks for the quick fix.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-01-06 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Is there an option to turn off automatic updates of plugins? Hmmm ... at the bottom of the Plugins page there is a checkable box update plugins automatically One would think if the box were unchecked, the plugin would not update. @chippy - can you confirm that this option is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2015-01-05 Thread phred
You should probably stop and exit LMS -before- you unzip/overwrite the files. And then just overwrite as there's no need to uninstall. What version of SDT are you using? There are now two versions - one by BoomX2 and one by tcutting. Both of which have version numbers higher than Greg's last

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-27 Thread phred
extremus669 wrote: Thanks tcutting. Confirmed working on Squeezebox Radio with LMS 7.7.5. btw, the DONATE button seems to be going to another email address...? There are -two- donate buttons on the SDT settings page. The first one is to tcutting, and says donate to tcutting. The second one

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-26 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: # Several minor formatting cleanups suggested - shortened wind direction, feels-like rounded to integer. Some nice tweaking on this release. I'm wondering if on the next go-round, you could round the wind speed to an integer. Currently it shows x.x and the .x is always

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-20 Thread phred
Hopefully this will be my final question for some time as between BoomX2, tcutting, and bluetdi my issues with SDT since the weather.com meltdown have just about all be resolved. So here's the thing: Using tcutting's version (latest being 5.10.5) if I set the SDT Icon Set to local the icons

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-19 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: My ISP discontinued the personal web pages... that's where these images were posted. I don't have them hosted on-line (didn't even remember that's how they were accessed). I have the images (attached) I can't save or copy the attached images. But if I find my own via Google,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-19 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: phred- From the log you sent me, it really looks like you are running an OLDER version of SDT (maybe 5.10.3?). Make sure you install the right version - maybe re-download from the forum? Well, I gotta tell you, I feel like a real idiot. I looked at the LMS plugins tab (why

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-19 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Did you try right clicking on the images, and save image as... ? G ... yes, in Firefox, and it didn't have the 'save as' option. But I was now able to save them with IE. phred's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-19 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I'm glad you got it figured out. You're the one who figured it out. BTW, Alice Springs seems like a pretty obscure place to check the weather! I wanted to check a place where it was night-time. What surprised me was that there were five or six PWS's listed for Alice Springs.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-18 Thread phred
@tcutting- These links, from one of your CCH skins, don't appear to be valid any longer: http://home.roadrunner.com/~tcutting/images/AlarmIcon_Active.png http://home.roadrunner.com/~tcutting/images/AlarmIcon.png http://home.roadrunner.com/~tcutting/images/AlarmIconSnooze.png Do they live

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: That is strange. I am looking at my Touch right now, and it's 8:34PM and showing a night icon. You could try changing the logging for SuperDateTime to debug - I added a lot of debug logging so I could make sure it's doing what I expect. Could you possibly be pointing to a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Try replacing the strings.txt file from the previous version. I will be out of town for a couple of days and won't be able to help much. I know you're out of town for a bit, but I wanted to update the issue. Replacing the 5.10.5 strings.txt with that from 5.10.4 gives me

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Try replacing the strings.txt file from the previous version. I will be out of town for a couple of days and won't be able to help much. I know you're out of town for a bit, but I wanted to update the issue. Replacing the 5.10.5 strings.txt with that from 5.10.4 doesn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: have an overlay with a questionmark. What does it mean considering the wetherforcast? I haven't seen the question mark on the local icons, but WU uses it on 'rain' and 'snow' to indicate that there's a -chance- of rain. Or snow.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I think what you want is possible. The SuperDateTime plugin provides effectively 3 different period sets of weather information (not including the long weather forecast, which is seperate, and I'm not sure if that's currently supported through the Custom Clock / Custom Clock

