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Greg Frost
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 Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:40 am |
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jbman wrote: the grabber method is what d1 uses for their mythtv system that they sell d1 has a grabber for weather? How would it work? Mythweather doesnt seem to be setup for it. Have they re-coded it? GPL?
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mrproper
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:48 am |
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its not very well integrated in my opinion considering it only uses just one source for ALL its info regarding forcasts and another site that grabs the doplar
the xmltv grabber system is much more 'reliable' in the sense that any other country apart from the states gets forgotten about or put down the bottom of the list ie australia
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Greg Frost
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:17 pm |
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It would be better if the code was more modular with the dislpay stuff being separate from the acquisition of the weather data. Its a bit like a scrambled egg at the moment. Having weather grabbers would certainly achieve this, but so would better code design.
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jbman
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:28 pm |
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yeh they have recoded the myth weather, it grabs the data once and hour to show the info. download their iso and have a look see on their website
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Girkers
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:17 am |
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jbman, do you have a link, as I don't quite understand what you mean. Is it that myth weather has been recorded or where they get the data?
You will have to excuse my ignorance, I'm married, have a 9 year old daughter and the grey hair is starting to appear.
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Greg Frost
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:47 am |
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I presume he is talking about this: http://www.hmc.com.au/hmc/index.html I had a look today and saw somewhere mention that they had integrated weather radar images which they would almost certainly have to change the code for. Not sure where you get their code. Would be interesting to have a look. The link where they mention radar is in Features->weather->more.... It also states that the data comes from the aussie met bureau (BOM)!
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Girkers
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:33 pm |
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I don't think they have done anything with it what so ever. I looked at the promotional video and radar image is the standard MythWeather.
I also found this tidbit in their FAQs:
Quote: Issue 6: I want to build my own media centre based on my own hardware. Can I buy the Home Media Centre software only?
Solution: Unfortunately we cannot sell the HMC software to end users by itself. The HMC is an integrated device and its software is customised to work only on its specific hardware configuration. As such, it is unlikely that our software would function correctly on a machine you have built yourself. However, if you are looking to re-sell or distribute your own media centre device we would be delighted to discuss customising and licensing our software for your device.
Some much for GPL.
Either way I think we may have to go back to scratch to get what we want.
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Greg Frost
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:35 pm |
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Sounds like a violation of GPL because surely its a derivative work. For derivative works, they are compelled to release their source code to anyone that buys their system. Anyone know someone with a D1 system?
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Girkers
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:39 pm |
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Greg, you and I both know that, are you going to fight it? I personally don't have the time or energy to persist, may be an email to Isaac to let him know that someone is selling his work as there own 
I don't really believe they have that much to offer anyway.
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jbman
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:56 pm |
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download the update ISO from their website and have a look. it seems to have a cron job that runs every hour to grab the weather data from BOM and insert it into their weather system. The code is different than the standard myth weather code we use now. I looked into this about 6 months ago but gave up trying to adapt their system into mine.
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Greg Frost
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:36 pm |
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jbman
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:09 am |
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nice the BOM has their data online in xml format from memory so it shouldn't be to hard to grab it.
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andysl
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:39 am |
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Hey guys just stumbled upon this thread... i just got the internet working and the weather has finally worked  (but is it accurate)
I'm set to Geelong, Australia. Did this mythWeather for Australia and am just wondering how usefull you all find it? Did you guys ever come up with a solution? The thread just seemed to stop.
Cheers
Andy
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Greg Frost
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:02 am |
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I dont think that the changes made by the Summer Of Code project have made their way into the main branch of mythtv. Until that happens, there is not much we can do to get reliable weather data.
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andysl
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:13 am |
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ah ok.
seeings i've just got the internet working, i'm not too fussed, as long as i can check the usual surf sites i'm more than happy. just a shame you dont get that nice "mythWeather" look.
maybe when i learn a bit more about Linux i might have a crack...
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