Threadhead made a NOAA Weather Script a while ago, but I can't use it for the Netherlands.
So I decided to write my own script, based on Tigers Weather widget.

It fetches the temperature from any location that the Weather widget supports and stores it into an Indigo variable. It can be extended to fetch other info as well, such as humidity, wind direction, visibility etc..

Installing it requires a bit of work, but that should only take a couple of minutes.

AccuWeather Attachment

Have fun!

Great idea and script -- thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Matt

The script stopt working today because XML parsing failed.
Somehow the XML data returning from AccuWeather was using the LATIN1 encoding, which the XML parser can't handle.
My guess is that they changed the XML output at the AccuWeather site.
So before parsing the XML, I change the encoding to UTF-8 using a simple string-replace.

Version 1.1 has been released to solve this problem.

AccuWeather Attachment

To update from version 1.0 to 1.1, the best thing to do is to copy the URL you use for the AccuWeather site from the old script and paste it into the new script. Then reload attachments and everything should be working again.

I am getting a weird error about a variable.

This is from Log file.

Time/Date Action Fetch Temperature
Error script error: The variable responseText is not defined.
Error script error: The variable responseText is not defined.


I am applescript ignorant or I would really try to solve.

Thanks for the help.

I used a wrong variable name in the code, hence the error message.
Version 1.1.1 can be downloaded at the link shown above.
Same upgrade rules apply.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm doing the right thing now: installing a proper test environment for my Indigo stuff.

Good job Macpro !
I have a question : is it possible to retrieve the weather (cloudy, sunny, rainy) in a variable too ?
Thanks !

Yes, that can be done.
I'll post some instructions on how to do this tonight.

Version 1.2 has been released so it's a bit easier to get extra info.

In the ReadMe, you'll find this new section at the end:

I need more info!
If you need more info, you can change the AccuWeather script yourself and decide what you want to see in Indigo variables.
Just double-click on the AccuWeather.scpt file to open it in ScriptEditor. Then scroll to the section labeled
--===== Start of user choosen extra field ===== --

There you'll find lots of extra fields which you can choose to be stored into Indigo variables.
It will even fetch air and pollen info, so you know when you will get red eyes, sneeze all day and feel bad.

After you have made your choices, save the script. And don't forget to reload the attachments in Indigo, or you will not see the new variables.

AccuWeather Attachment 1.2

To update from prior versions to 1.2, the best thing to do is to copy the URL you use for the AccuWeather site from the old script and paste it into the new script. Then reload attachments and everything should be working again.

AWESOME! I tried it out. Now I can have more lights come on during the day if it's cloudy or rainy.

Thanks.

What happens when you using iso-8859-1 instead of UTF-8?

I'm surprised they didn't use the more standard name for the encoding.

I have a perl script and Expat couldn't parse LATIN1 either.

macpro wrote:The script stopt working today because XML parsing failed.
Somehow the XML data returning from AccuWeather was using the LATIN1 encoding, which the XML parser can't handle.
My guess is that they changed the XML output at the AccuWeather site.
So before parsing the XML, I change the encoding to UTF-8 using a simple string-replace.

Version 1.1 has been released to solve this problem.

AccuWeather Attachment

To update from version 1.0 to 1.1, the best thing to do is to copy the URL you use for the AccuWeather site from the old script and paste it into the new script. Then reload attachments and everything should be working again.

Hi macpro, and many thanks for your script !

How to install my weather icon on my website ?
Variable say "1", i understand that the "1.gif" is sunny (for example), but can i put it on my Indigo's website ?

It is possible to add the icons to a control page, but it will take some time. Unfortunately, I don't have the time at the moment, so I'll give you some hints.

First, extract all the icons from the Weather widget.
Place them in Library>Application Support>Perceptive Automation>Indigo 2>IndigoWebServer>Images>controls>variables folder.
Make an empty image and save it in the folder where you placed the other images, for every image you placed there and give it the same name "+true".
So if you have copied "sun.png" to the folder, save an empty image "sun+true.png" in this folder also.
Define for each image a variable with the prefix AWI (AccuWeather Icon) and the value that the AccuWeather widget fetches. So if 1 is an actual value, define the variable AWI1 and so on.
Define a trigger which fires whenever the variable that holds the icon value changes.
Add some AppleScript code to this trigger that puts all AWI*** variables to true, except for the one that corresponds to the actual value.
Define a control page and add a variable to the control page.
Remove the caption and select the correct image for this variable.
Lets say sun is represented by the value 1, then you would add the variable AWI1 and link the image sun.png to it.
Duplicate this variable and modify it to hold the next AWI*** variable and corresponding icon.
Place it on top of the previous variable.
Repeat this for all icons.

That's it! Easy, isn't it?

Last step: ask Matt to enhance Indigo so we can put image names in an Indigo variable, to make actions like these a lot easier.

Matt can you try to put html language into web interface, because i tried to write : if variablelogo = 1 convert in variable variablelogo2=<img> , but my interface don't give me gif

So, thank you macpro, i thought that it was an other issue but ... no

But i will do it

I will post every logo(+true) in zip file when i will do it (tomorrow)

.png files, files name are : 01,02, etc ... as on AccuWeather Website ...

Hi everybody !

I am translating the weather state in french but I need all of them !
Currently I have :

CLEAR
PARTLY SUNNY
MOSTLY SUNNY
SUNNY
PARTLY CLOUDY
MOSTLY CLOUDY
CLOUDY
FOGGY
GROUND FOG
LIGHT FOG
DENSE FOG
OVERCAST
RAIN
RAINSHOWER

Can you give me the other weather state, please ?

Thanks in advance !

THUNDERSTORM