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Official Release (95%):
DSLiveWeather ?Vesper?

Download URL:
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Information:
DSLiveWeather is very complete. Eventhough the progress still states that it?s at 95%, all the features that I originally planned are already implemented. The remaining 5% are probably the WiFi Configuration that allows the user to catch weather information on-the-go (connect instantly with free hotspots).

Changes:
- Added reset-to-menu icon (that will save the brightness on exit).
- Press key X to cancel a connection attempt.
- Fixed the time-display in the Currently-tab.
- Fixed the flickering text.

Installation Notes:
- Download DSLiveWeather.
- Copy it to your homebrew device.
- If your homebrew device supports FAT then DSLW can load and save location data known as Location Profiles and downloaded weather data, however, you have to create a directory named ?DSLiveWeather? in the root directory.
- When you start up it?s important to see ?DsWifi ready!? and ?LibFat ready!?.
- If you see ?DsWifi failed!? then report this as soon as possible.
- If you see ?LibFat failed!? then check if your homebrew device is supported. If it?s any newer than Supercard Lite, you can expect failure. Also, I repeat: you need to create a folder in your root, named EXACTLY "DSLiveWeather". If you don't have that folder, you CANNOT save.

- Press SELECT on each tab to see the Help message for that screen.

Known Bugs
- Some devices aren?t supported yet.
Please report any bugs that you find so I can remove them ASAP.

-Lick[url][/url]
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Last edited by Lick on Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:28 pm; edited 23 times in total

I was just about to post my problem with it not being able to save or load to FAT, but I will test this to see if it is fixed.

EDIT: Still have a problem (it seemingly can't see my CF card).

EDIT2: Should have read Lick's post about requiring it's own directory in the root of my card (works now).

[unrelated side note]
If anyone has found it difficult to find your weather.com code, you could use this to search by city or zip code.

When I type 46825 it goes to the URL "http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USIN0211", so "USIN0211" would be my weather.com code.
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Last edited by Flood_of_SYNs on Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:26 pm; edited 6 times in total

Okay, first things first - Lick, I think you need a faster server. Yours is very slow right now and highlights my earlier concerns about having to connect to your server - speed issues will only increase once many people start using your great little program. Mirrors will of course help. :)

Regarding the date and time at the top of the screen - is this the time of the last data update *on the DS*, or is it the time of the last update *from the relevant weather station*?

As mentioned in an earlier message, the sensitivity of the left/right black arrows needs to be increased a bit to the left and right of the relevant points. It's too easy to 'miss' the arrows and the speed of response is also slower when viewing the Currently screen.

Would it be possible to enable the user to cancel a connection/update to either the access point or the relevant server of yours? This would then get around the problem of the DS being locked up for ages while it tries and tries to connect but can't because the AP or your server is unavailable.

Which WiFi setting does the program use? If it defaults to the first one (out of the three) would it be possible to allow the user to select the second or the third?

A minor issue thanks very much for implementing my suggestion of putting words in brackets the UV Index, Pressures, etc - however, on my current test locations the pressure is steady, and you have written that as 'steady' - it might be worth making sure that all report words start with a capital. :)

Not meaning to criticise, but you DID want feedback. :)

It's very good though and I for one think you're doing an excellent job. Well done! :)

And some more - I really like the fact that it's possible to switch between Celcius and Fahrenheit by pressing on the screen, but if selecting the large C or F under the weather graphic there is no response. I feel that the sensitive area should include C or F as well as the actual temperature.

Why is the wind direction displayed in Degrees? Can in not be displayed as compass directions as used to be the case please?

Thanks. :)

And some more ...........

Just a repeat of some earlier questions from yesterday:

If an unknown (or no) location ID is given and the tick clicked for the forecast, why is: 'There is no Location ID!' printed multiple times on the top screen? Why not just print it once?

Also, will you be adding a list of stations so people don't need to go online with another machine first to find their codes?

I still think that, eventually, it would be nice for you to display a map of the world where people can then zoom in and tap on their location with the stylus. :)

thank you!
this version is so cool!

Woow man you talk alot :p

One point I totally agree with you is the server speed!!! It took like 10-15 sec to retrieve the data when compared to the 3-6 seconds before.
The problem is that now you're using 1 server.

Although this urgent problem everything is fine for me the C/F feature etc..but pls work on the speed issue cause that's way more important right now.

Good job and Thanks Alot!!!

ghaxaq wrote:

Woow man you talk alot :p

Only when I have something to say. :)

sorry if this is a stupid question, but i don't really have time to look through all 12 pages on this topic...but anyway...
the program seems to load up OK, but then it says LibFat failed..
could not find profiles (FAT)
could not find reports (FAT)

does anyone know if there's something else i'm supposed to do other than download the program and double click the icon on the DS?

oh yeah another one. how to you type in the weather.com location ID?

...a little help here anyone?
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Last edited by noxiousCaitSith on Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:59 pm; edited 1 time in total

D: The temperature is in... CELCIUS! Here's an idea, maybe some way to detect what code was entered. Like if the code starts with "us", then the temperature is output in fahrenheit. Same goes for any other country that uses fahrenheit... which I don't think is any :P

EDIT: NOOOOO!!!! km/h!! Might want mph to be a change too if the code starts with "us" :P

EDIT 2: oh... you tap the screen and it changes XD Well, you could use my suggestion for which measurments are the default to appear :P But it should be mph instead of m/h.

EDIT 3: ...you're measuring wind direction in degrees? O_o Try N, NE, NNE, ENE, etc.

EDIT 4: I've been meaning to say this... sadly enough, 32 characters for a profile name isn't enough. "Cleveland/Burke Lakefront Airport" is 33 >_>

EDIT 5: I FOUND A GLITCH!! In the Profile name, if you take up all 32 character places, the first 2 digits of the location ID appear at the end of it O_o

EDIT 6: uh... I don't know if you're already doing this, but you should probably save the weather reports to the ram, and then have them save to your flash card device when shutting down or something like that. It could give your card quite a bit more life, expecially if you ever get anything like radar, cause I reload on those a lot :P

EDIT 7: A small text error, in the "Currently" tab, if the city has a "low" letter like a lowercase g, the g gets cut off. Try it out with Tallmadge, OH - usoh0940
Also, the y in "Humidity" is also cut off a bit.

EDIT 8: I just noticed this, why aren't you using sub-pixel text for a selected tab's name? The background is white if it's selected.

(BTW, usually the more I like something, the more replies/edits I'll make. And I just made 8 edits man! O_O)

EDIT 9: now this is just nit-picking, but it's annoys my eyes and possibly others. >_> The text on the top screen is RIGHT next to the edge, making it annoying to my eyes mainly with the capital Cs in "Connecting". Just 1 pixel to the right wouldn't kill ya, would it? >_>

lol. That's a L O T for me to process right now. I'm off to school, then I'll be back and I'll try to analyze the whole topic, to see if I missed some input.

Thanks everyone! ;)

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I imagine the best way to display wind direction would be both compass and degrees, eg "NE (45?)".
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Lick, I did get it to work on my other SC SD. Very nice, it loads very fast (not used to seeing that cause of the SCLite issue). On my SClite even though it gives the fat errors, afterwards you can enter the location and it does show the weather info.

Hello,

First I would like to thank you for this homebrew. It's very usual for me, because with it I know which weather it is on which airport, and this is fine to know if I can fly there or not.

