Weather Plugin (WIP) Pt.2

	spineman wrote:
	Right click only saves 1 of the 49 single pictures

I never used Weather plugin BUT I guess that .gif file should be an animated gif file (multi frame) (yet I may be wrong... Cool

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Yes, it's a nimated gif, with 49 images in one file ...

You don't see the amimation ? try to find why you computer doesn't play gif before.

Regards,

Blap

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Hi Everybody,

After getting an Email from Weather.com informing me that they are going to start enforcing their XML Feed terms of agreement, I decided that since my Plugin does not appear to comply that I would post the source code so that someone else can either alter it to comply or take the risk if it doesn't.

First, here is the Email which I was sent that contains the terms of agreement and SDK etc.

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We are contacting you because you are a registrant for the weather.com XML Data Feed (the “Service”). We are providing you with IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE CONTINUATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE. Your registered application may or may not currently be in compliance with the terms of our agreement (please refer to the developer SDK containing the license agreement – see link below). We are in the process of updating the Service to programmatically validate certain licensing conditions. Beginning May 6, 2008, if your application is not in compliance with these terms, the Service will no longer return data to your application.

The complete terms and conditions surrounding the use of the Service can be found in the developer SDK along with graphical icons that are necessary to represent the sky conditions associated with our current conditions and forecast data, and our logo. This SDK can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

http://download.weather.com/web/xoap/sdk.zip

You may update your user profile or change your product selections at any time by logging in to the weather.com registration system with the following information:

Sign-In Page: https://registration.weather.com/ursa/xmloap/step2
E-mail address: #########

The Service includes:

city search capability for all locations covered by www.weather.com;
location specific information necessary for data presentation;
current condition information (Observations) for the selected location; and
up to five (5) days of forecast information (the current day’s forecast plus four additional days of forecast information in consecutive order beginning with tomorrow’s forecast) for the selected location in ten (10), 12-hour day-parts.
VERY IMPORTANT

YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE TO CREATE WEATHER AND WEATHER-RELATED PRODUCTS TO BE DISPLAYED ON HANDHELD OR OTHER WIRELESS DEVICES.

YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH AMONG OTHER THINGS, ANY BROADCAST TELEVISION, INTERACTIVE TELEVISION, CABLE TELEVISION, TELEPHONE OR DSL SERVICES, DIGITAL CABLE SERVICES, HEAD-END-IN-THE-SKY SATELLITE SYSTEMS, RADIO, PRINT PUBLICATIONS, DIGITAL BROADCAST SATELLITES, TELEMATICS, TELETEXT, VIDEO-ON-DEMAND, KIOSKI DISPLAY, OR OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE INFORMATION DISPLAY UNIT, WIRE-LINE TELEPHONE, OR AS ALL OR PART OF ANY STREAMING VIDEO OR AUDIO CONTENT OR FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP APPLICATION.

YOU MAY NOT USE ANY LATITUDE OR LONGITUDE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A LocID OR ZIP CODE EVEN IF SUCH INFORMATION IS RETURNED AS PART OF AN XML DOCUMENT FROM THE XML FEED.

USE OF THE SERVICE IN VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF YOUR AGREEMENT WITH TWCi MAY RESULT IN YOUR IMMEDIATE TERMINATION AND PAYMENT OF MONETARY DAMAGES TO TWCi.

To comply with the terms of the Agreement, Your Website or Desktop Application must, among other things:

display weather data for no more than three (3) locations at a time;
adhere to the data request rules, usage rules, and refresh rates outlined in Exhibit B of the Agreement;
clearly separate TWCi data from other data within a single visual element;
identify that the weather data comes from TWCi by incorporating The Weather Channel logo containing an embedded link to the www.weather.com home page (one of 5 Required Links);
provide four (4) promotional links, selected by TWCi and provided through the Service on each data call, back to www.weather.com for additional weather information in close proximity to the TWCi Content as set forth in Exhibit B of the Agreement; and
be free of charge to your end-users.
If you cannot meet these requirements but would still like to use our weather data, please contact our business development department at 770-226-0000.

