[mythtv-users] mythweather animated maps not working

Peter Loron peterl at standingwave.org
Tue Mar 8 05:04:16 UTC 2005


On Mar 7, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> Still sorting out minor issues with a new mythtv system.
>
> Running 0.17 from ATRPMS on FC3 system.
>
> I noted in some past messages on the list that the mythweather feature
> should have animated radar maps.
>
> For Orlando, FL I verified that weather.com where I believe the maps
> come from does have an animated map.  However I just see a static map
> when using that feature.
>
> Is there an option that I missed in setting things up to get the
> animated maps?
>
>
> -- 
> Scot L. Harris
> webid at cfl.rr.com
>
> Not all who own a harp are harpers.
> 		-- Marcus Terentius Varro

Here's a repost from last month on how to fix this:

-Pete

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Hi all. Had a minor problem where after upgrading from 0.16 to 0.17 (a
very smooth process in Gentoo, btw), MythWeather's radar went from
animated to non-animated. After a quick look through the source code
for MythWeather, I see that it does indeed look for information in the
DB. For some reason, most MythWeather information in the "settings"
column are not present for me, including "WeatherWantAnimated", which
controls wether the radar image is a static or animated image.

After adding that setting to the column in MySQL (with a "1" indicating
"true" and the name of my frontend box), lo and behold, pretty green
blobs rolling across California.

I searched through my pre-0.17 DB backup, and this setting is not
present there either, so perhaps the default MythWeather setting
changed from animated to static? If that's true, shouldn't there be an
option to change this from within the MythRadar settings interface,
rather than manual manipulation of the DB? Or am I missing something
here? Apologies if this has been noted - I searched gossamer-threads,
to no avail.

Here's the SQL:
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$ mysql -u <dbuser> -p
Password: *****
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 28248 to server version: 4.0.22

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> use mythconverg;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> insert into settings (value,data,hostname)
-> VALUES ("WeatherWantAnimated", 1, "<frontend hostname>");
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That's it.

Best regards,
Jesse Adelman
SF, CA USA

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