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7/9/10 1:26 AM
I'd like to post time and current temperature on my digital sign. The only RSS feeds I've found so far only take me to a headline. Does anyone know of a free RSS service that will allow me to post this info? Or am I missing extra RSS path information that will allow me to directly target and request the data? Thanks.
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RE: Free RSS time and temperature
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7/24/10 2:50 AM as a reply to Joseph Habersham.
Have you considered instead of using RSS creating a html page that gets the information for you.  We currenlty do that for Date and Time and just made the background transparent.  The HTML page resides on an internal web server.  Most of the RSS feeds I have found have some extra banner or info that I do not want to publish.  We have also used weatherunderground.com free weather sticker.   
 
 
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RE: Free RSS time and temperature
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8/17/10 1:01 AM as a reply to Joseph Habersham.
Weather should be able to be done through the National Weather Service as they provide RSS and XML feeds for pretty much anything weather related.  Check out http://www.weather.gov/rss/  and http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/
 
For example to get Baltimore-Washington Interational Airport RSS weather you'd request:
http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KBWI.rss
or XML
http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KBWI.xml
 
 
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RE: Free RSS time and temperature
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8/28/10 8:18 AM as a reply to Joseph Habersham.
I'd like to post time and current temperature on my digital sign. The only RSS feeds I've found so far only take me to a headline. Does anyone know of a free RSS service that will allow me to post this info? Or am I missing extra RSS path information that will allow me to directly target and request the data? Thanks.

 
I use http://www.timeanddate.com/clocks/free.html to create HTML code for a clock which displays current time.
 
I added that HTML into my media library and use it in a non-video playlist using the designer tool.
 
It works great.
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RE: Free RSS time and temperature
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11/18/10 9:15 AM as a reply to Joseph Habersham.
I'd like to post time and current temperature on my digital sign. The only RSS feeds I've found so far only take me to a headline. Does anyone know of a free RSS service that will allow me to post this info? Or am I missing extra RSS path information that will allow me to directly target and request the data? Thanks.

 
You can just build a Flash or Javascript clock that runs on the DMP. As of 5.2.1 we enabled NTP service on the DMP. That means an app can query the time on the device.
 
Weather is a little harder. Check out http://www.weather.gov they have free text based weather data. You will need to download the data and parse it for the information you are looking for but thats not too hard with Javascript or Flash.
 
 
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RE: Free RSS time and temperature
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3/29/13 10:17 AM as a reply to DAVID ANDERSON.
DAVID ANDERSON:
Have you considered instead of using RSS creating a html page that gets the information for you.  We currenlty do that for Date and Time and just made the background transparent.  The HTML page resides on an internal web server.  Most of the RSS feeds I have found have some extra banner or info that I do not want to publish.  We have also used weatherunderground.com free weather sticker.   
 
 
But when you made the background transparent, the backgrounl will have same color as playlist background,by default it s black
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