Thank you for your continued support!

Your friends at The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. (a/k/a weather.com)

Here is the Weather Plugin Source Code
I do however ask that if you use this Plugin code that you have a thanks to Me somewhere Cool

Thanks
Abnormal1

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	OR PRIVATE INFORMATION DISPLAY UNIT

Sooooo that means.. that we can't use it on our displays?

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	identify that the weather data comes from TWCi by incorporating The Weather Channel logo containing an embedded link to the www.weather.com home page (one of 5 Required Links); provide four (4) promotional links, selected by TWCi and provided through the Service on each data call, back to www.weather.com for additional weather information in close proximity

How are we supposed to do that? We can't click on our LCDs now, can we? This kinda sux (sorry for the term used but.. it's how it is)

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Abnormal1, i can't download via badongo, can you send me your source code to my mail ?

blap dot psx at gmail dot com

Thanks in advance ... ( i've also received this mail and it's a really bad news )

Regards

edit:

This is a free public mirror for the source code : ( no pub, no waiting time )

http://blapounet.info/weather/Weather%20Source.zip
You can also find the latest compilated one :
http://blapounet.info/weather/Weather_093.zip

Regards,

Blap

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@Dexboy
This is why I've posted the source code as it could be complicated to follow their rules and I just don't have the time or Interest to deal with this.

The biggest problem that I believe will occur is they will re-introduce their security system for the XML feed.
When I started on this plugin I read that each program required a access code to receive the feed however while waiting ages for any information (including the code) from Weather.com.
Anyway I realised that you did not need this security code and got fed up waiting for any communication so Ignored it.

I think it may be better if an alternative to Weather.com was found.

@blap_psx
I take it that you registered with them aswell then.

Abnormal1

i've allready make a soft witch grab weather from weather channel, with a autorisation code ( it's really simple to get one )

I've read all of the SDK file, and i think there's no problem with your applet exept the XML url that you are grabing ( you only need to register ) - but my english isn't verry good to understand all of the long pdf file ^^

You can also had an icon and link to weather channel in the LCDstudio config menu, to respect TWCi need's (link and icon what else ?).

Well, if i've time to do i'll try to modify your applet, but i need VB2005 and i haven't for the moment ( i also need time, and with 24hrs in day, it's difficult ! i'm waiting for 36hrs by day ^^ )

Regards,

Blap

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I'm not sure what's the difference between Yahoo Weather and Weather.com but.. I know I used Yahoo weather on a program for G15 (Lcd Miscellany developed by Dwarg over at G15forums if anyone's interested)
but since the application crashed too often for me (it would work fine if I restarted my PC daily but at the moment my PC is running straight for 5 days now) stopped using it (it "ate" half of my CPU's power (1st core was running at 100%).. Maybe you can ask him?

Ermm yeah.. While writing this post, I jumped over to yahoo weather.. And it's powered by weather.com ^_^;
But it still may work, I think? You don't even need to register but there are no weather forecasts Sad

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looks like i've some problem with this plugins
i've changed the settings but the weather still loading Chicago...

i've made a new design and edited the settings.xml by hand.. but still continue to load Chicago O_o

wunderground.com has free XML feeds, you should check that out

Seems that the Weather channel 0.93 plugin is not working anymore.
someone has the same problem ?

yes same here

I think we need an updated version

You're right except that i'm fed up to wait.
Therefore i've updated the weather plugin in order to comply to Weather.com XML feed rules.
It works again on my computer.

The new DLL is available there for at least 30 days:
http://dl.free.fr/trloM44Fu

sweet, thanks Smile

ok so iv downloaded the gif with the 49 images on it , im not sure where the custom code is so it can changes the picture pertaining to what the weather is, or how to do it, can someone please help.

Iv looked at both threads with no luck !

thanks !

If someone can explain step by step how it works that would be awesome, im a quick learner