STV Import: Weather Report Suite Discussion/Support

[DynamoBen]

I was hoping to include weather on my sagesever. I don't have a custom STV on it right now and would prefer not to for the time being. Is there a way to include weather (WRS) in the original STV?

BTW I have gone thru all the instructions and it doesn't show up anywhere in the original STV.

[salsbst]

The import mechanism is only useful for STVs that allow you to define custom menus (Cayars and Nielm at the moment).

So, AFAIK, STVs that currently support WRS:
Maldude2
Nielm
Cayars
MCEXCON (sp?)

[Opus4]

Hmmm... what if the customizable menus feature were imported first? Maybe WRS could then be used in any STV? (See: Nielm STV Modules for more imports.)

- Andy

[salsbst]

Doh! That didn't occur to me.

[Opus4]

heh... I didn't even know that WRS was importable until recently!

- Andy

[srothwell]

salsbst,

So, got a question here.....

I've been using mlbdude's SageMC......

I want your weather suite in it......

When you import your weather suite, where does it show up in a menu? Without Studio, how would you add it to the menu?

Stacy

[salsbst]

The last 5 posts in this thread, directly above yours, deal with precisely this issue.

[srothwell]

(blush)

Yeah.... kind of saw that about 6 seconds after pressing the SEND button :-) Oops

[srothwell]

Well, I imported the dynamic menus into the SageMC STV so I could then import the WRS.

Yikes, what a mess!

After importing dynamic menus, the SageMC all of a sudden loooked like old sage with different font sizes.

I couldn't even get to detailed setup. After going through the steps to get to setup, if you selected DETAILED SETUP, it would complain that it couldn't find "New Setup modified by Cayars."

Cayars is in Nielm's import module?

Stacy

[Cayars]

Sounds like you have a menu file around from my stv which has some different names in it. You might want to try the menu file in the zip.

[Opus4]

The dynamic menus may not import correctly into SageMC, since it is such a changed STV. You might want to get clarification of that in the imports thread just in case nielm doesn't see this.

- Andy

[rsagetv99]

I'm still trying to figure this out, can someone help me get this map into the WRS?

http://traffic.tbo.com/traffic/hills...h_pinellas.htm

[smccauslin]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

I'm still trying to figure this out, can someone help me get this map into the WRS?

http://traffic.tbo.com/traffic/hills...h_pinellas.htm

If you post your weatherconfig.xml file and I'll see if I can help you...

[nielm]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Hmmm... what if the customizable menus feature were imported first?

The import order does not matter with my dynamic menu import -- it sees all menus whenever they are imported

Originally Posted by srothwell

Well, I imported the dynamic menus into the SageMC STV
What a mess

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showpos...9&postcount=29

Originally Posted by nielm

I am not surprised... as I mentioned in the instructions, the modules are only tested with the OriginalV2 STV. (as it tries to use things already in this STV)... MCE is a completely new STV, so the import will not work.
(think of them more as patches than plugins)

And my modules only import the functionality they advertise, so the dynamic menu import will only give you a customisable menu, it will not give you the functionality behind any menu items that you already have set up using other STV's
(please continue other comments on my imports STV's in their own thread... Thanks)

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by smccauslin

If you post your weatherconfig.xml file and I'll see if I can help you...

Here you go, thanks. It's pretty much the default file from Cayars STV, with my city (Tampa) put in place of his (somewhere in NJ I think).

I added the .txt to the end so I could upload the file.

[salsbst]

rsagetv99, try this (untested since I'm at work).

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by salsbst

rsagetv99, try this (untested since I'm at work).

It worked!!! Thank you.
It took awhile to finally download, but hopefully that is only because it was the first time.

Any insight as to how you got it to work? I think I understand how to modify the weather.xml file (at least at an elementary level) but for the life of me I could not figure out how to identify what jpg or gif file made up this traffic map. So, how did you do it?

Yeah, I'm at work too. Gotta love VNC!

[salsbst]

It took awhile to finally download, but hopefully that is only because it was the first time.

I guess now is as good a time as any to point out some issues that are relevant to your comment.

(1) the default implementation of WRS does not get initialized when you launch SageTV, rather it gets initialized when you first load WRS. This is configurable (you can switch so the WRS will load and begin to download images as soon as SageTV is launch).

(2) the default implementation of WRS does not download images in the background (you can switch it so that it will obey the "maxage" attribute even when you are watching TV).

(3) the initial download of images happens in the order that they appear in the weatherconfig.xml file.

I'll have to get back to you on the properties that you use to change the behaviors listed above in (1) and (2).

how to identify what jpg or gif file made up this traffic map

I just right-clicked in the image in my browser and chose 'Properties', which revealed the name of the file. Viewing (and understanding) the html source would work, too.

Yeah, I'm at work too. Gotta love VNC!

... and permissive proxy servers (which I don't have at the office).

You probably already know this, but anyone who gets the idea to VNC remotely -- make sure you use a secure tunnel -- VNC doesn't do any encryption, which means you're pretty much sending naked keystrokes and pictures of your screen over the internet unless you tunnel it securely!

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by salsbst

I just right-clicked in the image in my browser and chose 'Properties', which revealed the name of the file. Viewing (and understanding) the html source would work, too.

I tried looking at the source, but I could not discern what file was being used from that - but I don't know html either.

Originally Posted by salsbst

... and permissive proxy servers (which I don't have at the office).

Actually, I'm the network guy here, so I opened up secure VPN port to my home PC.

Thanks.

[rsagetv99]

How would you handle something like this? When I right-click and go to properties for this map, I just get the name of the Grid that covers the map and not the actual map itself.

http://www.traffic.com/Tampa-St-Pete...c-Reports.html