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Apps CARROT Weather's customizable complications
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Yes, don't update until 4.12.4 arrives. If you already updated, send me an email at support at meetCARROT dot com for a temporary workaround.
If anyone is curious. My wife and I decided to try out all the weather apps on the App Store last week. Kinda sad to see what IBM has done with Weather Underground - no more paid no ad free options. Everything else was nowhere near Carrot Weather, especially in the area of customization. Forced ads galore.
I noticed Weather Underground / Weather.com has been removed from the list of sources too? - I remember meeting up with people who helped WU with their own weather stations years and years ago.
Anyway, 15 mins later, we're very solid on our decision to stay with CARROT weather. One of the last (and currently only) greats.
My wife is a tier 2 and I'm tier 3. Keep up the great work.
- 2 Happy Meatbags
P.S. - I'd gladly pay for an update / new version to Mac OS if you're ever looking for extra $. <cough>. Even if it just pulled data from my phone.
I noticed Weather Underground / Weather.com has been removed from the list of sources too? - I remember meeting up with people who helped WU with their own weather stations years and years ago.
Anyway, 15 mins later, we're very solid on our decision to stay with CARROT weather. One of the last (and currently only) greats.
My wife is a tier 2 and I'm tier 3. Keep up the great work.
- 2 Happy Meatbags
P.S. - I'd gladly pay for an update / new version to Mac OS if you're ever looking for extra $. <cough>. Even if it just pulled data from my phone.
If anyone is curious. My wife and I decided to try out all the weather apps on the App Store last week. Kinda sad to see what IBM has done with Weather Underground - no more paid no ad free options. Everything else was nowhere near Carrot Weather, especially in the area of customization. Forced ads galore.
I noticed Weather Underground / Weather.com has been removed from the list of sources too? - I remember meeting up with people who helped WU with their own weather stations years and years ago.
Anyway, 15 mins later, we're very solid on our decision to stay with CARROT weather. One of the last (and currently only) greats.
My wife is a tier 2 and I'm tier 3. Keep up the great work.
- 2 Happy Meatbags
P.S. - I'd gladly pay for an update / new version to Mac OS if you're ever looking for extra $. <cough>. Even if it just pulled data from my phone.
Yes, unfortunately TWC did decide to breach their contract because they don't want other weather apps having access to their data.
And it was actually because of the big update to the Mac app planned for the fall that the crash in last night's update was happening - getting the iOS app ready for that transition!
@MakerOfCARROT where does the AQI data pull from for notifications? granted i've been laying in recently and not checking straight away, but the one time i did it was wildly different from the figure in-app 10 minutes later. another AQI app i use is also giving figures which are much closer to those in-app. is there some location drift involved maybe, giving me data for another city? are there multiple scales for AQI in play ?
Still not convinced by temperature-based notifications either
Still not convinced by temperature-based notifications either
@MakerOfCARROT where does the AQI data pull from for notifications? granted i've been laying in recently and not checking straight away, but the one time i did it was wildly different from the figure in-app 10 minutes later. another AQI app i use is also giving figures which are much closer to those in-app. is there some location drift involved maybe, giving me data for another city? are there multiple scales for AQI in play ?
Still not convinced by temperature-based notifications either
The notification's AQI data comes from Aeris Weather. If I remember right, you're in China - the notification uses the US scale at the moment regardless of where you are, but I could switch it to show the scale for China when applicable. But the values could still be different since the AQI data from each data source may come from different monitoring stations.
Using Aeris as a source, AQI data is unavailable in the app itself (it shows N/A) - how can it pull data for the notifications? I wonder if it's pulling the "nearest" one that's actually quite far away?
Scale would definitely make a difference. AccuWeather is showing 31 right now. Air Matters (the app i'd ideally replace once these notifications are working right, since i don't really use it for anything else) shows 29 so it's ballpark the same. switching to the US figure bumps it to 50, which i would guess does scale to the figures i was seeing earlier (mid 50s vs 84 in the notification).
