[mythtv-users] MythWeather
Mark Paulus
mark.paulus at verizonbusiness.com
Tue Oct 24 13:49:11 UTC 2006
In my investigations, the msnbc weather api that mythweather utilizes is
pretty flaky. I wrote a script to query the site n times in a row, with
a 5 second sleep between each one. In 50 queries, I have UpdateTimes
from all over yesterday, and nothing from today:
$ grep LastUp weather.*
weather.0: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.1: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 14:55:00";
weather.10: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 13:55:00";
weather.11: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.12: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.13: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.14: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 13:55:00";
weather.15: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.16: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.17: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.18: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 13:55:00";
weather.19: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.2: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 14:55:00";
weather.20: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.21: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.22: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.23: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.24: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.25: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.26: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.27: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.28: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.29: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.3: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.30: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.31: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.32: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.33: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.34: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.35: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.36: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.37: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 13:55:00";
weather.38: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.39: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.4: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.40: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.41: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.42: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.43: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.44: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.45: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.46: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.47: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.48: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.49: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 01:54:00";
weather.5: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 15:55:00";
weather.6: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.7: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
weather.8: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 17:55:00";
weather.9: this.swLastUp = "10/23/2006 00:54:00";
Here's the script. Just change the "acid=" parm to your area/zip code.
#!/bin/bash
if [ x$1 = "x" ]; then
echo "need a limit"
exit 0
fi
i=0
while [[ $i -ne $1 ]];
do
wget --debug --cache=off -O weather.$i
http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=80919
sleep 5
i=$((i+1))
done
Rich West wrote:
> Where in the world does it get its weather data from? I mean, it
> couldn't be more off for me.. :(
>
> Now that I tackled the big problem with getting the remote to work, I
> started getting everything else squared away. My wife immediately
> complained about the "current conditions" summary page being totally
> inaccurate (radar is about right, I would guess).
>
> For example, right now, it is saying that it is 54 degrees and partly
> cloudy. That is UP 3 degrees from earlier, and it is 11:15pm at night.
> I checked the weather.com site, and it is saying (for my area, that the
> current conditions are 46 Degrees and Cloudy).
>
> Is there some log, some where, that can tell me what might be going on
> (eg: if it is getting an error or encountering some other problem along
> the way)?
>
> -Rich
>
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