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Another Galleon (local radar) weather fix

It’s been almost three years since I last fixed the local radar image in Galleon’s Weather application. Earlier this week TCF user ajayabb pointed out that just like last time, the image was showing N/A again. I tracked down the bug to a change in weather.com’s HTML page and was able to make a simple …

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My enhancement to Galleon’s weather app (officially, this time)

Last month I added a small enhancement to Galleon’s weather app that allowed for a user-selectable range for the radar image (instead of using the default 600-mile one). I published my source code changes and the new jar file here on my blog. Now earlier this month, jtkohl released Galleon 2.5.3 which contained a fix …

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Another enhancement to Galleon’s weather app

Last month after fixing a problem in Galleon’s weather application it was pointed out to me that my fix displayed the 100-mile radar map whereas originally Galleon had shown the 600-mile map. Well, I decided to take a crack at coming up with a solution for that as well. This gave me an opportunity to …

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Fix for local radar image in Galleon’s weather app

A few weeks ago, the Local Radar screen in Galleon‘s weather application started showing “N/A” instead of the image from weather.com. Galleon has been dormant, development-wise, for a while. It was updated late last year with some bug fixes and HD support by s2kdave and jtkohl, but has lapsed into the realm of unsupported (but …

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Galleon 2.5.4 is out

John has released Galleon 2.5.4. Here’s what’s new, from the release notes: Fix ToGo looping bug on null recording date (1811137) Added user-selectable range for local radar image (100, 300, 600 miles) in Weather app auto-subdirectory publishing for GoBack, avoids the need to do it yourself and also avoids bugs in TiVo folder navigation in …

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Getting the most out of your TiVo

A TiVo is much more than just a souped up digital VCR. What separates TiVo from your cable company’s generic DVR (other than the awesome features of TiVo service itself) is the wide range of (mostly free) applications you can use to enhance your TiVo experience. I’ve written about some of these applications here before …

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