[mythtv-users] wiki for using mythweather-revamp

[Phil Bridges]

On 4/24/07, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 4/24/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/24/07, Chris Isip <cmisipster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've got an atrpms mythtv suite installed and I had to uninstall mythweather
> >>> with the --nodeps option first before installing the mythweather revamp and
> >>> it works.
> >>>
> >>> If your mythweather is an rpm maybe you can try uninstalling that first.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 4/24/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 4/23/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 4/23/07, William Munson <william_munson at bellsouth.net > wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Phil Bridges wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 4/23/07, Lucien Dunning <ldunning at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> typo in the address.  It should be
> >>>>>>>> svn co
> >>>>>>>>
> >>> http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins
> >>>
> >>>>>>>> On 4/23/07, Phil Bridges < gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 4/23/07, Lucien Dunning <ldunning at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> since msnbc is b0rked, the mythweather plugin is now useless.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>> North
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>> American users can use the mythweather-revamp plugin.  It is very
> >>>>>>>>>> beta, so use at your own risk.  I  typed up a wiki to compile it
> >>>>>>>>>> against a .20 or later myth build.  Its what worked on my system,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>> so
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>> feel free to update it with your own experiences.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Using_mythweather-reavmp_with_trunk_mythtv
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>> For general info on the project, see
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Weather_sandbox
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>> -Lucien
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thanks for the wiki update.  Unfortunately, I can't even grab the
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>> SVN of this:
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> localhost ~ # svn co
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>> http://svn.mythtv.org/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> svn: PROPFIND request failed on
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>> '/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins'
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> svn: PROPFIND of
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>> '/branches/mythweather-revamp/mythplugins': 405
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> Method Not Allowed ( http://svn.mythtv.org)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Any hints?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hmm - the new address works, and I can get the revamped MythWeather
> >>>>>>> installed, but it segfaults as soon as I hit the menu key after
> >>>>>>> selecting my screens.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> If I remember right, you need to remove the weather.xml files from
> >>>>>>
> >>> your
> >>>
> >>>>>> existing themes. Its trying to read your old .xml file and is borking.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> OK - it still segfaults, but now it gives:
> >>>>> 2007-04-23 17:02:07.617 background is in database, but not theme file
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Anybody have any suggestions?
> >>>>
> >> On this machine, I'm running Gentoo, and emerged MyhtTV without
> >> MythWeather.  I wonder what the problem is...
> >>
> >
> > "Cannot proceed, the following data items do not have sources
> > defined:" followed by a list...
> > If I go to Source Settings, "No Sources defined, Sources are defined
> > by adding screens in Screen Setup", which of course I cannot do...
> >
> > any ideas?
>
> OK.. a couple of things.  Once you have mythweather-revamp installed,
> you need to (I'm going to use FC paths here, so you will have to adjust
> accordingly for your distro):
> 1. Copy weather_settings.xml to /usr/share/mythtv/weather_settings.xml
> 2. REMOVE /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/weather-ui.xml
> 3. REMOVE /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/weather-ui.xml
> 4. COPY (or move) the new weather-ui.xml file (part of
> mythweather-revamp) to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/weather-ui.xml
> and to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/weather-ui.xml
> 5. REMOVE any weather-ui.xml files from the other themes that you have
> installed.  If you have one in your current theme, your MythTV install
> will use that rather than the default one.  Since there aren't
> theme-specific ones for mythweather-revamp yet, just remove the ones you
> have because it will cause the app to crash.
>
> That should help with the crashing another user reported.  Now, as far
> as the source stuff... For one, make sure that all of the *.pl scripts
> are executable in /usr/share/mythtv/mythtweather/scripts.  Now, with all
> of that set:
> 1. start up your frontend and go to "Utilities/Setup"->"Setup"->"Info
> Center Settings"->"Weather Settings"->"Screen Settings".
> 2. Arrow down to the first item in your list of "Active Screens".
> 3. Now, with the first one highlighted, hit "ENTER", and a new menu will
> pop-up.
> 4. Select "Change Location" to bring up the search page.  Enter in your
> location (unfortunately, this part is a bit specific to the NWS, so take
> a peel in the NWS-Stations.xml file for something close to you) and hit
> search.  Select your location from the search results and hit "enter".
> This will close the search window and move focus back to the list of
> "Active Screens".
> 5. Go through each of the entries in the "Active Screens" in the same
> manner.
> 6. When you are done with all of the active screens, hit "M" to go back
> to the menu.  This will save all of your settings.  They are NOT saved
> until you do that.  If you hit ESC at any time to go back to the
> previous menu, your changes will be lost.
>
> I hope the above helps. :)
>
> -Rich


Thanks!  *This* helped.

Now, it appears that the NWS (at least my station) doesn't support the
maps - does this sound correct?