Weather - Hour by Hour

[mangus580]

What would it take to get a weather plugin that has the option of the hour by hour forecast? I would think that it would be most useful to know by hour in a vehicle than 'today, tonight, tomorrow'. When I am driving, I usually dont care what its going to do tomorrow... care more about an hour from now.

Thoughts?


Would also be cool if a radar map could be downloaded every 15 min or something for the zip code selected....

[Habious]

Ohhh...good ideas, both of them!

Seconded!

Also, an "Update Now" button on the plug-in would be handy...especially if you're looking at a radar map.

[nemo]

I was planning on adding the Radar map for the Weather Plugin. I probably wont have time to do it until next week, however.

[malaki86]

Another suggestion for this:

Get LOCAL weather. If I'm in Texas, I could care less what the weather is doing at my home in West Virginia. I wanna know what it's going to do where I'm at.

[nemo]

^ That's on my list too. I was planning on pulling the zip code from the GPS and getting the weather from that. I haven't had much success with the cf gpsinfo from the sdk, though. I downloaded a GPS simulator, so I don't know if that's the problem, or my code. (probably my code )

[mangus580]

OH yeah! I had that thought a while back... and FORGOT it

the other thing that can be done with this... is sunrise/sunset for auto day/night switching!!

If it were php... I would be glad to assist... but I am clueless so far when it comes to this stuff...

[nemo]

I consider myself a pretty crappy coder. I can understand it and accomplish small feats relatively easily... but the whole concept kind of just escapes me. I guess it's just a matter of experience. I did quite a bit of php a while back and got pretty good at that, but that was a while ago.

I have found that C# is very similar to php.

[malaki86]

Originally Posted by nemo

^ That's on my list too. I was planning on pulling the zip code from the GPS and getting the weather from that. I haven't had much success with the cf gpsinfo from the sdk, though. I downloaded a GPS simulator, so I don't know if that's the problem, or my code. (probably my code )

Here's the line I use to assign the Zip code from cf_gpsinfo into a label:

this.CF_updateText("ZIP", CF_getGPSInfo(CF_GPSInfo.ZIP));

Hope that helps ya.

[malaki86]

I forgot to mention:

I originally started working on a new weather plugin that would show the weather info for 3 locations: Home (as saved in the setup), Current Location (from the GPS info) and Destination (from the GPS Info).

But, I didn't get much further than having the screens show the city, state & zip codes - heh

[nemo]

I originally started the plugin about a week or two ago. I just was planning on taking the existing plugin and reading the GPS zip ~15 min and pulling the info that way.

I actually wrote a function that would compare the current lat/long to every lat/long of cities in the country and would get the closest one to your location......... then I found the get gps info function in the SDK.