Showaco Titanium weather is a thingy for Windows Mobile 6.5 that shows weather info as a panel on the home screen. The terms CHome and Titanium refer to these rectangular panels on the Windows Mobile 6.5 home screen. By thingy I probably mean plugin.
There is a cool extension to the Showaco Titanium weather thingy that allows it to use the current location (GPS) rather than having the user enter an obscure location code. It uses the myLocation service to get the current location through GPS.
The weather data was provided by AccuWeather through an API but as far as I can tell, AccuWeather have withdrawn the service.
This leaves a really great weather plugin with no source of data. So I did something about it.
They seem to have fixed it themselves, but broken GPS in the process: (Forum post.) I plan to fix the GPS on this.
My fix is provided free, without warranty, for use only at your own risk. Specifically, by dowloading my fix you agree to my disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability as described in Section 15 and Section 16 of the GNU General Public Licence. So nerr.
.txt extension on the web server otherwise the web server won’t let it be downloaded.
The extension should be .mscr.)
The QR code on the right contains the URL of TitaniumWeatherRwb.mscr.
(For decoding
I recommend Barcodezilla, but good luck trying to install SQL Compact.)
\My Device\Program Files\TitaniumWeather\TitaniumWeather.mscr
with my replacement script.
Inevitably, there are few ‘rough edges’ on this reverse-engineering project (see below), but the plugin now has most of its functionality restored.
The weather feed I use does not contain forecast data, so the forecast pages are not updated. To remove them simply un-check the ‘Enable Forecast Pages’ checkbox on the ‘Display Options’ page of the Titanium Weather menu application.
The weather feed I use provides some different fields, so I have done as best as I can to display these data in the current plugin format. I do not know how to change the plugin format and am not very interested in learning.
All temperatures in in degrees centigrade, and distances are in miles. If you don't like this then tough.
Long city names will cause text to go off screen.
I don’t have definitions for the AccuWeather weather symbols, so I have used my judgement on matching them to the description of the conditions. Inevitably we shall disagree on some of the matchings.
While I appreciate feedback, please remember that I am not obliged to fix anything that you consider to be broken.