[mythtv-users] wiki for using mythweather-revamp

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 02:22:01 UTC 2007


On 4/24/07, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> Phil Bridges wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Check in the maps.xml file and look for your location in it.  Check to
> see if anything is defined within <static_url></static_url> or within
> the <animated></animated> tags.  That's where it gets the image from.
>
> I know this isn't your issue, but it is worth mentioning that in order
> for the NWS script to work, your local station *must* have an longitude
> and latitude defined in NWS-Stations.xml.
>
> And, as another FYI, the main downside of the NWS data is that their
> service is still "beta", and, as such, it does not get updated as
> frequently as it should.
>
> -Rich

OK.   It looks like searching for "southeast" pulled up the maps that
I was looking for.  When I try to add an animated map, though, it pops
up "Screen cannot be used, not all required data is supplied by
existing sources".  I don't even have an option to search for my
location.  Does this sound right?


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