Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Current Shrewsbury Weather

I own a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro. It updates a website with my local weather every
5 minutes.

You can view it here.

Boston/Philadelphia/New York/Camden Area Traffic Plugin for Trillian

I wrote a plugin for Trillian. That was a real PITA. Anyhow; the plugin scrapes data from the SmarTraveler website and presents it within the Trillian UI.



I wrote the plugin in Visual Studio 2005 in C++. The Trillian API really sucks; but here is a link
to the only online one that worked when I wrote the plugin.

You can configure the routes you are interested in via the Trillian Preferences for the plugin.



Trillian Traffic Plugin

To get started; you will need Trillian Pro. Trillian Basic does not support plugins.

The plugin can be found here:

http://www.fontanas.net/plugin/trafficbug.zip

To install the plugin unzip the file into your Trillian folder:

It is usually; c:\program files\trillian

Then; Enable the plugin from the Trillian Preferences.



Update to this post; I added support for the other SmartTraveler cities.