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Hello,

We have a 32" LCD set on a wall with a cycling screen, to show the status of different machines. I would like to add a few things to this:

Weather
Utility Status

I found the document viewer plugin and pasted a link to Accuweather’s site for our radar. Is there a radar-only link? Does anyone have a recommendation about how to strip out the radar and maybe forcast information easily? I’m hoping someone has done this before.

oge.com/systemwatch/ - This is the link to our utility System Watch. It does have a radar overlay, but it is displayed with Macromedia Flash. Is this doable?

Thanks,
Matt

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Embedding flash probably isn’t going to be your best bet, althought you might be able to get that to work with the (free) ActiveX plugin.

Scraping a weather page for info and displaying it is a fun trick. See this script (which I copied and pasted from the user manual)

[code]# This function would query Yahoo Weather for the temperature at

the given zipcode and find the temperature using a regular expression

def getTempAt(zipCode):
import fpmi
import re #Regular Expression library

response = fpmi.net.httpGet("http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=" + str(zipCode))

# NOTE - if you've never seen regular expressions before, don't worry, they look
# confusing even to people who use them frequently.
pattern = re.compile('.*?<yweather:condition (.*?)/>', re.DOTALL)
match = pattern.match(response)
if match:
	subText = match.group(1)
	temp = re.compile('.*?temp="(.*?)"').match(subText).group(1)
	return int(temp)
else:
	fpmi.gui.errorBox("Yahoo weather service changed")
	return -1[/code]

Also, notice that linking to this image brings in an updated radar map for california:
(sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosai … SIRCAC.gif)

Hope this helps,

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Anyone have a copy of that weather component that had the images included from Yahoo weather? (Partially cloudy, sunny, etc). It would make a nice Goody.