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Title: Refresh
Post by: joelw135 on November 08, 2003, 02:31:32 PM
I am new to this!  If I am correct, that inorder to refresh the weather data I must delete the buffer files everytime I want a weather update. It would be nice to have a button under the weather to delete these files or have the refresh button do this operation.
Title: Refresh
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 02:38:31 PM
joelw135,

 No you do not have to delet anything, when you sync up it will download new weather and rrs feeds, and you can just tap the refresh button. The only time you have to delet the buffer info is when you change your city info or you'r rss info.


Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: joelw135 on November 08, 2003, 02:43:54 PM
Well I tried that, and it does not upload a new report.  Is there something I have to change?
Title: Refresh
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 02:52:42 PM
Are you behind a fire wall? What does it do des it try to update, does the text turn gray when you do? Did you change the config file to you zip code? It should update, It is setup up to update every hour, if you try to update before an hour of last update then no it will not update.


Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: joelw135 on November 08, 2003, 02:55:08 PM
Ok, I think I understand, that the 60 in front of city is the amount of minutes before it updates.  Can I change that to a lower number? Thanks.
Title: Refresh
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 02:58:54 PM
That is correct. And yes you can lower that number to what ever you like. But msnbc updates there website every hour.


Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: joelw135 on November 08, 2003, 03:01:01 PM
Thank you for all the help.  Now to find a US news link to set up instead of BBC.  Do you know of a RSS?
Title: rss
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 03:03:55 PM
Here are some from yahoo:

rss,1,60,http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech,Yahoo! Tech,6
rss,2,60,http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/sports, Yahoo! Sports,6
rss,3,60,http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories,Yahoo! Top Stories,6
rss,4,60,http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/world, Yahoo! World,6
rss,5,60,http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough, Yahoo! Oddly Enough,6


Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: joelw135 on November 08, 2003, 03:06:20 PM
Thanks, do I just replace the ones I want?
Title: Refresh
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 03:07:37 PM
yes.

I am going to move this to help + support.

Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: srs on November 08, 2003, 03:16:41 PM
don't set the weather feed to less than 60 minutes.  the weather feed is only updated once every hour and too much bandwidth on their servers will cause the feed to be shut down.
Title: Refresh
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 03:19:19 PM
Quotedon't set the weather feed to less than 60 minutes. the weather feed is only updated once every hour and too much bandwidth on their servers will cause the feed to be shut down.


Sorry i didnt know that. I did know that they only updated every hour.


Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: srs on November 08, 2003, 03:22:32 PM
oh, its no problem. that update interval is there mostly for the rss feeds, and I probably shouldn't have left it in there for the weather.
Title: Refresh
Post by: Lordtwisted on November 08, 2003, 03:25:38 PM
Quoteoh, its no problem. that update interval is there mostly for the rss feeds, and I probably shouldn't have left it in there for the weather.

Well it's kind of good becouse i set mine to update every 2 hours. Unless you can hard code it to not update less then an hour?


Lordtwisted
Title: Refresh
Post by: joelw135 on November 08, 2003, 04:27:19 PM
What does the last number on the RSS line mean? Thanks
Title: Refresh
Post by: arbitrajeu on November 09, 2003, 06:40:51 PM
Quote from: joelw135What does the last number on the RSS line mean? Thanks
As per the skin reference, the last number is the "Maximum number of html pages to load for this entry".  

That is, if the RSS feed provides 20 news stories, and you have 6 as this last number, TodayPlus will download HTML pages for offline viewing for only the first 6 stories.