• Registered: 2008-04-01
  • Posts: 4

Topic: weatherunderground.com weather sticker widget

Weatherunderground.com has "weather stickers" that can be added to web pages.  There are several different types, but some of them are swf.

For example, here is the html to display a weather sticker for personal weather station KTXFLOWE3 (just happens to be my weather station and webcam):

<object width="290" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.wunderground.com/swf/pws_mini_rf.swf?station=KTXFLOWE3&freq=2.5&units=english&lang=EN" /><embed src="http://www.wunderground.com/swf/pws_mini_rf.swf?station=KTXFLOWE3&camurl=http://icons.wunderground.com/webcamramdisk/j/v/jvgerber/1/current.jpg&freq=2.5&units=english&lang=EN" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290" height="300" /></object>


The widget configuration should include a parameter for the weather station identifier ("KTXFLOWE3" in the above example).

To see an example of this sticker, go to http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat … mp;lang=EN

  • From: St Ives, Cornwall, UK
  • Registered: 2008-01-18
  • Posts: 435

Re: weatherunderground.com weather sticker widget

In short: it'd be very tricky.

The flash movie is in Flash 9 and is likely to be coded to only work properly when hosted on the WU site. It's also the wrong size a movie, but that could be worked around.

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  • From: Chicago Metro Area
  • Registered: 2010-12-18
  • Posts: 81

Re: weatherunderground.com weather sticker widget

I just ran the following commands on my wife's new BB8 device and am happily watching the wunderground Rapid Fire screen from our personal weather station:

stop_control_panel
chumbyflashplayer.x -i 'http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_F … =KILDOWNE2'

The Rapid_Fire.swf script is Flash v8 and is ideal for the Insignia's 8" screen.  Is there anyone who could convert this into a proper Chumby widget with a configuration to choose the weather station?  I'd like to be able to include this in our regular channels...