wĕdaPanel - interactive weather for the lockscreen

[djgunner]

this is the best weather widget/prog I have seen on the iphone... I like it a lot but it seems a little slow to refresh sometimes... also, I would love to see a winter theme for the backgrounds.. I was going to make some but wow, there are different ones for each couple hours of the day. anyways, just thinking out loud.

[soto806]

This is.... EPIC!

[soulthoughts]

So is this a Cydget yet? You're in Tacoma, so am I!

[storyr]

you should talk to smartscreen about adding this app to that lockscreen program

I'll add that to my list - which is getting long...

this is the best weather widget/prog I have seen on the iphone... I like it a lot but it seems a little slow to refresh sometimes... also, I would love to see a winter theme for the backgrounds.. I was going to make some but wow, there are different ones for each couple hours of the day. anyways, just thinking out loud.

Slow refreshing: One thing about the lockscreen - it reloads a lot, which means the widget needs to go get it's data again. I'm working on a way to cache the data and only get it after the refresh period has passed. That's going to require it to be a Cydget I think.


Oh yea - almost forgot. For your winter background concept, it's not necessary to create all of those images - you can get by to just two if you wanted (night and day, for example). You can map the hours of the day to whatever images you want. See the skinning guide for more info, or I can post an example if you want...

So is this a Cydget yet? You're in Tacoma, so am I!

Not a Cydget yet, but working on it. My goal is to integrate the settings into the app so people don't have to edit a file - that's too complex for many folks.

We've had some great weather her in Tacoma lately...

[djgunner]

Thanks a bunch for the reply. Yeah, if the data could be cached until it expires and needed to be refreshed that would be ideal. but for now, it's fine. As I said this is a great app and thanks a lot for the time and energy you put into it.

ok on the winter theme frames.. I think I can figure it out.

Cheers!

[snip]
Slow refreshing: One thing about the lockscreen - it reloads a lot, which means the widget needs to go get it's data again. I'm working on a way to cache the data and only get it after the refresh period has passed. That's going to require it to be a Cydget I think.


Oh yea - almost forgot. For your winter background concept, it's not necessary to create all of those images - you can get by to just two if you wanted (night and day, for example). You can map the hours of the day to whatever images you want. See the skinning guide for more info, or I can post an example if you want...
[snip]

[wyoak]

I really like this theme but I got pretty sick of the default images (no offense to the creator, just had too much windows xp in my life), so I put together a skyimage pack. This changes the image based on time of day and weather. Figured someone else out there might like it so here it is.

To use it, add the following to your settings.xml file in the skyimage section (so between <skyImage> and </skyImage>)

<!-- sky images (day/night + condition) -->
<!-- map folder and names to your images | don't change code or legend -->
<folder>weda/theme/images/skyImage</folder>
<map>
<image code="00" name="SRClr.png" legend="sunrise clear"/>
<image code="01" name="SRFair.png" legend="sunrise fair"/>
<image code="02" name="SRPart.png" legend="sunrise partly cloudy"/>
<image code="03" name="SRCldy.png" legend="sunrise mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="04" name="SRCldy.png" legend="sunrise cloudy"/>
<image code="05" name="SRRain.png" legend="sunrise rain"/>
<image code="06" name="SRStorm.png" legend="sunrise thunderstorm"/>
<image code="07" name="SRSnow.png" legend="sunrise snow"/>
<image code="10" name="DClr.png" legend="day clear"/>
<image code="11" name="DFair.png" legend="day fair"/>
<image code="12" name="DPCldy.png" legend="day partly cloudy"/>
<image code="13" name="DMCldy.png" legend="day mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="14" name="DMCldy.png" legend="day cloudy"/>
<image code="15" name="DRain.png" legend="day rain"/>
<image code="16" name="DStorm.png" legend="day thunderstorm"/>
<image code="17" name="DSnow.png" legend="day snow"/>
<image code="20" name="SSClr.png" legend="sunset clear"/>
<image code="21" name="SSFair.png" legend="sunset fair"/>
<image code="22" name="SSPCldy.png" legend="sunset partly cloudy"/>
<image code="23" name="SSMCldy.png" legend="sunset mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="24" name="SSCldy.png" legend="sunset cloudy"/>
<image code="25" name="SSRain.png" legend="sunset rain"/>
<image code="26" name="SSStorm.png" legend="sunset thunderstorm"/>
<image code="27" name="SSSnow.png" legend="sunset snow"/>
<image code="30" name="NClear.png" legend="night clear"/>
<image code="31" name="NFair.png" legend="night fair"/>
<image code="32" name="NPCldy.png" legend="night partly cloudy"/>
<image code="33" name="NMCldy.png" legend="night mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="34" name="NMCldy.png" legend="night cloudy"/>
<image code="35" name="NRain.png" legend="night rain"/>
<image code="36" name="NStorm.png" legend="night thunderstorm"/>
<image code="37" name="NSnow.png" legend="night snow"/>
<image code="99" name="1pm.png" legend="NA"/>
</map>

