[mythtv] [PATCH] MythWeather server name change

[David Whyte]

I am thinking....xmlweather :P  And we can have weather_grab_<cc> scrapers =D


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:09:27 -0500, Brad Benson <bbenso1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From some activity on the -users list it appears that mythweather is
> no longer working correctly due to some DNS  changes by weather.com.
> In an attempt to prevent this from being a 'recompile mythweather'
> problem in the future I've made some changes that will allow an entry
> in the settings table of the db to specify the URL used for weather
> data and maps.  There are hardcoded default values using currently
> working URL's so that missing settings shouldn't have any effect on
> current users.  I also cleaned up some of the debugging output to use
> VERBOSE instead of plain old cerr calls.
> 
> In looking through the code it seems that we might want some more
> modular way to retrieve weather data in the case that we need to
> change data providers (or that a user would simply prefer to use
> something other than msnbc/weather.com).  This patch certainly doesn't
> address that in any way, but it would prevent problems in the case
> that the URL for retrieving data changes, but the data remains in the
> same format.
> 
> As far as a modular method to retrieve weather data, I was thinking
> that the best way would probably be to call an outside script/program
> that would have to conform to a specified output format.  Myth could
> then read the predictable output from that program and gather the
> necessary data.  This would allow users to create their own
> screenscraper/data parser, change the weather data URL's in the db and
> be off and running using whatever data source they'd like.
> 
> Anyone have any input/suggestions towards this goal or is anyone
> already working on something similar?
> 
> Brad
> 
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