This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Written by:                  Steffen Moldaner <s.moldaner@gmx.net>
Project's homepage:          http://www.moldaner.de/vdr/
Latest version available at: http://www.moldaner.de/vdr/download/
See the file COPYING for license information.

Description:
Displays the current weather conditions for a selected location. It gets the METAR data
from ftp://weather.noaa.gov.
Get the station id for yout location at http://weather.noaa.gov/. Default is "EDDF" (Frankfurt /
M-Flughafen, Germany).

Requirements:
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-METAR Decoder Software Package Library 0.11(http://limulus.net/mdsplib/)
-ftplib 3.1-1 (http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/ftplib/)

Run ldconfig after installation.

Installation:
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Just type "make plugins" at VDR directory level. Run VDR and edit the station id in prefrences for your location.

Preferences:
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-Station id 				The id for your location. Get it from http://weather.noaa.gov/. Default is EDDF.
-Update time				Time to update the metar data in minutes. Default is 30.
-Username					Username to login at ftp://weather.noaa.gov. Default is anonymous.
-Password					The password to login at ftp://weather.noaa.gov. This should be your e-mail, as always by anonymous login.
-Use passive connection	If true a passive ftp-connection is used to download metar. Behind some routers vdr will
								will crash (Bug in ftplib) if disabled. Default is true.
-Display						Choose between simple Text and a graphical layout.

FAQ
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There are some display problems with the dvb-1.0.0-pre3 driver and CVS versions. Please update your driver to dvb-1.0.0 or newer.