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Weather Program

Hi everyone,
Just got my Cingular 8525 the other day (upgrade from my Wizard). So far so good but I'm looking for a program that lets me see my local weather when connected with my WIFI. I've searched the web and forums but have only been able to find paid ones.
Are there are free ones out there?
Thanks in advance.

http://ppcwarez.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12360&highlight=weatherpanel
This is, in my opinion the best one out there, you can specify radar maps (.jpgs)
for your local area, many different icon sets, very customizable.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

i love this one
http://tonaya.com/products/wtg/index.php

check out "weather to go"... puts a bar on your today screen. its' pretty nice.

gr8hifi said:
check out "weather to go"... puts a bar on your today screen. its' pretty nice.
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thats what i linked

Doh! didn't check out you're link... looks like the OP has found a winner.

Hrmm.... I'm looking for something that's free if at all possible.
The second one only seems to support cities for the US. I live in Canada so that didn't help. Thanks for your efforts though
EDIT: Weather Watcher seems to be the winner!

weather apps
I don't know any freeware weather app, but for me the bests are from sbsh and spb
The first one lets you customize the weather sources,
The other has a nice graphical interface and lets you to download (and create anmations) images from webcams
greetings to all

Weather Watcher seems to be the only PPC Weather Forecast freeware, and it is really clean and usefull... But no today screen integratin.

Zgembo said:
Weather Watcher seems to be the only PPC Weather Forecast freeware, and it is really clean and usefull... But no today screen integratin.
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FYI: Mike Singer, the developer, is extremely responsive to requests. WW PPC is not his first priority, but he does answer any and all email.

UPDATED Sep-29-2008 Matrix RLToday Skin Now has weather page.

Hey guys. I've been working on this skin for rltoday and i think it's finally ready to see the light of day. It is meant to be a full replacement for the today screen for device with 240x320 resolution. The skin features 9 configurable buttons. Also has a configuration script.
The buttons are numbered from left to right so row 1 has 1-3 row 2 4-6 and row 3 7-9 the configuration is in the buttom right hand corner and can be used to initially setup the buttons or for modifying them after initial setup. The buttons can also be setup simply by pressing on the button you wish to setup.
The SMS Count lonks to the messangin app and the calls links to the call history. The clock is also linked to the windoes clock&Alarms. I'm working on a weather page for this skin as well but it might be a little while.
For the moment you will need to copy the font file(MLTWNII.ttf) from the rltoday folder to the windows\font folder.
i tired making a cab but the font seemed to get applied to other areas of windows so i'm going with the manual route for now.
So extract the folder in this zip to your rltoday folder and change the skin to matrix.
NOTE:SD version taken down as it turns out(should have looked into it) rltoday can't run from sdcard sorry if i caused anyone any confusion was just covering all bases. thanx to brunoisa10 for helping me realize this fact.
UPDATE
Weather page now added. it uses yahoo weather feeds so go to http://weather.yahoo.com/ and find your city
ex: mine is at http://weather.yahoo.com/Moncton-Canada/CAXX0297 so my weather code would be CAXX0297.
it will ask for this code when you update for the first time. it will also ask if you want C or F as your temp reading and creat a link to the yahoo weather page that can be accessed by tapping on the icon for today's forcast. I have been using it and perfecting the positioning for a few weeks now. all should be perfect. a few icons still need resized they will follow soon. for anyone updating just replace your existing matrix folder with the one in the new archive. then reload the rltoday skin by long tapping a empty spot of today screen.
Let me know what you think.
Version history
1.5
Added weather page!!
Rewrote some parts of the button and config scripts
removed some useless messages
fixed some alingment
Removed all xxx(apart from weather page) from the skin(happens when rl can't find a reg key)
and probably a few other things over the weeks that i forget.
1.0
initial realese
to do:
Landscape support
make icons changeable.
any other suggestions?
thanx to syrguy1969 for the graphical work.
Download mirror(Thanx 2 Napbree):http://www.touch-innovation.com/skindetails-59/ (still has version 1.0 Napbree let me know when you update)http://www.touch-innovation.com/skindetails-59/

Very nice, it looks GREAT on full-screen!!! I am sure you will get a lot of hits on this skin!!

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Very nice, it looks GREAT on full-screen!!! I am sure you will get a lot of hits on this skin!!
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thanx man i really hope so...either way i will enjoy it but i did it to share it mainly. work progressing on weather page. i'm going to need your help with graphics for it tho if you don't mind helping me again...i will e-mail you with a quick paint drawing of what i envision.