Aeris does have AQI data, it's just a separate API call to get it and I haven't implemented that in the app itself yet. Will make that filter change to the notifications now.
(And just a reminder, if you change the notification to try it out now, you have to set it to go off at least 90 minutes from when you change it, otherwise you won't get it until the following day.)
I figured there was a delay of some kind after trying (and failing) to set a notification to test it 3 times earlier on.
Look forward to having Aeris AQI data in app and properly comparing it to accuweather.
Hi, any plans for rest of EU for weather maps, radar, precip. notifications, etc. ?
Does standard version without subscription contain Apple Watch complication that shows sunset/sunrise? For some strange reason standard complication is not available for all watchfaces. I would buy this app only for this, but paying every year for sunset sunrise.. would be too expensive
Does standard version without subscription contain Apple Watch complication that shows sunset/sunrise? For some strange reason standard complication is not available for all watchfaces. I would buy this app only for this, but paying every year for sunset sunrise.. would be too expensive
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Hi, any plans for rest of EU for weather maps, radar, precip. notifications, etc. ?
Does standard version without subscription contain Apple Watch complication that shows sunset/sunrise? For some strange reason standard complication is not available for all watchfaces. I would buy this app only for this, but paying every year for sunset sunrise.. would be too expensive
My weather maps provider is hoping to expand to the rest of Europe soon! And all complication customization does require the Premium Club membership, I'm afraid.
Great
Not so great
i would buy the app just for complication with sunset/sunrise, but additional monthly/yearly payment just (I know that not just but for me) for complications is... too much
It is a data pull, someone has to pay for that. All the weather apps have gone extreme ads because of this reason I think.
You do realize that as a developer this is how it works right? You can pay for an API with 100,000 pulls for X/mo, or 1,000,000 pulls for X/mo, or even higher. There is a cost.
You do realize that as a developer this is how it works right? You can pay for an API with 100,000 pulls for X/mo, or 1,000,000 pulls for X/mo, or even higher. There is a cost.
Sure, you can also use this algorithm
sunrise sunset times in c
In my C application, I want to calculate sunrise/sunset times for a given date, latitude and longitude. i have been searching on the net but i can not find a working sample. I tried to implement t...
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Sure, you can also use this algorithm
which does not need any data pull. This is how I made it few years ago for Garmin Fenix.sunrise sunset times in c
In my C application, I want to calculate sunrise/sunset times for a given date, latitude and longitude. i have been searching on the net but i can not find a working sample. I tried to implement t...stackoverflow.com
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Very very interesting - thanks for the info. Fyi, sunset/sunrise is one of the favorite parts of my Apple Watch.
Kinda sad a lot of the new faces on the AW 5 don't have it. (California face does).
Yes, this irritates me too with new watch faces, I like this very much. This algorithm is if I remember well about 100 years oldVery very interesting - thanks for the info. Fyi, sunset/sunrise is one of the favorite parts of my Apple Watch.
and it will work for next about 100 years as earth move around sun will change a little. Difference between real sunset/sunrise and this algorithm is about 2 minutes now so completely no big deal. It was fun to implement it so simple some time ago.
Sure, you can also use this algorithm
which does not need any data pull. This is how I made it few years ago for Garmin Fenix.sunrise sunset times in c
In my C application, I want to calculate sunrise/sunset times for a given date, latitude and longitude. i have been searching on the net but i can not find a working sample. I tried to implement t...
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Yep, you can use an algorithm to get the sunrise/sunset. The entire customization screen is locked, however, and it would require a lot of work to make it available for only certain complication options if you're not a subscriber. It's a possibility for a future redesign of the app.
Carrot Weather was the first thing I looked forward to when getting my AW5 last Friday. Was not disappointed.
Rocking a custom carrot complication on the Infograph Modular. Nice work oh great CARROT!
Very patiently awaiting Mac OS (I know something is coming, can't wait). lol.
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@MakerOfCARROT apple watch app doesn't open nor show anything on my series 0 apple watch. it started after i updated my phone to iOS 13. when i click on it - it spins for 1 second and closes.