I only found a bug : The humidity. Try with "Namur" today 6th September ( BEXX0015). It says "58%" of humidity. But on my real meteo station, it says 19% 0_o . With 58%, weather should be overcast. But there is a sun without clouds today 8-)...

Also, if it was possible to convert the pressure unit IN to hPa when I touch the bottom screen... =) And I hope "Forecast" fonction will be soon on use : )

Excuse me if my English is quite bad... I'm from Belgian =D

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Weather.com is reporting 58% humidity in Namur, there is nothing Lick can do about that.

This does not save on SuperCard Lite? The moonshell homebrew patcher will not touch it either I will try it on my fiancees SuperCard SD when i get a chance. Thanks for the great app :)

On SClite write does not work but read does. If you have a a SCSD you can transfer your profiles over to your SClite and it will read them.
Also just using your US Zip code works (at lest for me).
Great Program!

need help!

made a folder DSLiveWeather in root
placed DSLiveWeather_Aestus.nds in a different folder in root

entered profile name
entered loaction ID
put in correct server and file

Could not find reports. (FAT)

what is going on?

At the first run, those errors will surely print out, since the program hasn't saved any files yet. On second run, you should get 2 success messages.
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Tried it on my fiancees SuperCard SD and now it sais that it could not save profiles (FAT)

:(

retrohead wrote:

Tried it on my fiancees SuperCard SD and now it sais that it could not save profiles (FAT)

:(

You sure you created a folder in your root named "DSLiveWeather" ?

By the way, when libFat supports directory functions (which is right now, but DevKitPro that contains libFat isn't updated still) I will automatically make the folder for you so you don't have to complain about it here. :Pppp
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Hey please don't get me wrong, i wasn't complaining man, i thought you wanted to know the bugs? Yeah i created the folder named "DSLiveWeather" and i also tried "DSLive Weather" and its not working with either. I thought it was me to start off but i've tried everything now.

The strange thing is it sais "saved ok" on Supercard Lite even when it has not saved but anyway, still getting the same cannot save error with SuperCard SD whatever i try. Did you actually try this on SuperCard SD RVK?

EDIT - Perhaps i can create the profiles myself manually?

I love this app, great job! I can't get it to fetch the forecast though. It gets the current weather but not forecast. Again, you have done an amazing job and this app is VERY handy to have and use. Thank you for taking the time to make it and for releasing it!

retrohead: I was just kidding, of course I want people to use DSLW. The more the merrier! Keep 'em coming.. Anyway, I personally own a DS Lite and a Supercard SD and it works fine right here. [Supercard Lite errors will have to wait.. I can't solve something that isn't supported yet.]

DeVS: Unfortunately, forecasts aren't available yet. But they're next..
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Hi !
Here is my problem (the 12 pages are read, i swear ! but as i'm french and not realy sure of my english... maybe...)
So, the DSLiveWeather folder is created and i'm using a M3 SD

DsWifi ready!!
LibFat failed..

after, connecting works :

receiving data..
processing data..
Server: Error retriving XML data.
Done!

Thanks !

Lick wrote:

retrohead: I was just kidding, of course I want people to use DSLW. The more the merrier! Keep 'em coming.. Anyway, I personally own a DS Lite and a Supercard SD and it works fine right here. [Supercard Lite errors will have to wait.. I can't solve something that isn't supported yet.]

I will try again with a blank SD card or something, i dont usually have these problems and i noticed it seems to run quite slow on my finacees SD aswell so maybe the card is on it's way out. I will update once i kick her off it ;)

retro,
Yes, it worked on my SCSD. SClite will say saved because it saves to sram initially, It just doesn't get transferred to the card.

Just tried the new release, but I just get this print out:

Code:

rss_fd = -1

and nothing gets recieved (weather forecast-wise), I can pretty much guess what this means.

I am using GBAMP and have created a directory in the root called DSLiveWeather, the profiles are saving and loading fine, or at least they seem to be.

Any suggestions?

--Dannon

Well i tried my fiancees Supercard SD with various SD cards and i still get the FAT error :(

I also created a save file for it and tried a QPC with the Supercard Lite and nothing was stored in SRAM after reboot so i think you could be wrong saying it is stored in SRAM RVK.

Lick is there any way to create the profile files manually? Thanks again!!

@ trooper: check your Weather.com Location ID. It's probably wrong. You can test using 'NLXX0002' (Amsterdam).

@ retrohead: hmfffs... The profile data is raw data, so it's very hard to 'manually edit' it if you're not a programmer. Here is the structure:

Code:

char profile_name[33];
char location_id[9];
char server_domain[33];
char file[33];

Just dump this structure 64 times to a file (if you're a programmer).
BTW, You have the Aestus release, right?

@ Dannon: this is really weird. It seems like you cannot create a socket to connect to lick.huuf.net. What Access Point are you using, are you sure that WiFi profile #1 works, when did you buy the DS, have you flashed it?
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Last edited by Lick on Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thanks Lick, sorry for the dudy question :)

@Liter -

#Faster server: I don't think it's that big of a problem. I think I was unclear about the one-server-setting thing: I meant that you can only set 1 DSLW-server for ALL profiles, instead of every profile having its own DSLW-server. This is easier if you use multiple profiles. You can still choose which server you want to use (later, when that other servers script is updated). And speed is not a big issue, the longest time I ever had to wait (between connecting to DSLWserver and display processed data) is under 5 seconds.

#Time displayed: it's the time of the last update on the DSLW-server cache. The serverscript automatically caches the weather data and updates only when it's allowed. Weather.com has strict rules about update frequencies and so I -HAVE- to cache the data. The current conditions are only updates every half an hour. (Forecasts are updated every 2 hours, but that's for the future.)
- I'm going to make this a bit clearer, somehow.

#Profile arrows: have you tried holding the stylus on the screen (instead of tapping the arrows)? It's designed for you to hold it. [I don't want to change this to tapping =(]

#WiFi cancelling: I can cancel AP-connectionattempts but I can't cancel connects to the DSLW server. It's actually the best how it is right now.

#Wifi profile selection: I was thinking of this actually. Perhaps I'll write a startupscreen that asks for AP-settings. I have to see if this is possible though. Thanks for this suggestion!

#Capped text: yes I will change that at the server-side. ;)

#Conversion sensitive area: Done.

#Degrees: will make it "NE (deg)". I can't get ? to display.

#Multiple print of "No location ID": Fixed.

#Location Search feature: Perhaps perhaps. First things first ;)

#Worldmap: I'm thinking more of a text-based search. Continent -> Country -> City, like yahoo's weather page. A fullblown map would be cool yes, but luxurity.

@qhaxaq: 96% of the users were using this server in the previous versions, so it has always been 1 server, actually. =P But like I said, I think I was a bit unclear about the 1 server-thing. It means that you have to configure the server only ONCE, isntead of for all 64 profiles.

@Nintendo Maniac 64:
#(Edit4)Profilename too short: you'll have to live with this (super) little limitation. If I allow more space, then the loader will stop working hehe. Saving to FAT is just dumping memory actually. I don't want to make it any harder.

#(Edit5)Profilename glitch: somehow, I can't reproduce this on my system. Is it always like that? Could you post a photo?

#(Edit6)Not save to FAT 10000 times: any ideas how to solve this without using SRAM? I'm thinking of another button.. =D

#(Edit7)Letters not drawn completely: I made the font-background transparent.

#(Edit8)Subpixel for tabname: I don't see a need for that actually..

#(Edit9)Consoletext too close to edge: I moved it 1pixel right. The letters leftmost will lose 1 pixel, but as I don't use those that often..