Grondinm said:
thanx man i really hope so...either way i will enjoy it but i did it to share it mainly. work progressing on weather page. i'm going to need your help with graphics for it tho if you don't mind helping me again...i will e-mail you with a quick paint drawing of what i envision.
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I don't mind at all, I enjoy helping!!

so many views yet so little downloads/feedback...oh well.....work on weather page progressing...going to so some major testing tonight...might be up over the weekend if all goes well...(probably not since i have no graphics for it yet but sooner than i originally thought) would anyone using this be so kind as to leave some sort of feedback...good or bad.

just another quick update in case anyone is actually using/interested in this skin. finally got got the code for the weather page to do what i wanted it to do...just missing graphical part and a little more testing....should have new version soon(couple of weeks life permitting)

while playing around last night i discovered a few issues...expect a new version up over the weekend for sure...even if i can't included weather page yet to fix these bugs(mainly if mortscript is not installed and if you don't use the matrix font)

Hi Grondinm
I saw you were excellent about Mortscript , I see now you are very good about rlToday .
I like these two products too , and BatteryStatus ,now HomeScreen ++ UI .
just a little question : you've posted one zip for rlToday on SD Card , what is your version of rlToday ?
I thought we couldn't install rlToday on SD , it is a marvellous news for me , because I have many xml and graphics and mortscripts ready to work and I had removed rlToday just because of the place on memory

brunoisa10 said:
Hi Grondinm
just a little question : you've posted one zip for rlToday on SD Card , what is your version of rlToday ?
I thought we couldn't install rlToday on SD..
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well then....i actually just assumed it could be installed on sd....never tried it just wanted to cover all bases...now i see that it can't be installed on sd so i will have to take down the sdcard link...sorry about this guys i don't ever install any apps to sd but like i said wanted to cover all bases incase it could be installed theire....

Great skin

weather page almost ready guys....got icons just gotta get them perfect...keep an eye out for update

new version up. Weather page!!! see first post

Way to go, another example of your strong work!!!!

looking for a little input. should i replace the vmail count with e-mails?

another thought anyone interested in landscape support?

just keeping you guys up 2 date. new version coming verry soon(maybe as sson as this weekend) it's going to have preliminary landscape support(meaning app launcher but not weather page yet) also i'm adding a new script to it a cutomizable intenet launcher. keep an eye out for this one guys.

found bugs in config script...i will try to put out new version thsi weekend but with the holidays i might not have time to finish what i want to do for version2.0. sorry to keep everyone waiting so long have been busy at work. but i think version 2.0 will be worth it. keep an eye out

Hello Everyone i know i have been away from this site for a while but i have been very busy at work with year end stuff at work and holidays. I'm still working on this skin...just letting everyone know i'm still alive and hope to have time to put out new version within the next few weeks.

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

htc home weather plugin

hey guys, i'm having a problem with my htc home weather plugin. it gives me the weather info, and refreshs, but it's giving me the wrong information. like right now it says 27 degrees and cloudy, but it's really 65 degrees outside. i'm in cleveland oh, if that helps any. and any help or suggestions would be a big help, thx guys. amd i've also downloaded the proxy patch for my version of home, 2.1

ken12501 said:
hey guys, i'm having a problem with my htc home weather plugin. it gives me the weather info, and refreshs, but it's giving me the wrong information. like right now it says 27 degrees and cloudy, but it's really 65 degrees outside. i'm in cleveland oh, if that helps any. and any help or suggestions would be a big help, thx guys. amd i've also downloaded the proxy patch for my version of home, 2.1
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Fahrenheit Celsius - Make sure you are using the right one - The one you are most familiar with - Also - I've noticed that the HTC Weather is not always very accurate - Depending on when it was updated last at the source and when you last updated it. If it found your city and it is updating you should be good to go. If it is always wrong, then you might want to make sure that your device (Weather plugin is pointing to the right city *(Check your city code in the registry on your device compared to that from the Accueweather website for your city weather) make sure that it is the same. You will see the city code in the URL on the accueweather website for your city. I personally don't use the HTC Home Weather plugin very much anymore as I am using the Marsware WeatherPanel Plugin now in my Ultimate Launch setup. It is a much nicer display and gives alot more detailed weather information.
edit : Hurray! My 100th post - Senior member now!

you might want to make sure that your device (Weather plugin is pointing to the right city *(Check your city code in the registry on your device compared to that from the Accueweather website for your city weather) make sure that it is the same. You will see the city code in the URL on the accueweather website for your city.
how can check this? i'm new to this stuff

