Chumby RSS Reader
by chumby (chumby industries)
last update on:
08/28/2014
popularity rank: 14
popularity rank: 14
description: A simple configurable RSS reader. Follow the RSS feed of your choice on the chumby!
preview of 'Chumby RSS Reader' app
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Comments
Plank
– February 10 2017
The image on some of my feeds no longer show up. For example: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyMauiPhoto
madrabbit4@gmail.com
– September 14 2011
I really like this RSS reader. I have it installed on numerous channels and on all my devices... Sony Dash (2), Chumby and Insignia. Some of the RSS feeds are really good...and some not so much..but that is the programmer of the feed itself that messes up, not the app! I have several news feeds and some blogs, and enjoy them very much. Highly recommend you learn to use this feature...it opens a whole new world for your internet device!
madrabbit4@gmail.com
– September 02 2011
Seems easy enough to just add the app for each feed you want? Wouldn't be that big of a deal, really.
chumzter
– August 24 2011
@finchley - This app only supports one feed at a time. You may want to try out the Google Reader app to view multiple feeds. -chumby support
finchley
– August 24 2011
OK, so I'm a bit of a knucklehead but how do you add more than one feed?
rezipient
– May 26 2011
with feedcombine you can get german ä ü ö
full-hd
– March 31 2011
pls picture zoom and german öäü
doctor_regtools
– January 30 2011
Probably my favourite widget. I agree with the comment about lack of image support though. Would make it a lot prettier ... please add!
tiler
– January 18 2011
Unfortunately it doesn't support Russian language.
mwrenfro
– January 13 2011
Update to my previous post: I wanted a much faster refresh of the RSS feed than the 15-minute interval I was getting. I've now got it refreshing the feed every minute after doing the following (not every step may be required, but this is working for me now): 1. Set the Expires: header on the web server to one minute past the file modification time. 2. Set the Reader display time to 45 seconds. 3. Added a second application to the channel with a 15 second time.
KI6ILS
– January 11 2011
One star for lack of image support since nearly all RSS feeds now have images in them.
mwrenfro
– January 04 2011
Does this widget honor the HTTP "Expires:" header? It looks like it has a fixed 15 minute refresh interval. If it's too difficult to implement Expires support, can we get get an extra control to set our own refresh interval? (I'm using this widget to make an office door sign, and my rss feed updates on 5 minute intervals).
spunk_
– December 11 2010
hello es DUANE in the chumby-forum wrote it is usefull to write a comment to improve this application. for example i use the feed http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2 and if there are umlaut (like ä,ö,ü) these characters and some of the following will not be displayed. i do not know what to change, but i hope it can be done
doctor_regtools
– August 21 2010
For me this is the most useful app out there. I use yahoo pipes to combine some of my favourite feeds in to one and it works great. One minor thing - ideally I'd like it to display the images from the BBC RSS feed. Perhaps if I understood pipes better this would be possible.
chuck2142
– June 08 2010
Just put this on my chumby and it works great with the two RSS feeds I have
bot47
– March 21 2010
I'd like to see Google Reader synchronisation!!
johnbens
– March 04 2010
I agree with others that it would be nice to have "umlaut" (or whatever) support to view the local characters correctly. Fortunately there is a workaround to view characters correctly, by using for example Feedcombine which seems to "correct" the chars: http://www.feedcombine.co.uk/
anatmavada
– February 02 2010
Funny, on some German speaking RSS Channels the Umlaut working fine, on other it doesn't at all. Is UTF-8 or ISO 8859-1 supported and corecctli implemented?
nils.al
– January 29 2010
Would be great to have a RSS reader that supports Umlauts.
drakula
– January 07 2010
great widget! Is there a way for author chumby to update this widget to show properly non-english characters like Umlaute? In the meantime the Chumby is being sold also in Europe...
velkrosmaak
– February 15 2009
To those saying "you're using a US product and wanting umlauts?" Ever thought someone in the US might be wanting to display a feed that has some umlauts? I'm sure there are some Americans that speak more than one language...
WightWise
– January 16 2009
It doesn't work like other RSS feeders in not showing already viewed posts.
staffan@staffansahlin.se
– December 08 2008
I have problems with a .php rss feed. The widget states: "No articles found. RSS format may be unsupported." The link works fine in my web based rss-feed applications. Any comments on this, or how I can get around the problem.
nilsa
– November 13 2008
It would be nice to have an "email link" button
adorman
– August 13 2008
This is great! It's the only widget I have on my chumby 5 times.
joltdude
– June 29 2008
It be nice if it supported umlauted characters. But the chumby is not supported out of the US so those complaining about it... Your running hardware that isnt meant for your country
sirchadwick
– June 12 2008
"umlaute" would be a nice addition. Also, sometimes the pictures are not included although they are in the RSS: http://www.ibood.com/site/de/ibood.xml
samphilomath
– April 21 2008
Will it be possible for the Chumby RSS Reader to support videos?
derludl
– April 07 2008
bernie66, your rss feed from faz.net works with german Umlauten (äöü) because it is encoded in UTF-8. If it would be encoded using iso-8859-1 (Latin-1), you would not see any Umlaute, as e.g. Gunnar2008 reported and user LeTartar mentioned in a forum post. I tried to write my own RSS reader but could not find a way to read in XMLs using iso-8859-1 encoding. Anyone out there who knows how to do that?
bernie66
– April 05 2008
It does work with german Umlauten but it gives me an "unsupported item format" for ex. under http://www.faz.net/s/Rub/Tpl~Epartner~SRss_~Ahomepageticker~E1.xml Same with german google rss feeds (but it shows the pictures)
peanjo
– February 18 2008
This does not work well for me. First of all, it does not support the letter æ, ø and å, from Danish. The way that it handles this, is by removing whole words from the rss-feed, making it unreadable. This should be easy to fix? Also, many rss-feeds from newssites are actually links to their articles. It would be great if it was possible to show these links on the chumby...
Gunnar2008
– January 12 2008
It doesn't work with german Umlaute like äöüß :-(
nkriger
– December 07 2007
how to view web pages on chumby? I have not found a www browser
achitwood
– December 03 2007
I've had intermittent success - not sure if cache, sun console, what the issue is - I'm not giving up though b/c RSS is the secret in the sauce, and, if I can have me RSS, then I don't need no fancy widgets (though I really, really like the fancy ones - like Chumby 9000!)
lapubell
– November 22 2007
Suing, or using?
n5csu
– November 04 2007
Very useful way to add any site that provides RSS feeds to your Chumby. I'm suing several of them in my channel. Some support images and others don't.
sorbix
– November 03 2007
It doesn't seem to support images.
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