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wmweather+

Category:

General / Others

Maintainer:

anomie

Website:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmweatherplus/

Description:

wmweather+ will download the National Weather Serivce METAR bulletins, ANV and MRF forecasts, and any weather map for display in a WindowMaker dockapp. Think wmweather with a smaller font, forecasts, a weather map, and a sky condition display.

Please see the sourceforge page for the latest version.

Screenshots:

Available Versions:

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Date	Author	Changelog	Download	Delete
2002-08-27 19:16:39	anomie	not available	1.7
2002-09-01 20:53:56	anomie	1.8	1.8
2002-09-08 14:07:24	anomie	1.10	1.10
2002-09-15 17:55:31	anomie	1.11	1.11
2002-09-22 15:29:12	anomie	2.0	2.0
2002-09-30 15:19:49	anomie	2.1	2.1
2003-03-22 19:35:50	anomie	2.4	2.4
2003-10-28 15:06:59	anomie	2.5	2.5
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User Comments

Nice weather app.
posted by Ava Jarvis (logged user) - 2002-08-28 04:27:38

Probably the nicest one I've ever seen.

Make it universal?
posted by Jason (anonymous) - 2002-08-30 07:03:24

Any chance you could make it a little more universal so it works in other countries? Possibly like wmWeather, just reads standard information like temperature, dew, pressure, humidty etc, in a smaller font and shows pretty pictures like the cloud/sun?

Nice one anyway!

Re: Make it universal?
posted by anomie (logged user) - 2002-09-01 21:56:27

Jason - METAR-wise, wmweather+ should have the same universality as wmWeather, considering they both download METAR reports from the same site using the same station identifiers. Both programs have options to select data display in metric or USian units.

Forcast-wise and warning-wise, tell me where data (preferably AVN and MRF for forecasts) can be found for non-US sites and I'll see what I can do...

Smaller?!? fonts?
posted by Jesse (anonymous) - 2002-09-24 22:20:01

Sorry, on a 1600x1200 screen those fonts are totally useless to me... Otherwise it looks gorgeous.

posted by Staceman (anonymous) - 2002-09-28 12:14:59

I know Linux stuff isn't always easy, but this is ridiculous. After going through dependency hell to get it installed, now I can't get the damn location right. I went to the noaa website and got the location info, but wmweather+ keeps telling me it's wrong. Here's what I type: "wmweather+ -location 40'18'00N 078'19'01W" it's for Altoona, PA, if anyone wants to e-mail me and clue me in on what I'm doing wrong...

Re: Staceman
posted by anomie (anonymous) - 2002-09-28 13:18:09

The dependencies are that bad? libwww and libpcre aren't that uncommon...

Anyway, your problem is that you have to quote arguments with spaces in them. wmweather+ is interpreting "-location 40'18'00N 078'19'01W" as the option -location with the valuw 401800N, followed by another option 0781901W. Try this instead:
wmweather+ -location "40'18'00N 078'19'01W"

Or just stick it in the conf file, there it takes the entire line after the option as the value.

I'll make the error message more informative.

posted by Staceman (anonymous) - 2002-09-28 20:29:28

OK, got it.. I was assuming the quotes weren't to be used when typing the actual command line. Adding the METAR station ID helps too ;) As for the dependencies... Using Mandrake 9.. it may because I did a rather minimal install. Great App, by the way, and thanks for the help! :-)

malloc.o
posted by James (anonymous) - 2002-10-01 15:06:18

Error with malloc.o not being found in libb0rken.a

malloc.o
posted by James (anonymous) - 2002-10-01 15:07:46

Here is the actual error...

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `malloc.o', needed by `libb0rken.a'. Stop.

malloc.o
posted by James (anonymous) - 2002-10-01 15:28:23

Here is the actual error...

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `malloc.o', needed by `libb0rken.a'. Stop.

Please use the sourceforge.net page to report bugs
posted by anomie (anonymous) - 2002-10-01 18:11:23

I've fixed the malloc error, for some reason i hadn't realized that AC_FUNC_MALLOC did AC_LIBOBJ...

