weather.com licensing

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I just got a nastygram from weather.com saying that they're surveying all
their feeds for license violations and that "YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE
... FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL
WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP APPLICATION."  Clearly, they do not
want us to use the API at all without having abundant links back to their
site.  I have no idea if they'll shut us all down or not, but can I suggest
moving to WUnderground as a potential solution?

http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML#ForecastXML

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wfa...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2008 at 11:00

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Yeah, right. It was always a problem not be in line with the TWC terms of use, 
but it
seems to get harder to just ignore that fact ;-).

The Wunderground XML looks promising. Remaining problem: I personally have very
limited time to code ATM.

Original comment by martin.r...@glnetworks.de on 1 May 2008 at 9:39

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I came here to post the same thing.  "YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION 
WITH
AMONG OTHER THINGS...OR OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE INFORMATION DISPLAY UNIT...OR 
AS ALL
OR PART OF ANY STREAMING VIDEO OR AUDIO CONTENT OR FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS 
OTHER
THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP 
APPLICATION."

So I guess we're sunk?

Original comment by mike.le...@gmail.com on 1 May 2008 at 4:38

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Not at all. We just have to manage the transition to Wunderground as a data 
source
within reasonable time.

Original comment by martin.r...@glnetworks.de on 1 May 2008 at 8:53

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Code revision 81 in the "7.0a version" branch included a new 
Weather::Wunderground
package that is used as a drop in replacement for the old Weather::Com. Most of 
it
should already be working, but needs testing (was coded without access to a 
Slimserver).

Original comment by martin.r...@glnetworks.de on 3 May 2008 at 1:23

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Wunderground is now the default data provider for WeatherTime (working since 
r101,
fixed minor issues in r102)

Original comment by martin.r...@glnetworks.de on 5 May 2008 at 7:55

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I installed the new version (r104) and it doesn't appear to work. My SqueezeBox 
just
displays "?" when I select it as my screen saver.

I also noticed some of the Plugin -> Settings contain no options in the 
drop-downs,
such as the "Units" list. And the "WeatherTime" option is also missing under the
Player -> Screensaver options (there's just an empty line similar to what I 
mentioned
above). See attached fie.

Any ideas?

James

Original comment by MrJamesM...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 12:24

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The screenshot suggests that at least the strings.txt was not found -- so the 
installation seems to be 
incomplete. Can you please verify that you extracted the ZIP with preserved 
path structure into the Plugin 
directory of SqueezeCenter?

Original comment by martin.r...@glnetworks.de on 8 May 2008 at 2:45

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I believe I extracted it correctly. I've attached another screen shot and my 
strings
file incase that's the problem.

Original comment by MrJamesM...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 10:49

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• strings.txt

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This seems to be a unique problem somehow related to your installation. Please 
take
it over to the forums at http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4 . 
Maybe
someone can point you in the right direction.

Original comment by martin.r...@glnetworks.de on 9 May 2008 at 9:26

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I decided to just uninstall then reinstall Squeeze Center followed by your 
plugin and
it's working now.

Thanks for your help.

James

Original comment by MrJamesM...@gmail.com on 9 May 2008 at 11:35