"Weather" section enhancements/improvements suggestions...

[mknight]

very very cool! *nice work! *i wanted this back in xbmp but nobody really got on board with the idea. *i am glad to see it surfacing in xbmc.

just and idea, i don't know if you thought about this. *i presume it will work by being able to pull up the weather from a "my weather" section on the main menu, but i think it would be good to have it as an optional screen saver too. *it could just be an addition to matrix, blank, and fade that are there now. *it could refresh every half hour or so by itself. i leave my xbox on all the time and that way i could simply just turn on the tv and right there is the weather forecast for me and my family.

[Bhellium]

how about having the images for rain/snow/lightning to be animated?

[Gamester17]

please remember and respect that this specific topic thread is for "feature suggestions" for my weather, and not for support or bugs

[thebeast]

i would like to see a way to switch between presets.

[Odrike]

it would be nice if a user could choose more than one city, and togle between them. or this is already possible?

[IndieRockSteve]

since my weather seems to be working fairly well for everyone, i've got some enhancement idea's. i don't know if any of them have been mentioned yet, so some might be repeats, and they might be possible already via the skin being used, but here they are:

back button - since theres ample screen space, i think to go along with the "refresh" should be a back button. this would make it easy to go back to the main menu(since i find that pushing down, a is faster than reaching for new buttons, and others might too).

multiple locals - be able to choose more than one zip code that can be displayed, have buttons for each one listed by its looked up local info. have a default zip code for the initial display. refresh should be able to refresh all of them.

[Agrajag]

now that we have weather (thank you very much frodo and gang), i'd like to see the ability to set a home code and then allow for setting on-the-fly look-ups. for example, i ski a lot and want to know what the weather is going to be at the mountain we're heading to. now it would be a huge hassle to get that on the xbox just for a single use. it'd be great to be able to type in my info, get the data and then leave. upon re-entering i'd see the default home area report again.

i'd still also like to see more depth including 10-day forecasts, radar maps and so forth.

[Gamester17]

option to set/sellect these from gui would be very nice:
- mph or mps ( mph = miles per hour, english units ) ( mps = meters per second, metric units )
- f or c (fahrenheit or celsius)
- minutes between refresh

option to 'bookmark' several country/city locations be sweet too

[Agrajag]

i do also note that there are a few bugs witht he display of the current textual condition. i often see "snow snow" or "partly party cloudy"

as i mentioned elsewhere, take a look at this site for shots of other weather-specific screens that were done for the java hmo project (tivo):

http://javahmo.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

(i also think the movie listing part is hot!)

their interface stinks as does the look of the screens. we're way ahead on that part (though more screens including longer forecasts would be great). i'd like this to contain the detailed forecast, 5-day, 10-day, various radar shots and as noted above, the ability to put in a temporary location so that i can see conditions where i plan to be visiting.

[mosax]

would be nice to see the time and date format set for the xbox at the top of the screen. like 24 h time and date like dd/mm/yyyy if that is what's set on the xbox. xbmc already does that on the startpage (time) and in settings:system info (time and date).

maybe use "today" and "tomorrow" for the first two days in the bottom row. maybe problematic since then you need to handle time zone? today i don't think you do since the days isn't shifted at 00:00 amat my time zone. for clarity, also show a text "today" above the large weather area.

is there any more info that could be extracted from wheather.com? like moon fase, or detailed info for comming day (usable in subscreens for each day)?


general questions:
is the time at the top the time of the actual weather data being sampled, or?

what is the relationship between the large middle-of-screen today description and the small today description in the first position at the bottom row? it the small one a prediction that isn't updated at all (during the day) and the large one regularly updated from sampled weather data?

[Gamester17]

i do also note that there are a few bugs witht he display of the current textual condition. i often see "snow snow" or "partly party cloudy"again, please remember and respect that this specific topic thread is for "feature suggestions" for my weather, and not for support or bugs, thx

[kompressor_uk]

instead of using dns lookups for weather report (weatherchannel.com/.co.uk).

what happens if the ip address for the weatherchannel changes it would cease to work.

just an observation from the sniffing network thread i also posted here.

regards

j

[nanite1000]

submitted patch to sf that adds meters per second to windpeed.
get from here (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=902115&group_id=87054&atid=581840).

[tslayer]

instead of using dns lookups for weather report (weatherchannel.com/.co.uk).

what happens if the ip address for the weatherchannel changes it would cease to work.

just an observation from the sniffing network thread i also posted here.

regards

j
what do you mean? when you do a dns lookup, it passes the dns name (weather.com) to the dns resolver. that then converts the name to an ip.

if the ip for weather.com changes, then the nameserver that you use will update the mapping between name and ip and then the lookup from xbmc (assuming it doesn't keep the ip for weather.com cached all the time and xbmc is never restarted) will always goto the nameserver and get the correct ip.

ts

[ruckuslv]

i'd like to be able to configure weather section so i can read in local temps from probes i have around my house and land.

that would be fricking awesome.

