Add Local News Source

[chray68]

First of all, this is a superb Project!! Just build two of the Marquees and also one of the tiny Double Printer Monitor and everything worked out fine! I was able to change a view words in the code to appear in german but couldn't find a way to display the special characters ( ä,ö,ü ) at the weather report to ae ue oe? Can this be done somehow? But the main Question is about the news: How can i change the code/settings to add/show another news service which isn't chooseable through the Web Interface? I would like to show the Austrian Headlines and i guess the correct entry should look something like this:http:// newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?country=at&apiKey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Line Nr. 45 at the NewsApiClient.cpp looks similar and i tried to change it to show my Local News but w/o any success. Maybe somebody could be so kind and show me the exact entry step by step to make that change possible. Thanks again for that great Design and Code!

[chray68]

Found it out by myself how to edit Line 45 :) Now only the issue with the special characters in the weather report remains open - maybe any Hints?

[physi]

I fixed that by creating a Helper class Helper.h

#include <Arduino.h>
String cleanText(String text);

Helper.cpp

#include "Helper.h"
#include <Arduino.h>

String cleanText(String text) {
  text.replace("’", "'");
  text.replace("“", "\"");
  text.replace("”", "\"");
  text.replace("`", "'");
  text.replace("‘", "'");
  text.replace("„", "'");
  text.replace("\\\"", "'");
  text.replace("•", "-");
  text.replace("é", "e");
  text.replace("è", "e");
  text.replace("ë", "e");
  text.replace("ê", "e");
  text.replace("à", "a");
  text.replace("â", "a");
  text.replace("ù", "u");
  text.replace("ç", "c");
  text.replace("î", "i");
  text.replace("ï", "i");
  text.replace("ô", "o");
  text.replace("…", "...");
  text.replace("–", "-");
  text.replace("Â", "A");
  text.replace("À", "A");
  text.replace("æ", "ae");
  text.replace("Æ", "AE");
  text.replace("É", "E");
  text.replace("È", "E");
  text.replace("Ë", "E");
  text.replace("Ô", "O");
  text.replace("Ö", "Oe");
  text.replace("ö", "oe");
  text.replace("œ", "oe");
  text.replace("Œ", "OE");
  text.replace("Ù", "U");
  text.replace("Û", "U");
  text.replace("Ü", "Ue");
  text.replace("ü", "ue");
  text.replace("Ä", "Ae");
  text.replace("ä", "ae");
  text.replace("ß", "ss");
  text.replace("»", "'");
  text.replace("«", "'");
  return text;
}

and include that into OpenWeatherMapClient.cpp with #include "Helper.h"and change line 109 to weathers[inx].city = cleanText(root["list"][inx]["name"]);

[chray68]

I fixed that by creating a Helper class Helper.h

#include <Arduino.h>
String cleanText(String text);

Helper.cpp

#include "Helper.h"
#include <Arduino.h>

String cleanText(String text) {
  text.replace("’", "'");
  text.replace("“", "\"");
  text.replace("”", "\"");
  text.replace("`", "'");
  text.replace("‘", "'");
  text.replace("„", "'");
  text.replace("\\\"", "'");
  text.replace("•", "-");
  text.replace("é", "e");
  text.replace("è", "e");
  text.replace("ë", "e");
  text.replace("ê", "e");
  text.replace("à", "a");
  text.replace("â", "a");
  text.replace("ù", "u");
  text.replace("ç", "c");
  text.replace("î", "i");
  text.replace("ï", "i");
  text.replace("ô", "o");
  text.replace("…", "...");
  text.replace("–", "-");
  text.replace("Â", "A");
  text.replace("À", "A");
  text.replace("æ", "ae");
  text.replace("Æ", "AE");
  text.replace("É", "E");
  text.replace("È", "E");
  text.replace("Ë", "E");
  text.replace("Ô", "O");
  text.replace("Ö", "Oe");
  text.replace("ö", "oe");
  text.replace("œ", "oe");
  text.replace("Œ", "OE");
  text.replace("Ù", "U");
  text.replace("Û", "U");
  text.replace("Ü", "Ue");
  text.replace("ü", "ue");
  text.replace("Ä", "Ae");
  text.replace("ä", "ae");
  text.replace("ß", "ss");
  text.replace("»", "'");
  text.replace("«", "'");
  return text;
}

and include that into OpenWeatherMapClient.cpp with #include "Helper.h"and change line 109 to weathers[inx].city = cleanText(root["list"][inx]["name"]);

Thank you physi for trying to help ! I've just followed your instruction but unfortunately it is still displaying wrong characters? Right now it should say "Überwiegend bewölkt" but the Ü is shown as £ and iso ö it shows other weird characters. Helper Files created and line 109 changed accordingly any Idea what else the Problem could be?

[physi]

Ok, I had the Problem with the cityname, you may need to change line 111 to: weathers[inx].condition = cleanText(root["list"][inx]["weather"][0]["main"]); And to be on the whole German side , just do it for each line in that section 😊

[chray68]

the condition line didn't change anything but the description line did :) Now everything is displayed as it should be ! Thank you very much for your help!!!