Noggi-XLScan

Recreation of Weatherscan Local in Viz; a version of Weatherscan that lasted from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

(not to be confused with Weatherscan Local for web)

This is your first look at Project Noggi, our project aiming to bring older TWC graphics to the IntelliStar 2 family through VizRT.

Warning

This Viz design must be run on an IntelliStar 2 Jr only. Failure to follow this can result in the design having flaws or more likely, Viz crashing entirely.

Please note that on most I2's, at 3:11 am, it will kill the Viz process to prevent memory leaks. This will also stop the presentation. You can either turn off the KillViz process in Task Scheduler, but this isn't recommended due to memory leaks, or you can create a script that automatically recues after 3:11 am. A script like this will be made soon and put into the repository however.

Credits

astinkyroach - Main Scene Designer

COLSTER - Template Design

zachNet - Tester

Miceoroni - Tester

© Mist Weather Media 2025.

Inital Setup

REQUIRES:

• An IntelliStar 2 Jr
• Data Encoder for the I2Jr (Noggi-XLScan works best wth MistWX-I2ME, but you can try other data encoders. Some might not work as well however.)
• Constant stream of data (This can be accomplished with I2ME and most data encoders out there.)
• 8 Locations in your Machine Product Config. This can be easily added by going to a website that provides the weather codes the I2 uses; or by using the LFRecord file in your data encoder.

1. Once the .zip has been extracted, place the TWC and vizrt files in C:\Program Files. THIS WILL NOT OVERWRITE EXISTING FILES.

2. In Internet Explorer go to localhost:9091; or whatever port you set the web panel to, and look for "Load and Run Playlist", and input the values shown in the Flavors section of this README.

You're all set! Open VLC, or any video playback software of your choice and open the network stream. You should see Noggi-XLScan running.

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Need help with setting this up? Join the mist weather media Discord and go to the star-support channel.

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Do you have experience with viz!artist 2.8, or how the TWC product XMLs work? You're welcome to submit any issues, pull requests, and more! Thank you.

Flavors

• Flavor: wxscanXL
• (RECOMMENDED) Presentation ID: 1
• Duration: 9419

Products

• Local Forecast
• Mini-Core (extra city forecast)
• Spanish Forecast
• Golf (partial)
• Health (partial)

To-Do

• Add Aviation products (will be added when I2ME has airport support)
• Add more map products
• Convert files into the starbundles
• Add bulletin crawl
• Add XL Map