Making my own "Boyer"STAR

[boyercam]

Here's the weather bulletin page.

I'm currently working on a radar slide, but won't be implementing any radar feed into it yet

[boyercam]

I've stopped working on the BoyerSTAR for now as I'm working on a program called FALF (Feed Activated Local Forecast) that works much in the same way as the real life STARS, minus the expensive satellite...

I'll get some pictures sooner or later.

[SDBM123]

I would like to be a beta tester as I know this will be awesome   

[boyercam]

Thanks for your interest in this emulator, as I have said I'm working on a system named FALF and it is almost finished. FALF has been designed for a internet tv channel I've created named WeatherSpot providing weather programming for the UK. FALF is designed for use at a cable headend to give local forecasts and conditions through a 1 min local forecast and via a LDL. I just can't find the tv shows for the channel...

Once I've finished FALF I'll get back to work on this and try to get a working release out

[boyercam]

Ok, so it's been a while, I've sort of abandoned the FALF (For now at least) and I havn't looked at my WeatherStarXL emulator for Aaaaggeeess, but I've come up with something rather different.

What you are seeing here is a Weatherscan Local emulator which looks suspiciously like the WeatherscanXL emulator here on the forums (Personally that will be way better than this...) but this is entirely written from scratch and it has updated layouts...
Just ignore the clock, the date broke... 

[Eric]

One hundred degree wind... sounds serious!

[boyercam]

Haha, I forgot to mention that! I haven't yet done any processing on the wind direction so it's displayed in degrees. I should probably fix that 

[boyercam]

I managed to get an almanac screen working, however I have a bad feeling it's going to break.

Oh and I fixed the clock! 

[boyercam]

I managed to get the Weather underground API working. Now I have a working radar!

It needs a little bit of tweaking, as the gif flashes blue and black where the sea is. A better way would be to take the frames and store them to show up individually.

But also because I got access to the APIs. Here's the forecast!


Progress is great!

[Vanmax22]

That is pretty cool! I'm trying to make my own type of WXSystem, of course in PowerPoint because I only know HTML coding. Im calling it PWX for Personal Weather

[WeatherSTAR]

I managed to get the Weather underground API working. Now I have a working radar!

It needs a little bit of tweaking, as the gif flashes blue and black where the sea is. A better way would be to take the frames and store them to show up individually.

But also because I got access to the APIs. Here's the forecast!


Progress is great!

Good job! I can't wait to see more 

[boyercam]

Thanks WeatherStar and Vanmax22,

I plan on adding one more forecast slide to get it up to 36 hours and then I will pause there so I can set up the more boring things like checking that the program can contact wunderground and Yahoo (effectively checking if there's an internet connection) as well as a settings panel so the location you want forecasts to appear for can be changed and change the star unit ID and greeting. After that there may be a public release

[boyercam]

Here's some images to prove that that the BoyerSTAR will work in the US too


Current Conditions


A slightly too large radar (Radius needs toning down)


And the forecast... In metric (Sorry :/)

[boyercam]

So I know how much some of you would like to try this so I've uploaded the current version of it.

You can find it here!

If you're worried about viruses then here is a report : http://bit.ly/1Q2TIHb

Hope you enjoy it!

[Vanmax22]

A cool website I found to find the WOEID's is http://woeid.rosselliot.co.nz/