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. As you see, not everything will be applied, but I am really happy about the interest you guys have in DSLiveWeather. To be honest, I want to move on to the next project XP but you guys keep me holding on to this and wanting to finish this. Keep on posting!
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Lick wrote:

@Liter -

#Faster server: I don't think it's that big of a problem. I think I was unclear about the one-server-setting thing: I meant that you can only set 1 DSLW-server for ALL profiles, instead of every profile having its own DSLW-server. This is easier if you use multiple profiles. You can still choose which server you want to use (later, when that other servers script is updated). And speed is not a big issue, the longest time I ever had to wait (between connecting to DSLWserver and display processed data) is under 5 seconds.

A couple of times now I've had to wait for nearly a minute.

Quote:

#Time displayed: it's the time of the last update on the DSLW-server cache. The serverscript automatically caches the weather data and updates only when it's allowed. Weather.com has strict rules about update frequencies and so I -HAVE- to cache the data. The current conditions are only updates every half an hour. (Forecasts are updated every 2 hours, but that's for the future.)
- I'm going to make this a bit clearer, somehow.

Thanks. It would certainly be useful to know when the data was last fetched from the remote weather station (that way you know how up to date it is).

Quote:

#Profile arrows: have you tried holding the stylus on the screen (instead of tapping the arrows)? It's designed for you to hold it. [I don't want to change this to tapping =(]

Okay, but then why does tapping work on Settings ?

Quote:

#WiFi cancelling: I can cancel AP-connectionattempts but I can't cancel connects to the DSLW server. It's actually the best how it is right now.

So if it can't connect for ages basically the DS is locked up and 'useless' (unless you power cycle it). Which is a pain.

Thanks for the other replies to the other points. :)

Quote:

#Worldmap: I'm thinking more of a text-based search. Continent -> Country -> City, like yahoo's weather page. A fullblown map would be cool yes, but luxurity.

Yes, but if you use a map then it's a GUI and it would therefore be MUCH easier to use than some text based utility which would involved more tedious 'typing' with the stylus.

Thanks. :)

Last edited by Liter on Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

By the way: I think I fixed a small bug that caused red-pixels in the sub-pixel text.

@ Liter -

A minute is indeed long man! Where does it hang? connect to ap, connect to dslwserver or receiving data? or are they all slower than normal??
How fast can you connect to lick.huuf.net from a PC with the same connection?
Joke: were you downloading pr0n? =P

I have the buttons time-limited based on - frames. This might be slower if DSLW isn't running 60fps (which it should). Perhaps it's a memorycard-speed problem because it runs at the same speed on my hardware. I'm not sure though.. What speed is your memcard?

Wifi-hanging is a problem on a lot of ds homebrews. It's just that I can't control it once it's 'inside DSWifi code'. I'm not sure if I can connect asynchronously (I suppose I can though, cause commercial games do it async too). But yeah, fixing this costs a little more time that I actually wanna spend on forecasts.

The "Textbased Searching" would actually be following "links" (or selecting from a list). The map would, again, be very time consuming to write. Hehe.. We'll see, will see.

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Apparently people haven't figured out the format for the weather code :P It's like this:

[2-letter country abriviation][2-letter US state abriviation, xx if not in US][4-digit number of the city like it's in an alphabetized list of cities for that country]

So for something like Cleveland, OH, it'd be the following:

usoh0195

It's in the US, so the first 2 letters are us

It's in Ohio, so the second 2 letters are oh
(If the city is NOT in the US, the second 2 letters are ALWAYS xx)

If all the cities in Ohio were on a list from A-Z, it'd be the 195th city. But you always need 4 digits, so you'd need to add zeros before the number to get 4 digits. So the last 4 digits are 0195

Using this method, you can always eventually find a city you're looking for through trial and error. Also, US zip codes work :D

i don't know why but it seems that the last version is very slow.the other versions were ok..less than 5 seconds to retrieve the data.the problem happens to be the connection with the server don't know though.

I'm still having no joy saving on anything so i guess i will give up for the minute. I can code slightly but how to produce that raw file with 64 structs i am not sure yet as my knowledge doesnt quite stretch that far, yet. I guess i would need to write an app to produce the raw file?

Thanks for trying to help though, much appreciated and just to confirm, yes i am using DSLiveWeather_Aestus.nds and i have created the folder named "DSLiveWeather", here is a snapshot of my flashcart to confirm i am not doing anything wrong and a photo of my DS failing to save while the app just so you can hopefully say "Oh you are doing ?????? wrong" :

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Edit - I also noticed it said libfat failed so perhaps here is the problem? See the 2nd image, thanks

I patched the .nds with this before using on SCSD. Don't know if that makes a difference or not.

http://l33t.spod.org/ratx/DS/SC/scmhbp/scmhbp.zip

It's a SC homebrew patcher.

Yeah I did not have to patch it to use on my SC SD at all. If you are using a SClite, Lick has said there is an issue with the current Libfat version out now.

Quote:

... it could be that the version of libFat I use, doesn't like Supercard Lite. In that case, you'll need to wait for the next release of DevKitPro (and DSLW).

Using Aestus version,SC SD here,no problem at all. Connecting to server to saving data on my card takes no more than 4-5 secs.

Only a small D-pad bug: Settings tab,circling through profiles WITH D-PAD makes the four headlines (Profile name,Weather.com Location ID,DSLiveWeather Server,File) dissappear,and I have to press the Currently tab and then back to the Settings tab to make them appear again. Bug cannot be reproduced using the stylus,pressing on the profile arrows.

Retrohead,why don't you try formating the card,maybe it'll fix it,just a thought.Really strange,btw.

Lick,there was indeed a small red pixel bug,especially with the number "4".

You've done an excellent work with this app.Feels so professional.I'm looking forward for your next project but it'll have to wait untill DSLW becomes perfect! And that includes the Forecast tab,some more graphics (time to use the upper screen too?) and a code-search,which,imo,if GUI-based,would rocket DSLW to even higher levels.
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The bug that caused the texts to be missing when switching profiles on the setting-screen is already reported and fixed. Thanks for alerting it, nonetheless. Really helps to create a better product.

The red-pixel bug is apparently -not- fixed yet. I have no idea what's causing it though (other than crappy values of the generation method, which is then not my fault, hehe).

I repeat to the people who claim that the server is slow: please post your full hardware specs! (Thanks!)

retrohead: it seems like libFat some how wasn't initialized (so further loading, saving could not work AT ALL). I can't do anything about it as this seems to be a hardware failure, to me.

Keep posting,
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Lick wrote:

I repeat to the people who claim that the server is slow: please post your full hardware specs! (Thanks!)

My router is a revision 1 Linksys WAG54G

However, the slow server issue is intermittent - somtimes it's fine.

Hey Lick, just a suggestion really. Is there any way you can implement the rein driver ala beup as this works perfectly on Supercard SD and SuperCard Lite. I dont usually have these problems so i am a little bemused by it all.

Thanks again man

Look i really don't know where the problem is..the previous version worked pretty well, and I've just redownloaded it to try it out and in less than 5 sec the data is displayed using the same configuration as the Aestus version.

I have a supercard CF, flashme v7, + good router.It freezes at the connecting to dslw server for a while and after 20sec or more it retrieves the data and saves it in the profiles.

BTW I am in Europe->Malta

Last edited by ghaxaq on Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:35 am; edited 1 time in total

Nice release man :D

working very well..
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finally got it working!

