DM Weather Issue

[vitello]

I am switching over to the new DM weather variables. Things were working fine and then the weather description variable stoped working. This is

<DM.Weather.Location>.CurrentConditions\Description

What is displaced is -. This is happening also for the Flatstyle Music and DM.cff.

Peter

[emery]

I also noticed it this evening. I looked at the device manager in G5 under control, and it seems that is the info being sent by the weather server. I may be wrong on this, but that is what I was seeing this evening.

[Rob H]

That's almost certainly the case.

[vitello]

Rob,

The weather description variable is working again this morning, so it looks like a periodic bug. It probably is bad data coming from G5. Is this a known problem that will be fixed in the next release?

Thanks,

Peter

[Rob H]

Nothing we can do really - the '-' description comes from our weather provider.

[vitello]

Rob,

I loaded the new-pro 480x640.ccf into NR with G4 and went to the weather page. The weather description works fine there and agrees with what the CustomWeather.com webside is showing for my location. I then exited G4 and went to G5 (the oldstyle CustomWeather is not working for me in G5) and checked the CustomWeather data in the device manager. Description and Day Description both show a '-'.

So the Description data is definitely available from CustomWeather since G4 is providing it to NR. There must be something wrong with G5 with its use of the Description data.

By the way, it looks like the Description variable works in G5 during the day, but not at night.

Peter

[Rob H]

Oh? That's weird! Let me take another look.

... okay, what seems to be happening is that when you see a '-' in any field then the data from the parser for that field is nil.

The tricky question is why is it nil? Maybe I should save the XML to a file when any of the observations are nil?