[mythtv-users] MythWeather

[Rich West]

Ha!  Or so I thought I had it.. The data was correct.. I stress was.  
Now, oddly, it is displaying data from 1:54pm for the current conditions 
(7+ hrs ago) and, after a LONG pause, it goes to the current animated gif..

Ugh.  Back to debugging..

-Rich

> Ah-ha!  I figured part of it out.
>
> I couldn't get it to find a location close to home.  In fact, it could 
> only seem to find airports, and only major ones (the little one near me 
> wasn't coming up in the search).  So, I did some digging.  The common 
> thread in the ones that did show up was that they had their longitude 
> and latitude defined in the NWS-Stations.xml file (in the scripts 
> directory).
>
> So, while trying to figure things out, I went to www.wunderground.com 
> and brought up the results for my zip code.  I clicked on the radar link 
> and I noticed, in the URL, that it listed the longitude and latitude for 
> the weather station is was returning the results of.  Figuring I would 
> take a chance, I took those values and plugged them in to the 
> appropriate location for that weather station in the NWS-Stations.xml 
> file and I went back to the MythTV setup page for mythweather.  Viola!  
> That location now came up in the search!  I was able to select it, and, 
> viola (again)! Everything worked, and the data was correct!
>
> Now, if I can get the animated map to be like the old mythweather 
> animated map (I liked that one a LOT better)....
>
> -Rich