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It's real minimal. I've only just begun using Geektool.
I don't use my MacMini often so I don't have much going on with it because it's supposed to just be my HTPC.
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GoCubsGo said:
It's real minimal. I've only just begun using Geektool.
I don't use my MacMini often so I don't have much going on with it because it's supposed to just be my HTPC.
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Does your weather image update? If so, can you share the shell and image geeklets?

My weather description updates, but my weather image never does even if I hit the refresh button.
 
Sital said:
Does your weather image update? If so, can you share the shell and image geeklets?

My weather description updates, but my weather image never does even if I hit the refresh button.
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If I recall, I used this YouTube video or one with similar instructions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TKJJBK7kc

It does update. It turned to rain on Friday when I was on this machine. Let me know if that doesn't work and I'll find the actual video. The script is on the video blog link.
 
Here's mine
 

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Sital said:
Here's the direct link to the blog that from the video link that GoCubsGo provided. It does work!
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This doesn't work for me. This is the command I use:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/united-arab-emirates/abu-Dhabi/abu-Dhabi-1940330/" | grep "current-weather" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\') .*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather1.png\

And then when I enter this: file://localhost/tmp/weather1.png command in 'Image', I should get a picture but I don't get anything.
 
LadyX said:
This doesn't work for me. This is the command I use:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/united-arab-emirates/abu-Dhabi/abu-Dhabi-1940330/" | grep "current-weather" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\') .*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather1.png\

And then when I enter this: file://localhost/tmp/weather1.png command in 'Image', I should get a picture but I don't get anything.
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That looks right. Did you change the "refresh every" to something other than zero? Mine still doesn't work perfectly -- sometimes I need to manually refresh the image, but it's better than before when it would show me the sun 24 hours a day.

As an aside, I'm noticing that Yahoo weather doesn't update the current conditions often enough and lags behind weather.com. Right now yahoo.com says my locale is 70 degrees and rainy, while weather.com says 78 and cloudy (weather.com is correct). I may end up scrapping the weather geeklet altogether.
 
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bluespider said:
very nice, like the wallpaper
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Thank you! I got the wallpaper from here: http://raduluchian.com/wallpaper/the-great-escape/

bluespider said:
Here's mine...
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Sweet! Could you please share the wallpaper :)

Sital said:
That looks right. Did you change the "refresh every" to something other than zero? Mine still doesn't work perfectly -- sometimes I need to manually refresh the image, but it's better than before when it would show me the sun 24 hours a day.
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Yes, I did set the refresh rate.
 
LadyX said:
This doesn't work for me. This is the command I use:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/united-arab-emirates/abu-Dhabi/abu-Dhabi-1940330/" | grep "current-weather" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\') .*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather1.png\

And then when I enter this: file://localhost/tmp/weather1.png command in 'Image', I should get a picture but I don't get anything.
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You need to make sure the weather1.png file exists in the directory for it to work, it will not create the file by default. If you don't have one, just take any jpg and rename it to that...once the file is there it should start working... hope this helps!
 
bluespider said:
You need to make sure the weather1.png file exists in the directory for it to work, it will not create the file by default. If you don't have one, just take any jpg and rename it to that...once the file is there it should start working... hope this helps!
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You mean I should rename a random jpg I have to weather1.png (delete jpg extension and replace it with .png) and save that in the directory: localhost/tmp?


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