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<blockquote data-quote="Micropolis" data-source="post: 895708" data-attributes="member: 96567"><p>Dear community,</p><p>yesterday I had the first chance to read posts about this and other plugins of mine and I feel tired and confused about supposed "bugs", "malfunctions" and other problems. Also I must wondering about insults about my work. For that reason, my motiviation to provide free extensions for MediaPortal has lost completely. I can't understand, why some users to grumble about non-working functions, although solutions, hints and configuration examples are documented and repeatedly discuss in the plugin thread.</p><p> </p><p>If I had some wishes, please read the following bullets:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Please read the documentation <u>carefully</u> and <u>search</u> the plugin thread, if you feel, there is a plugin problem. I don't have wrote the manual for your recycle bin, it costs me relatively time as writing code.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If you have a problem to display weather information, please try the troubleshooting steps <u>before</u> and do not post presumptions. These posts helps nobody, also problem/issue posts without your weather configuration, log files and other information doesn't assists me to find the root cause. I hope, in the future the users takes time for this, otherwise it will be ignored.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If you have a special problem, which is not replicable, please try to <u>annotate</u> "steps to reproduce". This is the <u>only way</u> to support a developer with the required information to find a solution. I do not have thousands of machines to adjust any MediaPortal installation.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sometimes it is useful, to think more forward. Means, the plugin use internet and requests provider information, not all problems must come from the frontend. In the last time there are a lot of questions, where the root cause was a bad internet connection or a provider problem. Please remember, that this can also be the problem.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There are a lot of steps in my release cycle (nightly builds, release candidates) to test the plugin before the next release becomes official. Often I have said "please test it ...". Please help me to find problems earlier and not with a official release.</li> </ol><p>Now, some answers to the last posts:</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Correct, a lot of Google user groups has reported this issue. Some users said, the service is completely down, other means, it is a domain or CDN server problem. Please stay tuned, hopefully the service is back and stable in the next few days.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>At the beginning of this year, we had a discussion about the inclusion of this provider. I'll give a clear statement for this and most of my users has support this. If this weather provider want to have too much personal information like name, street, city and birthday for a personal key, I must say NO for this. There was a intiiative from a user, who has send a mail to this company to get sponsorship prices and accounts. Unfortunately, there was no feedback. Maybe you want help here?</p><p> </p><p></p><p>See my first bullet, if you have a better solution please post it, "not too intuitive" is ridiculous.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Why we need a long term solution? This plugin support WorldWeatherOnline, wetter.com, Yahoo and Yr.No (and with the newest nightly build AccuWeather). Is this not enough for a cost free plugin?</p><p> </p><p></p><p>A weather profile doesn't help anything. The settings are saved in the MediaPortal.xml and can be easily changed inside the configuration dialog.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>What's your intention to declare this as a bug? This plugin doesn't use any TV related routines or codecs and cannot be the root cause for this. The only possible problem can occur, if a notification dialog of WorldWeather cames up. These can be disabled in the configuration dialog.</p><p></p><p>Does it works now as expected?</p><p> </p><p></p><p>The weather profile works as expected, please provide steps to reproduce.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Configuration related settings are saved in the MediaPortal.xml, the weather profile in WorldWeather.xml.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Last but not least you can find the newest nightly build of WorldWeather v0.6.1 in the fist post of this thread. The following changes/enhancements are included:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Support of the new provider "AccuWeather" with current and 5-day weather forecast (longitude/latitude required)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Support of Google was not removed, but limited. Maybe the full functionality will be reactivated, if Google decide to support the weather API again. If I cannot see any progress here, it will be removed in the next official version.</li> </ul><p>To install the nightly build, please follow the installation steps, which are documented in the appropriate manual. <u>Important:</u>Please don't forget to copy the new provider logo to the skin folder and WorldWeatherIconMapping.xml to the correct folder.</p><p> </p><p>These was my 2 cents for today, for the next weeks I'm not at home and does not have any chance to solve/check problems and/or issues. Please understand this and respect my statements, maybe my frustration has gone after my trip to the sunny south.