When will you have forecast support?

The lag might be a problem caused by the dswifi bug, although I don't have any claim to blame it all to that bug. Hopefully it will be fixed once DsWifi 0.3b is released. (To be honest, it's really hard to fix anything that happens only "sometimes" and with a few people.. I'm sorry about this.)

Since DevKitPro r20 is still not released, I might step over to using the Rein fatlib. I hope to get it working in the next release.

Forecasts will be present in the next release. If they aren't, I will stop ds-deving forever! :p

Oh and school has started, so that -might- lower the original pace of development of this project.
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Lick wrote:

Since DevKitPro r20 is still not released, I might step over to using the Rein fatlib. I hope to get it working in the next release.

Sounds great, i can't wait :D

Lick wrote:

Forecasts will be present in the next release. If they aren't, I will stop ds-deving forever! :p

Not so great :(

I believe in you!! ;)

Having the forecasts will be great!

Forecasting is almost done!
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SWEET! Been checking this thread everyday,lol. Good luck on your progress and thanks alot for taking the time to work on it for us!

Mods, Can this be made into a sticky

No point; it's always near the top :)
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So when should we expect the next release??

This weekend! Within just a week my schedule is planned like hell full. I'm sorry guys, apparently, I'm supposed to be a busy man. =(
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Against all odds..
Underground release (please don't slip this beta out of this forum topic, or this build will magically corrupt your cards! Hehe..)

beta
- Added forecasting (with same graphics);
- Loading is still automatic at start, however saving is done manually with the START button in each tab;
- All profiles are downloaded at once for the specific tab: if you download in Currently, then all current data is updated. If you download in Forecast, then all forecasts are downloaded!

Personally, I'm most proud of the last feature! ;P
The final release of Aperio will include the moonshell FATlib.

Report any bugs or requests!
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Works nicely for me! Forecast working although I had to click the green check mark to update the current weather (as usaul) but then had to click it again to update the forecast. Maybe you could make it update everything with one click of the check mark or the 1st time you connect to your AP. Also is there a way to make the default degree measurement to F instead of C. Not a big deal just would rather not have to click on the screen to change it every time I turn it on or change tab windows. Awsome work though, really enjoy it.

Updated to do list:
- Replace fatlib with a more cross-brand compatible one.
- Display wind direction differently.

DeVS: you -should- only have to switch units once. Changing tabs won't change the units as well.
I could make the current condition and forecast batch together, however, in a testbuild I found that rather stupid working so I reverted back to having 2 seperated download-procedures.

Thanks a lot for testing!!
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Lick wrote:

DeVS: you -should- only have to switch units once. Changing tabs won't change the units as well.
- Lick

I have to change it every time I turn it on to make it F. It's odd cause sometime it changes from F back to C when I change tabs or update the weather/forecast vie the AP. Not always but every few times. Any way for me to force it to be at F at boot up?

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Works Great on SCLite, just no saving yet. Using my profiles created from SCSD works on the lite.
Very Cool Program.
Thanks Lick!

just started using this, I don't know where to get location ID, I don't know what folders to make or what files to make etc.

all I know is that I downloaded the newest version, and I am starting blank
it really doesn't help that you edited your first post to say

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if you look for newest release go here you dont have to read whole thread

when a first post is supposed to tell you how to use it lol
so I did have to read whole thread but still didn't find out how

umm, thanks!
I can't wait to use it
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Works on both cards SC SD and SClite for the Forecasts.

Lick, on the SC SD going thru the settings (06 entries) when it got to 3-4 it started to show pixels in the numbers top right then back to one and check currently word written over each other in a garbled mess.

also, I am having the issue of changing from C to F every time i boot up on my SC SD (i note this cause it is saving on this card)

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Can anyone please make a pack, with all the things necessary to put it to work on my SuperCard SD ? because i read that you need something from the weather site, and some other stuff...

Vasco,

see this thread, i put "my locations" together in the folder. it is the last version but will work for you.

http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6031

thunderstrike,
this taken from a post here or at gbadev

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If anyone has found it difficult to find your weather.com code, you could use this to search by city or zip code.

When I type 46825 it goes to the URL "http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USIN0211", so "USIN0211" would be my weather.com code.

Where ? there isnt a pack for all the things ready to put on the SD Card with the latest realease....

Could someone make one ? Pretty Please*** ?

VAsco, all you have to do is this.

DL the file above and put it on your SD card no patching needed.

Next step while the SD card is hooked up to your pc make a folder called DSLiveWeather (that was the attached folder in the post i gave) on your SD card.

That is it. You need to get the weather.com code, see my last post on this thread.

That is all you have to do.

I have to be dumb... thats the truth...

I cant seem to understand a thing about what i have to do... I only need to see the weather for Gondomar and Porto (The two are citys in Portugal)...

Do i need to download anything from the Weather Site ? Please cant you just make a pack with my places and all the things up and done for the supercard sd ?

Sorry i dont know that much of english and dont know many about homebrew...

This really isn't a hard concept here...

vasco, you are most likely not dumb. But I doubt anyone is going to do everything for you in a nice little "pack". Try and follow the instructions before whining.

go to weather.com enter you city. look at the url towards the top of the screen.

URL "http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USIN0211", so "USIN0211" would be my weather.com code.

Sorry I will not hold it while you pee. Please try to do it yourself, I know you are a big boy. LOL!

LICK, congrats you are now a sticky! (You can now die a happy, full man! lol)

thanks! it works!

Loving the program!
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Hi Lick it's me again.

You know in this version of DSLiveWeather it takes less time than the previous version to connect and retrieve the data, so that is good. Nice forecast feature I love it!!!

BTW: is the percentage in the forecast page the humidity??

AND: I noticed that it does not always update the data correctly, because right now on weather.com the humidity is 94% and on my DS it shows 100%.Even for the temperature etc..maybe a glitch somewhere??

Very Good job!!Hope to see future updates + new features.

All working great on my SuperCard SD and Lite but unfortunately it is still not saving so i guess i will have to wait fo rthe version built with moonshell FAT.

Can't understand why mine doesn't save yet everyone elses does but still, i will wait.

I have also restrained from posting this on my website so please let me know when you are happy for it to be released publically ;)

you need to manually save by pressing the start button, cause it does not save automatically at least for me.

Retrohead and ghaxaq, I don't think it saves yet for the SClite. This has not been fixed yet. Mine does not save for the sclite but does for the SC SD.

- The percentage displayed is the chance of precipitation (rain/snow/hail).
- Saving is done by pressing START. I am considering making it automatic again, since the downloadprocedure is now called less.
- Some newer cards are indeed not supported yet. Let's hope that an alternate fatlib will fix this.

Thanks everyone for trying it out! I'm really surprised (and glad) that the topic got stickied; at first, I couldn't even find the topic, looking for it -under- the sticky topics, hehe.
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heyyouguys wrote:

Retrohead and ghaxaq, I don't think it saves yet for the SClite. This has not been fixed yet. Mine does not save for the sclite but does for the SC SD.

My problem is that it doesn't save on MY SuperCard SD nor on SuperCard Lite but Lick is well aware of this, i was just updating Lick to let him know the new manual save version is still behaving strangely on both of my cards.

If any one wants to question whether i have set it up properly then please check back a few pages where i posted images showing how i have it set it up.