[QUOTE=you might want to make sure that your device (Weather plugin is pointing to the right city *(Check your city code in the registry on your device compared to that from the Accueweather website for your city weather) make sure that it is the same. You will see the city code in the URL on the accueweather website for your city.
how can I check this? i'm new to this stuff

it was set to celcius, thx for your help hotrod. and congrats on your 100th post

[Need Help]New Weather App

Hi,
I'm a really newbie and I'm writing my own weather-app for the pocketpc in C#. But I've got a little problem:
How do I get the forecast for the next 6 days out of the yahoo-weather feed? For example: http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=94704
Is it possible, cause I only see the next 2 days in it?
Take a look at the screenshot. That's what it's all about till now ;D
Thx.
FoneBone

wrong post

i can´t help you, sorry, but just want to say: nice graphics and a free, small standalone fullscreen weather app is a good Idea. All other good apps are to fat for me and today plugins. So let me test it.
And if possible think about different languages (High/Low) and maybe little animation. But be carefull at the momen i use rumballs manilla weather and it uses rwhen unning 10 MB ! (because of the big animated weather pictures)

Your app looks nice.
The reason your app receives only 2 days is because...the link you're using only provides 2 days:
Code:
Yahoo! Weather - Berkeley, CA
Yahoo! Weather for Berkeley, CA
Conditions for Berkeley, CA at 7:53 am PDT
Current Conditions:
Partly Cloudy, 50 F
Forecast:
Sun - Sunny. High: 77 Low: 50
Mon - Partly Cloudy. High: 76 Low: 50
Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather
(provided by The Weather Channel)
Looking at the available parameters for the RSS feed here: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#params I don't see any way of getting more then 2 days.
EDIT: Funny thing, playing with some random default parameters I got a way of listing 5 days, see:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=94704&d

Nice!
Keep up your good work!

radhoo said:
Your app looks nice.
EDIT: Funny thing, playing with some random default parameters I got a way of listing 5 days, see:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=94704&d
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That's cool. Thanks, and if you find a way to show 2 more days I will be happy as can be

The app looks awesome..

Your weather application looks great. I've found it to be a major lack of good weather applications, And I'll use yours for sure if its below 500 kB

WhiteRussianBC said:
Your weather application looks great. I've found it to be a major lack of good weather applications, And I'll use yours for sure if its below 500 kB
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The app itself is about 23kB till now. All graphics will be loaded, and can be modified.

Me again:
Is there anybody out there, who can tell me, how to extract the diffrent forecasts of the feed to C#?
[SOLVED]

Little update:
now it shows the forecast of the next 4 days. Thanks again to radhoo.
But how do I get the last two days???
Btw: Images need to be reformated...

FoneBone said:
Little update:
now it shows the forecast of the next 4 days. Thanks again to radhoo.
But how do I get the last two days???
Btw: Images need to be reformated...
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Glad it helped, your app looks even better now, a bit more and it's complete
Forgot to ask you, but what about using a different source for the weather data instead of yahoo's?

radhoo said:
Forgot to ask you, but what about using a different source for the weather data instead of yahoo's?
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Do you know any rss-feed with 6 (or more) forecast days?
I will take a look around the web

Do you have a cab. to try this ? Thanks this looks very nice.. Thanks T M Z

First I have to finish the alpha version of this app, before anyone can test.

You might try a different site, this gets 8 days...
http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/USNY0001?cc=*&dayf=8

if nothing helps, rework your graphics and make a bigger 4day forecast

itesla said:
You might try a different site, this gets 8 days...
http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/USNY0001?cc=*&dayf=8
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Thanks for this link, but there will be a new problem:
WM5 does not support XML encodings of ISO-8859-1. But maybe someone got a solution how to convert it into UTF-8.

Im not sure if you still need help, but I can give you the code I used to make my flash weather.
Also, if you like, you can re-use my weather flash animations, in case you want your weather graphics to be animated, you can convert them to animated gifs or so...
Its all in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403706

twolf said:
Im not sure if you still need help, but I can give you the code I used to make my flash weather.
Also, if you like, you can re-use my weather flash animations, in case you want your weather graphics to be animated, you can convert them to animated gifs or so...
Its all in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403706
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Maybe you can tell me the adress of the accuweather xml feed... that would be great.

[Q] weather app that saves the forecast into registry?

hi, looking for a weather app that saves the last updated forecast in the registry so i can use mortscript to read the registry.
using pocket forecast atm
Rn

doesnt matter, i found one i can use

It would be nice if You would also share Your findings if You have succeeded in Your quest. That way other users who are looking for the same thing can already search the information and will not create a new thread with the same question.

@aiiro
np dude
Weather Watcher displays the hourly, daily and weekly forcast in the registry, also including:
*location
*last update time/data amount
*temperature in *F or *C
*wind speed and direction,
*detailed info about weather (description)
*servere weather warnings
+more
skinable too
i think the latest version is this, but im not sure