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks to @<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/holzi.104034/" target="_blank">Holzi</a>, @<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/lehmden.109222/" target="_blank">Lehmden</a> and all other moderators for your support in the last days.</p><p> </p><p>Cheers, Micropolis</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Micropolis, post: 895708, member: 96567"] Dear community, yesterday I had the first chance to read posts about this and other plugins of mine and I feel tired and confused about supposed "bugs", "malfunctions" and other problems. Also I must wondering about insults about my work. For that reason, my motiviation to provide free extensions for MediaPortal has lost completely. I can't understand, why some users to grumble about non-working functions, although solutions, hints and configuration examples are documented and repeatedly discuss in the plugin thread. If I had some wishes, please read the following bullets: [LIST=1] [*]Please read the documentation [U]carefully[/U] and [U]search[/U] the plugin thread, if you feel, there is a plugin problem. I don't have wrote the manual for your recycle bin, it costs me relatively time as writing code. [*]If you have a problem to display weather information, please try the troubleshooting steps [U]before[/U] and do not post presumptions. These posts helps nobody, also problem/issue posts without your weather configuration, log files and other information doesn't assists me to find the root cause. I hope, in the future the users takes time for this, otherwise it will be ignored. [*]If you have a special problem, which is not replicable, please try to [U]annotate[/U] "steps to reproduce". This is the [U]only way[/U] to support a developer with the required information to find a solution. I do not have thousands of machines to adjust any MediaPortal installation. [*]Sometimes it is useful, to think more forward. Means, the plugin use internet and requests provider information, not all problems must come from the frontend. In the last time there are a lot of questions, where the root cause was a bad internet connection or a provider problem. Please remember, that this can also be the problem. [*]There are a lot of steps in my release cycle (nightly builds, release candidates) to test the plugin before the next release becomes official. Often I have said "please test it ...". Please help me to find problems earlier and not with a official release. [/LIST] Now, some answers to the last posts: Correct, a lot of Google user groups has reported this issue. Some users said, the service is completely down, other means, it is a domain or CDN server problem. Please stay tuned, hopefully the service is back and stable in the next few days. At the beginning of this year, we had a discussion about the inclusion of this provider. I'll give a clear statement for this and most of my users has support this. If this weather provider want to have too much personal information like name, street, city and birthday for a personal key, I must say NO for this. There was a intiiative from a user, who has send a mail to this company to get sponsorship prices and accounts. Unfortunately, there was no feedback. Maybe you want help here? See my first bullet, if you have a better solution please post it, "not too intuitive" is ridiculous. Why we need a long term solution? This plugin support WorldWeatherOnline, wetter.com, Yahoo and Yr.No (and with the newest nightly build AccuWeather). Is this not enough for a cost free plugin? A weather profile doesn't help anything. The settings are saved in the MediaPortal.xml and can be easily changed inside the configuration dialog. What's your intention to declare this as a bug? This plugin doesn't use any TV related routines or codecs and cannot be the root cause for this. The only possible problem can occur, if a notification dialog of WorldWeather cames up. These can be disabled in the configuration dialog. Does it works now as expected? The weather profile works as expected, please provide steps to reproduce. Configuration related settings are saved in the MediaPortal.xml, the weather profile in WorldWeather.xml. Last but not least you can find the newest nightly build of WorldWeather v0.6.1 in the fist post of this thread. The following changes/enhancements are included: [LIST] [*]Support of the new provider "AccuWeather" with current and 5-day weather forecast (longitude/latitude required) [*]Support of Google was not removed, but limited. Maybe the full functionality will be reactivated, if Google decide to support the weather API again. If I cannot see any progress here, it will be removed in the next official version. [/LIST] To install the nightly build, please follow the installation steps, which are documented in the appropriate manual. [U]Important:[/U]Please don't forget to copy the new provider logo to the skin folder and WorldWeatherIconMapping.xml to the correct folder. These was my 2 cents for today, for the next weeks I'm not at home and does not have any chance to solve/check problems and/or issues. Please understand this and respect my statements, maybe my frustration has gone after my trip to the sunny south. Thanks to @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/holzi.104034/']Holzi[/URL], @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/lehmden.109222/']Lehmden[/URL] and all other moderators for your support in the last days. Cheers, Micropolis [/QUOTE]
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