STV Import: Weather Report Suite Discussion/Support

[nielm]

If you mean the 'Local weather' that only provides current conditions and forecast for one zip-code (the title of the screen would not be 'Weather Report Suite'), then this is a different weather plugin to the Weather Report Suite. Which STV are you using? Perhaps post in the support forum for that STV

[mobby]

Just wanted to say nice one to all the people who have developed this module, works very nicely. I have now got it configured for where I live and all is good. I live in South Wales in the UK, the main motorway through south wales is called the M4 and along it are cameras. You can get images from these cameras to see live traffic levels. So I added the image links to the WRS so i am now able to view the live camera images (stills taken every 5mins) for the various cameras I am interested in, which is very very useful. So well donefor designing the WRS so it is fleixble enough to do this

If anyone else lives in South Wales, the website the images come from is
http://www.traffic-wales.com/
...then navigate to the traffic map and go from there.

mobby

[18Scoobz]

It is the cyars stv and you are right it is the local weather conditions. So I need to look elswhere?

[nielm]

Originally Posted by 18Scoobz

It is the cyars stv and you are right it is the local weather conditions. So I need to look elswhere?

Try Cayar's STV thread; but there are other people with similar problems:
http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...ther#post87789

(I don't use local weather myself)

[seamonkey420]

Hello

i'm a fan of the local weather..

it took me a few tries, but i got a pretty nice Weatherconfig.xml for the MPLS/ST Paul, MN.

Includes Local Weather, Local Traffic (via mndot map), Traffic Cameras (via mndot site), and a few national maps.

peace
seamonkey420

[Kanati]

Ok, I give up...

I've tried the weather thing on a number of different STVs and on all of them when I change a location, upon reloading sage (it never picks up changes until after I do), I get Failed to load WRS Java Classes. If I change ANYTHING in the weather config file it does this.

All I want is one... just one working location...

<location
name="SPEKIN"
label="South Pekin">
<weathersourceinfo id="61564"/>
</location>


That looks like valid XML to me... It's not malformed... It's syntactically correct...

ARGH!

Anyone see what I'm doing to cause java to blow up (not that that is a hard thing to do)?

Kanati

[nielm]

If WRS always displays this error, then you have not installed the WRS java classes! (if the XML file was invalid, it should be a different error!). Check the install instructions for the STV, or for the WRS (linked in the wiki in my .sig below)

[Kanati]

no no... it works just fine if I leave the xml file as default. Only when I change it does it go POOF

[gplasky]

And you placed it between the <locations > like this?:

<locations >
<location
name="MPLS"
label="Twin Cities (MN)">
<weathersourceinfo id="55423"/>
</location>

</locations>

Gerry

[Kanati]

Yup. Here's the exact part of the file...

-->

<locations >
<location
name="SPEKIN"
label="South Pekin">
<weathersourceinfo id="61564"/>
</location>
</locations>

<!--


Note that I've even gone so far as to do nothing but change the weathersourceinfo id to my zip code for DC but leave everything else alone and I still get the java classes couldn't be loaded error... But with the default files I can get the forecast, radar maps, etc for DC, New Haven, Pittsburgh, etc. It's just when I attempt to change the xml at all, it blows up.

Maybe I should just move to DC?

[salsbst]

What program are you using to edit the .xml file? Can you attach the whole file?

[seamonkey420]

Originally Posted by gplasky

And you placed it between the <locations > like this?:

<locations >
<location
name="MPLS"
label="Twin Cities (MN)">
<weathersourceinfo id="55423"/>
</location>

</locations>

Gerry

just a note about my weatherconfig.xml file, its made SPECIFICALLY for MPLS, MN area.. so it really can't be configured to other locations very easily.. sorry..

peace
seamonkey420

[Kanati]

I have a buddy that lives in the same area I do. I just had him email me his weatherconfig and it works.

[motions]

I'm interested in changing my radar images. I see many people adding all kinds of things including traffic reports. I just want to use the animated images from NOAA instead of Weather.com. They just look better and more accurate.

I don't really have the time to dive into the XML and my wife would blow a fuse if I did. Does anyone know a simple way to do this?

> > > EDIT < < <

Nevermind, the wife went to bed early and I stayed up all night gettin my learn on. It's really cool what you can add and change on the weather page.

[nielm]

I have created a WIKI page for example WRS configurations, and linked it from the main WRS wiki:

http://www.sage-community.org/index....eExampleConfig

Please link to your example configurations, either by posting them here in the forum and adding a link to the post, or by uploading them into the wiki...

[motions]

Found some time to play with it. I added quite a bit of information to my weather information.

Here is my config for Tallahassee, FL which includes traffic map, intersection cameras, several animated radars, and hurricane tracking.

[geogecko]

I noticed that mlbdude's SageMC 16x9 now has WRS built-in. Do I just add the xml file to my sage install directory, or do I have to actually import this somehow?

[salsbst]

That's exciting. I would think that if mlbdude has added it to SageMC, then you don't need to import it.

You *may* need to download the jar files, though. You could just add the weatherconfig.xml file and see if it gives you the "failed to load WRS classes" error when you go to the menu. If you get that error, you probably need to download the jar files.

[geogecko]

I'll give it a try with someone elses xml file, and see what happens.

[motions]

If your running WRS, all you need to do is overwrite the XML file. You can backup the original and place a sample XML in that folder. You can then play with it to get what you desire.