Weather Icons

Xive · 2012-02-27 12:39

Hello,
I tried my best to put this topic in its right section so i hope someone will know this; I have made/designed some custom weather icons package and i want to use it instead of the default XBMC weather icons.

I noticed the icons are being cached in AppData/Roaming/XBMC/cache/weather in 128x128 and 64x64 folders so i have replaced whats inside with my package and it worked, But the original icons keeps coming back periodically; overwriting my custom icons.

I have been searching everywhere for the original icons path with no luck,
I'm guessing the icons are actually on the internet somewhere and there is a script that download it to the cache folder and overwrite whatever in the 128x128, 64x64 folders.

If that is the case where is that script located so i can edit it to read only my icons, if not what can i do to stop the original icons from coming back !

P.S: I'm using Eden-Beta

Thanks.

**Martijn** · 2012-02-27 13:43

And I hope you will share them when you're finshed Wink

To use custom icons your skins needs to support these. For example you can point at a location where the weather condition icons are stored.
Cashing in XBMC takes about 24 hours for them to refresh.

I have the original animated icon pack if you want.

Xive · 2012-02-27 17:03

@Martijn: Thanks for the reply, i have opened the default.py of the weather addons in /addons but nothing to lead to the icons.

I Thought about hard-coding it in the Includes_Weather.xml (Aeon Skin) but the image had:

Code:

<info>Window(weather).Property(Current.ConditionIcon)</info>

property, I could replace that with <texture> tags that leads to my icons only if i could process the condition to decide which icon to put Frown

Thanks again tho Smile

**ronie** · 2012-02-27 19:30

Xive Wrote:I have been searching everywhere for the original icons path with no luck

they're included in xbmc:
C:\Program Files\XBMC\media\weather.zip

you could replace the zip file with your own (keeping the folder structure intact).

of course, you would need to do this each time you install a new version of xbmc.

Xive · 2012-02-28 11:45

@ronie: Ahhh there it is ! Big Grin

I have replicated the same zip with my icons, just need xbmc to refresh its cache now, hope it won't reset tomorrow Smile

Thanks!

errornumber419 · 2012-03-04 00:47

If you set it to read only maybe that will keep them around?

Might give you an error when you update or it might just skip them.

Xive · 2012-03-05 16:10

errornumber419 Wrote:If you set it to read only maybe that will keep them around?

Might give you an error when you update or it might just skip them.

Nope i did what ronie said - replacing zip while keeping the folder structure intact - and it didn't change back Wink

Xive Junior Member Posts: 38 Joined: Jul 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Egypt	2012-02-28 11:45 Post: #5 @ronie: Ahhh there it is ! I have replicated the same zip with my icons, just need xbmc to refresh its cache now, hope it won't reset tomorrow Thanks! I wrote a program to program my program ! - programception.
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errornumber419 Junior Member Posts: 29 Joined: Dec 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Wisconsin	2012-03-04 00:47 Post: #6 If you set it to read only maybe that will keep them around? Might give you an error when you update or it might just skip them.
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Xive Junior Member Posts: 38 Joined: Jul 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Egypt	2012-03-05 16:10 Post: #7 errornumber419 Wrote:If you set it to read only maybe that will keep them around? Might give you an error when you update or it might just skip them. Nope i did what ronie said - replacing zip while keeping the folder structure intact - and it didn't change back I wrote a program to program my program ! - programception.
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