iPhone weather app - Under the Weather

[undertheweather]

Hi all,

I have almost completed an iPhone weather app for personal weather stations. Please view;

www.undertheweather.co.nz for more info and screenshots of the upcoming release.

You may also submit your weather station to be included in the app absolutely free! At present I am all
set up for Cumulus weather stations however I am adding in other software as I get to it - please submit whatever you have.

Thanks,

Ben
www.undertheweather.co.nz

[Weather Display]

It would be good if you could add support for the WD clientraw.txt file
(there is a description of that file data format in the clientrawdescription.txt included in the WD software)
since this is a WD support forum 

[undertheweather]

Thanks Brian, just downloading your software now - will add support as you suggested. The aim is to support all software.

Cheers, Ben

[Weather Display]

sounds great
I like the idea of graphs that you mention will be available

[jwwd]

Hi

What a great idea - I have submitted my site - but was not able to set the location of my clientraw.txt file.

If you are interested, I can help you translate into Danish.

Best regards,

Henrik

[JaxWeather]

Submitted mine as well but would need to add the clientraw location as Henrik mentioned...

-Bob

[Smithee]

Yep sent in Central London 
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/weather/lcdipad22.html

Andy

[JaxWeather]

Hi all,

I have almost completed an iPhone weather app for personal weather stations. Please view;

Ben
www.undertheweather.co.nz

Sure hope you intend to port to Android?

-Bob

[vk2him]

Do we get a free copy of this app if we submit our weather data, after all you are making money from this app by using our data 

[niko]

Good questions...

Also are you caching the data or is the app going to hit these guys' websites directly?

[undertheweather]

Good questions from the 2 above posts - We intend to sell the app for approx. $2.59 NZD or whatever the equivalent in local currency.

This should cover some of the development costs and ongoing releases but I suspect won't get anywhere near break even!!

The app is aimed to bring together weather stations from around the world and share as a 'community' - should you wish to be part of this community please submit your app - if not, please don't.

The app is not making calls on your own website / server - I am saving data at my end into a database everytime you process the php file and when someone views the app it is making a call on my server.

Hope this clears up a few things.

Thanks, Ben

[undertheweather]

Also to answer the question of do you receive a free copy of app if you submit your station - I'm trying to however Apple rules
only allow a maximum of 50 promo codes per app so that won't work.

So at this stage I can't promise anything however I will see if there is a workaround for this Apple rule.

Thanks, Ben

[niko]

Sounds good, thanks for the info  

[vk2him]

Also to answer the question of do you receive a free copy of app if you submit your station - I'm trying to however Apple rules
only allow a maximum of 50 promo codes per app so that won't work.

So at this stage I can't promise anything however I will see if there is a workaround for this Apple rule.

Thanks, Ben

Ben,

The work-around is that the 50 promo codes is per version release, so every version you release can have 50 promo codes  ... from an Apple developer forum is the following:

Also, developers can reset their 50 code limit by releasing an update to their application.

Cheers

[undertheweather]

Yes thanks for that - I had discovered that last night - I will work out a system whereby - the first 30-35 or so for each release get a free copy
of the app. I need a few for promo / marketing. Rest should be fine.

I'll post figures on the website - www.undertheweather.co.nz

Thanks, Ben