Still looking forward to this final release. :D

P.S. Grabbed your profile and reports files from SCDev heyyouguys so i will try these on my SuperCards tonight. Seem to be easily editable in a hex editor aswell :D

heyyouguys wrote:

Lick, on the SC SD going thru the settings (06 entries) when it got to 3-4 it started to show pixels in the numbers top right then back to one and check currently word written over each other in a garbled mess.

I can't seem to reproduce this! Do you have a screenshot?

- Lick

[edit- update]
+ I made the start button save all the data at once (profiles, current, forecast).
+ Wind display is now .. more clear. "ENE(60) at xxx mph"
+ Units preference is saved in the profiles file. DSLW should now display in the units you prefer, without having to change it every run.
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Lick wrote:

[edit- update]
+ I made the start button save all the data at once (profiles, current, forecast).
+ Wind display is now .. more clear. "ENE(60) at xxx mph"
+ Units preference is saved in the profiles file. DSLW should now display in the units you prefer, without having to change it every run.

Nice work!

wow this is a sticky already!

Lick, here is a pic of the pixelation of the setting page numbers
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This happens on both of my SC SD and SClite.

The garbled text happened on the sc sd and could not reproduce it, though I also deleted the old profiles out the dsliveweather folder and would not reproduce issue. so on that, nevermind.

Nice job of the settings locationID in adding the weather.com to the title! Should help with the issue. It would be could to see a help/about button page to show people the version and how to get the weather.com id. This is not a big deal, only a suggestion when it is running 100%.

retrohead, sorry for missing the SC SD in your post, it was late at night when I typed it.

so... when will radar and hour-by-hour be added? :P Not to mention weather alerts and pollen count...

A map or radar would be killer. Although if you stoped working on this right now I would be 1000% satisfied with what you have been generous enough to release.

Nintendo Maniac 64 wrote:

so... when will radar and hour-by-hour be added? :P Not to mention weather alerts and pollen count...

Hehe.. So when will you Show Me The Money (TM)? ;P

heyyouguys: does it happen only in Settings?
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lick, yes only in settings.

heyyouguys: fixed the pixeling bug. Thanks for reporting!! ;)
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heyyouguys i used your file on my supercard lite and it seems to work fine except for the pixellation that Lick has just fixed, so thanks for that one, ill just hex edit for the mean time :)

I tried to save over the profile file again both on supercard sd and lite (out of interest) and still exactly the same problem as before, as expected.

retrohead: that is strange on the save issue. do you get the "dswifi ready! for a long period on the SC SD or does it go quickly into the program?

I am not sure what you are changing with hex edit but all you have to do to change the profile name is tap the box and then just erase it or whatever. The same goes for the Weather.com_location_ID.

heyyouguys wrote:

retrohead: that is strange on the save issue. do you get the "dswifi ready! for a long period on the SC SD or does it go quickly into the program?

I am not sure what you are changing with hex edit but all you have to do to change the profile name is tap the box and then just erase it or whatever. The same goes for the Weather.com_location_ID.

On the supercard sd i get the "dswifi ready" for a long time yes, does this mean something that i may have missed?

I hex edited your files so my areas are stored in the file instead of yours. That way, not being able to save currently, is not causing me a major issue anymore ;)

retrohead, if you get the wifi ready for a long time, you won't be able to save. You have the folder dsliveweather in the root correct? I would suggest backing up the folder. then empty the folder and see what you get.

Just trying to think of ideas to help.

Did you issue the new beta file with the updates(wind direction etc) ???

Plus:
It seems that the forecasts information is received faster than the current, because sometimes the current takes over 10 sec to connect to DSLW server but with the forecasts it does not have this issue...Maybe because of less data to transfer???

If I have a US zip code, is that all I have to enter?

I don't know where to get my weather.com location id. I read that all I had to do was enter my zip code if I live in US.

Second, I keep getting the same report loaded over and over again. DO I have keep deleting that report using Dsorganize?

jbullfrog wrote:

If I have a US zip code, is that all I have to enter?

I don't know where to get my weather.com location id.

It's displayed in The Weather Channel's status bar.
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jbullfrog & tepples, You can use it both ways the id or your zip code if it is US. I have it both ways and both work.

Lick, dumb question that i did not see asked yet, when I am using the "keyboard" often times I get the wrong letters/numbers that are either near or not so near. what causes this?

heyyouguys wrote:

Lick, dumb question that i did not see asked yet, when I am using the "keyboard" often times I get the wrong letters/numbers that are either near or not so near. what causes this?

For the not-so-near glitches, probably the stylus jumping artifact. I will need to implement the hack Padrinator made, however, it's a big hack.
The nearer glitches are probably just the lack of 'insensitive padding space'. The whole field is one big sensitive grid, without ANY pixels between the letters that are free.
As long as you push the stylus hard enough with 70% of accuracy, you'll get the right letter. ;)

I'm thinking of adding Help text for the people having trouble using the application. Definitely something to look at, seeing how often the question repeats.

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lick, yeah I just press harder and it works. I assumed there was not much space between the letters.

That is why I was thinking of a help/about page because of the same question repeats, until you realize how to get the whole location ID it is confusing (but afterwards very simple).

great work so far!

Lick, the Source for DSOrganize was just released, and I was wondering if that would help you with your keyboard, or other? It is released by dragonminded on his site.

I noticed a bug sort of in the forecast..when it shows you for example "Scattered T-Storms / Wind" the letter d steps on the line underneath cause there is no space for the whole phrase. I don't mind since I can clearly understand the data but maybe a workaround could be found.

ghaxaq wrote:

I noticed a bug sort of in the forecast..when it shows you for example "Scattered T-Storms / Wind" the letter d steps on the line underneath cause there is no space for the whole phrase. I don't mind since I can clearly understand the data but maybe a workaround could be found.

Eww.. Nasty bug. Yeah, if the text is too long it will just go 1 pixel lower, starting at the left side. That's because the screen is one big continuous pixel buffer. Thanks for reporting this. I will either give the more horizontal space, or shorten those terms (given by weather.com).

I actually like the way the keyboard looks and works. For many people, a PC keyboard is more comfortable. However, I think it looks really ugly and small and will never be the same since you don't have 10 fingers but just 1 stylus. Hehe. The current keyboard is more open and spacy, doesn't do all the characters but only the necessary ones.

Thanks for the news though, I think I'm going to check it out, see if I can get some nice techniques from the source. (Really nice of DragonMinded, by the way.)

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lick, not knocking the keyboard by any means. Keep up the good work. All your effort is appreciated!

Cool version!
ANyway, why dont you show as before, the current time of the update?
and i think that the scroll function is now too fast.. bnetter before^^

Keep up the great work!

Ow true, I forgot to mention:
- The current scroll speed is not as fast as in the beta.
- I'm trying to get timing to work so the 'Updated x min ago' really works as it should: display the real minutes after you fetched the data. E.g. it should display 60 minutes an hour after you got the data and 120 after two hours.
- The time of the location will be put beneath the location, just like the weather status. This is only in the Currently tab.

Oh, people who saw my other thread (in DS Programming), I could not implement REIN fatlib because it requires an older version of DevKitPro. Guess we're back to waiting for the next release of DevKitPro (that includes the newer libfat by chishm!!!!)

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Official Release:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?p=101478#101478 (Page 1)

Keep reporting bugs and suggest improvements! (Till I die.. :P)
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i dont know why, but it seems not to connect to the dslw server...

Just tested here. Works as expected, though. Try deleting old reports and old forecasts.

