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Weather for Series 60 Beta Testing

36 replies · 10,475 views · Started 03 August 2005

Hello All,

We are (www.epocware.com) about to release our new application for Series 60 phones. It's Weather. Wetaher is intended to be a source of weather data for every Series 60 phone owner. 😊

Main Weather features:

1. Easy to use and clear.
2. 5-day weather forecast for any world city from AccuWeather.com.
3. Temperature graph.
4. Detailed day forecast.
5. Nice animated icons.
6. Autoupdate.
7. Advanced screen saver with weather forecast.
8. Small one year subscription fee.

The program is 95% ready now. Here it is:
http://www.epocware.com/beta/Weather.sis

What we need from you:
1. Find bugs.
2. Request new features and changes.
3. Translate Weather into your native language (most important).

Those who want helping us with translations, please write to [email][email protected][/email].

Top 10 active beta testers and all translators will get Weather for free.

Reporting bugs:
1. Report them here or in our own forum http://forum.paragon.ag/epocware/
2. Describe as detailed as possible.
3. Attach all TXT files from the root of phone drive C:. They are logs. Archive them into one ZIP file.

Requesting features and changes: same, be detailed and try to explain why you need this feature.

PS. Nokia 7650, 3650, N-Gage, Siemens SX1 and Sendo X are not supported.

Thank you in advance!
Epocware Team

I've just downloaded the app and put it on my 6680. So far ok, I like it. Seeing how the British in particular are about the weather, it should be a popular app!

I like it - one thing I would like to see though...

Currently when the phone is in standby and you get the nice scrrensaver and clock up...

Is it possible to get the locked keypad symbol up at the top left, thereby freeing more screen realestate up so that another days weather could be shown below (e.g. 3 days weather instead of the current 2)?

The message unread symbol is also on the line along with the keypad locked icon. I guess the unread email icon will go there too. If you put all that on the top with the time it would start to look a bit cramped

It would be nice to have a key assigned to switch the display on (temporarily) without unlocking it so that the screensaver information becomes visible in the dark.

I also want to report a cosmetic bug: the italian town Alessandria is wrongly listed as Allessandria.

UA

Another suggestion again on the screensaver: the screensaver shows the time and date of the next alarm but, if the alarm is a reminder for an appointment in the calendar probably the alarm time is not so meaningful as the time of the appointment itself.
I have an appointment Friday morning at 10 with reminder set at 9:30. It would make more sense to see "Fri 5, 10:00 + a calendar icon" rather than "Fri 5, 9:30 + an alarm icon".

UA

Well, you can see I like this program. I am playing with it a lot.

Another suggestion: in day list view both maximum and minimum temperatures are reported while in graph view there is only a red line showing max temp. Can you add a second (blue?) line with min temp?

UA

version updated
http://www.epocware.com/beta/Weather.sis

new:

1. Options > Settings > Degrees, Wind speed, Precip
2. Screen saver: added week #
3. Options > City > Coordinates
4. Options > City > Rename city

thank you for your suggestion, we'll see which ones can be done in this version, th rest will be in the next 😊

Last suggestion (for today): add a way to choose which city among the selected ones is shown in the screensaver. I assume now it is always the first city (?)

UA

I'd like the screen saver to be more colorful? Seems a waste of the display to only be in black and white.

One more thing - the Rf temps on the detailed screen are only showing two digits. At the moment it is seriously hot here and the the real feel temps are well into the 100s but it only says 01 (i.e. 101F), 02 (102F) etc .

We still need your help in translating Weather into the following langauges:

SPANISH
PORTUGESE
GERMAN
ITALIAN
FRENCH
DUTCH
DANISH
SWEDISH
FINNISH
NORWEGIAN

Those who can help, please write to [email][email protected][/email].

great app!!works fine with my 6680 with updates and everything but for how long?? 😎

Great app Epocware team !