Then download the zip file below. Copy the skyImage directory to your phone's weda directory at weda/theme/images and replace the LockBackground.html at the weda directory root (there's only one line changed in there, you could just modify yours pretty easily too). Respring and it should be good.

A couple images:




Download zip here

I take no credit for any of the pictures or anything, they're mostly taken from the XBMC weather fanart packs, just cropped to fit the iPhone screen. Also, it hasn't been every weather condition/time of day combination since I've put this together, so this isn't thoroughly tested or anything.

And a humble feature suggestion - it would be cool if temperature could be a modifier on the sky screens (so instead of having night/clear you could have night/clear/cold and night/clear/warm, depending if it was above or below some temperature). Again, great theme.

[dallasnights]

Nice alternative works great thanks

[jayteez]

I really like this theme but I got pretty sick of the default images (no offense to the creator, just had too much windows xp in my life), so I put together a skyimage pack. This changes the image based on time of day and weather. Figured someone else out there might like it so here it is.

To use it, add the following to your settings.xml file in the skyimage section (so between <skyImage> and </skyImage>)

<!-- sky images (day/night + condition) -->
<!-- map folder and names to your images | don't change code or legend -->
<folder>weda/theme/images/skyImage</folder>
<map>
<image code="00" name="SRClr.png" legend="sunrise clear"/>
<image code="01" name="SRFair.png" legend="sunrise fair"/>
<image code="02" name="SRPart.png" legend="sunrise partly cloudy"/>
<image code="03" name="SRCldy.png" legend="sunrise mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="04" name="SRCldy.png" legend="sunrise cloudy"/>
<image code="05" name="SRRain.png" legend="sunrise rain"/>
<image code="06" name="SRStorm.png" legend="sunrise thunderstorm"/>
<image code="07" name="SRSnow.png" legend="sunrise snow"/>
<image code="10" name="DClr.png" legend="day clear"/>
<image code="11" name="DFair.png" legend="day fair"/>
<image code="12" name="DPCldy.png" legend="day partly cloudy"/>
<image code="13" name="DMCldy.png" legend="day mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="14" name="DMCldy.png" legend="day cloudy"/>
<image code="15" name="DRain.png" legend="day rain"/>
<image code="16" name="DStorm.png" legend="day thunderstorm"/>
<image code="17" name="DSnow.png" legend="day snow"/>
<image code="20" name="SSClr.png" legend="sunset clear"/>
<image code="21" name="SSFair.png" legend="sunset fair"/>
<image code="22" name="SSPCldy.png" legend="sunset partly cloudy"/>
<image code="23" name="SSMCldy.png" legend="sunset mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="24" name="SSCldy.png" legend="sunset cloudy"/>
<image code="25" name="SSRain.png" legend="sunset rain"/>
<image code="26" name="SSStorm.png" legend="sunset thunderstorm"/>
<image code="27" name="SSSnow.png" legend="sunset snow"/>
<image code="30" name="NClear.png" legend="night clear"/>
<image code="31" name="NFair.png" legend="night fair"/>
<image code="32" name="NPCldy.png" legend="night partly cloudy"/>
<image code="33" name="NMCldy.png" legend="night mostly cloudy"/>
<image code="34" name="NMCldy.png" legend="night cloudy"/>
<image code="35" name="NRain.png" legend="night rain"/>
<image code="36" name="NStorm.png" legend="night thunderstorm"/>
<image code="37" name="NSnow.png" legend="night snow"/>
<image code="99" name="1pm.png" legend="NA"/>
</map>

Then download the zip file below. Copy the skyImage directory to your phone's weda directory at weda/theme/images and replace the LockBackground.html at the weda directory root (there's only one line changed in there, you could just modify yours pretty easily too). Respring and it should be good.

