[mythtv-users] wiki for using mythweather-revamp

[Rich West]

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