Update I rebuilt the project after reading about DsWifi 0.3b. The Wifi library is updated by SgStair and includes bug fixes and removing of hanging potentials. The rebuild is recognized by the 2. No other changes made.
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Nice work! Works well with my SC SD and SClite.

Lick wrote:

...- The current scroll speed is not as fast as in the beta.

Dumb question, what scrolls?

Scroll through profiles. <l 00 l>
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It still wont save on my Supercard Lite. No big deal at the moment though as im right here with a wifi connection. Lick do you have Supercard Lite? If not would having one help you program for it?

Good work!
although there are some bug in showing temperature..
such as in this profile
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/ITXX0107?from=search
I think it's because of the temperature below the 0?c

DeVS wrote:

It still wont save on my Supercard Lite. No big deal at the moment though as im right here with a wifi connection. Lick do you have Supercard Lite? If not would having one help you program for it?

I only possess a Supercard miniSD. The thing is, card-support depends on libFat which is a library that I use in DSLiveWeather. It's part of DevKitPro, and as long as there's no release, I will not have support for newer cards. Really bummer that Lite support is already in the CVS (versioning system), just that they're waiting (dunno for what) to release it for so damn long.

falcon!!!: thanks for reporting this bug. I've looked at it and it has to do with unsigned values (that is, -1 becomes +very_large_number). I will have it fixed and upload Aperio3, real soon.
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I only possess a Supercard miniSD. The thing is, card-support depends on libFat which is a library that I use in DSLiveWeather. It's part of DevKitPro, and as long as there's no release, I will not have support for newer cards. Really bummer that Lite support is already in the CVS (versioning system), just that they're waiting (dunno for what) to release it for so damn long.

Would having a Supercard Lite make it easier on you to program for it or would it not really help/matter? Just wondering if it's just the DevKitPro problem or that and not having a Supercard Lite.

Lick is just using code for all devices, it's up to the people writing that code to support new stuff. Until they release the new version with sc lite support, he can't really do anything.
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Definitely a DevKitPro problem. And as it seems, I have enough beta testers here on this forum! Hehe..
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Nice job Lick!! This time the wifi connection is alot fast thanks to the implementation of wifi lib 3b.Hope you'll be thinking on new features that will make us and also you even more happy of this application.

Thanks alot alot for this great app !!

Lick wrote:

Definitely a DevKitPro problem. And as it seems, I have enough beta testers here on this forum! Hehe..

Ahh ok. Was going to offer to buy you a Supercard Lite if it would make things easier for you. Hope DevKitPro gets SCL implemeted and released soon!

ghaxaq wrote:

Hope you'll be thinking on new features that will make us and also you even more happy of this application.

Hmm.. I think I'm going to add Wifi Access Point selecting, if it is possible. That way it's not necessary to use the WFC profiles (still an option, though) but you can connect to random (free) hotspots. On-the-go weather for the win! =)

I can't think of anything else to add, that's also within the realistic range. I think I'm going to move on to the next project, and perhaps later on get back to DSLiveWeather, I'm not sure yet. In any case, I'll release builds in the future to support newer cards.

DeVS: Thanks for your kindess, you can always donate a few bucks. Even though it might not help with the current DS projects, it might help with future ones. And it's always spiritually boosting to get rewarded for effort and time. ;)

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Lick, found a little text overlapping. When you go from Settings to currently and your press the smiley face, I got this text error where the time is, below the city.
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and here is a closer look
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but when you press the check it goes away!
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not a big deal at all since it went away, but thought you should know.

ahhh, that scrolling, thanks!

maybe support of images such as doplar. or am i just dreaming?

Hey ! thanks for this good app but I howewer have a problem

I've got a G6lite, I put a directory named "DSLiveWeather" in the root ( where i can choose NDS, GBA, PDA etc )

inside this folder I put the last release of DSlive weather.

It launches well, but can't find profile, I create one for Paris with the ID. I click "start" it says can't save. But i can still see the weather and forecast but still, the reports and forecasts don't save ( error message )

Next time I use it, it has forgotten all the profiles...

can you help me ?

PS: AN "drag and dropping" files, not using the app because it isn't compatible fo MAC osX

heyyouguys: ahh.. I forgot to fix that bug. I was so eager to release this, that it got patched (Aperio2) like an hour after the initial release. Hehe.. Thanks for reporting, again!

Mubb, apparently all Lite devices aren't supported. Some can load the files however, you might want to ask somebody to dump profiles so you can load them. Just put 'profiles.b' into '/DSLiveWeather/'.

Thanks for trying it out! ;)

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hey great idea Lick !

please can someone create profiles for Paris and Melbourne please and simply upload them on rapidshare or something? or here's my email : malcoolm@tiscali.fr )

ID's ==> Paris : FRXX076
Melbourne: ASXX0075

Thanks you sooo much for the person that is kind enough to do this little thingy for me ^^

Mubb you should put the .nds file on the root and then create a separate folder also on the root named DSLiveWeather, and not put the .nds file in the folder DSLiveWeather kapixx ?!!

ghaxaq wrote:

Mubb you should put the .nds file on the root and then create a separate folder also on the root named DSLiveWeather, and not put the .nds file in the folder DSLiveWeather kapixx ?!!

By what he said, I think he has DSLW installed correctly. But he's using a Lite card so saving isn't working.
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Lick wrote:

DeVS: Thanks for your kindess, you can always donate a few bucks. Even though it might not help with the current DS projects, it might help with future ones. And it's always spiritually boosting to get rewarded for effort and time. ;)

- Lick

I have set up a raffle for a DS-Link and ALL procedes from the raffle will be donated to Lick as a thank you for all his hard work. Here is where you can enter the raffle: http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=46511#46511 Hope we can raise a few bucks as a thank you for you Lick. We apreciate all the homebrew developers who contribute so much to the scene!

yeah i've installed it well... and still doesn't save...

so someone can make profiles for me?

Paris: FRXX0076
Melbourne: ASXX0075

DeVS wrote:

I have set up a raffle for a DS-Link and ALL procedes from the raffle will be donated to Lick as a thank you for all his hard work. Here is where you can enter the raffle: http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=46511#46511 Hope we can raise a few bucks as a thank you for you Lick. We apreciate all the homebrew developers who contribute so much to the scene!

Man, that's very kind of you! Thanks a lot for your great support. I will do my best to bring new generation applications to everyone who likes homebrew..

Thanks again,
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Im receiving reports of more users having problems saving on SuperCard SD now so it's not just me.

I can forsee more posts like Mubb's "so someone can make profiles for me?"

I'm not complaining, far from it. I just felt i had to tell you whilst begging again for a rein/moonshell FATlib version ;D

pleeease can someone be kind enough to create a profile... just tell me and i'll send an MP

Just wanted to add that the raffle for the DS-Link now includes a 1gb microSD card to go with it. The microSD card was donated by http://www.realhotstuff.com/ . There's still time to enter the drawing: http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6324

It's a nice addition of realhotstuff to dontate the microSD (great to see vendor a supporting you). BTW at this moment it is at a donation of $100. Love to see that double for you!

Up to $130. The most amazing part to me is how much this idea has be braced by the DS scene as a whole. It is spreading like wildfire. Even though I started this project at scdev.org it has grown to MANY sites in the scene now. Hopefuly we can continue this project for other homebrew devs down the line and rotate which scene site host it each time. We can set a real example with our homebrew scene by showing that we support our devs and really apreciate them.

