[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #7825: Mythweather - Change of units doesn't properly work

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Wed Dec 30 13:08:41 UTC 2009


On 29/12/2009 23:27, Joe Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:09 PM, MythTV<mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org>  wrote:
>> #7825: Mythweather - Change of units doesn't properly work
>> ----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
>>   Reporter:  stuarta               |       Owner:  ijr
>>      Type:  defect                |      Status:  new
>>   Priority:  minor                 |   Milestone:  0.23
>> Component:  Plugin - MythWeather  |     Version:  head
>>   Severity:  medium                |     Mlocked:  0
>> ----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
>>   After changing the units of my mythweather screens
>>   from English Units to SI units, and revisiting the
>>   screens the following was observed.
>>
>>   1. The units change from F ->  C (correct)
>>   2. The value doesn't change, so 34F ->  34C (incorrect)
>
> The unit conversion happens in the grabber scripts, not the
> MythWeather plugin.  It's possible that the MythWeather plugin is
> using cached values, resulting in the issue you describe.
>
> If unexpired cached values exist in ~/.myth/MythWeather/*/cache-*, the
> plugin will read these verbatim and not perform conversions... the
> proper values are expected to be cached.  What we may need to do is
> when one re-configures the MythWeather plugin to use different units,
> the plugin should purge any cached data for the given grabber.
>

Yes it's using the cached data. I raised the ticket on request of
Stuart M who tends to maintain mythweather, primarily as a reminder for
him of what is going on.

Stuart



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