I could put up my weather ini file if that would help. Mine has 3 cities
in it, but you could likely edit it.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
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Wallace, ks.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019, Amanda Lee via Talk wrote:
> Thanks for this. I don't have a .ini from a prior installation just
> yet. I can follow this syntax just fine though and appreciate your
> being so thoughtful as to how to code these entries. I fortunately do
> have some of the coordinates for the points of interest I want to follow
> and thanks for sharing a more accessible site as well.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Amanda Lee
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talk
> <talk-bounces+amandainparadise777=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com> On
> Behalf Of David via Talk
> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 5:58 PM
> To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>
> Cc: David <trailerda...@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Weather or not issue
>
> OK, guys.
> This, is going to be a rather long message, so work your way through.
> I will try to share my findings on the issue you are having, with the
> WeatherOrNot app. These are based on some fooling around, and quick
> searchings on the net, so take them for what they are worth. I do have
> no clue exactly where, how or what the Weather app extracts its info, so
> you will have to do your own playing around. But when I tried the
> following steps, it at least gave me some results. Smiles.
>
> As someone suggested, please make it a habit of backing up any file
> before you modify it at all.
>
> OK, the first thing we need to know, is the Longitude and Latitude
> coordinates, in a decimal format, for the city or place you are trying
> to add. I did try a few webpages, and here is one that I found to be
> fairly easy to operate with WinEyes:
> https://www.latlong.net/
>
> When opening the page, go to the first Edit box, and here enter your
> city. Like:
> Toronto, On
> for finding the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario, in Canada.
> Once you have typed your info, hit the Enter key.
> Please note, it seems that you will have to manually turn back on Browse
> Mode here.
>
> The page will now come up with its results. If it found the exact city
> or place, it will give you two edit boxes, right beneath the Find-button
> on the page. They will hold the necessary numbers, for the Longitude
> and Latitude. Copy and paste them into your ini file, as will be
> described below.
>
> In a few cases, I noticed the page came up with more than one choice for
> the city. They then were presented in a table, with a link for each
> city. You would simply choose the wanted link, hit Enter, and go to the
> text line, that gives you the coordinates. Copy and paste the given info
> into your ini file.
>
> How To Modify The Ini File?
> Now that we have found the needed info to direct the app, let's get to
> the real job. And, yes, it is a bit of typing to be done. We will go by
> it, step by step.
>
> First, open your WE control panel, and hit Alt-F, followed by the letter
> E. The user profile folder will open.
>
> Keep pressing the W, til you get to the file named:
> WeatherOrNot.ini
> , and hit Enter on it. It should open in something like Notepad.
> Please note, from here, it will be good to have your synth spell out all
> punctuations, and even Upper- and Lower-cased characters, as they are
> all important.
>
> In the ini file, scroll down to the line that reads
> [Locations]
> . Do NOT modify this line.
>
> Hit the End-key, to go to the end of the line, and then Hit Enter. You
> now have a blank line for entering your personalized info.
> What the app wants here, is a section name, for your new location. To
> keep our above example rolling, enter the following line. Or, modify it
> to your personal location:
> Toronto, Ontario=43.651890, -79.381710 . To break this line down,
> please note:
> To the left of the Equals sign, we give the app the name of the location
> we are entering. It doesn't really matter what name you give it, long as
> you keep track of the exact name and spelling - as we will be using it
> in a moment.
> Behind the Equal sign, we give the two coordinates, as copied from the
> website. First the Latitude, followed by a Comma, A space character, and
> then the Longitude value. No other info, no other punctuation. The
> coordinates should be given in positive or negative values, exactly
> copied from the website.
>
> Once this Location line has been established, we are ready to move on to
> the next modification of the ini file.
> Move yourself to the bottom of the file, by hitting Ctrl-end.
>
> You now will have to enter a section, holding the actual settings for
> your new location. this section, it is, that controls how and what info
> the app will read to you.
>
> A section, always starts out with a header. That is, a line enclosed in
> brackets. The header, should be an exact copy of the info you entered to
> the left of the Equal sign, in your location line. It is case, and
> character sensitive, so make sure you get an one-by-one copy of your
> location line. In our example, it will look like this:
> [Toronto, ontario]
> . Press Enter when you are done.
>
> Now that we have established the section, it is time to set it all up.
> The section should hold four fields. They are placed on individual
> lines, their name spelled all in lower-cases, and ends with an Equal
> sign, and your wanted setting. Lets get to them one by one.
