Weather Monitor

version 1.3

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NOTE: The development of the Weather Monitor was stoped. Please use the Weather Forecast plugin. Some updated provider files you can find on our forum. In the future Weather Monitor will be replaced by Universal Web Parser plugin.

Weather Monitor plugin show current weather on your taskbar. This plugin shows the weather conditions as icons and temperature. Also Weather Monitor can show some other weather parameters on taskbar. The full range of weather conditions you can see in tooltips or in the details window. Weather Monitor can show temperature and pressure in any units. Also Weather Monitor is supports skins.

How to use Weather Monitor

Using Weather Monitor is very easy. In the properties dialog box select the weather provider and click the button >>. The weather provider's web page will be opened. Find your city region on the web site. Now copy URL of this page into URL text box and press OK.

Note: some providers can not support some of values like Pressure and Humidity.

Possible bugs

Can be situation when Weather Monitor show NO REPORT icon for weather conditions but in tool tips you can see the name of valid conditions. In this case you must edit provider's file and add this weather condition into right category. Please contact us when you find unprocessed condition.

If you are registered user of True Launch Bar then you can change/set icon for every weather condition. Right-click on button and select Change Icon menu item.

Weather provider file format

We try to make Weather Monitor as universal as possible. By default Weather Monitor was optimized for Weather Underground. But it possible to take weather information from other web site. To do this you must to write your own provider's file. All these files must be placed into providers folder inside installation folder (by default C:\Program Files\TrueLaunchBar\plugins\weathermon\providers). Each file is have format of .ini file.

[options]

This section contains information about provider. Values:

• name - name of provider
• starturl - Web link to start page of weather provider
• SendCookies - 1 - to send cookies 0 - do not send. Some sites can be customized for better use. The setting are saved in the cookies. This option allow you to send or do not send cookies to website.

[Temperature], [Humidity], [Pressure], [Conditions], [CustomParam#]

These sections used to parse values. This example of Temperature section:

find0 = "<td>Temperature</td>"
find1 = "<b>"
delim = "<"

Parser first search the string find0 then continue to search find1.... when all strings are reached it take the value up to delimiter delim.

The special sections CustomParam# (where # must be replaced by number starting with 0) are for parsing different values. Each CustomParam section can contain some other values:

• Name - the name of parameter (required)
• unit- the units used for parameter. This value also must be included in the predefined section (Temperature, Pressure...). Currently supported these units:
  • F - Fahrenheit (Temperature)
  • C - Centigrade (Temperature)
  • hPa - hundreds of Pascals (Pressure)
  • atm - Atmosphere (Pressure)
  • psi - Pounds per Square Inch (Pressure)
  • in Hg - Inches of Mercury (Pressure)
  • mm Hg - millimeters of Mercury (Pressure)
  • kPa - Kilopascals (Pressure)
  • % - percents
• ValueType - the type of value can be INT - integer number, DBL - floating point number, STRING - text string. By default all values are parsed as string.
• DecimalSymbol - the decimal separator for numbers (by default ".")
• GroupSymbol - the thousands separator for numbers (by default empty)

We know that can be situation when you cannot parse all values using only this method. If you cannot write sections to parse your page write us the link of this page and we make all possible to support your weather provider.

[Sun], [Clouds], [Mix], [PartlyCloudy], [Lightning], [Rain], [Snow], [Wind]

These sections contains weather conditions mapped into predefined Weather Monitor conditions.

Additional weather providers

You can download additional weather providers:

Download Providers Pack (11K)

Download «Weather Monitor»