Re: Homevision Question On Weather Data

[Kevin Hawkins <tivo@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [ukha_d] Homevision Question On Weather Data

Do you have Ace ?

   If so I wrote a script (actually I updated an existing
one that someone else had written) that takes the data off the BBC weather
site either nationally , regionally or locally and puts the various fields
into variables. These can be passed to HV as required. Covers today ,
tomorrow and next 5 days.  Dan has a copy of this script on the
website I think, but not perhaps the most recent. 
       The problem is that every time
the BBC change the format of the weather web pages it messes up the data
retrieval. Basically ACE parses the raw html content that is returned from
the page and looks for certain keywords to pull out the data eg "max
temp" the routine is not very clever & gets broken quite easily eg
"Max Temp". It could be made more foolproof at the expense of
complexity and space.
   However take a look at the code - it is a great way of
pulling data off web pages and into HV or whatever.
   I can dig a copy of the last version out if you want
though I seem to remember it was not working properly again - some new web
designer at the BBC no doubt making the page look nicer.

   Kevin

on 23/4/01 7:34 pm, Kenneth Watt at kennethwatt@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Has anyone found a way to get weather data from the net into HV in any
> way.
> Excuse me but I'm just starting to play around with some of the more
> advanced features of HV like this kinda stuff.
>
> Ta
>
> K.
>
>
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