Topic: Repaired/relaunched widgets

I'll update this post with apps/widgets that I've repaired and redeployed.

Other authors are free to add to this thread with their own posts.

Please do not post issues or bugs here - start another thread.

Added:

Instagram
ISIS Clock
Unsubscribed Clock
Sad Mac Clock
System 1.0
Wonkette
Politico
Talking Points Memo
The Atlantic
Breitbart
Raw Story
Newsmax
White House Photo of the Day
Free Republic
The Daily Beast
The Week
Mother Jones
The Nation
Crooks and Liars
Daily Kos
Townhall - Tipsheet
The Daily Caller
Alternet.org
ThinkProgress
Real Clear Politics
The Blaze
Kindle Cover Disasters
American Thinker
Reason.com
The Maddow Blog
Infowars
Rush Limbaugh
Media Matters for America
PoliticusUSA
Twitchy
Deadline: Hollywood
Uproxx
The Federalist
PC Magazine
Macworld
Re/code
Mashable
Ars Technica
AnandTech
Bad Astronomy
Photography is Not a Crime
The Source
The Hollywood Reporter
Al Jazeera
Science
Matter
Pirate's Treasure (a puzzle game)
Alien Space Bats
Trump Insult Generator
New Scientist
The Hill
Geek.com
ExtremeTech
TechTimes
IFLScience

Updated:

I Can Has Cheezburger
NOAA Weather (US)
CBS News Headlines
The Onion
digg
CollegeHumor Pictures (mature)
San Diego 6 News
Stock Quotes (Classic)
Flickr
AppleInsider
I Has a Hotdog!
Wikipedia Featured Article
Huffington Post - Blog
Huffington Post - Featured
The Huffington Post
Village Voice
People of Walmart
Break Pictures (mature)
[Y] Hacker News
California Lottery
Stuff On My Mutt Clock (note that site hasn't had new content since 2013)
Stuff On My Cat Clock
The Daily Puppy
lifehacker news
CNET News
Google News
Google News - Entertainment
Google News - Business
Google News - Top Stories
Google News - SciTech
Google News - US
Google News - World
Google News - Sports
Google News - Health
Google News - Most Popular
Google News Search
Google Blog Search
Wired
Slate
Astronomy Picture of the Day
This Day in History
Vintage BBC World Edition
BBC News UK Edition Widget

Removed:

CollegeHumor Schools (they no longer support this functionality)
ShamuCam (camera is no longer operating)
TrailerAddict (special chumby feed not updated since 2012)
ComputerLove (site defunct)
Fullasagoog (no longer offers an RSS/Atom feed)
GlamNest (no longer offers an RSS/Atom feed)
GlamChic (no longer offers an RSS/Atom feed)
GlamBlush (no longer offers an RSS/Atom feed)
Public Service Announcements (video no longer hosted)
Sh*t My Dad Says (feed no longer accessible)
TIME: Quotes of the Day (feed not updated since 2007)
Rotten Tomatoes (now charge $30,000/year for access to their data)

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

Repaired:

Local Info

  • fixed traffic map

  • fixed weather

  • fixed bug where settings could get forgotten when they should not have

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adam wrote:

Repaired:

Local Info

  • fixed traffic map

  • fixed weather

  • fixed bug where settings could get forgotten when they should not have

that is just chock full of *awesome*

thanks, that's one of my favorites.

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.

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diamaunt wrote:
adam wrote:

Repaired:

Local Info

  • fixed traffic map

  • fixed weather

  • fixed bug where settings could get forgotten when they should not have

that is just chock full of *awesome*

thanks, that's one of my favorites.

Agree. THANK YOU for fixing Local Info!
I posted a picture on the Chumby Facebook page of my Chumby running Local Info once again. smile

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

Repaired:

Woot!

  • fixed feed parsing

  • updated "I want one" button image

  • added support for cycling through all product images

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

Ken wrote:

Repaired:

Woot!

  • fixed feed parsing

  • updated "I want one" button image

  • added support for cycling through all product images


Thanks Ken! that was one of my favs way back when.

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

Repaired:

Google Calendar Viewer

  • new app engine proxy

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OK, the Photobucket stuff should all be working now - both the apps and the built-in Control Panel functionality in the I8 and C8 devices.

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The Sleep Sound Generator should be fixed.

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The "blue octy radio" station "Soarin'" has been restored.

This is the music that plays when you're waiting in line at the "Soarin' over California" ride at Disney's California Adventure park in Anaheim.  It's mostly orchestral movie theme music.

