weather.com weather extractor for mlbdude2 1.8.7 (v1.0.1 / July 6)

[ukmgranger]

Cheers guys!

I'll give the '<>' idea a try out in the morning.

Thanks for all your help on this matter

Laterz

[ukmgranger]

Thanks Nielm - you were spot on with the 'special characters' <>.

Its works beautifully now.

I'm guessing that I must have copied them in from somewhere as I dont think that I would have just randomly put in the specials?!?

Anyway thanx again

[nielm]

Originally posted by ukmgranger
Thanks Nielm - you were spot on with the 'special characters' <>.

It was mls that pointed me towards that Thanks mls!

[chutio13]

I have done everything as noted in this thread and I cannot get weather to show up on the sage menu. When I run the weather.bat manually the txt file does update.... I don't know why it isn't showing up.

[Opus4]

Do you mean you don't have the weather button on the main menu? Is this property set in Sage.properties (edit the properties file only after completely exiting SageTV, not just putting it to sleep):

ui/main_menu_weather_enabled=true

Are there many items on the main menu & perhaps you need to scroll down to see it?

If this isn't it... exactly what is missing?

- Andy

[chutio13]

I have the setting in properties just as you have stated, and I have scrolled all the way down and the last thing is sleep on the main menu. I only have maldude 1.0a installed, not the 1.8.7 could that be it?

[Opus4]

Originally posted by chutio13
I only have maldude 1.0a installed, not the 1.8.7 could that be it?

Yes, that's it. MalDude only has up to MlbDude2 v1.8.6. I have had no time to do updates to it lately.

- Andy

[chutio13]

installed mlbdude 1.8.6 and it still didn't show up....

[Opus4]

That's because you need to install 1.8.7.... or was that just a typo & you really installed 1.8.7?

- Andy

[chutio13]

I installed 1.8.7

[Opus4]

And you switched to mlbdude2.stv instead of maldude.stv?

- Andy

[chutio13]

sorry for sounding dumb, but you mean in the Sage properties switching to mlbdude2.svt? I might not have, I'll check tonight and let you know.....

[Opus4]

Yes, I mean in the properties file.

And, just in case... always remember to exit SageTV before editing the properties file.

- Andy

[chutio13]

I changed it MlbDude2.svt and save it, then opened sage and it didn't show up. then I went into the properties and it shows MlbDude.svt. Why is it doing that?? should I delete mlbdude.svt from the folder?

[Opus4]

1) The file should be MlbDude2.stv -- STV, not SVT.

2) Did you edit the properties file while SageTV was completely closed, not just sleeping?

3) Is MlbDude2.stv in the SageTV\STVs\OriginalV2 folder?

You can also go to Setup -> Detailed Setup -> Advanced, and choose the button next to "SageTV Application Definition (.STV File). If you do, it seems best to exit & restart after making the election there.

- Andy

[chutio13]

ok, I got it working so that weather shows up in the menu, but now it hangs on Loading.......
and a command windows stays open. When I run the batch file manually, weather.txt is generated properly. but not from sage. I put in the exact path to java.exe, I get C:\Program not a valid internal or external command

[chutio13]

here is what i have....

@echo off

rem numdays is number of days to forecast -- between 1 and 10
set numdays=5

rem units is metric (m) or standard/imperial (s)
set units=s

rem %1 is weather.com url or location code 85737
rem %1 is output file name (weather.txt)

echo %1

start /wait cmd /k java "getWeather3" 85737 Weather.xt %units% %numdays%

[nielm]

the command window stays open because you enabled this feature... the

remove the "start /wait cmd /k" from the command line
From the readme.txt

Now, whenever Sage runs this grabber, a Windows command prompt window will appear containing any output from the getWeather grabber, followed by a command prompt.

Type 'exit' to close this window and return to Sage, allowing the Sage to read the weather.txt file
(NOTE: Do not close the window by clicking on [x] because Sage will
see this as a failure to run the file)

You get C:\Program not a valid internal or external command because you need to put pathnames that contain spaces in quotes:
"C:\Program Files\java\jre1.4.2_04\bin\java.exe"

[chutio13]

I did that it is stuck at loading....

[nielm]

Ther weather.txt filename in the bat file is also wrong -- it shows up as weather.xt (perhaps you should fall back to the original bat file in the zip)...