Hi All,
Just a quick post to say Weather Gods update is out with signification enhancements to the AI forecast text. Your favorite weather presenter will now talk about weather alerts, solar events, lunar events and any local tides. All whilst making the forecast relevant to your location and advising on what to wear!
We have also made some improvements to Weather Gods on the Mac for Voiceover.
Have a good weekend and I hope you enjoy the update!
Scott
Hi All,
Hope everyone is well and the weather is being kind - although if like me you're in the UK you are probably fed up of the heat and sun and long for a typical British summer :)
Release 4.9.4 is out and I spent a lot of time adding some features from my backlog as well as polishing VoiceOver and accessibility.
There’s a lot of polish in this release:
Hi All,
4.9.6 is on the App Store.
The two headline things: worldwide rainfall radar, and a warnings map. Both are fully accessible with VoiceOver. You can move around the radar, hear what’s over you, and get a description of a cell. The warnings map is the same idea for official alerts.
If anything’s awkward with VoiceOver on either map, please say so here and I’ll fix it.
Thanks as always.
Scott
Hi Everyone,
Hope you are all having a good weekend and the weather is to your liking.
A new update to Weather Gods should be available now. I wanted to ship some of the features people have been asking for over the years, but I never had the time to finish until now.
Hi all,
Hope you're all having a lovely Sunday?
Weather Gods 4.9.8 is out, and a fair bit of it was built with VoiceOver in mind.
Over 100 new ambient sounds. They follow your place, the season and the time of day, so the weather sounds a bit more like the world outside your window. In Europe, for example, church bells ring on the hour from 8 in the morning until 8 at night, Monday through Saturday. On Sunday morning the cathedral bells take over, from 9 until noon.
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.