Sunbird Widget (Yahoo! Widget)

[gumm]

Hi Paul,

Try to right click on the link above, and select "save as" or "save target as" or "save link as" or something like (I forget the exact wording in IE). Then save the sunbird.widget file to computer, and take it from there.

Regards
Gumm

[Paul C]

No sorry, still the same error message as before.

Am I downloading a file ? or your widget ?
tks

[aadal]

In IE 7 rigt click and Save Target As.
In Mozilla Firefox no problems.

[Paul C]

OK - it downloads an XML file ?

What do I do with this - my PC doesnt want to read it.

Sorry for being a bit slow with these things.

[steve]

It's a yahoo widget - you need the engine installed to use it.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Steve

[Paul C]

It's a yahoo widget - you need the engine installed to use it.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Steve

Oh I see
so for all the thickies out there
1.Right click on on the link
2.Save As
3.Download into your Yahoo Widgets folder ( may sure you have Yahoo Widgets working first)
4.When saving, rename the file to end in .widget (not xml)
5.Go to your widget options - options menu
6.Open the new widget, should be named "sunbird"
7.in theory it should work and show D'Urbanvale
8. Ok Right click on the widget and go to Widget settings
9.Update the data URL eg "http://www.bramptonweather.co.uk/cumulus/realtime.txt"
10.Your data should appears - it does work

Well I was doing well until this stage. I now assume I have to upload the sunbird TXT file ? Can anyone help me with this section please - I,m nearly there.

[steve]

Well I was doing well until this stage. I now assume I have to upload the sunbird TXT file ? Can anyone help me with this section please - I,m nearly there.

Add it as an extra file in Cumulus, with 'process' ticked. I haven't quite worked out yet how often it needs to be uploaded, though...

Steve

[Paul C]

Code:
<#longitude>|<#latitude>|<#sunrise>|<#sunset>|<#update>|<#location>

so I make up a txt file and upload this via cumulus ?
I take it I have to fill in the missing bits, my longtitude, latitude etc ?

[steve]

Code:
<#longitude>|<#latitude>|<#sunrise>|<#sunset>|<#update>|<#location>

so I make up a txt file and upload this via cumulus ?

Yes.

I take it I have to fill in the missing bits, my longtitude, latitude etc ?

No, it uses Cumulus web tags, so you tick the 'process' box and Cumulus fills in the data for you.

Steve

[steve]

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<#longitude>|<#latitude>|<#sunrise>|<#sunset>|<#update>|<#location>

Something just occurred to me - why does the extra file need the current time in it (<#update>) when the realtime.txt file has that in it anyway?

Steve

[Paul C]

Thanks - got it working now
Looks great

[gumm]

Something just occurred to me - why does the extra file need the current time in it (<#update>) when the realtime.txt file has that in it anyway?

Jip, that's entirely unnecessary. I think I made a mistake to add that in. The widget does not really ever look at that field, but don't drop it - the widget expects the station name in the 6th position

I haven't quite worked out yet how often it needs to be uploaded, though...

This data is only used to determine the weather conditions near your location (hence the longitude and lattedude) data, the sunrise, and sunset times (in order to determine if it should show a sun or a moon), and your station name.

That stuff stays pretty stable, throughout, so it is theoretically possible to only upload this file once a day - and then only for the sunrise/sunset data.
All the rest is static. That's why I don't think it belongs to in the realtime.txt file

regards
gumm

[steve]

OK, thanks. I currently have it as a 'realtime' upload, so I'll downgrade it. As Cumulus is limited to just the two upload options, that will do for now.

Steve

[Paul C]

So just keep it ticked as process on the internet settings. nothing else.

[steve]

Yes, that's right.

Steve