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iI can confurm tat wat drwells said in page 4 in the cities and weather poste (about the & amp ;) is the problem here. while i couldnt my self get the city i desired to show up (fixed by turning the phon off and back on, resulting on pointui home 2 reloading files) i also finally got its searching for the weather for my town/city. i then got the error " o ch ", this isnt a bug wats so ever, this is just because of the missing input od the " & " at the right location. i have writen a step by step detaile setup guid and for an example Below is my configerations of my home town:
<item>
<id>EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</id>
<text>Barrow-In-Furness</text>
<x>321</x>
<y>58</y>
<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</url>
<newsurl>http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=uk&q=barrow-in-furness&ie=UTF-8&nolr=1&output=rss</newsurl>
<gmtOffsetMinutes>+0</gmtOffsetMinutes>
</item>
step 1
as te first pages suggest copy yr cities.xml's from yr device (lcated in the device storage > prgrams > home2 > appribbon > today and world > cities.xml.
Note
edit these (cities) in notepad and paste the follow in at the althabetical possion:
<item>
<id>your accuweather code (respect syntax!)</id>
<text>your town as displayed on the applet</text>
<x>x-axys value on world map</x>
<y>y-axys value on world map</y>
<url>url for wheather RSS feed for your town</url>
<newsurl>your url for news</newsurl>
<gmtOffsetMinutes>GMT Time offset (+ or -, in minutes)</gmtOffsetMinutes>
</item>
step 2
If u can see in my configurations for my town, the id line: <id>EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</id> was taken from http://www.accuweather.com/rss-center.asp . clicking on the link proveded opens the rss centre, this shows two boxes, Choose a Location and Current conditions and two-day forcast. remember to keep this open still as u will need all of the link later on.
once u have entered yr town/city and clicked set a rss feed address will show up in the Current conditions and two-day forcast and at the end of that is yr id/code as follows:
i.e:
http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=0&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness
the part u need for yr id is as follows:
http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=0&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness
Only wat i have underlined as an example id yr id, next u copy it into the sring for yr id as follows:
<id>your accuweather code</id>
step 3
enter your town/city in the following:
<text>your town as displayed on the applet</text>
step 4
this can be a tricky part, i was lucky seen as england is small and from london to my town on the map provided was just a few ajustment to the x and the y. my suggestion here is find the nerest city to yr town or city, paste them in the same looking string as below in yr cities. xml and ajust bit by bit, teadious i know but hey.
<x>x-axys value on world map</x>
<y>y-axys value on world map</y>
step 5
this step u have to revisit this address: http://www.accuweather.com/rss-center.asp . entre your location and like before in the other box called Current conditions and two-day forcast your rss url is gengerated. copy and paste this in the following:
<url>url for wheather RSS feed for your town</url>
for example this is wat mine looked like:
<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</url>
this is also were the problem for moste people keeps coming into place, the "o ch " error. if your url does not have the "&" after metric then entre (with out quotation marks) like so:
<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</url>
Note
if your wanting you weather in celcious then before the & place a 1 as follows:
<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</url>
if your wanting it in farronhight the before the & place a 0 as follows:
<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=0&locCode=EUR|UK|UK128|Barrow-In-Furness</url>
step 6
this step is the setup for have the lates news in yr town/city showing up at the bottem of the today screen. all that is needed is for you to click this link: http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn .
choose the part of the world your in on the top left.
search your town/city in the top google search.
sellect rss from the bottem left of the list on the left.
copy and paste it in the sring as follows:
<newsurl>your url for news</newsurl>
also something u have to add into the string is the " & amp ; " and this is entred before " output=rss " an example follows:
<newsurl>http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=uk&q=barrow-in-furness&ie=UTF-8&nolr=1&output=rss</newsurl>
hope this helps every one with there problems for getting it to show up and show there weather. please remember everytime u change the cities.xml u will have to turn yr phone off and turn it on again
