Topic: Money Rates

Does anyone see a need for an FX Widget?  I certainly would find it very convenient to be able to customize a screen with various Foreign exchange rates so that I would see it all in one place in the morning.  Anything like this exist for Chumby?

Re: Money Rates

Hm... Doesn't seem to hard to code... IS there a web site that tells them on the fly for free?

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Yeah, that's the trick - you need to find a site that provides the currency conversion information in a form that's digestable with Flash.

This might be a possibility.

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There's another feed here too:
http://api.finance.xaviermedia.com/api/latest.xml

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The site I use on line is x-rates.com.  works well, but not real sophisticated.  Can set up history graphs. But I don't know how to use that on Chumby or send it to Chumby..

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I looked at the xavier api. Seems pretty easy. Give me a few days to see what I can come up with. No graphs for now though.

Jose

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Thanks - Look forward to seeing what you come up with!!!!

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Looks like retrieving the data from the web is not too hard. Now comes the hard question: how do you want it displayed on the widget? Should it be a scrolling thing? A table? etc?

What do you think?

Jose

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josep wrote:

Should it be a scrolling thing? A table?


on tap the screen the next page

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Fair enough... but what do you display in a page?

J

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josep wrote:

what do you display in a page?


configurable currencies and

EUR-GBP-USD-JPY


i think its great to let put in with the screen-keyboard certain values for exchange

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Should select a base currency at the top, and display a table of selected currencies that convert against the base.

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specific wrote:

There's another feed here too:
http://api.finance.xaviermedia.com/api/latest.xml

Hi I wanted to take a look at it's API but when I clicked on the link it redirected to a site where the price of article submission were stated. Can you post the link from where I can get the actual API of it??

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aliahlewis wrote:
specific wrote:

There's another feed here too:
http://api.finance.xaviermedia.com/api/latest.xml

Hi I wanted to take a look at it's API but when I clicked on the link it redirected to a site where the price of article submission were stated. Can you post the link from where I can get the actual API of it??

That's a direct link to the current exchange rate feed (fairly self explanitory web-service xml return) - the historical feed documentation is here:

http://forum.xaviermedia.com/xavier-fin … 10979.html