[mythtv-users] MythWeather

Nick Bright boberz at thewatch.org
Mon Aug 11 01:05:40 UTC 2008


Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
>   
>> Back to that usability thing.  A bit of playing around shows that only
>> the city name is valid.  Adding the state results in zero locations
>> found.  While other weather Web sites can give the nearest NWS station
>> data for your locale, this program doesn't seem able to so one needs  
>> to
>> know the nearest NWS reporting station to get results.
>>     
>
> I understand what you're saying, but the plugin just isn't that  
> sophisticated. It has a very simple search method that allows you to  
> look through whatever data it is given to determine a match. There's  
> no data that mythweather is given to say that when you search for  
> Portland, it should return Oregon maps. Maybe Maine maps as well? As  
> well as pacific northwest maps? Or maybe northeast severe weather  
> maps? See my point? There is MUCH more logic that would have to go  
> into that sort of feature than it first appears. No one has deemed it  
> time well spent to put that amount of "thinking" into search results  
> for weather information - especially when it takes a few seconds to  
> bring back everything and figure out for yourself what you should be  
> searching for in that group of weather information/
>   
For what it's worth the old MythWeather module that installed when I 
first installed mythbuntu 7.10 accepted my zip code, found my city 
(surprising - most things don't), and set itself up without so much as a 
hiccup. It worked great, and found relevant information by zip code very 
easily.

Almost seems like the newer version has taken a step back? Zip codes 
don't work at all, and it breaks the search if you input a state.

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