[gonky]

since i'm a uk lad, i'd like to see access to weather.co.uk as i can use my london postcode to get a specific london area weather response.

[hurtz]

my local tv station updates an animated .gif of the local radar every 20 minutes:

http://www3.kgan.com/program....ani.gif (http://www3.kgan.com/program/wxinfo/wsiftp/kgan/images/radar/x1ra_ani.gif)

i'm going to write a cron job to grab this image, and place it on my server.

is what i'm trying to accomplish possible - basically add a button to the my weather page that will show this .gif ?

hurtz

[kraqh3d]

sure its possible, you have two options:

1) modify the c code for the weather window in guiwindowweather.cpp. you'll also need to modify the myweather.xml skin file to add your new button.

2) write a python script that displays your image and put a button on the myweather.xml file that calls the script

(i think python can only reference files on the hard drive, so you'll need to get the image ftp'ed up to your xbox via a cronjob as well)

[hurtz]

ok, first problem, xbmc dosen't seem to have support for animated .gif's - is that correct? at least the one i tried (in the link i posted earlier) didn't work.

hurtz

[hurtz]

hmmm... if i go the python script route looks like i can have it download the latest image right from the webserver:

import xbmc, xbmcgui, urllib

#get actioncodes from keymap.xml
action_previous_menu = 10
action_select_item = 7

class myclass(xbmcgui.window):
def (self):
self.stractioninfo = xbmcgui.controllabel(100, 120, 200, 200, '', 'font13', '0xffff00ff')
self.addcontrol(self.stractioninfo)
self.stractioninfo.setlabel('push back to quit - a to download')

def onaction(self, action):
if action == action_previous_menu:
self.close()
if action == action_select_item:
webfile = 'http://www.google.com/images/logo.gif'
localfile = 'q:\\scripts\\logo.gif'
self.downloadurl(webfile,localfile)

def downloadurl(self,source, destination): * * * *
try:
loc = urllib.urlopener()
loc.retrieve(source, destination)
self.message('download ok')
except:
self.message('download failed')

def message(self, message):
dialog = xbmcgui.dialog()
dialog.ok(" my message title", message)

mydisplay = myclass()
mydisplay .domodal()
del mydisplay


anyone know what would need to be changed to get it to display the downloaded image?

hurtz

[kraqh3d]

as far as i know, xbmc supports animated gifs. most of the skins use them.

i dont know where you got this code sample, but you should just have to change the url like this:


webfile = 'http://www3.kgan.com/program/wxinfo/wsiftp/kgan/images/radar/x1ra_ani.gif'

[hurtz]

haven't tested the script yet, but i want to add this to the my weather page. i'm on a standard 480i ntsc tv, and i only see 2 myweather.xml files, one is under 720p, and the other pal. i assume somehow one of these gets scaled to fit my screen, so which one would need to be modified?

from my test last night, viewing the .gif in my pictures did not animate. if the skin supports animated .gif's, i wonder if i can somehow add this to myweather as part of the skin?

hurtz

[kraqh3d]

the "default" resolution of the skin is whats used to scale to other resolutions if there isnt a specific xml file in that resolutions directory. you can find the default resolution of the skin by opening up the xml file in the root of the skin directory. (i dont remember what its called. im at work now and cant check.) it's probably the pal file.

and the animated gif support isnt a skin specific thing. its built into the xbmc engine. but the skins use animated gifs as screen elements. for example, project mayhem has an animated giff that used as the up & down arrows in a spin control.

im not sure if my pictures shows animated gifs. if your gif doesnt show correctly, there may be an incompatibilty with this specific file.

[hurtz]

gotcha. skin.xml says:

<defaultresolution>pal</defaultresolution>

i'll try another .gif and see if that works.

thanks,

hurtz

[kleino]

i would like to see weather.com's animated radar image as a button in the my weather page...
in:
feature discussion: customize my weather (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=st;f=4;t=4673;hl=weather)
is already discussed a feature like this, but if taken from weather.com, you can link it to the chosen local code...

like:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/nlxx0018?name=index_large_animated

just have to filter out the image.

good idea to put it into the my weather code? i myself cannot do this

[despatch_uk]

since i'm a uk lad, i'd like to see access to weather.co.uk as i can use my london postcode to get a specific london area weather response.
yeah really would like this too

[SUBLOGIC]

my request for it is to have an option in weather where you can stream a cam with a view of the city chosen or a city of choice.
this would be good for skiers, snowboarders, surfers, travelers and so on.

pleas dont remove the weather feature!!
to satisify all these people that dont want it on the main menu, you should place it in the pop-up menu on the yellow button.

