LuaRainRSS

[jsmorley]

RSS feed of the Rainmeter forums. See Settings.inc for important information.

LuaRainRSS_3.0.rmskin

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This is really intended for Rainmeter Forum nerds... It can not only flag "new" posts in the last XX minutes, but flag posts created by "you" and flag forum names or post subjects with keywords you want to "watch".

[eclectic-tech]

I had to create 2 missing variables in the settings.ini, but then it works great!

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MyName={MyForumUserName}
MyPassword={MyForumPassword}

Thanks for this, I will definitely be using it!

[jsmorley]

I had to create 2 missing variables in the settings.ini, but then it works great!

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MyName={MyForumUserName}
MyPassword={MyForumPassword}

Thanks for this, I will definitely be using it!

Glad you like it.

You should not have had to "create" any variables in Settings.inc, but just "changed" the ones that are there:

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; Change DoMyName to "1" and set MyName and MyPassword to flag "your" posts.
DoMyName=0
MyName=XXXXXX
MyPassword=XXXXXX
MyColor=255,222,161,255

[eclectic-tech]

I Need More Coffee this morning... I was looking at the top for them and skimmed the rest!!

My apology,thanks again!

[FreeRaider]

Thank you jsmorley

[dgrace]

That is cool!

dave

[NighthawkSLO]

I couldn't get this to work and it took me a long time to finally find the issue: The TimeStamp function doesn't take into account the possibility of zhours and zminutes not existing and then the whole year, month, day, ... fails entirely.

Proposed solution

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function TimeStamp(itemDate)
	
	-- feed date format: 2015-03-14T15:06:40-05:00

	local year, month, day, hour, min, sec =		
	string.match(itemDate, "(%d%d%d%d)-(%d%d)-(%d%d)T(%d%d):(%d%d):(%d%d)")

	local zhours, zminutes = string.match(itemDate, "%d+-%d+-%d+T%d+:%d+:%d+(.-):(%d%d)")

	if not zhours then zhours = 0 end
	if not zminutes then zminutes = 0 end
	
	local localTime = os.time({year=year, month=month, day=day, hour=hour, min=min, sec=sec, isdst=false})
	local utcTime = localTime - ((tonumber(zhours)*3600) + (tonumber(zminutes)*60))
	
	return utcTime

end

[jsmorley]

I couldn't get this to work and it took me a long time to finally find the issue: The TimeStamp function doesn't take into account the possibility of zhours and zminutes not existing and then the whole year, month, day, ... fails entirely.

Huh. Never ran into that.

In User Control Panel in the forums, what do you have your TimeZone settings at?

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I think your proposed solution looks ok, but I'd like to understand the circumstances...

[NighthawkSLO]

Huh. Never ran into that.

In User Control Panel in the forums, what do you have your TimeZone settings at?

I didn't set it, now it's at UTC+01:00 like it should...

I guess I should really work on my profile.

[jsmorley]

Well, I will implement your proposed solution anyway. I didn't think the board would ever return a date/time string without the timezone info, even if it was just 00:00 for GMT, but I guess it can...

Updated the .rmskin in the first post...