DeVs, man, -really-! I'm really shocked by the amount that's raised currently! Can't believe how kind everyone has been -- even though there's a tight chance to win stuff, I'm pretty sure every entrant is more likely donating out of kindness and support. And also, the people who spread the news on their websites and forums, donated prizes for making this possible; they have all clearly shown their support. ;)

Thanks all for doing this,
- Lick

P.S., Supercard Lite users, send me a PM. I have something..
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Hey DEVs! Great idea! Just sent a payment to you. I better win now :)

See the first post for release information of DSLiveWeather "Aperio"3 aka DSLiveWeather Lite. It works with SCLite! ;D

As always, report any bug and please tell me your suggestions!
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ah ok sorry lick.
I've just sent you a PM ^^
Nevermind

Lick, nice work! It is working great with the SCLite, saves!!!!!!!!

ahh, just found something i was on forecast (and received data) and and it said updated 1 min ago. You could see a 0 and the 1 at the same time. Here is a photo. It seems to happen when you are on the page and the time changes from when updated.

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This also happens on the Currently tab as well
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Found another (sorry) the time is messed up as well and also does the multi number thing over itself as well. Sorry I didn't catch it this morning.

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well for good new, you are up to $330 on the raffle!!

****USERS****
Notice that there is a help button. <select> works in all areas.

Thanks for the quick report! You always seem to catch the stuff that I don't catch, hehe!

Since the news isn't spread around yet, I've updated the same file at the same location. Heyyouguys, let's see if the glitch is removed.

Thanks a bunch,
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[edit] still working out the bug. it's still there. :(
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Lick the link in the first post is dead i had to go to your blog to get it.

Thanks for this release man, you know i love it ;)

i will check it out now and report after I pick up my daughter from school

great work!!

I was not able to get the download link to work.

Ok both are dead now i'll delete this version i just grabbed and hold my horses a few seconds. I was about to post it on my site aswell :P

Yeah sorry bout this guys, seems that heyyouguys found more than a glitch. It had to do with me not calculating the time the right way. =)
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OK no probs, i take it you don't want me to post version 3 quite yet then? Or will you release a version 4, i still have the one i downloaded here on my desktop and wonder what i should do with it :P

Nah, it will still be 3. Just a few more minutes..
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Okay, done. It should be safe to announce the new version.. Hehe..

In the last few minutes I fixed:
- "Updated x min ago", like heyyouguys pointed out, when x changed, the old value wasn't cleared on screen resulting to overlapped text.
- The time of the location should now be correct.

Sorry for the unpleasant delay!
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OK cool thanks Lick, i still need to test it yet but im more interested in getting your new version out to people who have been waiting first ;)

Thanks for all your hard work!

*EDIT - There's no going back now i posted it ;P

Works very well!
Thanks lick!

Lick, i do not get that error anymore, nice fix.

I found an issue with the forecasts tab. on my 00,01,03 entries. where it says today 'partly cloudy' the dy is flashing in and out and where it is tonight the number for percent '10%' is flashing light and dark on the top half of 10%.

also the 0% on tonight on slot 03 entrie for the same.

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show this (sort of hard to do with pic)

Lick, was checking out your homepage and I have to say that the last 7% is going to be great!!!

Quote:

The remaining 7% are probably the WiFi Configuration that allows the user to catch weather information on-the-go (connect instantly with free hotspots).

That will be so cool!

Man, when the raffle is over, I hope you hit 600 or more! I will buy you the first beer!

BTW, thanks for the mention.

Eww.. yeah I found those bugs too. And also, the time isn't correct. The minutes is based on the last updated minute, and it goes over the 59!! So it becomes like 8:132 PM.

I'll try to fix those as soon as possible. But since I already released the dang version, I think it's better to add some more stuff to it first. In any case, I will add the bugs to the known bugs list.
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Lick, I saw the .132 type issue when I first used the new new version. but it went away when it reconnected to the server, and i guess I never left it on hour trying to recreate it. I thought it was just a glitch from the old profile to the new save profile with the latest update.

It is kinda nice that you have found a way to add more time in an hour, now i don't have to always run out of time! LOL!

Great job still getting it to work with the sclite!

bad news... this release still doesn't work with G6 Lite ( LibFat failed )

... still no one to create a profile for me ? ( Paris : FRXX0076, Melbourne: ASXX0075 )

Can you currently reset back to the SC menu from within DSLiveWeather or must we just power the DS off and then back on? I couldn't figure out how to reset to the SC menu so if we can't I think that would be nice feature. I like checking the weather when I first turn on the unit and would then like to be able to go into the SC menu to choose my game. Thanks for any info.

DevS, I like that idea. That would be a nice feature.

I would suggest lick to use the file supplied by the supercard team by running it from within the program. for example button 1 would run the .nds file and thus resetting to the sc menu

If I start a game and then do the software reset to get back to the SC main menu and then launch DSLiveWeather, it freezes. Tested it several times and everytime I try to run it by coming out of a game in software reset (L+R+A+B+X+Y) and then launch DSLiveWeather it locks up after DSLiveWeather comes on the screen.

Which game were you using L+R+A+B+X+Y with?
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Did it with Cooking Mama and Mario Hoops, why?

Because we can't help you get DSLiveWeather to interoperate with pirated roms.
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Probably something with Supercard. The first thing that is done after that message is displayed, is allocate memory from the RAM. SO it's either Supercard firmware or DevKitPro's memory allocation code.

I like the idea of a Reset function in DSLiveWeather. I'll look into it later, I'm very busy with school nowadays. Don't worry though, I'll still punch out some time to deliver some homebrew.
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its to do with patching, just so you know, its just a piece of code injected into the game, dont think the code is released though as a reset homebrew patcher would be nice

When using my Supercard SD (regular one), and trying to save, it says "Error saving profiles! (FAT)"... what can i do to fix this?

EDIT: Got it worked out. Didn't read the directions saying I had to make a directory! :)
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The winner is in at gbadev.org, The Winner Is Merumeru!

http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6324

Congrats, and to lick you have earned a check for $370.00!!!

I have found a bug and forgive me if it has previously been posted.

If you touch the area right around the < ## > to change profiles it will switch from F to C or vice-versa. I found this when quickly swapping profiles and slightly missing the < or >.

Not too major but midly annoying.
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heyyouguys: yup! Great news for Merumeru too! Hehe..

RabbitGTI: I'll make the sensitivity area smaller. I was actually just covering the whole screen but seems like that's not necessary.

- Lick
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Lick wrote:

heyyouguys: yup! Great news for Merumeru too! Hehe..

RabbitGTI: I'll make the sensitivity area smaller. I was actually just covering the whole screen but seems like that's not necessary.

- Lick

Yeah, the only stuff i would do would be put the current forcast on the top screen and put the four day forcast on the bottom, and make one of the buttons (like select held down until released) toggle the top screen to show the status of connecting and stuff. And for the C/F conversion, and the setup, just make those buttons on the bottom of the screen (not a tab or touching anywhere on the screen). But I love it as it is now, but if you could change those things it'd be perfect! :D
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Sometimes when I press on the the button to download the Weather information, the application just Freezes.

This happens on my GBAMPv2 (With Chism's NDSMP 2.11) and my M3 Adapter (FW v29). I use a TEKQ 1GB 80x CF card.

But thanks for a great Homebrew Application!! It's very useful :D.

It it utterly frozen? Have you tried waiting awhile for a time-out message? I've thought mine was locked a couple of times while waiting for a couldn't connect or error downloading information (usually after the first packet's done but it doesn't go any further).

