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Grabbing TrafficCam links or just focusing in on browser?

Peepew 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

I'm having a really hard time finding the streaming link to some of the traffic cams from my city's website:

http://edmontontrafficcam.com/

I've tried inspect element, url sniffers...etc. 

Is there a way to create a tile that will focus in on a specific area of a website? Or is it just through a url only.

Thanks in advance.

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DAKboard alternatives? Weather Underground API discontinued for Personal Weather Stations

bzncrew 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 0

WU has ended PWS APIs.   So Dakboard can't pull my weather station data.   That was a NICE feature.   Is there a workaround or another screensaver like Dakboard?

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Weather Underground API

gsgentry 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Bruce Young 6 years ago 26

I have a PWS (personal weather station) that feeds with the weather underground. I have my own station ID and API Key... is there any way I can get AT to show some of the information from the PWS?


Thank you!

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Yes,


Create a stock Smart Weather Tile device in the ST IDE, then open your mobile app and specify your station ID in the preferences. Then, this device will display the reading from your station.

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SmartWeather Station Tile location issues - just started recently

KevinA 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

I've been using the SmartWeather Station Tile for almost a year without issue. In the last few days, it has started showing me weather for a city in France. Upon investigation, I find that this town in France has the same postal code as my city in the U.S. The tile seems to go back and forth between the two. Where does this tile get its location information?


The zip code in the Tile Settings in ActionTiles is correct, and my SmartThings hub location is correct.

Answer

Hi Kevin,

Please remove the postal code entirely. SmartThings has recently changed the Weather API. The SmartWeather Station Tile should be taking coordinates from your hub's location.

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Integrate General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

tbarber4 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic 0

Fringe case but used in many metro areas. Google Transit Feed Spec has a standard for transit times. 

Not sure how the interface would look or the calls for specific stops would be handled (by actiontiles or a call)

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Help getting Media Tile URL from NOAA satellite?

Willis 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 4

I found this link:  https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES16_CONUS_Band.php?band=GEOCOLOR&length=72


Which has a really cool looking weather .GIF loop.  However, the way the site is setup, I cannot turn it into a Media tile.  Anyone have any ideas on how show the loop in a tile?

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Traffic conditions

Markmm 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1

I'm trying to find a way to add on a tile (Fire tablet) for traffic conditions in Honolulu using this link but I can't get it to work.  Please let me know if this is possible or not.  Also if there is a way to zoom in that would help too.  Thank you


http://www.goakamai.org/home

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Motorway Cameras?

ash stokes 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated 6 years ago 2

Hi Guys,


Right so I live real close to the M1 and use it for travelling to family/going to work etc.. I used to have a media tile that showed the M1 camera because you can usually see if it's standstill from it. Previously I had to use another website that hosts it as whenever I viewed it on an ipad it'd come up with a different static image that'd never change. Now that websites been taken down and I can only view it by 'https://www.motorwaycameras.co.uk/imagehandlerx/?4947165839360' which doesn't work on ipad/iphones etc.. Does anyone have any workaround? I assume it's because it's using 'https' as the previous url was http.


Cheers.

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Disable 30 minute refresh of SmartWeather Station Tile?

Nathan Davis 8 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 2

I noticed when viewing recent history of the SmartWeather Station Tile in SmartThings that every 30 minutes ActionTiles refreshes/polls the weather information. Is there any way to disable that so that I have full control of when the tile gets refreshed? I have a CoRE piston set up to poll the weather tile on certain events. I know this probably sounds like a dumb request, but like I said I would rather have full control of when the information gets refreshed. Just a personal preference.

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State DOT traffic cameras

Jeff Todd 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Lance 7 years ago 7

I think I know the answer to this but I'm going to post anyway.  I'm trying to set up live traffic feeds with no luck.   All the state camera links in Connecticut are "https", not "http".


Am I correct in thinking that ActionTiles does not support "https" media feeds?


Thanks, Jeff

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Central Florida weather url Media Tile?

revnmaynard 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Kevin1 7 years ago 2

so I can’t figure out how to add media. I got to weather websites. Go to radar and copy web address. Paste it in my media and it says it’s invalid. I’ve right clicked it to try and get url with no luck. I live in central Florida if anyone can help me

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traffic cam tile keeps on expiring?

johnnytlee 8 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 7

i see people's tile setups with traffic cams. the ones i found like on sigalert or trafficland work initially but then after a few hours the image expires. anyone find a better source or a way to keep the traffic cam images from expiring?

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Using jggdev weather link: How to use in Chile?

Andres 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 2

hi guys. Anyone here know how to customize the jggdev link to use another country? I'm currently in chile the code is cl but using the link.. is not working

For example this link show another country 

http://jggdev.com/atiles/weather.php?backgroundColor=FFFFFF&bodyColor=00FF00&titleColor=000000&country=cl