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
jallison wrote: Also, I'd like to have some simple text below the icon showing projected high and low for that forecast period. Is that possible? - Jeff I use D1 through D5 to give me a rotating five days of forecasts. By using H %_5 / L %_7 for each Dx, I get the output of H 42 / L 21 but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: This version (5.10.5) takes a cut at implementing the long weather forecasts which were not present in the previous 5.10.x (weather underground API) versions. @tcutting - seems like the local night icons have disappeared in this latest version. 10:29pm and clear, but the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-12 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I've made some fairly significant changes to the weather underground API-based version. # 5.10.4 12/11/14Significant modifications to the near-term forecasts - more like earlier versions of SDT Great job!! Another three hours or so and I'll be able to see the 'night'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: @phred This might solve your issuue. The switch is set to Yes on my SDT settings page since beginning, so I was not aware of it. Give it a last try. Thanks for finding yet another untried solution. But yet again, it didn't work. I have the Touch next to the Radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I hope to post my latest updates soon. I added some additional local icons, and added the code to select the local night icons. After trying some of the WU icons, I think I still prefer the local ones, but wanted to see the night icons. Local night! Nice. Perhaps now I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
Loom wrote: I'm using the latest plugin from TCutting, and I'm wondering if Sunrise/Sunset times are supposed to work? %s and %S doesn't give *any* data at all. It just stays blank ... I'm using it on my Touch and my Radio and I've got correct data. I assume you have a WU API Key. Is your

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
Loom wrote: Location is correct, in Weather.com aswell as in WU. I somehow missed the procedure with the API-key. Where can I get one and how is it used? Sorry for sounding a little dumb, just found this thread after several years of hazzle-free use ;) Let's back up a bit ... there are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
Loom wrote: Thanks very much. Got the key, but I cannot figure out where to enter it. WU station is entered and working good. But no idea where to enter the api-key .. EDIT: Ouch! Never mind, I used BoomX2's version by accident .. @TCutting BoomX2: Ever thought about teaming up

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
Loom wrote: Thanks very much. Got the key, but I cannot figure out where to enter it. WU station is entered and working good. But no idea where to enter the api-key .. EDIT: Ouch! Never mind, I used BoomX2's version by accident .. @TCutting BoomX2: Ever thought about teaming up and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-08 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Do you know if it ONLY spells it out for north, east, south, and west? I'm seeing NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST. All other directs are show abbreviated. NE, NNW, ENE, etc. I'm pretty it was this way before the recent crap-out. And I was using WU's %j then, and now.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-07 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: I experienced a similiar issue as yours with icons when trying out the BoomX2 plugin. Not all (local) icons showed up at my Off-screen though I waited quite a long time, flushed the CustomClock cache, started LMS and powered up the Touch again. But when I used a different

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-07 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: Nor LMS or deleting files. CCH clear cache is located in the Touch at Settings/Display/Screensaver/Custom Clock Settings/Clear Cache/ -. When the cache is flushed, the Clear Cache item is gone. Good luck. Cleared the CCH cache, stopped LMS, powered off Touch, started LMS,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-07 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: Nor LMS or deleting files. CCH clear cache is located in the Touch at Settings/Display/Screensaver/Custom Clock Settings/Clear Cache/ -. When the cache is flushed, the Clear Cache item is gone. Good luck. Cleared the CCH cache, stopped LMS, powered off Touch, started LMS,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-07 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: Well, I tested it: Thanks for doing that. And including the pix really gets me depressed. It's working for you (and apparently everyone else.) Back to my settings and now going to bed. Sorry, I do not understand what is going wrong at your Touch. :confused: I'm more

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-06 Thread phred
Using tcutting's latest SDT 5.10.3 with WU icons. On my Radio, the WU icon appears just fine, but on the Touch it doesn't appear. Doesn't matter which icon set I use, or how I size or position it. It just doesn't show. The local icon shows fine on both devices. Is anyone else experiencing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-06 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: @phred No, I don´t experience this. They show up on the Touch and Radio. Maybe you have to wait a moment for them to be loaded. I've waited more than a moment. I even did a power cycle and it just doesn't appear. I've tried other WU icon sets with the same result. tcutting

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-06 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: If you turn on debug logging for sdt you can see what it's putting in for URL for each icon. When pasting the icon URLs from the log into the browser, the correct icon is returned. [14-12-06 11:29:30.2136] Plugins::SuperDateTime::Plugin::gotWunderground (3164) Daily ICON URL

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