GIF animations for radar image
posted by Corporate Gadfly (anonymous) - 2002-10-16 09:39:27

Any plans on using GIF animation for the radar image? I know next to nothing about gdk, but the gdk-pixbuf library seems to have useful routines like:

GdkPixbufAnimation* gdk_pixbuf_animation_new_from_file (const char *filename, GError **error);

What do you think? I have a radar image with 6 frames. The current wmweather+ displays the last frame only (I think)

Would like to use wmweather+ but...
posted by Billy (anonymous) - 2002-10-19 14:11:13

Looks like an awsome dockapp, but when running the configure thing, it tells me that i need a working version of mktime, anyone now where to get this, or what this means?

Would like to use wmweather+ but...
posted by Billy (anonymous) - 2002-10-19 14:29:46

Looks like an awsome dockapp, but when running the configure thing, it tells me that i need a working version of mktime, anyone now where to get this, or what this means?

A working version of mktime
posted by anomie (logged user) - 2002-10-20 22:00:39

You'll have to update your C libraries. Or else submit a patch to fill a real, non-broken mktime implementation into b0rken/mktime.c.

mktime is a C function that converts a broken-down time (year, month, day, hour, etc) into the number of seconds since the epoch (00:00:00 on Jan 1, 1970 UTC). Google for more info.

gkrellm plugin?
posted by Mårten Woxberg (anonymous) - 2002-10-28 20:14:01

Any possibility that this could be made as a gkrellm plugin?

I've install libwww but still getting an error..
posted by Mrfitz (anonymous) - 2002-11-17 01:54:08

checking for libwww-config... no
checking for libwww... configure: WARNING: libwww-config was not found
no
configure: error: cannot find libwww

this is what i'm getting with version 2.0/2.1 .. can you please help me ??

thanks,
MrFitz

FreeBSD compatibility?
posted by Nick (anonymous) - 2002-11-28 11:27:52

I would love to run this dockapp under FreeBSD, but I'm having problems with the C functions mktime and lstat. Would anyone be able to assist?

thanks,
Nick

no rule to make target "install"
posted by Chris (anonymous) - 2002-12-09 21:49:22

absolutely dont know why. I installed all dependancies (im using woody, kernel 2.4.20, stable)

Perhaps anyone solved the problem yet?

thanks :)

Install Error
posted by pranab (anonymous) - 2002-12-11 00:24:14

I keep getting the following error .. am
missing something ?

make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1'
Making all in b0rken
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1/b0rken'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `malloc.o', needed by `libb0rken.a'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1/b0rken'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@pranab wmweather+-2.1]#

TIA,
Pranab

Install Error
posted by pranab (anonymous) - 2002-12-11 00:32:50

I keep getting the following error .. am
missing something ?

make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1'
Making all in b0rken
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1/b0rken'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `malloc.o', needed by `libb0rken.a'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1/b0rken'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/wmweather+-2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@pranab wmweather+-2.1]#

TIA,
Pranab

What's up with this?
posted by heat (anonymous) - 2002-12-22 16:33:22

I have all the depends, and the error gives an error on a file not even present (forecast.o)

make[2]: *** [forecast.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matrix/wmweather+-2.1'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matrix/wmweather+-2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

...
posted by n (anonymous) - 2002-12-24 17:48:05

forecast.c:39:18: pcre.h: No such file or directory
forecast.c:49: parse error before '*' token
forecast.c:49: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
forecast.c: In function `parse_time_string':
forecast.c:85: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
forecast.c:90: `PCRE_INFO_CAPTURECOUNT' undeclared (first use in this function)
forecast.c:90: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
forecast.c:90: for each function it appears in.)

I fixed it
posted by heat (anonymous) - 2002-12-24 17:54:50

it needed pcre.h which was not in the tarball.

make install?
posted by CJ (anonymous) - 2002-12-25 19:02:58

the README says:

you should just have to do "make install"

Well, that returns the following:

make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.

Any help?

re: make install?
posted by heat (anonymous) - 2002-12-27 18:07:32

if you downloaded the tarball you need to do the regular procedure:
./configure
make
su
make install
everything should work fine, given that you have all the depends.

re: make install?
posted by heat (anonymous) - 2002-12-27 18:20:05

if you downloaded the tarball you need to do the regular procedure:
./configure
make
su
make install
everything should work fine, given that you have all the depends.

HOW to dock it and run it?
posted by biledaemon (logged user) - 2003-01-04 08:51:57

I got all the info i need to run gmweather but what exactly should I put in the command line? Do i need to create a config file? The readme file does not tell me steps to perform?

