Description
** Long click a free spot on your home screen to add this WIDGET **This is a simple widget that searches for and shows weather from the nearest available Weather Display compatible weather station using your devices location, or you can choose a weather station from a (growing) list.
You can also configure the widget to point it to your own (or someone else's) weather station if you know the URL to the clientraw.txt file that the Weather Display software provides.
The database of weather stations it uses is based on the ones found here: http://www.weather-watch.com/links/Weather-Stations/
Update frequency is configurable to 2, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes. Or you can turn the scheduled update off. You can also you set an option to show the current temperature, wind speed in the Android notification bar, as well as showing a rain icon if rain is detected.
Underneath the 'weather description' line, the widget shows a series of up to 6 weather measurements (rain today, average windspeed in last 10 minutes, max gust in last hour, humidity, pressure, dew point temperature, indoor temperature). These can be individually turned on or off. There is only space for 2 per line though.
Temperature units are configurable to Celsius or Fahrenheit. Wind units can be knots, mph, kph, m/s. Humidity is displayed as a percentage figure. Pressure can be displayed in inches or millibars. Rain Units are configurable to mm or inches. Daily min/max temperature can also be shown in very small text next to the main temperature value.
The widget also shows a wind direction indicator (a white arrow) which points in the direction the wind is going (up for north). The arrow gets thicker if windspeed increases.
A red up arrow is shown to the right of the temperature reading if the temperature is going up (in the last hour), or a blue down arrow is shown if it's going down. A green arrow can be shown next to the rainfall value indicating air pressure tendency (up or down).
The widget background can be changed to either black, transparent, semi transparent, a cloud or a dynamic 10 hour graph of temperature, rain, pressure or wind.
Please email me at autumnit1@gmail.com if you have any ideas for improving this widget. Please also let me know if you want to help with the language translations for your country!
Chas
Apr 11, 2012 6:14:07 PM
WW 8.5 is Working Great but with a couple caveats I am replacing my previous review and bumping this to 5 stars. Previously I noted that WW installed fine on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running stock Honeycomb but that it would not run. However, I recently installed a custom ROM (Cyanogenmod 2.6.36.4) plus Go Launcher EX and Weather Watch runs perfectly on this combination. I also updated my Razr Maxx phone last weekend with an ICS leak and have WW running on that as well. However, there is one caveat. Google Market claims that WW8.5 is not compatible with my Razr Maxx and it will not let me directly download and update from WW8.4. However, since both the Razr Maxx and the Samsung Galaxy Tab are rooted and running Titanium BU, I was able to use Dropbox to move the backup files from the Galaxy tab to the Razr and then restore them on the Razr. The author says that the determination as to whether a program is compatible with a particular device/OS combination is solely up to Google. I hope they get this sorted out eventually. I was anxious to get the 8.5 upgrade on both devices since my own weather station has been added as a standard option from the pull down list. Manual entry of Wx stations is still possible in any case.
Steve
Dec 4, 2011 1:52:13 AM
Great Widget! Definitely worth purchasing. I especially like the current temperature being displayed in the status bar - nice touch.
Joe
Oct 17, 2011 6:53:59 PM
Tuscwx The perfect little widget for my station. Simple, straightforward, easy. Just what I needed!
Snowy
Oct 15, 2011 6:59:05 PM
Great Works great. Love it. Thanks.
Greg
Sep 24, 2011 4:04:41 AM
Great App, Needs a Little Fine Tuning Works great, easy to use.....two things i would love to see, 1. the ability to display wind gust and pressure at the same time, 2. more backgrounds......other than that great app 5 star work. :-)
Joseph
Aug 17, 2011 11:38:26 PM
Very good but need other services Works well. Would like to be able to get data from other services like PWSweather.com. Five stars then.
Sven
Aug 4, 2011 5:38:54 AM
Perfect to get live data from my weatherstation
Jp
Jul 31, 2011 3:03:38 AM
Works great and I can have my own weather on the widget
aardvark
Jun 28, 2011 8:16:32 PM
this is great i can see my station from where ever I am and this is really great.
Andy
Jun 27, 2011 6:13:16 PM
Excellent app for getting data from weather display.