[Appleaday]

Something I didn't realise at first - in the latest update you can now rotate to landscape and see the forecast for all 7 days.

Has anyone else noticed that the Perth Radar link has not been working for a number of days?

[DJY]

Grabbing the updated version.
Loved v1.0 but a couple of the proposed fixes and updates promised I have been hanging out for!

aka ability open the app displaying the last city viewed (didn't end up in the update)...
and swapping the locations of min and max temperatures.

One out of two - plus the landscape / 7 Day option.
Nice!

[Mutters]

Originally Posted by Joey1983

Version 1.1 is out, lots of improvements

Just a question, does this app not work over wifi?
It works perfectly on my phone but refuses to work on my wife's iPod Touch (1st Gen)

Anyone else with a Touch manage to get it working?

Thanks,

4 days late, but yes, It works fine here on Wi-Fi - iPod touch Ver. 1

No probs with speed of radar load either - unless I forget to turn Wi-Fi on

mutters

[Mac Ram]

Originally Posted by Appleaday

Has anyone else noticed that the Perth Radar link has not been working for a number of days?

Yep - hasn't worked for me for a few days.

[mytzlplik]

Mine was working yesterday and today.. Not sure about a few days ago though. Can't remember if I checked the radar.

[Mac Ram]

Got mine working. When the radar doesn't appear, select radars @ the top right of the screen & choose a different range, e.g. 256kms. Works ok after that.

[jonnos]

is there a way to add our suburbs weather?

[opilot87]

Yeh every suburb has their own monitored weather station

[Appleaday]

Originally Posted by Mac Ram

Got mine working. When the radar doesn't appear, select radars @ the top right of the screen & choose a different range, e.g. 256kms. Works ok after that.

Thanks for that - it appears it was set on 64k which doesn't work for Perth - not sure how it got stuck there though.
cheers

[rustyshelf]

Hey all,

Just found this thread today. I'm one of the two developers who built Pocket Weather. Just thought I'd answer a few questions:
- Where does the data come from?
From the BOM, mainly from their FTP sources that they provide for developers like us. Why is it sometimes different from the site? The #1 reason is that it's normally a few minutes ahead of the actual website (when you're talking about current & apparent temp.
V1.1 tells you exactly when the forecast & observations were issued by the BOM (in most cases, not all) so this should clear up a bit of confusion

-Does it work over wifi?
It should, feel free to post here or send us an email if you're having trouble.

- Isn't this all available for free elsewhere?
Of course, you can surf the BOM site (though not the radars that well), you can use the online OzWeather App and combine that with BOMRadar from the app store. We like our solution better, but you're free to do whatever you want, it's your $2.50 after all

Any other questions anyone has?

Just one other thing, if you haven't already entered our competition, I'd encourage you too...the prizes are not that awesome, but we'd like to see what you guys come up with:
Competition

[shiny]

Not so much a question, but a feature request, I hope I can explain it clearly

When you open the app it goes to your list of your locations, then you select the location and it shows the details and forecast.

It wold be great to have an option to set a location that opens the forecast screen when the app is open, as i mainly just look at the temp and forecast for my area.

Also great to see a iPhone developer from little ol Adelaide

[DJY]

Originally Posted by shiny

It would be great to have an option to set a location that opens the forecast screen when the app is open, as i mainly just look at the temp and forecast for my area.

With the latest update you can!
Need to turn that option on though under
Settings -> Pkt Weather -> "Open To Top Location"

[shiny]

Originally Posted by DJY

With the latest update you can!
Need to turn that option on though under
Settings -> Pkt Weather -> "Open To Top Location"

Awesome!!! Thanks for that

[skritter]

You dropped two view options off the radar like Satellite - Why was that?

[rustyshelf]

Originally Posted by skritter

You dropped two view options off the radar like Satellite - Why was that?

We didn't drop them, we moved them to the location list screen under 'National Radars' and added a Synoptic chart. It made more sense to have the national ones there and the ones for your location under location.

[shiny]

Originally Posted by skritter

You dropped two view options off the radar like Satellite - Why was that?

If you click on radars it brings up three view options, view, satellite and syntopic.

[RiGo]

I have been getting a "Radar Offline" error for the last few days. The BOM Radar app is working fine. Anyone else?

[rustyshelf]

Originally Posted by RiGo

I have been getting a "Radar Offline" error for the last few days. The BOM Radar app is working fine. Anyone else?

Which radar is it for? Have you tried switching to a different one, using the 'radars' button in the top right of the radar screen?

[RiGo]

Originally Posted by rustyshelf

Which radar is it for? Have you tried switching to a different one, using the 'radars' button in the top right of the radar screen?

I have tried both Canberra and Brisbane radards and they both don't work. I have tried using the different radar ranges and they don't work. The satellite ones do work though.

[rustyshelf]

Originally Posted by RiGo

I have tried both Canberra and Brisbane radards and they both don't work. I have tried using the different radar ranges and they don't work. The satellite ones do work though.

I just tried Brisbane and Canberra on mine, and they are both working fine...though it's not raining in Canberra, so there's not much to see. Do you get a popup saying they are unavailable, or a message on the radar itself saying it's offline? Also can you let me know which version of Pocket Weather you have, and whether you have an iPhone or iTouch?

cheers