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LOL!! Yes, Ras - you make clear your philosophy on all this in your signature. You love going to GREAT lengths to have your phone do what you want it to do. Our philosophies are very similar and my entire Newd Ultimate Location iWidget is based on a combo of WW and Google's free API that YOU taught me how to use. It has SO much more info to offer. I also incorporate WeatherUnderGround as an option. So as they say, "You're preaching to the choir".I deliberately just quoted the last sentence, because that statement goes completely against why I jailbreak my iPhone. OK, let me explain my point of view. I jailbreak because I like freedom, freedom to choose, to choose what I want, where I want it and how I want it.
Apple gives me plenty of options, but not the freedom of choice, only the JB can do that.
Now, your statement, Grant, goes totally against this principle (freedom to choose).
"You just need to make sure the iWidgets you are using are written for the WidgetWeather engine."
There are other ways to get weather info, apart from WW. It basically comes down to the GPS coordinates, all the rest (weather info etc) can be picked up from whatever weather service you want. Winterboard and iWidgets do not run geolocation javascript to get these GPS coordinates themself, so they have to rely on third parties to get them. There is WW, myLocation, GPS-Web-Server (myLocation.txt file in Documents folder) works on 4S and 7.0.4 - don't have 64bit device, so can not test, GPS through geolocation javascript in webclips stored in database (also works on 7.0.4), geolocation javascript in cydget (not 7.0.4 compatible yet) stores GPS data in database available to other widgets etc.
You see, Grant, THIS is choice, this is freedom ... and that is what I like.
But the vast majority of people here don't even understand a word of your post there. And Sital asked me a very simple question to which I gave a very simple answer that would make his phone work PRECISELY as he wanted it to.
. That's why I gave the 'simplistic' answer I did. People want simple, my esteemed colleague. BUT "I" want ALL your best ideas, my friend!!! June'sIphone is also experimenting with server-based data retrieval for weather that uses a completely different weather server than any that you've used in past. Love the innovation that's happening now.
WOW!!! Nice find!! Is this something we can Parse data from easily?? As much as I enjoy the WidgetWeather engine - I've concluded that I will never be satisfied until I can tap into a 'CONTINUOUS' GPS stream of data - that will send data to my widgets at any interval I choose. No matter how I tightly or widely I set the 'aperture' in WW, with its new switches - it's not updating the XML fast enough for the widgets I want to employ. But like you, I'm an experimenter and a forward thinker and never satisfied with any current tool. For the vast majority of people here WW will give them everything they want in terms of the simple coordinates (and much more with all the weather data that comes right from the Yahoo heed to Weather.app). But Yahoo still sucks for me, in terms of precise location data. WU and Google are still way better. WU is flawed in that ALL it contains, for political boundaries, is 'city'. No other data - no county, no neighborhoods -- nothing but a main city. Google gives MUCH more -- but its output data formats are nearly impossible to parse consistently formatted data from. May I 'please' be added to your contacts list for PM? I promise I won't spam you.EDIT:
Found this a few days ago on 7.0.4. Use iFile and go to /var/mobile/Library/Cache/com.apple.routined/ and open cache-encryptedB.db. There you go, a database provided by Apple with GPS coordinates. Mine has 115 counts atm.
EDITED.. Just looked at the cache-encrypteddB.db file. Nice find! But a one decimal place (40.1. -75.3) level of accuracy isn't enough for precise locating - do you think?Last edited by NewD; 2014-01-14 at 09:23 PM.
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GETTING JB'en on 10.1.1 iPh7/7+ with YaluX "ExtraRecipe" tool
UniAW7.1_WW3 for Multi API Weather Sources
Running Widgets in GroovyPlus tweaks for iOS8
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Have city AND neighborhood - Accuweather / Have city AND neighborhood - Yahoo/6.3 Beta version sunset time fix / Random Weather walls (Accuweather)/6.3 Beta version pressure mod/fix / Heat Index code for yahoo/Fix any Yahoo widget yourself (after their forecast change)2014-01-14 09:25 PM -
If you take words out of context it can distort their meaning. I am guilty of that, sorry Grant.LOL!! Yes, Ras - you make clear your philosophy on all this in your signature. You love going to GREAT lengths to have your phone do what you want it to do. Our philosophies are very similar and my entire Newd Ultimate Location iWidget is based on a combo of WW and Google's free API that YOU taught me how to use. It has SO much more info to offer. I also incorporate WeatherUnderGround as an option. So as they say, "You're preaching to the choir".
But the vast majority of people here don't even understand a word of your post there. And Sital asked me a very simple question to which I gave a very simple answer that would make his phone work PRECISELY as he wanted it to.. That's why I gave the 'simplistic' answer I did. People want simple, my esteemed colleague. BUT "I" want ALL your best ideas, my friend!!! June'sIphone is also experimenting with server-based data retrieval for weather that uses a completely different weather server than any that you've used in past. Love the innovation that's happening now.
WOW!!! Nice find!! Is this something we can Parse data from easily?? As much as I enjoy the WidgetWeather engine - I've concluded that I will never be satisfied until I can tap into a 'CONTINUOUS' GPS stream of data - that will send data to my widgets at any interval I choose. No matter how I tightly or widely I set the 'aperture' in WW, with its new switches - it's not updating the XML fast enough for the widgets I want to employ. But like you, I'm an experimenter and a forward thinker and never satisfied with any current tool. For the vast majority of people here WW will give them everything they want in terms of the simple coordinates (and much more with all the weather data that comes right from the Yahoo heed to Weather.app). But Yahoo still sucks for me, in terms of precise location data. WU and Google are still way better. WU is flawed in that ALL it contains, for political boundaries, is 'city'. No other data - no county, no neighborhoods -- nothing but a main city. Google gives MUCH more -- but its output data formats are nearly impossible to parse consistently formatted data from.
The iPhone Web Server has an enormous potential. Way back I made a WB theme called "Hour by Hour". That made use of the web server with html, php and shell scripts. I could fetch any weather page you could find on your computer, extract the interesting bits and display them the way I wanted them. But there was no interest in that, so hope June will have more luck.
Actually it has been an open system for month now.May I 'please' be added to your contacts list for PM? I promise I won't spam you.
It looks like just one decimal in iFile, but download that db file and open it on your computer. You might see that there are more then one decimal number. (Have not tried it on this file, but know that from other GPS database - iFile only shows 1 decimal even if there are more)Nothing is impossible only miracles take a bit longer!2014-01-15 08:22 AM -
