RSS and Weather Application
Introduction
A time ago I looked around for project idea’s for my Embedded Master TFT Development System I looked at a movie from Microsoft showcasing posible uses for .NET Micro Framework. In this movie one thing clearly stands out, keeping updated. I tought this was a good idea so I started working on this project. It displays the current Time and Date, The weather for one or more locations and the latest headlines for your favorite RSS feeds. Possible addons that I could think of are stock quotes, but that’s not implemented right now. Main features that are included:
- Getting and displaying the current weather
- Getting and displaying RSS Feeds
- Synchronize with a NTP Time server
For the Weather I use the Weather service from Yahoo (Info) giving free access to many weather stations around the world.
Sorry for the quality of the movie, The camera had trouble focusing.
Download:
You can download the full Visual Studio 2005 Solution: RSS_And_Weather.zip
I know its about a year since you’ve posted this but I just found it. Thats very cool stuff! I’ve been looking at these digital picture frames that they sell thinking “what can I hack together to get one of these to display weather radar and also text information such as weather warnings and weather watches”..
Fun stuff! Hope to see more!
Nice, i try to use this on ChipworkX Dev system, i must make a few changes because the code given has a few incompatible parts in it, and the code for the minuthand is wrong. in the code the second calculation have to use Cos instead of Sin, but for the rest, nice job.
Hi,
nice example, but ….
Try to use it with the current version of the frameworks (4.xx) and all the references were wrong. So, doesn’t matter, and want to fix, but …
Cant’t find any solution for that.
System.Net noe is: ????
Thanks for helping
Gerhard
(newbie)
Elze
Thank you for publishing this project.
I have a new EMX development system and I’m trying to get this project to run on it.
I’m using NETMF V4.0 and GHI NETMF SDK V1.0.4.
Now I know that I will have to change things for the screen size but for right now I’m just trying to get the basics to run.
The project crashes in the YahooReader and RssReader both at the same place in the parser at “while (xmldoc.read())”
Now if I set a breakpoint just before the while I can look at “xmlContent” with the visualizers.
The test visualizer shows about 200 to 300 of the following “�”.
The XML visualizer displays that it cannot be displayed error with using style sheet and Invalid top level document.
So I would say the returned data is no good.
Any ideas would be great.
Thanks
Tom
picture frames that are made of wood are still one of the best picture frames that you can get :
we both have those traditional picture frames and digital picture frames at home. both are great for displaying family pictures ~-`