Weather Display and Android?

Mine is displaying fine as well.

My house has a lot of dead zones that affect transmissions. However, I really like this function.

Davis has an app for their weatherlink.com, of course it is for the Iphone. I asked them when will they have one for the android and got the royal “duh”.

However, this application solves the problem. I am very happy for it.

Thanks for the feedback guys.
I’m sure something odd has happened with the latest version as 3 people have bought the paid for version today and then cancelled shortly afterwards. Really difficult to work out what’s up.

well, they may have changed their minds, but… it is a good product

Yes, fair point. But I’ve only had 13 cancellations in total since launch at the beginning of May. Never more than one in a day. You might be right though.

People reading this with the latest version and it’s working ok, could you post what your device is?

Mine is working just fine.

I have a Droid X. My carrier is Verizon and I definitely can see everything that is there.

As a side note, perhaps the cancellations were that people bought it, saw that it does need to attach to clientraw and didn’t have a weather station or weather display software so they downloaded the wrong product.

In any case, it is worth the $1.11, cheaper than a gallon of gas, a happy meal at McD’s but 7 cents more than the 4th of July chicken special at Burger King.

Maybe the folks on this site can promote it

It works fine for me on my Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) and it’s a great value.
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Got the free one going to check it out. I think I could get people to install it for my
site, but the drawback may be having to type in the long url for clientraw. That
would be the only issue I would see.

Galaxy 2s working fine here…

I finally worked it out. The problem was reported by a chap in Sweden. It was related to the fact that they use commas for decimal points. Now fixed in version 3.3.

cny: I take your point about typing in the long URL. People could use copy and paste maybe? I would have thought that most Android phones have that function. Or maybe you could use one of these URL shortening sites like tinyurl? (I’ve just tested this and it works).

Tiny URL good suggestion. Thanks!

Small update done: small changes to (hopefully) improve landscape layout and the layout on large screen devices. Also added an ‘about’ screen.

Works fine now in portrait and landscape on my stock but rooted Droid 1.

Also works fine on my Nook Color running CM7 in portrait mode. The contents of the widget still shifts right in landscape mode, though. But the contents is still wholly within the bounds of the widget background so is much better than the last version.

Good to know - thank you.

Another small update:
I have added a list of weather stations in the options screen. Currently only 2 weather stations in the list but if you want your included please let me know and I’ll add it.
Also added an email link to the ‘about’ page.

Took a look at this today…

Noticed, that it found my clientraw without me entering anything. That was a bit of a surprise since I don’t recall submitting my site.

If use nearest weather station is checked (default when you use the widget the first time), it uses the GPS every update which is a battery drain on the unit. I’ve never see other location based weather widgets do that. I suspect they are getting the already stored location data without using GPS to get it. This will cause the widget to eat battery power and a much higher rate and would appear to be unnecessary based on other widget experience.

The free version is supposed to be set to update frequency of 30 minutes (or that is what the screen implies)… however it is hitting my site every 2 minutes which in my opinion is not cool when the use nearest weather station is checked.

If I turn off the Use Nearest Weather Station and point it to my site it appears (haven’t waited long enough) to do it at the interval it suggests.

You a URL shortner and provide that as the URL to use.

Example: http://ly.tnet.com/m

Points to my weather station’s clientraw file… and is short and easy to use.

Of course you will have to cut and paste that to actually see it work as it is setup to block weather-watch forum hits as an example of controlling who can access your clientraw.txt file… See Post http://discourse.weather-watch.com/p/214405

ly.bit
goo.gl

etc…

The 2 minute update sounds like a bug so I will look into that.

The widget doesn’t use the devices GPS unless it’s already enabled. It normally uses the ‘coarse’ location, which I think is calculated using cell phone mast locations and any wifi information. I don’t think this is a drain on the battery.

I had a looked and debugged the code to check this. The widget does respect the 30 minute update frequency. I put some tracing in and it sits there quietly doing nothing for the 30 minutes as far as I can tell. The only thing I can think of that might have happened is that when you click on the ‘OK’ button on the setting screen it forces an update.

I have the GPS is turned on 100% of the time, but it only is being used when the Satellite shows up on the top of the notification screen. When that is showing, it is using battery power.

None of the other weather widgets ever cause the satellite to show.

Things like Google Maps, don’t show the satellite unless they are actively using the GPS. If they are in background and you are not using navigation, it doesn’t use it.

The satellite icon is there to show you it is being used actively.


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