My suggestions :

1) Please consider to add a colored line (or bar) for the precipitations in the 5 day graph if possible.
Handy for getting an overview for the amount of rain each day in a period of bad weather 😊

2) Please consider to add the option to use the up/down (joystick) in the detailed view for changing city's.
Now I have to go back from detailed view to change city just to see a detailed view from another city :frown:

3) Please consider the option to go to detailed view from the graph just by selecting a day in the graph with left/right (joystick) ! Then use up/down to change city, instead of left/right just as it is right now.
This is more usefull to me than going to detailed view from the daylist....or ditch the daylist when above option is implemented. It speeds up the whole proces of getting the right weather info with the mininimal amount of joystick/keypad navigation 😉

4) Please consider to add the extra option for an "hour-by hour forecast" in the detailed view, just as on the AccuWeather.com website.
Now I only have a global indication of the weather for that day. Most people would like to know the prediction at what time of the day it is going to rain 😉

5) Please consider to add the option to check the coordinates for not just the home city.
"Options,city,coordinates" is only available for the home city. It is usefull when you have added more than 1 custom city.

6) Please consider the option to set the start time for the update interval.
Now I don't know at what time the first update will take place when I set an interval. When, for example, I set an update interval of 12 hours, I want the option that the first update starts at 06:00 so that the second update comes at 18:00. In this way I have a more precise automated forecast for the daytime and evening.

7) Please consider the option in the settings to rearrange the city's in a user selected order and which city's to show.
Usefull when having multiple city's and when going abroad or travel alot.

8) Please consider the option in the update settings which city's to update.
This reduces the GPRS cost. I have multiple custom city's and I don't want them all updated and I also don't want to delete them each time when I am abroad and vise versa just to reduce GPRS cost.

9) Make an overview of all the keypad shortcuts in the "help" section.

10) Fix the option to set the settings for the "weather" screensaver.
I can't get into the "weather" screensaver settings right now with my 6630 :frown:

Im curious which of the above options gets implemented to create the "ultimate" Symbian weather app 😃

Good luck,
Montoya

PS: You can send me some Dutch beta's for me to check if you want 😉

edit: some more options 😊

Can I download WeatherScreenSaver now? I try posted link, but link is broken 😞

Please, post actual link or send me WeatherScreenSaver.

Thank You!

Utenteanonimo64 wrote:Demo expired. What do I do?

You do what the rest of us have done - uninstall it and point out to Epocware that they won't get much beta testing done if we can't use the software.

But as none of their guys have posted anything on their forums for a few days, they don't seem particularly bothered.

Cheers,
Jez

fat jez wrote:But as none of their guys have posted anything on their forums for a few days, they don't seem particularly bothered.

There not on vacation I guess, hmmmmm let me see 😉
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So they are not on vacation, so where are you guys :frown:

On the Epocware beta forum I can't check the activity, but I noticed that there is a hidden mod/admin section that normal users can't see. If you check the profile of Andrey, you will see he has 50 posts on that forum and al you can see is 5 post of that 50..........

BTW, I also got an Error 2003=demo mode is expired, so it looks like they control the updates from their servers cause I installed the beta more than a week later than you guys.................. So maybe we got a new beta coming soon !!

I'm reposting here what I posted on the Epocware Beta forum:
Maybe I'll get an answer here.......LOL

Ok....what if I want to subscribe to this great app ????
It says on my phone to log on www.epocware.com and buy the yearly subscription....
But I cannot find it on the website ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Is it too new to be there ??? Or is it still on Beta Testing ?????
Either or, my demo version is over.........damn.....
Does someone know how long the demo lasts ?????

Michel

Montoya wrote:So maybe we got a new beta coming soon !!

And yes a new version is available (version1.01) 😃 : http://www.epocware.com/beta/Weather.sis

But the bad news for previous beta testers is that beta testing is over.... :frown:
After install it shows that demo period is expired when you try to update the weather........

So perhaps this means that this new version could be the final version ???

Montoya wrote:And yes a new version is available (version1.01) 😃 : http://www.epocware.com/beta/Weather.sis

But the bad news for previous beta testers is that beta testing is over.... :frown:
After install it shows that demo period is expired when you try to update the weather........

So perhaps this means that this new version could be the final version ???

But still....how to subscribe to it ???

