Running your own Wii Forecast Channel: Difference between revisions

With services like RiiConnect24 and WiiLink, you can revive this channel and use it just like before, but if you're a nerd like me and want to add your own locations, you'll need to do some hacking. Fortunately it's pretty easy so long as youryou're a little tech savysavvy.

== What do we need? ==

* Sharpii

* Some sort of hex editor

* A web server that can serve files

* The latest dev build of the Dolphin emulator or a WAD installer if you're on an actual Wii

== Patching the WAD ==

We need to replace this with our web server. It can be any URL - an IP, a website, etc. Thankfully the Forecast Channel doesn't mind if itsit's been tampered with, so we don't have to do any additional modification. I replaced the url with <code>http://computernewb.com/pad/</code>:

== Generating the files ==

Ok, now that we've patched the WAD, we now need to get some files to actually serve the Forecast Channel. The easiest tool I've found for this is WiiLink's [https://github.com/WiiLink24/ForecastChannel ForecastChannel] generator. It requires Go and an Accuweather API key. So the first thing is to download Go and add it to your PATH. Then clone the repository and run the following command:

To add a location, itsit's pretty easy. Just copy and paste the <code><city></code> tag and fill out the information. If you put it in the international category, you won't be able to get the UV index or 5-day forecast for the location due to a limitation in the software.

Example of adding the The South Pole in Antarctica: