iOS and iPadOS

Hi,

Hope everyone is well and the weather is being kind.

I'm just catching up with Weather Gods releases in case people missed the recent updates on the App Store.

4.7 was released with the following features

Hi,

Just a quick message to say Weather Gods 4.8.0 has been released.

It includes USA Weather Radio and the Tropical Cyclone Products for each storm where available.

Weather Radio is part of Premium subscription and available to grandfathered users.

All feedback welcome, especially on the weather radio, I have already been asked to try and source Canadian Weather Radio which I will try and do.

Scott

On the main weather gods screen where it shows the weather conditions for my city plus the next few days, as I'm swiping down I see something that sounds like it should be the word altitude but voiceover mispronounces it. Anyway the number that's given for this changes quite often so I'm wondering what this is?

Hi All,

I have an announcement regarding an upcoming change to Weather Gods.

In summary, we will be switching Weather Gods to a subscription model, with a probable price point of $1.49 per quarter or $3.99 per annum.

This does not affect any existing customers, and they will continue to receive all updates and new features free of charge.

Hi All,

Weather Gods now has a weather bot on Facebook messenger. He is currently undergoing training so there will be some teething troubles.

I'm hoping the AppleVis community would be kind enough to take him for a test drive ?

To access the bot:

Hi All,

I hope this is ok to post here.

I just wanted to say that we are having some severe problems with our data service provider, IBM. We switched account types today and clearly something has gone badly wrong - we have been planning this since December and IBM assured us that there would be no impact to service!!

Unfortunately, it seems to be one of those problems where everything is flagged green but the service just isn't working as expected. We have a severity 1 issue raised with them and it is being escalated through other channels now.

Hi Scott from Weather Gods and everyone else,

Since this morning, July 27th, I have been receiving duplicate notifications again. Not really a problem. Better too many notifications about approaching thunderstorms than too few.

Has anyone else gotten two for the price of one?

Hi All,

We are just starting work on Weather Gods Siri integration and looking for beta testers who are currently running iOS12?

If anyone would like to help out then we would be very grateful.

Please email us [email protected] if you would like to participate.

Thanks
Scott

Hi,

I've had a few people email me for help setting up the WG Lock Screen widgets so I thought I would share what works for me - there might be other VO shortcuts I don't know about.

This is what works for me

Hi All,

We are in the process of re-working the Weather Gods sounds, adding more etc etc. We also hope to have a separate high quality downloadable set as well (from the App Store).

We are looking for help with the night time sounds. In particular any ideas that might indicate a night sound ... for example we've thought about the occasional hoot from an owl and we already have our starry wind chimes.

Anyone got any more please?

Hi,

Hope everyone is well.

IBM will be terminating our services and notifications at the end of June.

I have already re-written our server software and moved it from IBM to Amazon AWS.

The next stage will be to switch to a new notification provider and drop IBM completely.

Weather Gods 3.6 was recently released and it includes the 1st part of the transition.

I highly recommend that people update to 3.6 as soon as practical as the next update will switch away from IBM completely.

Thanks
Scott

Hello
On my iPhone 8+ running IOS 13.2.3 I recently purchased and installed Weather Gods. Great app. Only 1 issue. I set daily summery notification to arrives daily at 6 AM. When the summery notification arrives though, I only hear VoiceOver replies: "Screen kertain off. Screen Kertain on." Swiping left and right does not solve the issue. Please assist if possible?

Hi Everybody,

Sorry to report that we seem to be back with gremlins in our notification system. I have finished checking our side and am now convinced the problem is with IBM. The problem manifests itself with duplicates.

I have raised a severity 2 ticket but unfortunately these things take time to track down and fix.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Scott

Hi All,

I'm sorry to say that once again we are suffering from IBM service problems around push notifications.

From our side, we see about 30% of the notifications fail to send.

IBM have investigated, confirm a problem, but can't fathom out the cause.

I can only apologise and hope they get to the bottom of the problem soon.

Scott

Hi All,

Just a note to say we have been having some problems with push notifications recently and I'm hoping they are now fixed.

The main cause was due to some timing issues between the database and the IBM push notification engine. These were sporadic, intermittent and difficult to track down.

Hello everyone,
for a few days the Weather Gods app, updated to version 3.5.1, has stopped sending me notifications. Entering the app it tells me "7 notifications paused", but when I try to activate them from Settings> Notifications> Pause all notifications the switch is dimmed and the sentence below says "Notifications are paused. Premium upgrade required". I bought the app 4 years ago, so I think I have the premium version as always. I have already tried to restore the purchase, but without success. Is it a bug? Or what can be done? Thank you.

Hi All,

Just wanted to share some information about Weather Gods and the notifications.

The good news is we've been working hard to move our notification system into the cloud and we have just recently started beta testing the new system,

So far, so good, and fingers crossed we will have an update on the App Store in a couple of weeks.

This means that you will no longer have to remember to keep Weather Gods in the app switcher :) It should also means a small saving in battery usage as well.

Hi,

Just a quick note to say we raised the price to $24.99.

It's been done to deter people from purchasing the app as we've realised with our new weather provider that we are using way more data than we thought - it seems IBM was significantly undercounting our usage.

It means we now have to accelerate our move to a subscription model, otherwise the cost of the data becomes untenable.

As before, we don't intend to charge existing paid users once subscriptions are live.

Hi All,

I'm sorry to say that push notifications may well be offline for a while.

We recently (beginning of May) transferred our app to a new company, Weather Gods ltd. The app transfer using the Apple transfer process didn't go so well and we were left with our account in a limbo state.

This was fine whilst we didn't need to make any updates and we raised a case with Apple to resolve the problem. This is still ongoing.

Hi All,

First, I apologise for posting this here, but wanted to get the word out about a problem we are having.

Long story short, every 12 months Apple ask us to renew the certificate we use for sending push notifications. Today was that date.

The procedure is we give the certificate to IBM (our push notification provider) and everything carries on as before.

Unfortunately when uploading the certificate, their push notification service crashed and burned and it looks like our service has disappeared off the face of the planet i.e. the account has gone!