Overview

A summary of the Weather (World Weather Lite) plugin and architecture

Technology

As of version [1.4.0] MediaPortal includes the World Weather Lite plugin for basic Weather features. World Weather Lite is a 'basic' version of the popular World Weather plugin developed as an extension for MediaPortal by Micropolis. See Background and History below for more details.

Summary

World Weather Lite is a MediaPortal plugin, which can be used to display weather data for self-defined locations. It is a simplified version of the World Weather extension, which provides additional functions.

Supported condition weather providers are:

• Foreca
• Yahoo
• WorldWeatherOnline
• Weather Underground

World Weather Lite vs World Weather Extension

World Weather Lite is a basic version of World Weather. Thus you can NOT install both versions. If you try the installer will warn you to uninstall the other version first.

The full version of World Weather includes the following additional weather providers:

• AccuWeather
• wetter.com
• WeatherBug
• PreviMeteo
• Weather2
• Yr.No (hourly forecasts only),

and the following additional features:

• Hourly, graphical and history views
• Longitude and Latitude handling(for sunrise/sunset and astronomy calculations)
• weather images
• weather maps - (from Weather Underground, Open Weather Map and Google)
• geographical clock
• starry sky and zodiac maps
• calendar -holidays,seasons as well as up to 5 of your own (self-defined) dates
• RSS weather feeds
• plus many more options for customization such as weather icons and mapping, chart style etc.

Background and History

In 2011, The Weather Channel discontinued its free API, so the built-in Weather plugin/feature provided with MediaPortal up to and including version 1.2.3, which used Weather Channel data, no longer works.

Many Weather plugins were soon developed and offered by community developers as an extension to MediaPortal. World Weather quickly became the most popular, especially as it offered a variety of weather providers, to ensure it could continue to work in future, even if some providers discontinued access to there API as The Weather Channel did.

In 2012, a poll showed almost 70% of users would like basic Weather features included in MediaPortal. As a result, Micropolis, the developer of the World Weather plugin, offered to develop a modified/basic version of his plugin for inclusion in MediaPortal: World Weather Lite

Related

References

• Copyright
• Version History