1 (edited by sfseay 2007-10-19 12:01:10)

Topic: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

I'm trying to view the rss feed from this site:
http://projectsteps.blogspot.com/feeds/ … lt?alt=rss

When I try to use the Chumby RSS Reader I get an error that this is an unsupported item format.

Anybody else having problems with this widget?

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

That's odd... I'm using the widget for a few different feeds, and it's been working for me. I just tried to load that particular feed, and it seemed to work. Maybe a temporary glitch?

shoe

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

Yeah - apparently it's not actually an RSS feed, but rather an ATOM feed, despite the "rss" in the URL.

Different format.

Perhaps the RSS widget should be enhanced to handle both.

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

Blogger (where my site is hosted) has a choice to publish RSS 2.0 or Atom feeds.  I chose RSS 2.0, although I have tried both. 

If somebody figures out why the RSS reader doesn't work with Blogger I would appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

I tried this:  feed://feeds.engadget.com/weblogsinc/engadget

Doesn't work.  How come?

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

"feed://" is something done by Safari to trigger the internal RSS reader functionality - replace that with "http://" and it *should* work.

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

OK, that works.  Thanks!

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I would really like to have atom feeds added to the reader...I am pulling my feeds from Google Reader and I realize now that many of them are atom.

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notbeinguseful wrote:

How *does* the Chumby RSS Widget work?

I assume there is some sort of mirror/proxy server behind it to avoid the crossdomain.xml issue mentioned several times in the forums.

I'm interested in reimplementing it as an exercise.

If you have a hosting plan with PHP, you could what's described here (pretty similar to what Chumby does):
http://xmlrpcflash.mattism.com/proxy_info.php

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dnw wrote:

I would really like to have atom feeds added to the reader...I am pulling my feeds from Google Reader and I realize now that many of them are atom.

We'll add it soon (~ 2 weeks or less.)

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

The rss feed mentioned in the original post, and similarly formatted rss feeds, should work now. 
If there are other popular rss feeds that still don't display, please send those examples and we'll look into supporting them.

Re: Chumby RSS Feed Widget not working

bucini wrote:

The rss feed mentioned in the original post, and similarly formatted rss feeds, should work now. 
If there are other popular rss feeds that still don't display, please send those examples and we'll look into supporting them.

The following rss feed worked fine up to a few days ago:

http://www.n4g.com/rss/news.aspx?Channel=-1

Other feeds seem to work fine for me!?