General
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Remove location requirement
Remove need to have location services. I don’t have mine on but like the app so constantly turn it on and off. I just want to put in a postcode and it gives me the weather for that postcode.
2 votesWe understand that people do not like sharing their location, however the app is designed to give hyperlocal rain predictions, and given the size of many postcodes the rain predictions can be off by 15-30 minutes, or in many cases it won’t rain at all. As such the location is required to ensure accuracy.
We are not going to introduce a feature that breaks the core feature of how the app works.
Note that we do fuzz your location so it’s only as precise as required to give you an accurate prediction (within 1km), and we don’t store your previous locations ever.
In addition, we don’t know who you are – there is no sign-up requirement, so there is no personally identifiable information stored against your account. We just get a random id and a rough GPS coordinate, and that is all we need.
We take privacy very seriously, and…
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Exact location accuracy
More of a question, why does it set my location completely different to where I am? It says coollungatta as my location but I’m in Burleigh... is there anyway to make it more accurate?
7 votesThe app will use the nearest reporting radar and weather stations
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9 votes
The source radar images are square, so in order for that to happen we would need to crop the radar image, losing the sides of the image.
The radar resolution is already upscaled 3x, so there is no extra data by zooming in.
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Custom Alert Sounds
It would be great if we could pick our own custom sound alert for the rain alarm. Thanks.
4 votesWe might end up with some additional sounds, but you cannot have custom notifications sounds in iOS, the sound needs to be part of the app bundle.
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Saved rain loctions
Would it be possible to save locations for rain like home. So I can see how long until it would rain at home?
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Mac app
Please make a similar menu bar app for MacOS.
Please keep it light in memory and cpu use.
Cheers!
1 voteGood suggestion but it won’t happen any time soon
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Choose location
Choose location without having to turn on gps
25 votesI don’t see a viable reason for adding this in, the app needs your exact location or it is way to inaccurate.
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Choose alternative location
Could this integrate with a map so you can choose an alternative location - eg your grandmas house who is wanting me to go and mow the lawns - it would be helpful for me to know if I was about to get rained on before I started heading there! Or when I'm at work or a friends house, can choose my location as my house so I know if I need to bail to bring the washing in
28 votesWe don’t plan to add this as a feature, at least not in the app. We may be looking to add such a feature a paid feature for business users.
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App not working since update
I updated this app yesterday on my iPad & now it's not working. Won't even open.
7 votesThe servers went offline for a few minutes as one of the servers needed replacing.
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Is it possible to get a 64km radius?
Now that's BOMs offline for three months a friend told me about your app, it's been a great substitute , but really missing the 64km radius, is it possible to add one in?
3 votesAll the capital cities primary radars have 64km options, however the backup radars do not.
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10 votes
I would like that too, but it’s not on the cards at the moment
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7 votes
I would like that too, but it’s not on the cards at the moment
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17 votes
If we add this feature it will be a premium feature not in the standard app.
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15 votes
If we add this feature it will be a premium feature not in the standard app.
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Maps
We should be able to type in a location so it isn't so difficult to see where you are on the map if you don't live in a large town.
5 votesThe app will use your current location, you don’t need to be in a town for it to work – you can be in the middle of the bush and as long as there is radar within about 200km and you have phone reception it will work fine.
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Day by day rain predictions
I love knowing when it's about to rain and this app is great.... :)
But it would be good to know roughly what time it may start raining at.
So let's say that rain is predicted 12pm and in checking the app at 9am... then I can choose whether I want to go out or not.2 votesI just don’t have the data for that at the moment
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API to home automation
I'm using Domoticz for home automation, and I've been using this app for a long time now, its awesome! I would love to have my home automation know when rain is approaching, and if currently raining or not. Then I could have alerts from the home automation, if a window is open tell me to close it as rain is approaching. I'd be happy to pay for this service and I am sure there are many others who would be interested too. I came across a thread on domoticz forum about a guy in the Netherlands doing it but only…
5 votesIf we add this feature it will be a premium feature not in the standard app.
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More info about radar timing
We can't tell if radar is last 10 minutes or next 10 minutes or even last hour or next hour. Would be good to know what time frame we are looking at when viewing the radar loop
6 votesIt is always the last 6 minutes. It can’t look ahead.
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Save locations
Be able to monitor more than one location. For example: current location, home and office, site 1, site 2. Then save them and receive notifications as well.
My company have teams (more than 10) located in different places and the job performed for those teams depends on weather conditions. Then, this feature could help me to monitor all the different places I have a team. I think this could be an "in app purchase". I am willing to pay an extra money for this.
Thanks
17 votesUnfortunately this would add significant complexity to the app, at this stage it’s just not going to happen.
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Crowd sourced weather reports
Feedback via the app, by users, could be used to augment/update forecasts and warnings. If it starts to rain 10 mins ahead of the forecasted time, and users in the path of the weather report this, then the app could use that info, together with direction of travel (of the rain front) and historical rain variance along a path (I.e topographical impact) to tweak the weather predictions. A kind of AI learning.
3 votesThe system is already quite complex, I don’t think this would be worth the additional time and complexity, as I do not think it would alter the predictions much.
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