{"id":5353,"date":"2010-03-14T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2010-03-14T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:50:51","slug":"no-canadian-weather-that-sucks-asus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/no-canadian-weather-that-sucks-asus\/","title":{"rendered":"No Canadian weather? That sucks, Asus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a <a title=\"desc\" href=\"http:\/\/ca.asus.com\/product.aspx?P_ID=sPkRGUeRrpiVYl5K\">ASUS O!Play HDP-R1<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the current crop of media player boxes, like the WDTV. I suspect they&#8217;re all the same MIPS hardware\/Linux firmware inside. (Hey, you can telnet into it! Whee! Or something.)<\/p>\n<p>At first, I couldn&#8217;t get it to work with my network share, but after a firmware upgrade, all is good. The new firmware offers web content, including weather. So I hopped along, and tried to access Toronto weather:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5354\" title=\"Asus O!Play not showing Canada as an option\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0937.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0937-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Err, some of us live outside Asia, Europe and the United States, y&#8217;know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a ASUS O!Play HDP-R1. It&#8217;s one of the current crop of media player boxes, like the WDTV. I suspect they&#8217;re all the same MIPS hardware\/Linux firmware inside. (Hey, you can telnet into it! Whee! Or something.) At first, I couldn&#8217;t get it to work with my network share, but after a firmware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[2124,1200,1713],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-o-canada","tag-asus","tag-canada","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1ol","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}