There is no documented way. that I know of. I would have thought that tv.system.locationCode would contain this value but is blank on Samsung's. I haven't tested these on an actual TV, but these work in the simulator, however I don't know if you should rely on these as they are undocumented:

Both do not work on a TV. The WDK doesn't have the security lockdowns the TVs do and subsequently everything runs on the WDK with full permissions.

-Jeremy

So is there a way to get the user profile information in a widget, (like zipcode)?
I see there is a User Profile Store, but I can't find they key values to pull data from there.

Hi everyone!
I'm building a widget that pulls a list of cable service providers based on user location by zip code. In the Yahoo profile under system settings there's an area that stores zip code information and I'm wondering if there's a way to access that through the profileData. Any help or advice is much appreciated.

Thanks!
Ray

There's a previous thread about this but my understanding is no.

Hi Ray,
You can access that information in the specialSettings storage object like this:



Please be aware that the information may not be there. Users are not obligated to input their zipcode. If it's not there, you could always ask them for it.

- Ben

Is the following post from Jeremy incorrect? http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=3537

No, he wasn't incorrect. Things change quickly. I wouldn't rely on the zipcode being there, though.


By the way, I had tested on a 2010 Samsung and was able to access the zipcode in the specialSettings object.