[mythtv-users] Mythweather quit working?

[Tim Litwiller]

Brad Benson wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:25:46 -0600, Matt S. <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Anyone else experiencing this?  When I try to launch it, it times out.
>> When I look at the command line it complains about not being able to
>>contact the weather.com site.  When I try to manually enter the URL it
>>lists, it won't work either.  Anyone else seing this issue?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Matt
>>
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> 
> 
> Someone else reported this earlier today and included a patch to fix
> mythweather 0.17.  It appears that mythweather is hardcoded to
> retrieve weather data from w3.weather.com and weather.com changed
> their DNS entries so that w3.weather.com no longer resolves.  You can
> either apply the patch included in this conversation:
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/117858
> 
> or just go through mythweather.cpp and change all occurrences of
> w3.weather.com to www.weather.com.  After making the change you will
> need to recompile and reinstall mythweather for the changes to take
> effect.
> 
> Brad
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or if you need a very quick hack and you aren't willing to recompile a 
package this should work

put this in cron all on one line to run once a day or so

echo "`host www.weather.com | cut -d" " -f 4` w3.weather.com" >> /etc/hosts