Re: The old Brian Wolven weather script

Am 29.09.2009, 21:38 Uhr, schrieb Hale, Paul <paul.hale-X7qyDxFx8/lR5dUNPGT/[email protected]>:

> Does anyone here still use Brian's weather script from about 2 years
> ago? It appears to have stopped working since weather.com changed
> something on their end.
>
>
> If not, what do you guys use for weather in litestep?
>

I wrote a script in Lua that fetches the data from Yahoo! Weather. It
requires luasocket, http://luaforge.net/projects/luasocket/
It's pretty simple and shot actually, the code is here:
http://bitbucket.org/THC4k/litestep-ots3/src/tip/Data/luaext/Lua/yahoo/weather.lua

The Script only loads the data, it doesnt display anything. You have to
write a script that displays them on a label.
In my Blank Theme i do this to show data, in `weatherdata:load()`:
http://bitbucket.org/THC4k/litestep-ots3/src/df4cb3b5b1e2/Data/defaulttheme/Neu/scripts/buttons/Weather.lua

Here is the basic idea, completely untested and written in my mail client
;-)

----
--[[ needs xlabel and timer litestep modules loaded ]]--
require "lsmodule"
require "yahoo.weather"

local weather_label = lsmodule.xlabel.weather_label -- some xlabel to
display stuff
location = "GMXX0087" -- my hometown ;-)
unit = "C"

lsmodule.every( "10m", function() -- every 10 minutes
       local ok, data = pcall(weather.fetch, location, unit) -- try to load
the forecast
       if ok then
           local str = ('Condition: %s<br>Temperature: %s
°%s'):format(data.condition.text, data.condition.temp,
data.units.temperature) -- data holds the forecast
           weather_label:settext( str ) -- set it as text on the xlabel
       else
           -- errors happen, inet connection down, server busy or whatever
	lslua.message_box( 'Loading weather failed with', data )
       end
end ):start()
----

Dunno if you're using Lua at all, but i can never resist the opportunity
for a shameless plug ;-)

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