Forecast for Location 2

[fungun]

I moved my daughter and her husband to Sterling, CO.
I have the current data in HSTouch using the replacement variables.
How do I get their forecasts into HStouch, since only the default forecasts have devices in HS?
I looked through the docs and the ini file.
I am still using HS2. (last release)

Thanks,
Tim

[CFGuy]

weatherXML for HS2 won't create devices for any but the first location.

But it does still store the data in an ini file so it can be displayed in the plugin webpages.

You could create your own devices and then write a script that grabs the data you want to use and put it into the devices you create. Then use those devices in HSTouch.

[fungun]

Sorry, I just don't see it in the weatherXML ini file in the config folder.
Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks,
Tim

[CFGuy]

I had dig into the way back machine to look this up.

The file is in the directory
HomeSeer HS2\data\weatherXML
it's name is weatherInfo.dat.

You can still use the HS ini functions.
Set a variable like this.

Dim sINIFile2 AsString = "\..\data\weatherXML\weatherInfo.dat"

Then you can use the sINIFile2 on the end of the HS ini functions.

[fungun]

This is what I fudged out, not so good at scripting.

Sub Main(ByVal Params As Object)

Dim sINIFile2 As String = "\..\data\weatherXML\weatherInfo.dat"

Dim a As String = hs.GetINISetting("Forecast2","forecastToday",sINIFile2)



hs.SetDeviceString("t50",a)


End Sub

What I get in the device t50 is "\..\data\weatherXML\weatherInfo.dat"

Thanks,
Tim

[CFGuy]

You need 1 more parameter on the GetINISetting

  
 Dim a As String = hs.GetINISetting("Forecast2","forecastToday","", sINIFile2) 

The third parameter is the default value to be returned if that key does not exist in the file.

The name of the ini file is the 4th parameter.

[fungun]

That did it. Thank you

Tim