>
> name=
> Here enter the name of the location, that you want read out to you,
> whenever you press the hotkey. It could be the city name, or some kind
> of an alias - like home, work, grandma's place, or whatever. Our example
> line could be:
> name=Toronto
> or,
> Name=Big city of Canada.
> Please note, that you can use a mix of upper- and lower-cased
> characters, along with normal punctuation (except from the Equal sign),
> or even numbers - in your string here.
>
> temp=
> Behind the Equal sign, enter a lower-cased c, for Celcius; or a
> lowercased f, for having the temperature read in degrees Fahrenheit.
> Obviously, it seems there should be a way to have the app read both
> formats, and my guess is that you simply enter either cf, or fc, in this
> field.
>
> wind=
> Here enter ms, for meter-per-second; or mph, to have the app giving you
> the windspeed in miles-per-hour. A couple more measurements should be
> available, far as I can see, but you will do your own playing.
>
> status=OK
> Huh? Don't ask me what this means. But apparently the app wants you to
> tell it that you, your old auntie, or the pizza you had for dinner last
> night was OK. Give it what it wants, and hope for the best. Smiles. If
> you decide to fool with this line, and feel you can make any sense of
> it, get back and enlighten us all. Hit Enter when you are all done.
>
> You know what?
> You now are almost done. Only two very important steps are left. But
> before we take care of them, let me just sum up the lines we entered in
> our example.
>
> [Locations]
> Toronto, Ontario=43.651890, -79.381710
> [Toronto, Ontario]
> name=A Fun Place To Visit
> temp=c
> wind=mph
> status=OK
>
> Yep. And now to the final steps.
> First one, surprisingly enough, will be to hit the Alt-F4, and choosing
> to save our updates to the file.
>
> Second step, is to restart the app.
> Go to the WE control panel, and hit the Alt-A.
> Hit the Right-Arrow, to expand the App managing.
> Scroll down to App Managing, and hit Enter.
> here, press the W, till you get to the WeatherOrNot app.
> Either hit the Alt-R to reload, or hit the Alt-E twice to turn it off
> and back on.
>
> Boys and Girls, job should be done. though a rather long description,
> your new location now should be ready to be announced, whenever you hit
> the app hotkey. Anything not working? Well, let the list know, and see
> if there might be a workaround.
>
> Oh, and let me add one extra goodie to it all. If you have more than one
> location, you can add them on to your ini file. The steps will be all
> the same. You need one location line, and a whole section for each
> location. When the read-aloud is taking place, the app will read to you
> the locations and their info, consequtively. That is, it will read the
> locations, in the order they are listed in the [Locations] part of the
> ini file. So make sure you organize the lines in the order you want
> things read out.
>
> To have a small break between each location, you could try to enter a
> period-sign, and a space character as the beginning of each name-string.
> Like:
> name=. My Home Place
>
> Enjoy your playing.
>
> David
>
> On 2/3/2019 6:12 AM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote:
> > Hi Larry,
> >
> > I have the current versions of GW Toolkit, 8.6.8, as well as Weather
> > or Not, 4.0.0.
> > The app is working fine for me, giving me my current weather
> > conditions.
> > I tried adding your city, but I get the same error as you.
> > I have tried looking at the code of the app, in the hope of
> > determining and possibly changing the weather information server it
> > uses.
> > Unfortunately, the app is encrypted, making it impossible to do
> > anything with it.
> > Given that I can confirm that the app works, I can only suggest that
> > if you ever used the app to get your local weather, see if you can
> > find an old backup copy of the Weather Or Not ini file, and paste it
> > into the Profile folder.
> > The file you need is named weatherornot.ini, and, before pasting it
> > into the Profiles folder, you should probably rename the current one
> > to something like weatherornot.ini.current.
> > Sorry I can't be of more help.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Rod
> >
> > Sent from Outlook for Windows
> >
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> > On Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk
> > Sent: February 2, 2019 1:44 PM
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> > Cc: Larry Higgins <larryhiggin...@comcast.net>
> > Subject: Weather or not issue
> >
> > OK, I'm probably not ging to get any good news regarding a solution
> > for my problem, but here goes anyway.
> >
> >
> > Just yesterday, I decided I would like to add Albuquerque, NM to my
> > list of weather conditions around the country, but when either
> > entering the city, state, and country, or zip code, I get a message
> > saying something along the lines of "can't fine the city," or
> > something of that nature.
> > It doesn't matter just what city or zip code I type in, I get the same
> > error message.
> >
> >
> > Is this a permanent issue, or might there be a solution.
> >
> >
> > Hopefully,
> >
> >
> > Larry
> >
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