WorldWeather plugin v1.10.0 for MediaPortal 1.3.0 and higher (8 Viewers)

[Ballermann]

issues & question

At first I have to say: Great work!!

I am sad I have to say that I have some issues with WorldWeather:

- when adjusting the location (in my case Oldenburg, Germany, GMXX0101) and using "detect" it switches to Munich automatically.

- if I remember in a right way, the "original" weather-plugin showed up the Location next to the temp in Homescreen, like "Oldenburg, 10°C", now it´s just showing the temp.

- I am using an external display, connected via MPDisplay2-Plugin, this is using InfoService-Plugin for showing temp and the specific icon while running

	<section name="Control50">
		<entry name="Type">Image</entry>
		<entry name="Description">weather icon</entry>
		<entry name="PosX">1093</entry>
		<entry name="PosY">360</entry>
		<entry name="Width">150</entry>
		<entry name="Height">150</entry>
		[B]<entry name="Image-WinID-Global">#infoservice.weather.today.img.small.fullpath</entry>[/B]
		<entry name="Visible">True</entry>
	</section>
	<section name="Control51">
		<entry name="Type">Label</entry>
		<entry name="Description">Temp</entry>
		<entry name="PosX">1064</entry>
		<entry name="PosY">520</entry>
		<entry name="Width">208</entry>
		<entry name="Height">55</entry>
		<entry name="FontSize">50</entry>
		<entry name="TextAlign">Center</entry>
		[B]<entry name="Label-WinID-Global">#infoservice.weather.today.temp</entry>[/B]
		<entry name="Visible">True</entry>
	</section>

Now the "connection" in between is gone - is there a chance of connecting this great plug-in with the MPDisplay-Plugin to see icon and temp again?

 

[diskeeper]

AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

Thank you for making this happen! =)
Too bad I can't test it until next week.. nobody else is interested in this?! You can have more backdrops for one weather condition.. =)

funktioniert.

 

[Holzi]

AW: Re: AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

Could you make a quick example for that? Never heard that this works before..
Thanks!

<control>
      <type>multiimage</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>0</posX>
      <posY>0</posY>
      <width>1280</width>
      <height>720</height>
      <imagepath>linkedweather\#WorldWeather.TodayIconNumber</imagepath>
      <timeperimage>10000</timeperimage>
      <fadetime>2000</fadetime>
      <loop>yes</loop>
      <randomize>yes</randomize>
</control>

So with this example you can have multiple backgrounds for the same weather condition.

To setup this you will obviously need to create a linkedweather folder in the skins Media\Animations folder e.g.

C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\

And then create a sub-directory for each weather condition e.g.

C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\0\
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\1\
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\2\
...
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\47\

You can then copy the images you think best fit each weather condition into each folder. When you enter WorldWeather it will fade nicely between each background image.

Simple! No plugin changes required.

Well, I guess with this code example the weather images will be switched after 10secs (<timeperimage>10000</timeperimage>). So this is kinda like Fanart Handler works?!
I would like to have no switching, only one image as long as I'm in weather screen. Is this possible with <loop>no</loop> ?

Thank you!

 

[Holzi]

AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

Thank you for making this happen! =)
Too bad I can't test it until next week.. nobody else is interested in this?! You can have more backdrops for one weather condition.. =)

funktioniert.

Nice! =)

 

[fischy667]

Re: AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

Could you make a quick example for that? Never heard that this works before..
Thanks!

<control>
      <type>multiimage</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>0</posX>
      <posY>0</posY>
      <width>1280</width>
      <height>720</height>
      <imagepath>linkedweather\#WorldWeather.TodayIconNumber</imagepath>
      <timeperimage>10000</timeperimage>
      <fadetime>2000</fadetime>
      <loop>yes</loop>
      <randomize>yes</randomize>
</control>

So with this example you can have multiple backgrounds for the same weather condition.

To setup this you will obviously need to create a linkedweather folder in the skins Media\Animations folder e.g.

C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\

And then create a sub-directory for each weather condition e.g.

C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\0\
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\1\
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\2\
...
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media\Animations\linkedweather\47\

You can then copy the images you think best fit each weather condition into each folder. When you enter WorldWeather it will fade nicely between each background image.

Simple! No plugin changes required.

With the way Holzi want to have, everything work great, but you are limited to 5 pictures

ltfearme's way is working too, but it is not working correct when you change the location inside the plugin. The picture folder is not changing, so that the linked condition pictures stay linked to the "old" location. And there is a problem with the first picture. It is always the standard weather picture: the one with snow and hills.

But you have a unlimited picture number and a automatic background change

Hopefully this feature will stay in the plugin. I'm loving it.

 

[Holzi]

AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

I would like this feature too with the additional #WorldWeather.TodayRandomNumber property. =)
And if enough people like it maybe Micropolis could add random numbers going from 0-9. I guess 10 pictures for one condition should be enough. =)

 

[fischy667]

Re: AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

I would like this feature too with the additional #WorldWeather.TodayRandomNumber property. =)
And if enough people like it maybe Micropolis could add random numbers going from 0-9. I guess 10 pictures for one condition should be enough. =)

But then you are fixed to 10, what if you only have 5 images? Then you have half the time a black screen.

 

[Peter2]

Re: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

Hi Micropolis, great work once again and thank you for adding metric units!

 

[Holzi]

AW: Re: AW: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

I would like this feature too with the additional #WorldWeather.TodayRandomNumber property. =)
And if enough people like it maybe Micropolis could add random numbers going from 0-9. I guess 10 pictures for one condition should be enough. =)

But then you are fixed to 10, what if you only have 5 images? Then you have half the time a black screen.

I thought there is an automatic detection which numbers are available.

 

[fischy667]

Re: WorldWeather plugin v0.3.0 for MediaPortal v1.2.0 or higher

#WorldWeather.TodayRandomNumber (values between 0-4) is a temporariliy toy for Holzi.

Here stands nothing of auto-detect for the number of elements.

Edit: I tested it. It is always 0-4, no auto-detection of the number of the elements.