[pike]

seems like the builtin textures.xpr support is hardcoded to just work with skinfiles. would be great if it also could work with weather gfx, would speed up loading, transfer to xbox etc.. less clutter.

[Striker]

its nice to have a weather section, but id rather like to see skins using the info on the home screen without the need for a section.

[j_guzzler]

i also agree with this, kinda like having desktop x on your xbox, start up your xbox, you have your menus, your rss feeds, and then in the bottom left corner (or wherever) you have your weather icon (just current) then you can go to it and click on it if you want the 5 day forcast. would also be nice if there was a stock section somewhere (does anyone know if there is a good rss feed for stocks?)

[MPauley73]

yeah, like the original hdteev skin in meedio
http://www.meedio.com/maid/plugins/%7b669da236-c83d-4bdb-b849-9068fd178f31%7d/this.jpg

[vaeanu]

a tag to display current weather information (meedio style) would be cool. it could used primarly on home.xml... it could be enabled/disabled in xml (cf music overlay).

[j_guzzler]

just fooling around and tweeking some skins and was wondering, can the weather be displayed on the home screen?

so what i want to do (and have seen others ask this as well) is get the current weather icon (sun, clouds) and the current temp on the home screen (autorefresh as soon as you turn to the home screen) and then if you want the full week forcast you go to the my weather section......

can this be done through skinning, or would it have to be a joint effort b/w skinner and xbmc team?

also, i am surprised with all the functions that have been implimented lately (all are cool) no one has come up with a stock ticker, or my stocks page, it could be the same as my weather (not necissarily a tab on the home screen) but where you could input the stock symbol for 5 stocks and it will display the info for you.

hope someone can answer my first question, and impliment my last suggestion. i would myself, but i just got into the whole modify a skin, cant do much else......

[j_guzzler]

i have never done this before (bumping that is), but is there no one out there that has the same interest in getting the weather displayed on the home screen? or having a stock page? guess i am out to lunch

[jmarshall]

a tip for bumping: leave it a little longer before you do so. people are in different time zones etc. etc.

as for weather on home, this is not currently possible.

[Livin]

jmarshall,
if the items within xbmc were actual objects...

[j_guzzler]

as for weather on home, this is not currently possible.

but soon right? :d

[Asteron]

i have never done this before (bumping that is), but is there no one out there that has the same interest in getting the weather displayed on the home screen? or having a stock page? guess i am out to lunch
i wrote a python stock script that does most of what anyone would want with stocks. this is v0.9.

http://www.filespace.org/asteron/xstocks.py
(v.8 is on the python collection page)

as far as the weather stuff on home goes, i'm not sure how easy the threading is to load the weather info in the background (you dont want to steal focus from the gui while doing the http request. i think xbmc has just a single thread for these things but im not sure.

[Gamester17]

i just like to add that i also would like native support for satellite and doppler radar images in my weather, preferable from the weather channel (http://image.weather.com/images/sat/europesat_600x405.jpg) (weather.com (http://w3.weather.com/weather/map/14472?from=lapmaps&setcookie=1))

alternatives:
http://imkhp2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~muehr/radbilder.html
http://www.svt.se/vader/sat/satmax0.jpg
http://www.svt.se/vader/sat/satmax.anim.gif
http://www.weatheronline.com
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk
http://www.weeronline.nl
http://www.wetteronline.de
http://asp.geogr.ku.dk/noaa/dk2.jpg
http://www.dr.dk/pubs/nyheder/html/nyheder/vejret/jpsat.jpg
http://www.meteoschweiz.ch/data/radsat/meteosat.gif
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/idr372.loop.shtml#image
http://www.theweather.com.au
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/latest/aus-syn-d0.jpg
http://www.weatherzone.com.au

[C-Quel]

same here for an anal probe so my xbox weather can tell me when i have a temperature and so to call in sick for work :thumbsup:

or to check how hot my coffee i before i drink it...

go the whole hog... plastic bag the xbox and bath time! check the temp of my water before i burn myelf :nuts:

just kidding

[cantelo]

i use the weather bar in xbmc all the time to check the current and weeks weather i was wondering if there could be an added motion satalite image?? like they do on weather.com?