This is what i typed:

wmweather+ '-station KPHL' -c weather -mph -tempf

It told me that a 'weather' config file was not found...so i created one. But now it just gives me more options. What am I missing??

HOW to dock it and run it?
posted by biledaemon (logged user) - 2003-01-04 08:59:40

I got all the info i need to run gmweather but what exactly should I put in the command line? Do i need to create a config file? The readme file does not tell me steps to perform?

This is what i typed:

wmweather+ '-station KPHL' -c weather -mph -tempf

It told me that a 'weather' config file was not found...so i created one. But now it just gives me more options. What am I missing??

How to make the dockapp bigger?
posted by biledaemon (logged user) - 2003-01-04 09:14:10

How to make the dockapp bigger?
posted by biledaemon (logged user) - 2003-01-04 09:14:46

I can barely see the dockapp and it's numbers...

I configured it as this:

wmweather+ -mph -s KPHL

How do I make it a little more visible??

Config File Format
posted by wildbi111 (anonymous) - 2003-02-03 18:55:52

Does anyone know what the config file format looks like?

posted by brittnee (logged user) - 2003-03-27 12:34:34

gmake[2]: *** [convert.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/penis/wmweather+-2.4'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/penis/wmweather+-2.4'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

data for forecast from Europe
posted by Riku (anonymous) - 2003-04-09 14:59:32

Hi

May be this link is usefull for you?

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/www/europe.html

BR Riku

Have an error here
posted by kilroy13 (anonymous) - 2003-05-08 13:00:32

Getting an error with libwraster:

checking if libwraster is wanted... yes: libraries /usr/X11R6/lib includes /usr/X11R6/include
checking for RCreateContext in -lwraster... no
configure: error: libwraster is required

Located in the /usr/X11R6/lib directory is the following:
libwraster.la
libwraster.so.2
libwraster.so.2.2.0

wx map
posted by Luci (anonymous) - 2003-05-13 18:53:36

everything works wonderfully except the map portion of the app says "no data." i wonder if this is because of lack of data on the station's part, or perhaps i put the command in wrong, or maybe i should change something in the config file.
here is the format i used:

wmweather+ -station XXXX -location "dd'mm'ssN dd'mm'ssW"

libwraster
posted by Luci (anonymous) - 2003-05-13 18:56:59

kilroy13,
i also had the same error messsage. i use debian so i just apt-get installed libwraster2-dev even though i knew i already had the files floating around somewhere else.
wmweather+ ran smoothly during the ./configure, make and make install after that.
this is probably not a good linux habit, but i couldn't be arsed to figure out all the details so i downloaded it again.

libwraster
posted by Luci (anonymous) - 2003-05-13 20:22:52

kilroy13,
i also had the same error messsage. i use debian so i just apt-get installed libwraster2-dev even though i knew i already had the files floating around somewhere else.
wmweather+ ran smoothly during the ./configure, make and make install after that.
this is probably not a good linux habit, but i couldn't be arsed to figure out all the details so i downloaded it again.

libwraster
posted by Luci (anonymous) - 2003-05-13 20:56:52

kilroy13,
i also had the same error messsage. i use debian so i just apt-get installed libwraster2-dev even though i knew i already had the files floating around somewhere else.
wmweather+ ran smoothly during the ./configure, make and make install after that.
this is probably not a good linux habit, but i couldn't be arsed to figure out all the details so i downloaded it again.

Frustrated Weather App installer
posted by Carl (anonymous) - 2003-05-14 23:25:18

When I try to run wmweather+ I get this error:
relocation error: /usr/lib/libwwwapp.so.0: undefined symbol: HTZLib_inflate

Any suggestions as to what is wrong?

Another frustrated installer
posted by alski (anonymous) - 2003-05-27 17:06:31

I would really like to use this app but cannot get it to compile. I have libs www and pcre installed, but when I run make they are not recognized. Consequently, I get the following error (exchanging my home directory for /my/home/directory):

make[2]: *** [forecast.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/my/home/directory/wmweather+-2.4'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/my/home/directory/wmweather+-2.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any suggestions as to what is wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.

