2013-07-27, 10:22
Hey
Apart from being really busy in general right now, I've also made a decision with my addons to not spend extra time on supporting under-weight platforms like the Pi. There are so many better alternatives...old ION/atom machines that are vastly more powerful and don't cost much more on ebay etc. I just can't be bothered to be honest!
That said, the code is here: http://code.google.com/p/ozweather/ - and I will absolutely be fine with a pull request that moves the background grabbing stuff into settings so there is a download/update radar backgrounds control in there, and it's not done in the main retrieval. As it is it only does it once a week anyhow.
(line 203 - http://code.google.com/p/ozweather/sourc...default.py)
The background stuff is in a separate function so moving it so it's bound in settings instead should only be a half hours work or so, maybe a couple hours if you don't know Python - you could also guard the weekly function with if system = raspberry pi guard or something.
This was my first add on and is...not awesome....code wise.
So TL;DR - if you code it, do a pull request to my repo and I am fine with it moving out there as long as for decent powered systems it checks for changes once a week or so (they do sometimes (rarely) change the BGs)...i.e. works as is for my system, but happy to incorporate if you add low powered system support!
Apart from being really busy in general right now, I've also made a decision with my addons to not spend extra time on supporting under-weight platforms like the Pi. There are so many better alternatives...old ION/atom machines that are vastly more powerful and don't cost much more on ebay etc. I just can't be bothered to be honest!
That said, the code is here: http://code.google.com/p/ozweather/ - and I will absolutely be fine with a pull request that moves the background grabbing stuff into settings so there is a download/update radar backgrounds control in there, and it's not done in the main retrieval. As it is it only does it once a week anyhow.
(line 203 - http://code.google.com/p/ozweather/sourc...default.py)
The background stuff is in a separate function so moving it so it's bound in settings instead should only be a half hours work or so, maybe a couple hours if you don't know Python - you could also guard the weekly function with if system = raspberry pi guard or something.
This was my first add on and is...not awesome....code wise.
So TL;DR - if you code it, do a pull request to my repo and I am fine with it moving out there as long as for decent powered systems it checks for changes once a week or so (they do sometimes (rarely) change the BGs)...i.e. works as is for my system, but happy to incorporate if you add low powered system support!