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nekrosoft13
post Mar 3 2004, 02:20 AM
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i heard you can get weather to show in XMBC.

could some one tell me how?
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zxcvbnm
post Mar 3 2004, 06:01 AM
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What country and or region are you located in?
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post Mar 3 2004, 06:19 AM
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Sorry i hit the wrong button. Anyway go to http://www.weather.com/ and look at the top of the page.

Click on world, in the enter location box enter your location (ex.New York, Florida, ect.) and click go.

You will see a list of cities and states, click on yours.

On the next page in the address barr (http://) you will notice through the text a line that says USNY0996 (if your in New York like me).

Now ftp into your xbox and open your XboxMediaCenter.xml file and look all the way to the bottom and you will see this.

<weather>
<areacode>UKXX0085</areacode> <--enter the # from weather.com
<unitT>C</unitT> <--c for celsius, f for far fahrenheit
<unitS>K</unitS> <--k for kilometers, m for miles
<refresh>20</refresh>
</weather>

Save then open XBMC and click weather and your set.

Hope this helps beerchug.gif
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ArneB
post Mar 7 2004, 02:26 PM
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Hi. I just ran into the "My Weather" solution today. Nice thing, but I don't get it to work right. My .XML file seems to be in order (according to zxcvbnm's settings, but the thing is I'm located in Oslo, Norway.

www.weather.com has the forcast for my city, but going into the selection in XBMC just hangs up my box. I'm running 12.02.04 version.

If anyone has a clue to what i should try to fix it, i'll really appreciate it.

ArneB
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christer
post Mar 7 2004, 04:14 PM
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QUOTE (ArneB @ Mar 7 2004, 04:26 PM)
Hi. I just ran into the "My Weather" solution today. Nice thing, but I don't get it to work right. My .XML file seems to be in order (according to zxcvbnm's settings, but the thing is I'm located in Oslo, Norway.

www.weather.com has the forcast for my city, but going into the selection in XBMC just hangs up my box. I'm running 12.02.04 version.

If anyone has a clue to what i should try to fix it, i'll really appreciate it.

ArneB
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Hei Arne

Just to make sure - you've entered the code for Oslo (NOXX0029) in your XML file?
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post Mar 7 2004, 07:45 PM
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The clock is always in military time how do I change that?

P.S. I running build 2004-02-12
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ArneB
post Mar 7 2004, 08:27 PM
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Hey Christer. Thanks for the reply.

To answer your question: Yup. This is the section copied out of my .xml file:

<weather>
<areacode>NOXX0029</areacode>
<unitT>C</unitT>
<unitS>K</unitS>
<refresh>20</refresh>
</weather>

I have manualy sat the IP adress, subnetmask, default GW etc. just to make sure that it has all the routes needed to get out on the internet.
So if anyone still has a clue about what I'm doing wrong....

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post Mar 7 2004, 08:57 PM
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QUOTE (ArneB @ Mar 7 2004, 10:27 PM)
So if anyone still has a clue about what I'm doing wrong....

Strange... I checked your XML code and it looks right. Does it hang the whole Xbox or do you mean that the forecast just doesn't show up on the page?
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post Mar 8 2004, 12:35 AM
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I dont even see the My Weather option! sad.gif

I see My Videos, My Pictures, My Music, etc. but NO My Weather! blink.gif
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post Mar 8 2004, 01:34 AM
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Master-Chief: you're probably using a pre-2004.12.2 build of XBMC. If so you can either update to a later build or just add this to the end of your XboxMediaCenter.xml file: (after the </video> tag)

<weather>
<areacode>abcd1234</areacode>
<unitT>F</unitT>
<unitS>M</unitS>
<refresh>20</refresh>
</weather>

--the areacode section is derived from part of the URL for your city on www.weather.com, see pinned topic for details
--the unitT value is F for fahrenheit or C for celcius
--the unitS value is for wind speed, m for miles per hour, k for kilometers per hour
--refresh is self-explanitory, but FYI the refresh period for weather.com in my area is 60 minutes, so anything more frequent than that would be unnecessary.


ArneB: Like christer said, your .xml file is configured correctly. I also use static a static IP for my Xbox but I use EvolutionX rather than Avalaunch for the default dash so i didn't manually configure the network settings. Does your computer also use a static IP? My only suggestion is to double check those settings to make sure they're correct and the IP address isn't conflicting with another machine on your network.

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post Mar 8 2004, 05:06 PM
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can i change the xml to get weather info from 2 places or more?
i cant seem to get more then one only.
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post Mar 8 2004, 05:21 PM
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QUOTE (crashnet2000 @ Mar 8 2004, 07:06 PM)
can i change the xml to get weather info from 2 places or more?
i cant seem to get more then one only.

Only one at the moment. At least in the version I'm running. It sure would be great to be able to switch between places.
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post Mar 8 2004, 06:05 PM
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Hi Guys. Thanks for the tips (drivinell and christer).

Jeez, I have done nothing but debugging to try to get this to work. The IP adress is "valid". Its the same adress the box gets from my DHCP server when launching Avalaunch. Just tried to set it manually to see if it did things better.

christer: The box freezes completely... I have to do a cold restart to get it back on the air...
And do you by any chance know phergas? :-)

But for poor old me... still no luck in checking the weather... thou it's no harder than pulling the shades up and look outside. *grin*

ArneB - just installing Xlink...
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post Mar 8 2004, 07:03 PM
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QUOTE (ArneB @ Mar 8 2004, 08:05 PM)
And do you by any chance know phergas? :-)

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post Mar 8 2004, 07:07 PM
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hehe, just thought we might have a mutual friend on the net, by the alias of Phergas...

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