404 File not found
posted by cornet (anonymous) - 2003-06-07 15:19:54

after having successfully installed everything, the station data couldn't be downloaded:
~/.wmWeather+/10838.new-metar.txt failed: Fatal Error: 404 not found (Not Found)

maybe webpage changed???

none
posted by macbeth (anonymous) - 2003-07-10 00:52:03

when i do configure everything is fine. when it compiles everything looks good until it gets to lssl gives me an error saying cannot find file lssl?????

ugh
posted by b (anonymous) - 2003-07-10 18:20:43

ugh.. what a pain in the ass applet.

ive read the man pages over and over and over again. Ive got it set up to the point it -should- work, yet, whenever i run it:

#wmweather+ -c myconf.conf -location "33'26'03N 112'03'04W"
Floating point exception (core dumped)
#
#

-----------------
my conf has just the basic settings, as in the example.conf:

email .@.
station KPHX
warning-zone azz001
radar-uri http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/golf/map/85202?from=LAPmaps
radar-crop 81x55+104+80
radar-cross 42x25

------------
this is on fbsd5.1-release

Anyone get this POS working?

if so, email me or post another comment.
Peace

Europe forecast
posted by WoWu (anonymous) - 2003-08-12 08:40:08

It would be nice if you request in the next version also the forecasts for Europe. Especially Germany.

similar prob to Ugh, but with less whining
posted by Andy (anonymous) - 2003-08-15 14:37:17

I am having a similar prob to ugh. I set the metar and it tells me I don't have a location and it is guessing 0s. I give it a loc and it core dumps. Not as good. :)

I am compiling from ports on FBSD5.1

CONF FILE:

email .@.
station KPDK
location "33'52'42N 084'17'53W"
warning-zone azz001
radar-uri http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/golf/map/85202?from=LAPmaps
radar-crop 81x55+104+80
radar-cross 42x25

andy@thedoor:andy$ wmweather+
Floating point exception (core dumped)

Europe forecast stations ?
posted by Pedro (anonymous) - 2003-09-17 12:26:47

Are there any stations providing europe forecasts ?
What are their codes for wmweather+.conf ?

Thanks!

stations
posted by cornet (anonymous) - 2003-10-28 17:05:47

now I found all stations, picked out the one: 108390, but it got no apreviation, what about?
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsbeodt.html
and again: animated gif or mpg radar....

posted by Mark I Manning IV (logged user) - 2003-11-21 14:09:52

how do i find what my warning zone is
how do i find a radar map for a given location ?

Run-time Error
posted by Chris (anonymous) - 2004-02-12 17:22:03

When I try to run wmweather+ as ROOT I get the following error:

relocation error: /usr/lib/libwwwapp.so.0: undefined symbol: HTZLib_inflate

There weren't any other problems when running it as different users. I believe someone experienced the same problem before.

posted by (anonymous) - 2004-03-11 14:52:48

Any future plans to support animated GIFs? This is an excellent applet, otherwise. Keep up the good work :-)

posted by (anonymous) - 2004-03-11 14:53:46

Sorry to spam, but I meant support for animated GIFs for the radar, such as a radar loop. Thanks.

posted by chris (anonymous) - 2004-03-11 20:30:58

I have the same problem as ugh and andy.

FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release
wmweather+ 2.4

bash-2.05b$ wmweather+ -c example.conf -location "N33 W118"
Floating point exception (core dumped)

any one got this working in BSD?

posted by IamI (anonymous) - 2004-04-23 06:29:47

Asmittedly, this is a complex app, but it does have some hellacious dependancies.

FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by mark manning (anonymous) - 2004-06-28 11:57:17

this absolutely HAS to be the most frustrating docapp ever created. i have it running, m viewing a radar image but all i can do is view from the upper left corner of the image for a given width. it seems that your WxH+n1+n2 does not allow me to move into the center of an image.

