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
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 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.
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!
Hi All,
I'm very sorry to report that once again we are suffering at the hands of the IBM infrastructure which queues and sends out our push notifications.
They had a critical incident yesterday and to be frank, everything is a bit of a mess.
It's affecting other customers, not just Weather Gods.
The problem is manifesting itself as sending duplicate notifications as well as old notifications - it appears they are holding on to them and then re-sending for good measure!!
For other people, they may not receive any at all.
Hello!
I have a question about weather gods.
I was grandfathered into the premium plan.
Do I also get the extended forecast feature with the premium plan or do i have to buy that separate?
If it's separate is there a way to buy it yearly rather than monthly?
thanks.
Hi, what are the advantages of weather gods over the standard weather app?
Hello, even though I have Weather Gods notifications enabled and the Weather summary is activated and scheduled twice a day, at 7 AM and at 8:30 PM, I don't receive the notifications. All the other notifications work. How can I fix this? Thanks!
Also, a suggestion for the developers: a feature request to activate certain notifications that will follow automatically your location while you're travelling might be useful, instead of turning on and off your notifications for every city you travel to.
Hi All,
We have finished the switchover to our new weather provider, AerisWeather.
The old app using IBM weather data will now stop working.
Please update to the latest version to continue using the app.
Thanks
Scott
Hi All,
Just dropping by to say that Weather Gods has been updated with some improvements for accessibility:
Hello everyone, a month ago I reported on the site that the notifications of the Weather Gods app are not working. The developer, Scott, replied that this was a "grandfathering problem". Are there any updates? Will notifications work again soon or not?
Hello everyone, regarding Weather Gods, I'd like a feature that the notifications follow your current location. For example, moving to a different city every day for holiday, it would be useful for notifications to be paused when I leave one city and, the same notifications, be activated when I arrive in another, i.e. without manually pausing the notifications in one city, searching for the other city and activate one or more notifications and then repeat the same process every time city I need.
Hello
I recently purchased the Weather Live app. Where can I set it on the display screen to show a 10 or 15 days forecast?
It's ashame too, this app was a great app for voiceover users. I see there hasn't been an update in 2 years. I can still get the weather conditions but the alerts no longer work nor can they be configured because you get a time out error with their server. I'm not going to get any in app purchases on this app until they fix it or if they do.
Anyone heard anything regarding this app?
Hi All,
Just stopping by to say we released our 1.0.2 update Tuesday Eve UK time.
The main changes are around notifications, we've spent a lot of time making them more robust and reliable and would love feedback, good or bad with the new update.
I've got some more changes in 1.0.3 for notifications, but that's a 3-4 weeks away.
1.0.2 also includes some haptic feedback on the main screen for iPhone 7 users. Not sure if anyone uses the haptic at all?
What does every one like about the weatherolagy app. I really like you can get more comprahensive weather information for your location.