[mythtv-users] Mythweather quit working?

[Maverick]

Editing hosts will work, or I can send out a copy of the newly
compiled libmythweather.so if someone wants the recompiled fix.

-Kenneth


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:12:16 -0800, Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be cheating... but you could do a lookup for www.weather.com
> and then edit /etc/hosts to point w3.weather.com to that IP.  It is,
> at best, a temporary fix... but might be good enough until new RPMs
> are shipped out.
> 
> i.e.
> [mythtv at dolph ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               dolph localhost.localdomain localhost
> 63.111.66.11            w3.weather.com
> [mythtv at dolph ~]$
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:56:34 -0500, Brad Benson <bbenso1 at gmail.com> 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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