No mention anywhere on their forum or their website ??????

Strange !?!?!?!?!?!

I'm betting this won't be the final version! 😊 Maybe 1.02 is still to come as on this initial stage some bugs get unoticed! As for me I already have my serial number, tho there are still some fixes to do on the portuguese version and tho i've not yet completed the help doc for the application package!

In my point of view this application as a promissing future. No need to rush things michel... you'll get your chance to buy the key! Just sit back and take it easy! But you sure use lot of pontuaction marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@montoya: nice suggestions you made there 😊 all of them seem very useful! Let's just wait and see if Andrey think they're useful too!

Penaf wrote:I'm betting this won't be the final version! 😊 Maybe 1.02 is still to come as on this initial stage some bugs get unoticed! As for me I already have my serial number, tho there are still some fixes to do on the portuguese version and tho i've not yet completed the help doc for the application package!

In my point of view this application as a promissing future. No need to rush things michel... you'll get your chance to buy the key! Just sit back and take it easy! But you sure use lot of pontuaction marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@montoya: nice suggestions you made there 😊 all of them seem very useful! Let's just wait and see if Andrey think they're useful too!

Where did you get your serial for it ?
My demo only lasted for 2 days.....pretty hard to test, use and enjoy it for that long !!!
I'm a bit dissapointed because I cannot find anywhere on Epocware website where and how to subscribe to it !!!!

Michel

michel-2000 wrote:
My demo only lasted for 2 days.....
Michel

Looks like the Weather app has made its first "weather junkie/addict" 😉 😃

This stuff is more addicting than cocaine hahaha 😉

"I'm a bit dissapointed because I cannot find anywhere on Epocware website where and how to subscribe to it !!!!"

The 1st release of the application Weather isn't out yet (as far as I know)! Be patient! You're always asking for the same thing! What's the rush anyway?

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"Where did you get your serial for it ?
My demo only lasted for 2 days.....pretty hard to test, use and enjoy it for that long !!!"

My demo haven't expired yet... almost tho! I got my serial for the application today on my mail ... advantages of having worked for it!

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@montoya: yeah ... seems so!! 😊 he just can't wait for it! But I confess it's an application that comes handy all the time! I'm glad I participated on the process, translating it to portuguese!

Penaf wrote:"I'm a bit dissapointed because I cannot find anywhere on Epocware website where and how to subscribe to it !!!!"
The 1st release of the application Weather isn't out yet (as far as I know)! Be patient! You're always asking for the same thing! What's the rush anyway?
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"Where did you get your serial for it ?
My demo only lasted for 2 days.....pretty hard to test, use and enjoy it for that long !!!"
My demo haven't expired yet... almost tho! I got my serial for the application today on my mail ... advantages of having worked for it!
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@montoya: yeah ... seems so!! 😊 he just can't wait for it! But I confess it's an application that comes handy all the time! I'm glad I participated on the process, translating it to portuguese!

You're right....This is the best weather app available for Symbian S60...!
I used to get Weather Alerts from MSN or Yahoo, but now my provider (Rogers in Canada) is charging 5$/month to get them....
So yes I'm a bit impatient to get this, which is, I'm pretty sure, cheaper that 5$/month.

Ok, then...I'll calm down and wait.....
I hope I won't have to wait too long...LOL
Thanks guys !

Michel

Demo period was prolongrd until 10th of September.

Multi-language version for proofreading and version for N90 for testing will be in a few days.

Still wanted Dutch, Danish, Czech, Finnish and Spanish translators (please write to epocforum at paragon.ag).

Br, Epocware team

Epocware wrote:Demo period was prolongrd until 10th of September.

Multi-language version for proofreading and version for N90 for testing will be in a few days.

Still wanted Dutch, Danish, Czech, Finnish and Spanish translators (please write to epocforum at paragon.ag).

Br, Epocware team

😊 😊 😊 😊 😊

There is a god for my Symbian Smartphone......LOL

I'll be writing on the Beta Forum a lot....

I want my free copy......re-LOL 😃 😃 🙄

Michel