Lick, how is it going? Hadn't seen you post for a while.

I'm working on a seperate module for wi-fi hotspots. once that is done, I'm going to implement it into DSLiveWeather. Sorry for not posting regularly anymore, I'll be back on DSLW though!

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Awesome. Despite meteorologists being dead-wrong so frequently, I find this a very handy app to have around. On a different note, if you implement the boot-brightness code you found into the brightness-adjustment I'd much prefer it to returning to the NDS menu to set it. ;)

Lick, being able to connect at wifi hot spots would be awesome for the program.

I may be missundersanding theyak, but I like the way DSLW does the brightness setting now.

He made a developers post about figuring out which code the DSL uses to actually store the brightness level (e.g. going to the menu, setting it to 3 and then the game (assuming it doesn't have its own settings) will be at that brightness.. it's also the info Moonshell uses by default for its brightness setting).

So, instead of just adjusting brightness for DSL, you could jump into DSL, set it to whatever and reboot for your chosen level without going back to the mostly-useless NDS menu.

/topic diversion

Yes TheYak, that would indeed be awesome. Perhaps I'll release a build that does:
- Boot back to menu. (I need to figure out how to do this on non-Supercard devices.)
- Save the brightnesslevel to hardware.
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Hey guys,

My apologies for the lack of updates lately. Currently I have done:
- Permanent brightnesslevel change. (Yay!)
- Fixed the time bug where the minutes were higher than 59. =/
- Fixed a flickering text bug on the Forecasts.

Still planning to do:
- Reset back to Supercard. (Would this mean I'd have to compile a SC version and non-SC version? That would suck.)
- On the go config. (huge task!)

Oh and I'm going to release .ds.gba files as well. Totally let that slip my mind. I hope it allows other people to use DSLW as well. Although devices that use .ds.gba, probably, won't be able to save (FAT issue).
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Lick, did you post update yet (not rushing, just could not tell if it was)?

I have another suggestion, (sorry) Is it possible to put a version number, at the top of the screen next 'dsliveweather (c) 2006' to see. Or would that be more of a pain in the butt, when you update the program?

Lick wrote:

Hey guys,

My apologies for the lack of updates lately. Currently I have done:
- Permanent brightnesslevel change. (Yay!)
- Fixed the time bug where the minutes were higher than 59. =/
- Fixed a flickering text bug on the Forecasts.

Still planning to do:
- Reset back to Supercard. (Would this mean I'd have to compile a SC version and non-SC version? That would suck.)
- On the go config. (huge task!)

Oh and I'm going to release .ds.gba files as well. Totally let that slip my mind. I hope it allows other people to use DSLW as well. Although devices that use .ds.gba, probably, won't be able to save (FAT issue).

Awesome! This is the only thing gaming related my Dad uses, and he's 60+. He likes it because it's easy to use, read, and quicker than watching the weather channel! :P
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im using supercard wif mini sd and i created the DSLiveWeather folder but i dunno why it keep saying LibFat failed.. i thought supercard is fat supported.. isn't it? i realli want it to be able to save koz i use this to check my weather all the time... and yeah... it gets annoying how i hafta enter the code in everytime... i realli wanna be able to save in a bunch of area codes so i can go out and yeah.. check as i go =p

'DSLiveWeather', is it on the root directory? Are you sure it's spelled correctly? What is the brand and size of the miniSD memorycard?
I use SCminiSD as well, and it works fine here.
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yupz.. in fact i directly copy and pasted "DSLiveWeather" here to make sure it's exact..
yeah it's created in the root directory
im using supercard lite 1gb made by kingston

[edit] oh whoopz i mean micro sd lolz does that not work? =/ [/edit]

redeyez wrote:

yupz.. in fact i directly copy and pasted "DSLiveWeather" here to make sure it's exact..
yeah it's created in the root directory
im using supercard lite 1gb made by kingston

[edit] oh whoopz i mean micro sd lolz does that not work? =/ [/edit]

redeyez - I have the same problem as well

SCLite with a 1gb sandisk microSD - libfat simply fails on me

aww.. so micro sd = fail? =/

Works for me. SCLite 1 GB Sandisk.

Had reports that some brands or sizes doesn't work. Chishm probably knows about this. Hopefully he already fixed this.
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Having the same problem:

WiFi Ready!
LibFat Failed

1 GB Kingston MicroSD
Black SuperCard Lite
SuperKey

I've noticed this issue happens with EVERY homebrew I've used that tries to write back to the MicroSD Card. (Everything from DSOrganize, SNESEmul, DS FTP) but reads fine. It appears to be a problem either with this brand of MicroSD or a problem with FATLib. Other than that, I haven't had any issues running it!

Any homebrew that can retrieve a list of files on the card uses the old "gba_nds_fat" library, which doesn't write to SD cards. This will begin to be fixed once wintermute releases the next version of devkitARM.
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I use the latest official libfat, the wip-release. Just so y'know.
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tepples wrote:

Any homebrew that can retrieve a list of files on the card uses the old "gba_nds_fat" library, which doesn't write to SD cards. This will begin to be fixed once wintermute releases the next version of devkitARM.

Good to hear! I'm just glad it wasn't a defect with my card, normal games saves work fine otherwise.

Lick, here is a guy with a problem.

Quote:

(Tobster)
yes, dsliveweather folder and the nds file are both in the root - the nds file is not inside this folder. Still get message 'error loading reports & forecasts' & the location is unknown. Any ideas - BTW, I'm using the location ID ukxx0002 for Abingdon, UK
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Are there any issues with SC CF and dsliveweather?

Here is the topic on scdev DSLiveWeather if you want to reply directly to the guy.

Lick,

here is the japanese blog post translated to english by google

Hey, thanks for that. Luckily he seemed to like it. Japanese control the world, so perhaps I might have a career in the land of the rising sun, hehe.
If only I had unlimited energy and time, then I'd already have the next version of DSLiveWeather done. So sorry 'bout being terribly late.

- Lick
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hey, no need to be sorry. Any update whenever, is good with me!

Don't worry Lick I am still using your application everyday to see the current weather.

But I would like to ask you a question..would you provide the script on your server so that we can host it on another server in case lick.huuf.net goes down or something? or you think it's not necessary?

Thanks

http://licklick.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/alternate-dsliveweather-server-got-updated/

This one should still be up. ;)

- Lick
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Hiyas

Seems to be a strange bug in the latest DSLiveWeather.

The weather code UKXX0040 for Derby, UK, works just dandy.

However, UKXX0656 for Belper, UK, gives an error and no forecast. Ooopsy.

Bummer, I think this explains it. DSLiveWeather does NOT support the Germany and UK specific websites. Only the via weather.com accessible locations. This is not a flaw, it's simply a restriction of the weather.com XML feed.

Thanks for trying DSLiveWeather, though! I will soon release an update, because I got resetting to bootmenu working! ;D
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Lick, any luck on the wifi hotspot module for dslw?

Well I have the basic code written. Now I need to program the GUI. Not sure if I can fit that in somewhere in my timescheme. Have to finish my final project at school. It's supposed to be a lot of pages.
Anyway, I will do it before '07, hopefully.
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Lick, what is up? I am back from vacation at Disneyworld, how is DSLW coming along?

(I read your blog, but no way to post there)

edit-pc messed up

Haven't had any developing time. Spend most of my online time checking mail, forums, watching Naruto and then I'm off.
I know that many, if not, millions of fans have been waiting for DSLiveWeather to progress, but.. it's November.
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