Translation of weather skin

[The Co]

I've seen the substitute command for the Alerts file and the 7 day forecast file the skin has, not with date though. The

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Substitute=#Date#

was already here on the other skin, the document was made specially for translating (there was also a similar command

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Conditions="Thunderstorms":"[translated]"

, I just didn't like the weather skin the suite had so I didn't use it). I will hunt the

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Measure=WebParser

that has the text I want to translate tomorrow to use the substitute command.

[balala]

I will hunt the

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Measure=WebParser

that has the text I want to translate tomorrow to use the substitute command.

Alright. If you have further questions, feel free to come back with them.

[aquaxetinez]

Alright. If you have further questions, feel free to come back with them.

Hi! i`m using this skin (https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainmeter/comments/hf1m06/small_clean_weather_animated/) small_clean_weather_animated

Trying to translate weather status, where i need to put this to work? Already tried all files
Substitute="Drizzle":"Drizzle1","Light freezing drizzle":"Drizzle2"

[balala]

Trying to translate weather status, where i need to put this to work? Already tried all files
Substitute="Drizzle":"Drizzle1","Light freezing drizzle":"Drizzle2"

I think you don1t have to translate. The skin (as all skins using Weather.com) can translate at least the weather conditions. Just open the @Resources\WeatherComJSONVariables.inc file and replace the Language=en-US variable with the language code you want to use, as described here.

[aquaxetinez]

Yeah but i want to Substitute weather conditions, not lang at all.

For example change "Light freezing drizzle" to simply "Drizzle", is there are any way to do that whithin Rainmeter?

Don`t like long strings

[balala]

For example change "Light freezing drizzle" to simply "Drizzle", is there are any way to do that whithin Rainmeter?

There is, definitely. Add the Substitute option to the [@CurrentConditions] measure, existing in the @Resources\WeatherComJSONMeasures.inc file.
However, is the linked skin working for you? Because I can't get it to work.

[SilverAzide]

Yeah but i want to Substitute weather conditions, not lang at all.

For example change "Light freezing drizzle" to simply "Drizzle", is there are any way to do that whithin Rainmeter?

Don`t like long strings

If you want short strings for the current weather conditions, instead of using the @CurrentConditions measure, use @CurrentConditionsMedium or @CurrentConditionsShort. Trying to shorten the weather.com weather description based on the text is a bit hit-and-miss, because they don't always use consistent values. I would suggest you not change any WeatherComJSONxxxx files because these are a set of templates that may need to change if weather.com alters their API.

[Yincognito]

Yeah but i want to Substitute weather conditions, not lang at all.

For example change "Light freezing drizzle" to simply "Drizzle", is there are any way to do that whithin Rainmeter?

Don`t like long strings

However, is the linked skin working for you? Because I can't get it to work.

Besides that skin not working, it's also updating weather once every... 18 SECONDS (Update=30 × UpdateRate=600) !!!

Something like this is frankly equivalent to that Nominatim complaint about polling such sites excessively, and should be IMMEDIATELY corrected by its author or else deleted from DeviantArt and other locations entirely, because is putting ALL of us that use weather.com to get weather data at DECENT rates in danger of losing such access - just because of one or a few skin designers who don't adjust their code properly in such cases.

So, apart from the string shortening solutions detailed above (balala's one can be slightly altered by creating a String measure taking the value of [@CurrentConditions] in the main skin and perform the substitute there instead of in the .inc files), ANYONE using this ... improperly configured skin (to put it gently) should set UpdateRate from ...\@Resources\WeatherComJSONVariables.inc to at least 20000 in order to replicate the reasonable 10 minute weather update frequency, while keeping whatever animation in that skin intact (if it's working in the first place, that is).

P.S. Even better, jsmorley's .inc files themselves could use a safe UpdateDivider (or some formula that translates to a real time reasonable rate) on the superparent WebParser in the future. This won't correct badly written existing skins that update too often, but at least it would avoid such situations in the future since most folks would then just modify the UpdateRate in WeatherComJSONVariables.inc to multiples of 10 minutes...

[aquaxetinez]

WeatherComJSONVariables.inc file , update rate there is 600 seconds why should it update is 18 seconds? so each 5 mins we take data from weather.com


and Update=1000 (i`m using SmallCleanWeather Static.ini) meants update rate of widget itself , or i`m wrong?

[Yincognito]

WeatherComJSONVariables.inc file , update rate there is 600 seconds why should it update is 18 seconds? so each 5 mins we take data from weather.com


and Update=1000 (i`m using SmallCleanWeather Static.ini) meants update rate of widget itself , or i`m wrong?

If you're using the Static variant, then everything is fine, since the actual frequency of weather data retrieval would be 600 × 1000 = 600000 ms = 600 s = 10 minutes in that case.

In the other variants from that skin though, the Update is set to 30 instead of 1000 for the animations to work, and that's what is driving taking data from weather.com to that insane interval of 600 × 30 = 18000 ms = 18 seconds, which is not only preposterous (weather doesn't change every 18 seconds, not even on the surface of the Sun, if we disregard flares), but could lead the site to ban either such skins or the Rainmeter's WebParser plugin header as a whole from accessing the site or the JSON. Just 1000 users of those variants would make up roughly 5000000 requests per day...

By the way, this is how a WebParser measure update frequency is computed:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/webparser/#UpdateRate