• Registered: 2007-10-29
  • Posts: 8

Topic: Is there a user selectable radar widget possible?

I occasionally use the Yahoo! Widgets Engine on my OS X desktop to show me the weather radar for my area.  I'd love to have a similar widget show the current radar conditions on my Chumby.  But no one has written one for my area (Chicago).  It would great to have a radar widget that only required users to enter a zip code to view their area's weather radar.

  • From: Chicago, IL
  • Registered: 2007-11-11
  • Posts: 235

Re: Is there a user selectable radar widget possible?

I have been using the "load image from URL" widget that can be found in the Widget Labs section. You can then find radar images on the web to load into this widget. I too am from the Chicago area and have used the following images.

Radar: http://wmaq.weatherplus.com/wxpsta/maps … fault.jpeg

or  http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_o … s_usen.jpg

Alerts: http://www.weatherplus.com/wxpsta/maps/ … fault.jpeg

or http://image.weather.com/images/maps/sp … 20x486.jpg

Hope this helps. A customizable widget would be great, but this method works pretty good.

-HuckFinn