[mythtv-users] MythWeather missing screens

Chuck Filson mythtv at goodeid.com
Tue Mar 25 06:27:31 UTC 2008


On Sunday 23 March 2008 21:52, Andy Colson wrote:
> >>>        I have put a screen capture at
> >>> http://www.goodeid.com/mythweather.png that shows all that I see on the
> >>> settings page.
> >>>
> >>> Chuck
> >>
> >> Chuck - I know exactly what you're talking about
> >
> > 	I was hoping that your cure would work for me. No luck.
> >
> > 	On a test machine I did a fresh format and install of Mandriva 2008.0
> > followed by compiling and installing MythTV (0.21 release) but after
> > setup the same empty config screen shows up when I try to setup or enter
> > MythWeather. There are still no error messages and everything else seems
> > to function correctly.
> >
> > 	Looks like I may have to add lots of debug messages to mythweather code
> > and try to find where it is failing.
> >
> > Chuck
>
> I had that problem too, but all I had to do to get it to work was
> install the required perl modules.
>
> The page here shows all the mods:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythWeather
>
> at a command prompt type:
>
> cpan
>
> Then answer all its questions (if you've never set it up before).
>
> Then at the cpan> prompt just type:
>
> install Image::Size
>
>
> etc, for all the packages.  Some you'll already have, others not.
>
> you can check the scripts from the commandline:
>
> cd /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythweather/scripts/us_nws/
> perl -c maps.pl
> maps.pl syntax OK
>
> -Andy

	Still no luck. All of the perl requirements on that page are in place, but 
there is still no way to select weather screens. If there was an error 
message this would probably turn out to be something simple. But for now it 
is a weather stopper.

Chuck


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