In fact i cant even figure out how WxH adjusts and N1+N2 work at all!!!. I assumed that i could say "crop an image W pixles wide and H pixles hight N1 pixles in from the left and N2 pixles down from the top" and this would be scaled to fit in the dockapp. Some values seem to segfault the dockapp and anything that works just displays from the upper left of the radar image.

posted by Lee Owensby (anonymous) - 2004-08-02 16:32:16

./configure, make, and make install all went flawlessly, and I have all dependancies installed, but I get this every time I try to start the app:

wmweather+: error while loading shared libraries: libwwwxml.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Tutorial
posted by xebian (anonymous) - 2004-08-18 06:23:28

# This will get the station id #http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml
station KBTM
#Get this by clicking on the wmweather #dockapp and multiply the minutes by 60 and #add that to the seconds this answer is after #the decimal
location 45.3437N 112.1791W
#http://www.weather.com/maps/dopplerradarusnational.htm
#Pick your map under from the selection under #the national map you have to view the source #to to find the jpeg
radar-uri http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_nw_9regradar_small_usen.jpg
#The top left cornter is the 130x60 the #+56+56 represents the width and height the #Gimp measure tool can help you find this. #Your town is half the hypotoneus
radar-crop 130x60+56+56
#This just puts a cross hair on your map its #fun to see how close you were if its on your #town you got the right answer.
radar-cross 26x20
#The size of the map in the dockapp is 52X40

MY CONFIG FILE #comments got screwy
posted by xebian (anonymous) - 2004-08-18 06:26:48

station KBTM
location 45.3437N 112.1791W
radar-uri http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_nw_9regradar_small_usen.jpg
radar-crop 130x60+56+56
radar-cross 26x20

Help me!
posted by fefacn (anonymous) - 2004-08-26 08:49:01

Hello everyone!
I come from China,but I don't know how to use the Dock.
How can halp me?

Help me!
posted by fefacn (anonymous) - 2004-08-26 08:50:15

Hello everyone!
I come from China,but I don't know how to use the Dock.
Who can halp me?

too complicated
posted by Michael Weisman (anonymous) - 2004-09-15 11:46:11

OK, tried ./configure and was told that I don't have libwww-config. Looked at what's involved and it seems a bit too complicated to bother with. (RH-9). Oh Well...

The fonts again
posted by Dr. Death (anonymous) - 2004-09-22 06:54:52

I need xmag in order to read these small micro-tiny-fonts that wmWeather+ uses. Please, please, please, improve that matter for the next version.

I'm still looking for an european forecast reports server, but I take it easy :)

Anyway, wmWeather is a cool dockapp.

Nice App, won't nohup?
posted by peterservo (anonymous) - 2004-12-02 22:32:40

I love this app. Great Job. However, for some reason, when I run it like all other dockapps using nohup wmweather+ -s 1234, it still closes when I close the console.
Any ideas are most appreciated.

What does the cutoff percentage do?
posted by Me (anonymous) - 2004-12-14 16:04:06

You can adjust the "cutoff" percentage on the forecast window using the mouse scroll wheel. That's great. So what is a "cutoff" percentage and what does it do? Can't seem to find that written down anywhere (including comments in the source code -- where there are any.)

posted by (anonymous) - 2005-02-13 22:24:21

./configure works fine...
make
`test -f 'strtod.c' || echo './`strtod.c
strtod.c:1:2: #error Please supply a version os strod.

Im confused....

Version 2.9 on SF
posted by jlh (anonymous) - 2005-02-25 17:51:55

FYI, version 2.9 is available on sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmweatherplus/

Floating point exception
posted by dima (anonymous) - 2005-03-08 06:31:01

I have "Floating point exception" on FreeBSD 5.2.1 ! Does any one know how to start it under BSD? Config and command line produce same results.

Font?
posted by argh (anonymous) - 2005-03-31 08:38:13

Is there a way to make the font alittle larger?

libwwxml.so.0 not found ... I found it with find!
posted by ccrab (logged user) - 2005-08-01 21:45:50

... I had the same problem (Slackware 10.1, w3c-libwww installed from source). My libwww libraries were in /usr/local/lib for some reason, I copied everything in there to /usr/lib and it runs fine.

I can't read the font either but if it was any bigger the information wouldn't fit...

Just use Debian
posted by Jon D. (logged user) - 2005-10-03 22:21:13

I've wanted to use this docapp for years, but could never get it to work until I installed it using "apt-get" under Dibian. I use several computers, i686s at work and this old Sparc Ultra at home and although NetBSD will run on anything, so will Debian, and the packages are kept current and so easy to install. Try installing Firefox or wmweather+ on Debian! Even on this Sparc... easy as this... "apt-get install wmweather+" Boom! there it is!