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<blockquote data-quote="timbotim" data-source="post: 615848" data-attributes="member: 104403"><p>OK, so this is my first post. Only recently installed MP and got it going pretty well (thanks heaps to the guys behind the MHEG5 EPG Data grabber).</p><p></p><p>I've been playing around with the weather feature and was looking around for some decent self-updating weather pics for NZ with a static URL. After not being able to find any, I've written a little thing to grab the latest from the metservice website and <a href="http://www.metvuw.com/" target="_blank">metvuw.com</a> and upload them to a static URL (because I can't figure out how to make MP open a local image).</p><p></p><p>In the interests of sharing, you can use my URLs now for NZ weather data in the weather settings of MP configuration:</p><p></p><p>Satellite: <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite.jpg" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite.jpg</a></p><p>Temperature: <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif</a></p><p>UV Index: <a href="http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/uv-and-ozone/curr_uvi_l.gif" target="_blank">http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/uv-and-ozone/curr_uvi_l.gif</a> [not hosted by me, but updated regularly]</p><p>Winds: <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/wind.gif" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/wind.gif</a></p><p>Humidity: <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif</a> [same as temperature]</p><p>Precipitaion: <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.gif" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.gif</a> [animated gif made from metservice stills]</p><p> or <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.jpg" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.jpg</a> [latest still image]</p><p></p><p>Every one of these, except the UV Index and the Precipitation are (usually) updated every 3 hours, 1 hour after the data is taken (because it takes a while for them to update the site). The Precipitation images are updated every hour, about 10 minutes after the latest image is taken.</p><p></p><p>It makes animated gifs for the satellite image as well but for some reason when I enter the url (<a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite24hr.gif" target="_blank">http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite24hr.gif</a>) into MP, I get the error:</p><p></p><p>No usable image detected. The Parameter is not valid.</p><p></p><p>It works fine with other programs that can view animated gifs. Anyone with any ideas on why this might be happening? I don't know whether MP has a maximum file size for weather images so it might be because the file is quite big (~3.8 MB). I'm using a command line gif animator to make the gif (ImageMagick) that I know very little about, so I'm not sure how to bring the file size down. I've tried spanning less time with the animations (as in last 12 hours or 6 hours - you can see them all at <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz" target="_blank">weather.secure.org.nz</a>, they're all being updated at the moment, just MP won't open them). MP seems to do fine opening the other animated gif ImageMagick creates, <a href="http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.gif" target="_blank">rain.gif</a>, so it seems it's unlikely to be a problem with ImageMagick's gifs. Any ideas?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timbotim, post: 615848, member: 104403"] OK, so this is my first post. Only recently installed MP and got it going pretty well (thanks heaps to the guys behind the MHEG5 EPG Data grabber). I've been playing around with the weather feature and was looking around for some decent self-updating weather pics for NZ with a static URL. After not being able to find any, I've written a little thing to grab the latest from the metservice website and [URL="http://www.metvuw.com/"]metvuw.com[/URL] and upload them to a static URL (because I can't figure out how to make MP open a local image). In the interests of sharing, you can use my URLs now for NZ weather data in the weather settings of MP configuration: Satellite: [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite.jpg"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite.jpg[/URL] Temperature: [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif[/URL] UV Index: [URL="http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/uv-and-ozone/curr_uvi_l.gif"]http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/uv-and-ozone/curr_uvi_l.gif[/URL] [not hosted by me, but updated regularly] Winds: [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/wind.gif"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/wind.gif[/URL] Humidity: [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/temp.gif[/URL] [same as temperature] Precipitaion: [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.gif"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.gif[/URL] [animated gif made from metservice stills] or [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.jpg"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.jpg[/URL] [latest still image] Every one of these, except the UV Index and the Precipitation are (usually) updated every 3 hours, 1 hour after the data is taken (because it takes a while for them to update the site). The Precipitation images are updated every hour, about 10 minutes after the latest image is taken. It makes animated gifs for the satellite image as well but for some reason when I enter the url ([URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite24hr.gif"]http://weather.secure.org.nz/satellite24hr.gif[/URL]) into MP, I get the error: No usable image detected. The Parameter is not valid. It works fine with other programs that can view animated gifs. Anyone with any ideas on why this might be happening? I don't know whether MP has a maximum file size for weather images so it might be because the file is quite big (~3.8 MB). I'm using a command line gif animator to make the gif (ImageMagick) that I know very little about, so I'm not sure how to bring the file size down. I've tried spanning less time with the animations (as in last 12 hours or 6 hours - you can see them all at [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz"]weather.secure.org.nz[/URL], they're all being updated at the moment, just MP won't open them). MP seems to do fine opening the other animated gif ImageMagick creates, [URL="http://weather.secure.org.nz/rain.gif"]rain.gif[/URL], so it seems it's unlikely to be a problem with ImageMagick's gifs. Any ideas? [/QUOTE]
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