This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Written by: Steffen Moldaner <s.moldaner@gmx.net> Project's homepage: http://www.moldaner.de/vdr/ Latest version available at: http://www.moldaner.de/vdr/download/ See the file COPYING for license information. Description: Displays the current weather conditions for a selected location. It gets the METAR data from ftp://weather.noaa.gov. Get the station id for yout location at http://weather.noaa.gov/. Default is "EDDF" (Frankfurt / M-Flughafen, Germany). Requirements: ------------- -METAR Decoder Software Package Library 0.11(http://limulus.net/mdsplib/) -ftplib 3.1-1 (http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/ftplib/) Run ldconfig after installation. Installation: ------------- Just type "make plugins" at VDR directory level. Run VDR and edit the station id in prefrences for your location. Preferences: ------------- -Station id The id for your location. Get it from http://weather.noaa.gov/. Default is EDDF. -Update time Time to update the metar data in minutes. Default is 30. -Username Username to login at ftp://weather.noaa.gov. Default is anonymous. -Password The password to login at ftp://weather.noaa.gov. This should be your e-mail, as always by anonymous login. -Use passive connection If true a passive ftp-connection is used to download metar. Behind some routers vdr will will crash (Bug in ftplib) if disabled. Default is true. -Display Choose between simple Text and a graphical layout. FAQ ------------- There are some display problems with the dvb-1.0.0-pre3 driver and CVS versions. Please update your driver to dvb-1.0.0 or newer.