As a feature I would like to have beside inserting icons and text a possibility to insert images to the desktop.
As a feature I would like to have beside inserting icons and text a possibility to insert images to the desktop. If possible not only from file but also from internet source. This would be nice to create for example weather widgets. What do you guys think?
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Could Tasker get the weather-data? A script could show the right picture/icon (from a local source).
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Jappie Toutenhoofd yes, with ‘http get’ you can fetch data from the net make some splits and ready:-) Earlier I made it with Yahoo API, but it was not really correct. Now I use weather underground API. The closest station is 200m close to my home, so the best possible solution for me.
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Adding images is possible, I believe it could be some kind of blank item where the background would it be automatically set, although this wouldn’t be the easiest way to change it after (but I have plans for that…). I just need to get rid of the current limitation on bitmap size, hopefully in the next version.
Loading from the internet is more problematic. There is the internet permission of course, but also there are various APIs. I must admit that I know nothing about them. You mentioned the Yahoo API, is it easy to use ?
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Pierre Hébert basically it is easy to use, just you have to know your locations WOEID which is kind of location code. https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
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At Yahoo the weather forecast has a weather condition code, according to which we could set the images or icons.
https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/documentation.html#codes
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Thanks for the links, that looks interesting. There is a rather low quota, it can be an issue when publishing an app. Other weather provider are likely to get similar quota (open weather map is 3000, not much). I wonder how zooper does.
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Not my expertise, but could LL generate a key with the end-users account?
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Pierre Hébert i checked my tasker task and actually i even do not use the api itself 🙂
My link is the following:
http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=548909&u=c
where 548909 is the WOEID for my city.
How to get Woeid?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15784177/how-to-get-yahoos-woeid-by-location
this may help 🙂
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Pierre Hébert check out this one:
http://openweathermap.org/price
3000 calls/min. this should be enough 🙂
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oh, I thought this was 3000 calls per day, that changes everything!
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