Return WEATHER OUTLOOK back to MediaPortal as default (4 Viewers)

[Paranoid Delusion]

Should be nice to have it back in the standard installation as it was before, btw the new default view looks great..newcomer of 2006

LOL, only 2006 still learning then

Put this in the newcomers forum to get as broad a feedback as possible, including new expectations of what MP should do as standard.

plus the notice helps get everyone's attention

 

[llambion]

It's not necessary for me but It's helpful. When the weather plugins stopped to word, i installed a 3rd party plugins.

 

[johanj]

I agree with what several already have written, please keep this separate plugins.
-Weather sites are seldom stable with their feeds, something change in their API and a updated MediaPortal need to be released.
-I don't think that you will find a single weather source that give good enough information for all countries around the globe. A plugin that is included with MP should then support several weather sources, i.e. all the different weather sources that the current plugins support today.

 

[m0t0k0]

I'm happy to have it as a separate plugin

I think putting more time a resource into killer features like MPEM will enhance MePo much more

If you guys can make MPEM work it would negate the difficulty of getting plugins for a newbie anyway

 

[MrCrabs]

How about asking during installation of MP if the user wants to install "world weather"?

 

[doveman]

I use and love World Weather but it can be a bit complicated to setup, with a lot of reading required, so if a basic Weather plugin could be included with MP that was very easy to configure, I think that would be good and then users who want more can look at World Weather.

 

[JimCatMP]

I'm using BBC Weather with 1.3Beta (copy Avalon skin files in Titan - 99.9% perfect) but I'd still like to see a default weather plugin as I'm sure would many others.

Cheers - J.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Just to be clear, this project will be done by Micropolis who very kindly offered us a "easy setup" version of worldweather without the bells and whistles, but should have ip lookup for your locality, or manual city\town name search within the GUI as a backup, using different providers and will be kept outside the MediaPortal releases.

This of course is easily upgradeable to the fullblown WorldWeather plugin, if a user likes the more advanced features.

Added to 1st post.

 

[Holzi]

-I don't think that you will find a single weather source that give good enough information for all countries around the globe. A plugin that is included with MP should then support several weather sources, i.e. all the different weather sources that the current plugins support today.

Therefore we plan to integrated not only one weather provider but at least 3/4. It will be similar to the WorldWeather plugin but just with an easy and fast config. (hopefully autodetecting of your position )

It is not intended to "shut down" weather plugins. You still can use them and WorldWeather plugin also will be available.

 

[rsbrux]

WorldWeather by Micropolis is a fabulous plugin, and would be my choice for inclusion as "standard" in MP. As many have stated, a choice of providers is important, and WW provides this. I don't quite understand why it should be "core", since I thought the idea was to reduce the core to the minimum and delegate as much as possible to plugins. I do like the idea of a standard plugin. If Micropolis is willing to make a "QuickStart" version of WW for this purpose, let's go for it! It seems a bit like the current situation with PowerScheduler (the standard plugin) and PS++ (the more capable version, which can be installed optionally).