[mythtv-users] wiki for using mythweather-revamp

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 00:55:09 UTC 2007


On 4/24/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> > Steven Adeff wrote:
> > > On 4/24/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 4/24/07, Chris Isip <cmisipster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I've got an atrpms mythtv suite installed and I had to uninstall mythweather
> > >>> with the --nodeps option first before installing the mythweather revamp and
> > >>> it works.
> > >>>
> > >>> If your mythweather is an rpm maybe you can try uninstalling that first.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 4/24/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> On 4/23/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On 4/23/07, William Munson <william_munson at bellsouth.net > wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> Phil Bridges wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On 4/23/07, Lucien Dunning <ldunning at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> typo in the address.  It should be
> > >>>>>>>> svn co
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>> http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>> On 4/23/07, Phil Bridges < gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> On 4/23/07, Lucien Dunning <ldunning at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> since msnbc is b0rked, the mythweather plugin is now useless.
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>> North
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> American users can use the mythweather-revamp plugin.  It is very
> > >>>>>>>>>> beta, so use at your own risk.  I  typed up a wiki to compile it
> > >>>>>>>>>> against a .20 or later myth build.  Its what worked on my system,
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>> so
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> feel free to update it with your own experiences.
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Using_mythweather-reavmp_with_trunk_mythtv
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> For general info on the project, see
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Weather_sandbox
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> -Lucien
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Thanks for the wiki update.  Unfortunately, I can't even grab the
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>> SVN of this:
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>> localhost ~ # svn co
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>> http://svn.mythtv.org/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>> svn: PROPFIND request failed on
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>> '/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins'
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>> svn: PROPFIND of
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>> '/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins': 405
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Method Not Allowed ( http://svn.mythtv.org)
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Any hints?
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Hmm - the new address works, and I can get the revamped MythWeather
> > >>>>>>> installed, but it segfaults as soon as I hit the menu key after
> > >>>>>>> selecting my screens.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>> If I remember right, you need to remove the weather.xml files from
> > >>>>>>
> > >>> your
> > >>>
> > >>>>>> existing themes. Its trying to read your old .xml file and is borking.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>> OK - it still segfaults, but now it gives:
> > >>>>> 2007-04-23 17:02:07.617 background is in database, but not theme file
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>> Anybody have any suggestions?
> > >>>>
> > >> On this machine, I'm running Gentoo, and emerged MyhtTV without
> > >> MythWeather.  I wonder what the problem is...
> > >>
> > >
> > > "Cannot proceed, the following data items do not have sources
> > > defined:" followed by a list...
> > > If I go to Source Settings, "No Sources defined, Sources are defined
> > > by adding screens in Screen Setup", which of course I cannot do...
> > >
> > > any ideas?
> >
> > OK.. a couple of things.  Once you have mythweather-revamp installed,
> > you need to (I'm going to use FC paths here, so you will have to adjust
> > accordingly for your distro):
> > 1. Copy weather_settings.xml to /usr/share/mythtv/weather_settings.xml
> > 2. REMOVE /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/weather-ui.xml
> > 3. REMOVE /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/weather-ui.xml
> > 4. COPY (or move) the new weather-ui.xml file (part of
> > mythweather-revamp) to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/weather-ui.xml
> > and to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/weather-ui.xml
> > 5. REMOVE any weather-ui.xml files from the other themes that you have
> > installed.  If you have one in your current theme, your MythTV install
> > will use that rather than the default one.  Since there aren't
> > theme-specific ones for mythweather-revamp yet, just remove the ones you
> > have because it will cause the app to crash.
> >
> > That should help with the crashing another user reported.  Now, as far
> > as the source stuff... For one, make sure that all of the *.pl scripts
> > are executable in /usr/share/mythtv/mythtweather/scripts.  Now, with all
> > of that set:
> > 1. start up your frontend and go to "Utilities/Setup"->"Setup"->"Info
> > Center Settings"->"Weather Settings"->"Screen Settings".
> > 2. Arrow down to the first item in your list of "Active Screens".
> > 3. Now, with the first one highlighted, hit "ENTER", and a new menu will
> > pop-up.
> > 4. Select "Change Location" to bring up the search page.  Enter in your
> > location (unfortunately, this part is a bit specific to the NWS, so take
> > a peel in the NWS-Stations.xml file for something close to you) and hit
> > search.  Select your location from the search results and hit "enter".
> > This will close the search window and move focus back to the list of
> > "Active Screens".
> > 5. Go through each of the entries in the "Active Screens" in the same
> > manner.
> > 6. When you are done with all of the active screens, hit "M" to go back
> > to the menu.  This will save all of your settings.  They are NOT saved
> > until you do that.  If you hit ESC at any time to go back to the
> > previous menu, your changes will be lost.
> >
> > I hope the above helps. :)
> >
> > -Rich
>
>
> Thanks!  *This* helped.
>
> Now, it appears that the NWS (at least my station) doesn't support the
> maps - does this sound correct?
>
Also, for some reason, it doesn't appear to show forecasts other than
the 18-hour one.


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