A couple images:




Download zip here

I take no credit for any of the pictures or anything, they're mostly taken from the XBMC weather fanart packs, just cropped to fit the iPhone screen. Also, it hasn't been every weather condition/time of day combination since I've put this together, so this isn't thoroughly tested or anything.

And a humble feature suggestion - it would be cool if temperature could be a modifier on the sky screens (so instead of having night/clear you could have night/clear/cold and night/clear/warm, depending if it was above or below some temperature). Again, great theme.

friggin sweet mod man..thanks.

[storyr]

I really like this theme but I got pretty sick of the default images (no offense to the creator, just had too much windows xp in my life), so I put together a skyimage pack. This changes the image based on time of day and weather. Figured someone else out there might like it so here it is.

Excellent! This is exactly what SkyImage was built for. Thanks for reading the skinning guide...

And a humble feature suggestion - it would be cool if temperature could be a modifier on the sky screens (so instead of having night/clear you could have night/clear/cold and night/clear/warm, depending if it was above or below some temperature). Again, great theme.

Interesting concept. I can hear the arguments now over what's warm and what's cold...

How would you depict warm vs. cold at night (for example)?

[wyoak]

Well, you could have a standard city-scape at night for warm, or a Christmas-y scene if it's cold. Or like a summer meadow for clear warm days vs sunny snowy mountaintop for clear cold days.

It's probably kind of overkill, but it wouldn't be hard to use the same images for warm/cold if it was too much.

[djgunner]

nice update.. works perfect (so far)!

edit: the only thing is now, it wants to update each time time after I lock the phone and the sky image takes a sec to load.. it would be nice if it would cache that setting for a bit until it's hit a time expiration? or something.. I just updated my image thumbs to all the local traffic web cams also.. pretty slick!

edit2: hmmm... might have spoken too soon.. it seems to have settled down now or something.. doesn't update with each screen wakening..

[jeffhesser]

Any chance you could make one of the directional swipes (maybe up since it's unused) swipe to a panel with calendar info on it? If you could use lockCalendar or just pull the data on your own, anything would be GREAT. I love this on my lock screen but i hate losing any quick access to my daily calendar info. Thanks for the great program!

[rye1629]

hi, the arrows on my wedapanel are not working..any ideas why? thanks!

[djgunner]

update on the skyimages mod.. the only image I don't like is the one for NPCldy which has a big moon which looks a lot like my moon icon, but it's right next to it.. so it's like I am seeing double.. I'm hunting down a different Night Partly Coudy image to use for that.. I will post it when I find a suitable replacement.. other than that I really like the images you put together for the backgrounds.

edit: ok, just hunted down some images on deviant art and cropped out some bits for the two files I wanted.. I did not make these.. the originals can be found here:

http://rahx2.deviantart.com/art/Starry-Night-129714419
http://boss019.deviantart.com/art/Al...-Long-49755435

here are the crops

NMCldy.png


NPCldy.png


this was very quick and dirty.. so far from perfect but they seem ok to me for now.

[djgunner]

I made one more skyimages image adjustment.. the NRain.png image was too busy with all of the drops on the screen... reading the weather info over it was kind of a chore.. the original is here and here's my cropping from it for the NRain.png image

[Gipson]

not too bad of a wallpaper..
and its downtown toronto! :P

[dallasnights]

Skyimages backgrounds stopped working this morning for some reason, when I use the standard Wedapanel images it works fine, anyone know the reason why

Thanks

[storyr]

Skyimages backgrounds stopped working this morning for some reason, when I use the standard Wedapanel images it works fine, anyone know the reason why

Thanks

Weird. Could be a bug of some sort. I'll check it out...

Update: No issues here - it's working fine for me. Can you provide some more details as to what you're seeing (or not seeing)?

I did notice that this mornings image (for my location) was 'sunrise, partly cloudy' - which coincidentally happens to be the same as the default image. Initially I thought the image wasn't changing...

[Brad1279]

what do i need to edit to get just 1 radar img like below, i don't need anymore than one. thank you

[dallasnights]

Wierd is working now as of about 1 hour ago, rebooted 3 times BTW and now it works wierd

Thanks agian for the great work can not wait to see updates and new things you offer