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Fixed "blue octy radio" station "Rhythmatic Radio" - mostly blues, R&B.

Removed JellyRadio (out of business).  If you have this station as an alarm, please switch it - though you probably already noticed that it wasn't waking you up anyway.

Added "Holiday" station to "blue octy radio" - generally plays Christmas music.

Added "Main Street, USA" station to "blue octy radio".

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Added "blue octy radio" station "Third Rock" - mixes Rock music with news from NASA.

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Al Jazeera stopped working a few weeks ago.

Apparently the XML feed is parsed properly, but individual articles get an HTTP 503 response error. Here's what I see in the logs:

2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: _rssURL: //america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles.rss?format=xml
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: XAPIRequest.onXMLLoad() took 2854ms
....
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: XAPIRequest.processNextItem(): queue empty
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:1284] INFO RSS item body length:94
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:1284] INFO RSS item title:Death toll from Pakistan floods rises to 169
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:1284] INFO RSS image found
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:1284] PASS [time:93]
2015-08-06 18:06:00 TRACE: Frame took a long time to process: 440 ms.
2015-08-06 18:06:01 HTTPCurlObject::Done(id=16) returning true due to error condition, response code=503
2015-08-06 18:06:01 StreamObject::RequestForStreamID() can't find streamId 2
2015-08-06 18:06:01 StreamObject::CancelURLStream(2) not found
2015-08-06 18:06:01 TRACE: _alpha_efb Not defined
2015-08-06 18:06:01 TRACE: Frame took a long time to process: 269 ms.
....
2015-08-06 18:06:11 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:11979] INFO RSS item body length:109
2015-08-06 18:06:11 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:11979] INFO RSS item title:'Unseemly' focus on defunding women's health could hurt GOP, advocates say
2015-08-06 18:06:11 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:11979] INFO RSS image found
2015-08-06 18:06:11 TRACE: [D][0][RSS Item:11979] PASS [time:94]
2015-08-06 18:06:11 HTTPCurlObject::Done(id=17) returning true due to error condition, response code=503
2015-08-06 18:06:11 StreamObject::RequestForStreamID() can't find streamId 3
2015-08-06 18:06:11 StreamObject::CancelURLStream(3) not found

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

It looks like something is awry with the image links.  I'll take a look.

15 (edited by karmic 2018-11-06 12:32:59)

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

Can someone please take a look at the ThreatPost Widget. I get a "Unable to Load. Please try again later" error on my Infocast 8.

The RSS feed seems to be working, so hopefully it doens't require much tweaking.

Thanks!

== UPDATE ==
When I posted this message I was not aware of the SSL issues that had been identified.

After installing the SSL Fix v3 this widget is working again.

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

Ken wrote:

Repaired:

Woot!

  • fixed feed parsing

  • updated "I want one" button image

  • added support for cycling through all product images

Broken again

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Here are widgets that have been updated February 2023

The Hill
Science
IFLScience!
Al Jazeera America
Alternet
Free Republic
The Blaze
Crooks & Liars
The Nation
The Week
Wonkette
Anandtech
Ars Technica
Deadline: Hollywood
Slate
AppleInsider
CNet News
CNet Reviews
Deadspin
Digg
Engadget
ESPN News
Epicurious
BBC UK
E! News Online
CBS News Headlines

The following widgets have been removed:

Tech Times (no available data feed)
The Maddow Blog (no available data feed)
ThinkProgress.org (no available data feed)
Townhall (no available data feed)
Newsmax (no available data feed)
Talking Points Memo (TPM) (no available data feed)
Raw Story (no available data feed)
Bad Astronomy (ceased operations)
College Humor Articles (out of business)
College Humor Pictures (out of business)
Dallas Observer (no available data feed)
Defamer (ceased operations)

The following widgets were reviewed for normal operation:

Extreme Tech
Matter
BBC Vintage
Reason
American Thinker
The Daily Caller
Daily Kos
Mother Jones
Daily Beast
The Atlantic
Breitbart
Politico

The following widgets will be removed soon:

Woot! (no available data feed)
Cute Overload Clock (ceased operations)

Re: Repaired/relaunched widgets

The Google News and E!Online widgets have been updated.

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Duane wrote:

The Google News and E!Online widgets have been updated.

...and Google's RSS feed has changed yet again.  Not sure what to do here, it's a moving target.

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Ah, they're actively blocking our servers from fetching the RSS feed.  According to the response, they're not allowing automated queries.

So..no more Google news.