Premise Displaying local traffic (w/ refresh) in client

[kellyjsanders86]

Now that I have the local weather showing up perfectly I want to expand and add a page for local traffic conditions. I have three touchscreens (mstrbdrm, kitchen, entry) that I would like to display the Premsie browser on and show the traffic conditions at a touch of a button.

Has something been already written to pulling in this type of info (and I'd modify to my local settings)? ...like the weather module?
Or would I add in the xBrowser module and try to screen scrape from a site?

Ideas?

Thanks,

 

[123]

For whatever reason, there's very little official documentation that explains how to create custom screens for Premise Browser. John's XML Weather module was one of the first modules I studied to learn how to make my own screens. If you study XML Weather's underlying code, you'll see that it would take more than a few paragraphs to describe how it works and how to build something similar.

A simple workaround is to use the WebFrames module. Have a look at this post and this one.

 

[kellyjsanders86]

Thanks 123 for the links. I've read them, found the iFrame link code from Google Traffic and will try to get it integrated.

 

[kellyjsanders86]

I now have Google traffic displaying correctly using iFrames. Also, added a quick link on the main page. Very handy. Thanks all!

 

[ahansen]

I now have Google traffic displaying correctly using iFrames. Also, added a quick link on the main page. Very handy. Thanks all!

Any chance you can share the details of how you did this? I'd love to add this to my page (especially for the morning commute...)

Thanks,
Adam

 

[123]

Have you tried the Webframes module? It lets you display any web content in Premise Browser.