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Weatherscan Discussion / Ticker

« on: June 25, 2011, 12:18:49 AM »

Is anyone else having problems with the ticker? Ours shows Tonight all day long, then switches to the current days forecast in the evening, followed by tomorrows forecast. At midnight it switches to Tonight but shows the following nights forecast. Then switches to the next days forecast in the morning. It's all jacked up on ours lately.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Topeka problems again

« on: June 24, 2011, 11:30:36 AM »

Alright, now that I've watched for a while with the changes I would like to request one last change. Though I have more requests only for Weatherscan, I'm not going to ask for any of those. You're doing enough with our IS2.
One last request: on our 4-city screen during Local on the 8's can you possibly change Kansas City and put Lawrence back in? So our screen would show: Silver Lake, Auburn, Berryton, Lawrence.
Kansas City is already on our forecast map screens and a lot of people go to Lawrence to shop, go to Kansas University, or live there and commute to Topeka for work. Also it is not on any other forecast screens. Again, Kansas City is. There aren't any other towns in Shawnee county that would warrant having a spot on the 4-city so I thought Lawrence would be good since it's less than 20 minutes drive from Topeka and a popular city.
If not, thank you again for all the changes you've made for us here in Topeka. Even my roommate who just started checking TWC since we got it in HD has commented on the change in a positive way without me saying anything about my requests for these changes.

I want to add separately that it's really appreciated by I'm sure everyone here that you're willing to check in to what us locals are asking be put on our forecasts. We know the areas we live better than anyone else. I'm sure most, if not all, of us are asking these requests for the better good of the area served by TWC and not just our personal likes and dislikes. You all are doing a great job getting these requests changed it seems. Thank you to whoever you are from TWC Star Team for doing this.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Topeka problems again

« on: June 23, 2011, 11:30:10 AM »

Thanks for letting me know, since it's apparently still in beta I've been letting you know anything I see in case it's not known or isn't supposed to be like that.
HD & SD LDL do match now and noticed Omaha on Travel.
Thank you, thank you... very much appreciated.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 22, 2011, 05:10:23 PM »

They're doing something to the global forecast center. You could hear a lot of hammering and drilling earlier when Carl Parker was at the expert desk. Wonder if they're redoing the whole thing or just building a new small area for the expert desk?

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: June 21, 2011, 10:22:26 PM »

What is anybody's thoughts on the 4-city forecast screen on LOT8's? I really wish they'd replace it with an information frame like air quality or seasonal info like allergies or something. It just seems redundant to have the same information all over the place. LDL and different maps show the same forecast already. Why not put something different? Thoughts on what it could be replaced with?

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Topeka problems again

« on: June 21, 2011, 07:50:44 PM »

I noticed today. Thanks. Another thing our IS2 is doing is not cueing by up to 20 seconds. Right now at 6:28pm our IS2 did not cue. At 6:30pm when Cantore started talking, it cued. Not sure if the IS2 cueing late is a normal thing that's getting worked out or if it's just us.

Another thing I've noticed is that on the LDL when it shows the other three cities forecast when the transition drops the cities from left to right the left two drop at the same time then the right city drops afterwards. Thought I might let you know.

I hate to ask for any more requests but can you change Manhattan & Lawrence on our IS2 LDL (only) to match the SD IS LDL? So it would be Silver Lake (in NW Shawnee county), Auburn (SW Shawnee county) & Berryton (SE Shawnee county). Topeka is kinda NE Shawnee county. That way it's actually local to Shawnee County. If not, thanks anyways!!
One last thing to request: on Weatherscan is there any way you can change Topeka as the first city on the Destination Forecast screen on Travel to somewhere like Omaha or somewhere north? A lot of people from around here go to the Omaha Zoo this time of year. Topeka isn't exactly a destination the people from... Topeka... go to. Thanks!

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Topeka problems again

« on: June 18, 2011, 06:07:18 PM »

IS2 green screen and tiling of weather channel feed again at 5pm on Saturday, June 18.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Topeka problems again

« on: June 15, 2011, 09:27:47 PM »

Some products like Estimated Precipitation on Weatherscan are showing temporarily unavailable and on the bottom ticker it's not updating everything. Our local cities are showing Thursday's forecast now while the regional cities on the ticker are still showing Wednesday's forecast. Our IS2 is flipping out and green screening, tiling the broadcast feed of TWC and dropping audio, along with blinking severly at times. Last time it did this was at 6pm until about 6:15pm CT. Before that the last time I noticed was at midnight Tuesday night. Weatherscan problem is ongoing. Haven't checked SD Intellistar. Can someone check this out please?

While I'm at it... I didn't want to start a discussion about this because it's not that big of deal but on the IS2 can Carbondale be removed from the 4-city forecast screen and replaced with somewhere like Emporia? Carbondale is 10 minutes away on another cable system in a different county and it's a town you'll drive through in 10 minutes or less plus it's already on multiple other screens. If not, or even so, can you move that city into a west-east alignment? (I think this should be done on all IS2's to make that forecast screen easier to read.) Hope it's not too much to ask. :/ Thank you!

Edit: Estimated Precipitation is back up now. Ticker still showing forecast for Wed at 10:46pm on Wednesday night only for regional cities like Omaha, Wichita, etc.

Edit 2: At 6:00am both local and regional tickers were showing forecast for Tonight. At 8:40am still showing tonight. I can't tell if it's last nights forecast or it already switched over to Thursday nights forecast. I didn't think it switched over to Tonight until about 3pm?

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: June 15, 2011, 07:09:42 PM »

Wow. Our IS2 just flipped out. It was doing this last night at midnight but nothing like it just did. It was flashing the LDL, green screening, tiling the video feed, dropping audio, went green for about 1 full minute with no audio, got the national LDL and now it's back on with LOT8's green screening, etc. Anybody else having any issues?

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: June 13, 2011, 06:40:15 PM »

Now that I've had Weatherscan for a year it's getting boring seeing the same stuff on different maps all the time. There needs to be more original content. Less same forecast or conditions, different screen. I'd still like to see it have a national segment instead of travel or both. Our Travel regional forecast maps are based out of Oklahoma City for some reason. Never understood why it wasn't based around Topeka or even Kansas City.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: June 09, 2011, 09:52:14 AM »

Perhaps it showed up for the first 3-4 runs of the IS2 since I watched it actually start and load in the information? Must not have gotten the information for the almanac screen since everything was saying no data the first hour of it running and showed the precipitation screen. Thanks, Tyler.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: June 08, 2011, 10:17:16 PM »

Has anyone else had the precipitation screen show up lately? I haven't seen ours since the first day the IS2 was booted.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: IS2 failing

« on: May 30, 2011, 01:12:14 AM »

IS2 is activating during the periods it was out now. Thanks!

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Weatherscan Jumping

« on: May 18, 2011, 08:43:40 PM »

Fixed, thanks!

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Weatherscan Jumping

« on: May 10, 2011, 08:14:13 PM »

Our weatherscan is jumping really bad in Topeka, KS on Cox cable. It's jumping like frames would be missing or the computer is running really slow. I just noticed it start doing that this evening. Can someone reboot it please? Cox rarely knows what I'm even talking about when I report things like this. Thanks.