Hi Pete,

Looks promising.  How about sunrise and sunset times?  Will you add image icons like the ones on the start page?  Will you show the info for each day all in one page?  Or will you just show the current condition per page?

Thank you for working on the plugin.

-Josef

I put sunrise and sunset on it just after posting the screenshot. I want to put on most/all the info available to me including the graphics.

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

I have also found out how to get hour by hour data. So i will get this added in aswell.

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

Just wanted to say thanks for this app it workds great, looks good and is nice and simple

Thanks!!

Ok...I'm completely frustrated.  I can't get this app to work on two different x64 Vista installations.  Here's what I've done:

-Installed .net 3.5

-Installed Vista4Cast

-Changed configuration values (after I searched for my zip, I had to delete two leading spaces to make it work).

-Saved configuration

-Ran Vista4Cast

-Looked at the icon that was created...it looks good.

-Launched Vista Media Center...nothing

 

What am I doing wrong?

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My HTPC: Shuttle SB81P/Pentium 4 3.0GHz/2MB RAM/74GB Raptor/120GB SATA Hauppauge WinTV-500MCE/Leadtek NVidia 6600GT

Are you running V1.2?

Did you run the setup program?

What is your system drive C:, D: etc

Check the registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Start Menu "OEMLogoUri" should point to the image ie "file://C:\Users\Public\Vista4Cast\Vista4Cast.png" If your system drive is different then change the value to suit.

Pete

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

Pete,

I am running v1.2.  I downloaded it yesterday.  I ran the setup file (if by setup you mean the configuration program that's available after installing the program...if there's some other setup program other than the program itself where is it?).  My system drive is C. 

I'll check the registry when I get home tonight.

 

Thanks

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My HTPC: Shuttle SB81P/Pentium 4 3.0GHz/2MB RAM/74GB Raptor/120GB SATA Hauppauge WinTV-500MCE/Leadtek NVidia 6600GT

Sorry i meant installation program, which you have run. It should have created everything correctly. I am sure it will be the registry setting that is the problem.

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

Okay...I've got it running now.  It was the Registry Entry.  There was an entry, but no corresponding value.  I input it manually and it works now.  As a result, I have two bugs to report:

1) Vista4Cast Config puts unnecessary spaces in the locale field causing the resulting calls to TWC to gather weather information to fail.

2) Vista4Cast installer creates the registry entry but does not enter the location of the icon file into the registry.

FYI...I'm running Vista x64 (Ultimate and HomePrem) on both tested platforms.

 

Thanks

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My HTPC: Shuttle SB81P/Pentium 4 3.0GHz/2MB RAM/74GB Raptor/120GB SATA Hauppauge WinTV-500MCE/Leadtek NVidia 6600GT

chaosrain:

Okay...I've got it running now.  It was the Registry Entry.  There was an entry, but no corresponding value.  I input it manually and it works now.  As a result, I have two bugs to report:

1) Vista4Cast Config puts unnecessary spaces in the locale field causing the resulting calls to TWC to gather weather information to fail.

2) Vista4Cast installer creates the registry entry but does not enter the location of the icon file into the registry.

FYI...I'm running Vista x64 (Ultimate and HomePrem) on both tested platforms.

Thank you for your feedback

What location did ou search for in the config program?
What entry did the installer make in your registry? What did you change it to?

Pete

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

Ok i have updated Vista4Cast. Vista4Cast is now a stand alone application.
To use this version. Remove your old installation first (Backup your config.xml file if your dont want to setup your image again), remove your scheduled task.
After you have installed this version, setup your startpage image as before or copy back your original config.xml.
This version is standalone, it will check for the weather every 2 hours.

I have also created a Vista addin. This will show you a 7 day forecast and the current conditions.
Check out the first page for the download link.

Comments welcome. I have spent a lot of time on this version and i would like to thank the people on mediacentersandbox.com (AndyC, IgnoranceIsBliss and emigrating) for there help. I have used IgnoranceIsBliss's tutorials to teach myself MCML. If it wasn't for these tutorials it would not have been possible. Thank you.

I can't post this version without thanking  my 3 1/2 beta testers. Killervette, Andrew Lisse, Jcuesico and his wife. And of course my Girlfriend for putting up with me while i have been coding.

Below is a screen shot of Extended4Cast

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

excellent work, looks fantastic. Cant wait to try this new & improved version out.

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Wow.  Nice. That's all I really need.  A simple interface to see the forecast.  On my 800 x 600 display the words "Current Conditions" overlaps the date/time above just a bit.  Everything else is fine.

Thank you!

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Asus P5E-VM HDMI (onboard audio/video), Core 2 Duo E8200, 4 GB RAM, Hauppauge HVR-1800 (x2), LG-GGC H20L, DMA-2100 (x4), Yamaha RX-N600, InFocus IN76, D-LINK DIR 655, Vista Ultimate

Thank you for your comments. Getting comments like this make me think its been worth it. I do have plans to add hour by hour and a summary page aswell.

Pete

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TV: TH42PZ70B
Self Built HTPC:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: C2D C4400 @ 3Ghz
Video: 8600GT
Tuner: Blackgold BGT3540
2Gb Corsair Memory
Vista Home Premium
XBOX 360 Elite
Creative Labs 5.1

Hi Pete,

Thank you again for working on this wonderful weather plugin.  My wife and I appreciate all the hard work you have done.

-Josef

p.s.  With the release of Extended4Cast, I went ahead and uninstalled mceWeather.