Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

[ScottoG51]

A beginner's question ...

I have just installed SDT, running SC7 on Windows XP, and have customised the default mode to display in metric units. I find that the Current / Tonight / Tomorrow / Tomorrow Night displays are modified as I requested. However, the later, forecast displays (Fri, Sat, Sun, etc) still display (max/min temps) in Fahrenheit.

Is this because the SC7 plugin is still in beta? Or do I need to use Custom Modes to modify the forecast output formats?

Thanks!

[dodgeboy]

I'm running SS7.0 with version 5.5.0 of your plugin on Ubuntu Linux... Upon installing the plugin, it shows up in the plugin list. However, when I click settings, the page is blank. I get the following error in the server.log file:

Slim::Web::HTTP::_generateContentFromFile (2332) Error: file error - : not found

Unfortunately the error doesn't tell me which file is not found. I've tried chmodding the entire SuperDateTime directory to 777, so it isn't a permissions problem.

Any ideas? Is there a way to put it in debug mode so I can see what file it's looking for?

[EDIT]: After looking through some of the scripts, I see references to SuperDateTime/settings/basic.html. The settings folder was not included in the zip file of the v5.5.0 plugin I downloaded. Where to I get it from?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

[Juliozaffo]

Is Superdatetime supposed to work with the Duet controller? I can choose it from the Extras menu but when I look at the forecasts there are no icons & no data.

[mbonsack]

I'm running SS7.0 with version 5.5.0 of your plugin on Ubuntu Linux... Upon installing the plugin, it shows up in the plugin list. However, when I click settings, the page is blank. I get the following error in the server.log file:

Slim::Web::HTTP::_generateContentFromFile (2332) Error: file error - : not found

Unfortunately the error doesn't tell me which file is not found. I've tried chmodding the entire SuperDateTime directory to 777, so it isn't a permissions problem.

Any ideas? Is there a way to put it in debug mode so I can see what file it's looking for?

[EDIT]: After looking through some of the scripts, I see references to SuperDateTime/settings/basic.html. The settings folder was not included in the zip file of the v5.5.0 plugin I downloaded. Where to I get it from?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

Look here:

root@squeezecenter:/usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins/SuperDateTime/html/en/plugins/SuperDateTime/settings# ls
basic.html

However, I get the same error, and when I try to access the settings in the browser, the page comes up empty :-(

[dodgeboy]

Look here:

root@squeezecenter:/usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins/SuperDateTime/html/en/plugins/SuperDateTime/settings# ls
basic.html

However, I get the same error, and when I try to access the settings in the browser, the page comes up empty :-(

I don't have that directory either... html is the only sub folder off of SuperDateTime at that level.

root@linux-srv:/usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins/SuperDateTime/html/EN/plugins/SuperDateTime# ls
html
root@linux-srv:


Dave

[mbonsack]

I don't have that directory either... html is the only sub folder off of SuperDateTime at that level.

root@linux-srv:/usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins/SuperDateTime/html/EN/plugins/SuperDateTime# ls
html
root@linux-srv:


Dave

OK, here's the deal. Go out and grab the latest SuperDateTime from the plugin site and you'll have the missing directories. Now for the mistake I (and perhaps you) made. I downloaded the file on Windows, extracted the zip, and copied it over via Samba to my Ubuntu box. However, I copied it to an external storage directory on a mounted USB drive that happens to be formatted with a FAT32 filesystem. It turns out that when you move a directory to this type of fileystem, all uppercase directory names (in this case the "HTML" and "EN" directories that are adjacent in the tree) get transcoded to lower case during the copy operation. Mixed-case directories(like SuperDateTime) are left alone, as are regular files with all-uppercase names. It's only the all-uppercase directories that are a problem -- I even tried renaming the lower-case directories to upper-case equivalents in the storage directory, but apparently the vfat fileystem won't allow it.

In any case (no pun intended :-), I renamed the offending lower-case directories back to upper case after installing in the SqueezeCenter Plugins directory (which is on an ext3 filesystem) and lo and behold I got the page to pop.

In my case both "HTML" and "EN" were transcoded. In your case it looks like only the "HTML" directory got munged (in addition to your missing directories and files).

[dodgeboy]

That fixed it! Thanks a lot!

Dave

[Mark]

Is it possible to configure SDT with SC7 so that it it defaults to display scrolling long forecasts that switch between several time periods? I recently upgraded to 7.0 and really miss this functionality. I had SDT configured this way in 6.5x. I do realize that I can use the remote to obtain this information, but that is not the desired state.

FWIW, I have already set display Long Forecasts to "Always" and have tried turning off the options in Default Mode.

I would really appreciate it if someone would advise me whether this is a bug in the current code, or provide me the proper settings if it is not.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark]

I think I overdid it with my acronyms so I'm re-posting for clarity. : )

Is it possible to configure SDT with SC7 so that it it defaults to display scrolling long forecasts that switch between several time periods? I recently upgraded to 7.0 and really miss this functionality. I had SDT configured this way in 6.5x. I do realize that I can use the remote to obtain this information, but that is not the desired state.

FWIW, I have already set display Long Forecasts to "Always" and have tried turning off the options in Default Mode.

I would really appreciate it if someone would advise me whether this is a bug in the current code, or provide me the proper settings if it is not.

Thanks,

Mark

[GoCubs]

I've gone ahead and posted an updated SC7 version.

This version fixes parsing of NCAA basketball games and 10-day forecasts. Both should appear fine on Duet controllers.

www.gregbrown.net

Thanks
-Greg