Subj : Re: Customizing underground weather bbs application
To   : Terry Rankin
From : Terry Rankin
Date : Sat Dec 30 2017 11:09 am

On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 1:58:20 PM UTC-5, Terry Rankin wrote:
> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 1:53:59 PM UTC-5, Terry Rankin wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 12:35:28 AM UTC-5, g00r00 wrote:
> > > TR> Need to pass State and City (parameters) into the uweather program.
> > > 
> > > These are not part of the door command line codes, but I could probably 
add
> > > this in for you.
> > > 
> > >  TR> If that won't work, how come I can't do this in MPL:
> > >  TR> 
> > >  TR> MenuCmd('DD',Patch+'wu.sh summary |UC');
> > > 
> > > You have to convert it with MCI2STR.  It'd be like this:
> > > 
> > > MenuCmd('DD', Patch + 'wu.sh summary ' + mci2str('UC'));
> > 
> > You absolutely ROCK my friend! :)
> > 
> > Works perfectly!!!
> > 
> > You those who have this weather app (XQ-UWEATHER.ZIP), all you have to do 
is:
> > modify wu.sh (Right under the apikey entry, modify state and city):
> >    state=$2
> >    city=$3
> > 
> > and modify all the MenuCmd lines in xq-uweather.mps to add + mci2str('UC')
> > Note the first MenuCmd line will change...
> > From:
> > MenuCmd('DD', Patch + 'wu.sh');
> > To:
> > MenuCmd('DD', Patch + 'wu.sh dummy ' + mci2str('UC'));
> > 
> > The first part of the program doesn't use the first parameter...hence the 
'dummy'.
> > 
> > Thanks again!
> > Terry
> 
> Of course this will only work if your account location is "state city". 
Meaning no comma or slash or any other variation. Probably could add a couple 
more lines of code to groom out any unwanted characters.

Ok..last thing. In wu.sh, there is some condition logic (If/else statements) 
that check if the json data already exists or older than 7200 seconds (2 
hours)...get rid of that logic to query/refresh every time the script is 
executed. Underground Weather 
API developers license is up to 10 times per minute...should be ok here. :)

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