[Nuka1195]

xradar is a script that does doppler radar, maybe it could be modded for different images, ask in the script request forum. http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....sf;f=22 (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=sf;f=22)

then just add a button to myweather.xml that calls the script.

[Godfa7h3r]

it would be nice to have a little more information available on the weather screen that is compiled into all xbmc builds. having a nice looking and working radar included on the weather page would be awesome and very informative. the xradar script that is out can do this, but it doesn't work all that great and it would be nice to have it intergrated into the rest of the weather information. thanks for the support.

[Asteron]

i believe there are certain licensing issues with downloading the weather.com radar images but i could be mistaken. it's probably fair use.

[Gamester17]

any devs wanting to look into enhancing the weather features of xbmc might want to take a look at the progress (and ideas) mediaportal is making in this area:
http://nolanparty.com/mediapo....?t=1115 (http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1115)
http://nolanparty.com/mediapo....?t=3641 (http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3641)
http://nolanparty.com/mediapo....?t=1682 (http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1682)
http://nolanparty.com/mediapo....?t=1053 (http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1053)

[HarshReality]

manually edit home.xml in pal folder:



*<!-- * added by reality *!-->
*<control>
*<description>weather conditions</description>
*<type>image</type>
*<id>1</id>
*<posx>452</posx>
*<posy>25</posy>
*<width>45</width>
*<height>49</height>
*<info>weather.conditions</info>
*<colordiffuse>98fffffff</colordiffuse>
*</control>
*<control>
*<description>weather temperature</description>
*<type>label</type>
*<id>1</id>
*<posx>502</posx>
*<posy>25</posy>
*<info>weather.temperature</info>
*<font>special12</font>
*<align>left</align>
*</control>
*<control>
*<description>weather location</description>
*<type>label</type>
*<id>1</id>
*<posx>502</posx>
*<posy>42</posy>
*<info>weather.location</info>
*<font>special12</font>
*<align>left</align>
*</control>
<!-- * end additions *!-->


will display weather image temp & local just above the date and time. the trick is, it isnt changeable (yet im working on it might add the spincontrol to it and work it in to home controls) and, if you update your build youll have to place the home.xml file back or edit the new one

http://www.harshreality.org/screens/home/main.bmp

**before you say anything, yes i know its a bmp.
yes i know there are smaller formats.
yes i am a lazy sob because i dont convert it.

perhaps someday xbmc will be able to do jpg screenshots, till then....

[Kain]

got a broken foot so i had some extra time on my hands. i added the xradar to the myweather.xml *make sure you have the xradar script in scripts/xradar/...

this is the 16x9 myweather.xml, i might do the other tonight.

edit: looks ok in 4:3 as well. looks best in 720p.
i might move the buttons around. maybe put the weatherchannel logo on the bottom or else i might move the buttons down further on the screen. any suggestions?

