Purpose of lots of images for Weather plugin (1 Viewer)

[rivera]

There are a lot of pics stored in Media\Animations\weatherbg.
What is the purpose of such number of pics?
What is an algoritm of their change?
Are they changing dependently on current weather?
If so, I saw the same background picture for London and Delhi...

 

[hrox]

The pictures are indeed for having a different pictures depending on the weather and time-of-day. To have this feature functional you must install and enable the InfoServices plug-in in media portal.
Good luck.

 

[Jeditrav]

They don't seem to change for me - I always get the same single image for each weather type - ie, 'Mostly Cloudy' gives always the same image; 'Mostly Cloudy And Windy' always gives the same image (different to mostly cloudy). Time of day doesn't make any difference. Yes, I have the Infoservices plugin correctly set up.

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

This is the way it is supposed to work. One single image for Mostly Cloudy and a single different image for Mostly Clody and windy. If you want more images for mostly cloudy just add more images to that subfolder.

cheers
cul8er

 

[Jeditrav]

Hi,

This is the way it is supposed to work. One single image for Mostly Cloudy and a single different image for Mostly Clody and windy. If you want more images for mostly cloudy just add more images to that subfolder.

cheers
cul8er

Really? My 'Media\Animations\weatherbg' has many subfolders, and each subfolder has many pictures, but I only ever get one image displayed for each weather type. You're saying that if there are multiple images per subfolder/weather type they should display 'randomly' per weather type? 'Cause it's certainly not working like that for me!

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

Sorry, my bad. It is only one image per weather condition. It doesn't cycle. And the image must be named weather.jpg. The reason why we cannot have cycling images here (multiimage) is that MP1.0.2 does not support dynamic paths (I think it works in MP1.1).

best regards
cul8er

 

[rivera]

Unfortunately, I cannot check this feature in whole scope, because now the weather in Moscow is always the same
Thanks a lot for replies

 

[rivera]

cul8er
Great thanks for a nice skin

I got a question regarding weather.
There is a property:

#infoservice.weather.today.img.small.filenamewithoutext

So I can see that it's possible values are 1....47.
What is the meaning of thiese values?

I am asking 'cause I am going to replace standard weather backdrops.

I repeated my question here:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...03-2010-updated-60206/index58.html#post613127

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

1...47 is the different weather conditions. For example 32 is like sunny. I don't know all the values and their corresponding weather condition but you can get that from looking into the MP sourcecode.

best regards
cul8er

 

[rivera]

Here is what I found in XBMC forum:

23 – Windy
24 – Windy

9 – Drizzle

11 – T-Showers / Showers / Light Rain

1 - Windy Rain
2 - Windy Rain

12 - Heavy Rain
40 - Heavy Rain

37 – Isolated Thunder

0 – Thunderstorms
3 – Thunderstorms
17 – Thunderstorms
35 – Thunderstorms

4 – T-Storms
38 – Scattered T-Storms
47 – Scattered T-Storms Night

39 - Scattered Rain
45 – Scattered Showers Night

8 – Freezing Drizzle
10 – Freezing Rain

6 – Rain Sleet
5 – Rain Snow
7 - Snow/Rain Icy Mix

18 – Hail

13 - Snow Flurries
14 – Light Snow
43 - Windy/Snowy
46 - Snowy Night
15 – Snowflakes
41 - Scattered Snow
16 - Heavy Snow
42 - Heavy Snow

19 – Dust
20 – Fog
21 – Haze
22 – Smoke

26 – Cloudy
29 - Partly Cloudy Night
30 - Partly Cloudy
44 - Partly Cloudy Day
27 - Mostly Cloudy Night
28 - Mostly Cloudy

31 – Clear Night
33 – Fair / Mostly Clear Night
34 – Fair / Mostly Sunny

32 – Sunny

25 – Frigid
36 – Hot