Weather Plugin Doopler Radar

[Snooze]

Hi,

When viewing the Doppler radar map in the plugin, it shows Doppler radar maps for 90 minutes of radar data, however the lastest radar image is 5 hours old. When I check the doppler radar on http://weather.msn.com for zip code 49855 it shows the same start time as in the plug in for the doppler radar, but shows maps for 6 hours 30 minutes of maps.

Example; MSN Website shows Doppler Radar from 2:58pm to 9:28pm, Weather Plugin only shows 2:58pm to 4:28pm. So last 5 hours are missing.

Is there something I can do/change to make it show the same amount of radar information as the msn weather website (about 6 hours 30 minutes) instead of only the first 1 hour 30 minutes as the plugin is doing?

Thank you for any input! Great plugins you have!

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[HarryH3]

I just noticed this same bug this morning. We were having rain (for the first time in ages!) and I pulled up the radar map to try to get an idea for how long the rain was going to last. The images on the screen were showing the weather front and all the rain being far to the west of here. Then I noticed the time stamps on the radar images... I was checking at about 7:00 am and the last image in the rotation was around 1:30 AM.

[Uisge]

I have been watching this hoping that someone will post solution. I am having the same problem. The latest map is consistently about 5 hours old.

Any Ideas what is goin on here?

-Uisge

[Fatman_do]

Sorry, but the plugin developer has not been around for some time. There may have been web site changes that the plugin pulls the data from. The plugin has no control of the source of the material.

[baj1]

Bummer. Do you know if the developer is on sabbatical or gone for good?

I have the same issue with the radar, 5 hours behind. Also, the "current" conditions are typically 40-90 minutes behind, according to the time stamp on the display, even though I set the update time to 5 minutes in the settings.

[Snooze]

Well everyone, I can't get data for the Weather plugin anymore (did they change the website?)... how is it working for everyone else?

[baj1]

Still works for me, still behind, but still works. Could have been a temporary outage, or maybe no data for your area code.

[Snooze]

Me bad... yep its working again. I was panicing! I love this plugin, wish it had more up to date data though

[teookie]

Just noticed the source code is on the wiki if anyone wants to try and tweak it.

[cb123]

The following changes in HelperFunctions.cs fixed the 90 minute problem for me.

Code:

const int MAX_MAP_COUNT = 72;      // was 9;
    const int MAX_FRAME_COUNT = 72;   // was 24;

The program limits the number of images in a weather map animation to the value of MAX_MAP_COUNT .. a value of 9 at 10 minutes per image gives 90 minutes.

Attached is a copy of WeatherPlugin.dll based on Sept-26-2007-PVRX2WeatherPluginSource.zip from the Wiki with just the above changes.