<window>
*<id>2600</id>
*<defaultcontrol>2</defaultcontrol>
*<allowoverlay>yes</allowoverlay>
*<controls>
* *<control>
* * *<description>background image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>0</posx>
* * *<posy>0</posy>
* * *<width>720</width>
* * *<height>576</height>
* * *<texture>background-weather.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>xbox media center label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>200</posx>
* * *<posy>63</posy>
* * *<align>right</align>
* * *<label>xbox media center</label>
* * *<font>special12</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>description label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>207</posx>
* * *<posy>63</posy>
* * *<align>left</align>
* * *<label>10508</label>
* * *<font>special13</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>refresh button</description>
* * *<type>button</type>
* * *<id>2</id>
* * *<posx>60</posx>
* * *<posy>220</posy>
* * *<width>135</width>
* * *<height>35</height>
* * *<label>184</label>
* * *<font>font13</font>
* * *<onleft>3</onleft>
* * *<onright>3</onright>
* * *<onup>4</onup>
* * *<ondown>4</ondown>
* * *<align>center</align>
* *</control>
* *
* *<control>
* * *<description>xradar button</description> <visible>yes</visible>
* * *<type>button</type> <execute>q:\scripts\xradar\xradar.py</execute>
* * *<id>4</id> <label>doppler</label>
* * *<posx>60</posx>
* * *<posy>190</posy>
* * *<width>135</width>
* * *<height>35</height>
* * *<font>font13</font>
* * *<onleft>3</onleft>
* * *<onright>3</onright>
* * *<onup>2</onup>
* * *<ondown>2</ondown>
* * *<align>center</align>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>101</id>
* * *<posx>105</posx>
* * *<posy>120</posy>
* * *<texture>twclogo_64px.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>211</posx>
* * *<posy>120</posy>
* * *<width>465</width>
* * *<height>180</height>
* * *<texture>blue_rectangle_weather.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>button</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>211</posx>
* * *<posy>120</posy>
* * *<width>464</width>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>211</posx>
* * *<posy>310</posy>
* * *<width>111</width>
* * *<height>198</height>
* * *<texture>blue_rectangle_weather.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>329</posx>
* * *<posy>310</posy>
* * *<width>111</width>
* * *<height>198</height>
* * *<texture>blue_rectangle_weather.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>447</posx>
* * *<posy>310</posy>
* * *<width>111</width>
* * *<height>198</height>
* * *<texture>blue_rectangle_weather.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>logo image</description>
* * *<type>image</type>
* * *<id>1</id>
* * *<posx>565</posx>
* * *<posy>310</posy>
* * *<width>111</width>
* * *<height>198</height>
* * *<texture>blue_rectangle_weather.png</texture>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>weather location select</description>
* * *<type>spincontrol</type>
* * *<align>left</align>
* * *<width>15</width>
* * *<height>15</height>
* * *<id>3</id>
* * *<posx>226</posx>
* * *<posy>130</posy>
* * *<font>font14</font>
* * *<reverse>yes</reverse>
* * *<onup>4</onup>
* * *<ondown>2</ondown>
* * *<onleft>4</onleft>
* * *<onright>4</onright>
* * *<disabledcolor>ffffffff</disabledcolor>
* * *<textoffsetx>0</textoffsetx>
* * *<textoffsety>0</textoffsety>
* * *<aligny>center</aligny>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>update time label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>11</id>
* * *<align>right</align>
* * *<posx>660</posx>
* * *<posy>129</posy>
* * *<label>-</label>
* * *<font>font10</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>current temp static label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>223</id>
* * *<posx>221</posx>
* * *<posy>168</posy>
* * *<label>temp</label>
* * *<font>font10</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>current feels like static label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>224</id>
* * *<posx>221</posx>
* * *<posy>188</posy>
* * *<label>-</label>
* * *<font>font10</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>current uv index static label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>225</id>
* * *<posx>221</posx>
* * *<posy>248</posy>
* * *<label>-</label>
* * *<font>font10</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>current wind static label</description>
* * *<type>label</type>
* * *<id>226</id>
* * *<posx>221</posx>
* * *<posy>268</posy>
* * *<label>-</label>
* * *<font>font10</font>
* *</control>

* *<control>
* * *<description>current dew static label</description>
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[render_farmer]

is it possible to edit the weather page and display the weekly forecast instead of seeing the forecast for 5 days.
thanks

[jmarshall]

no

[los93sol]

just a thought, but i would like to be able to select the 4 days following the current to get more details on the weather for each day displayed rather than a simple condition, high, and low for days later in the week.

regards,
los93sol

[los93sol]

this is really quite useless but i thought it would be cool, i was browsing through the cvs and realized chokemaniac has several my weather background images for the home screen, specifically i noticed one for fall and one for winter. anyways what i was thinking is it might be kind of cool and sleek to have a conditional tag to change an image based on a predetermined date (in this case dates for each season) so on the first day of fall you would have a background image that compliments the fall, on the first day of winter your background image would change to something that compliments the winter, same for spring and summer. just an idea i thought would be kind of cool and somewhat useful for those of us who can't seem to remember when a season actually starts. :p i realize this wouldn't be a priority of any of the devs, but it might be a good project for a third party dev or something that might be interesting enough for an official dev to spend a little time on. :)

regards,
los93sol

[carlos007]

can more be done with the weather option? being a brit and having our obession for weather i think this is one menu option left undeveloped for ages. nice touch on the pimped edition of having the temperature on the main menu page!
:bowdown:

could we have more than 3 city options? i'd like to browse a few places where we have been or have friends (saddo i know).

anyone got any other suggestions for expanding on this much under rated feature? an on/off button for the rain outside for example?

[Livin]

Would love to see...

Integrated Weather Maps
5 & 10 day forecasts
intra-day forecast (hours within the day
- see MSN page (http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USAZ0034) for example.

All info can be grabbed from weather.MSN.com

I like this layout since it give everything in a clean format...
http://members.cox.net/ltek/images/HACTv2_wea.gif

[PsyberOne]

There are 2 weather applets for Linux [gnome weather applet|xfce weather applet] that grab info from weather.com including radar, 7day overview, 5day summary and detailed local information. So there has to be a way to scrape more info than what's shown in the current weather pane. I'll try and locate the code for each and post the links.

[Livin]

anyone else interested in having a more robust Weather section?

[rramoutar]

I am. I like the accuweather script...but this only works in the US. A Radar map and local weather warning with global functionality would be cool.