Support Notes

Jan 12, 2021 - The News12 weather reader is no longer being used.

Dec 18, 2020 - Discovered that the data source of the reader was not being updated. Not sure that it will be used anymore. See case 3756 for more info.

Version 1.0.5

September 18, 2017

• Improve tab orders.

• Improve agent status reporting - especially around pause and stop operations.

Version 1.0.4

August 25, 2017

• Display a loading panel at startup.

• Improve database performance with better transaction handling.

• Implement a play/pause button with the stop button.

• Enable deleting selected locations.

• Move the Load Locations button to the Locations tab.

Version 1.0.2.1

April 27, 2018

• Request the data using a bypass-cache option to try to avoid getting stale data.

Version 1.0.2

April 7, 2017

• Improve handling of almanac sunrise and sunset times.

Version 1.0.1

March 29, 2017

• Apply default weather icons with a default folder path of weather/

Version 1.0.0

March 28, 2017

Initial Draft

• Pulls data from a custom client url source.

• Includes forecasts for (but not for all locations)

  • Current

  • Daily

  • Day parts

• Uses dynamic fields to include additional custom fields

  • Override Texts

  • Almanac data

    • Normal high and low

    • Record high and low

    • Sunrise and sunset times

    • etc.

  • Marine data

    • Advisory

    • Wind

    • Waves

    • Visibility

    • etc.

• Load city name and location details from a delimited text file

  • similar to WSI city list file format

Adding Locations

To add locations to the list of locations that will be read from the custom News12 Weather source:

1. Create a text file file with values delimited by the pipe character: |

   1. It should have this header row: 

      1. Id|Name|StateAbbreviation|StateName|CountryName|CountryFips

   2. Example record:

      1. BX|Bronx|NY|New York|United States|US

   3. Notes:

      1. ID values need to be unique for each line/location

      2. StateAbbreviate should be at most 4 characters

      3. CountryFips is a 2 character abbreviation/code for the country

2. Load the text file in the app

   1. Go to the Locations tab

   2. Click the Load Locations... at the bottom of the location list

   3. Select a single state or All

3. The weather data for the new locations will be available after the reader app runs next.

Sample location file

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Sample location file format

Sample file