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GETTING STARTED

eWeather HD has three basic modes:


  • ● hourly forecast (weather clocks)
  • ● 10-day forecast
  • ● Doppler radar (US only)

You can switch between the modes using button in the right upper corner.

For your convenience eWeather HD will remember the last mode when you close the program.

If you want to add (or delete) a city press the button 'i' at the bottom right corner.

Using this button you may also change the settings (units of measurement and etc.)

Swipe left or right over a center of screen to navigate between cities.

Press the button at the bottom left corner to download the latest forecast for the selected city.
DATA PROVIDERS AND ACCURACY

eWeather HD allows you to use different weather providers for the same city (intellicast.com (US) - "US Weather provider" and foreca.com (EU))
TEMPERATURE ON HOME SCREEN
Available in eWeather HD 2.3 and higher

  eWeather HD allows you to place current temperature on your iPhone (iPad) home screen. The indication is added as red badge on top of eWeather HD application icon. All updates are performing using Apple's push notification services.

  Server pushes the data each 45 minutes. Please note that some weather stations (some remote place on Foreca channel) may delay the data up to two hours.


Note

In case if the app does not display temp badge, please check the settings in your iPhone/iPad: Settings->Notifications->eWeather HD and set the values as shown on the screenshot:


Technical limitations

  Apple's badge system doesn't support negative numbers and zero. That's why we added the option (turned off by default) which allows to display negative values as positive. eWeather will warn you with the pop-up alert (or iOS 5 Notification center message) when the temperature is zero or drops below zero. Please note that the badge will disappear when the temperature is zero. Despite the limitations, all the data inside the app are displayed correctly. You can turn on/off warnings for zero/negative temperature in the app settings.



How to add temperature on the home screen

  By the default this feature is turned off. There are two ways to turn it on:

Go to the list of locations. Press the 'i' button in the bottom right corner:


  • • In the list of locations tap the icon at the right of the city;
  • • Go to options->Home screen badge, choose the city from the drop-down list. Here you can turn on/off the warnings for zero/subzero temperatures.

  Please note that you may add only on city on your home screen.


Technology features

  The main idea of "Apple's push notification services" is a fast and reliable delivery of data which saves your battery. Actually you'll get a live widget which being updated even if the app is not running. Now you don't need to open the app every time to see the temperature.



Troubleshooting

Push notifications require an active Wi-Fi or cellular connection.

  • 1. After installing an app or restoring a backup to a different iOS device, or upgrading iOS, open the app and turn on/off the badge for the selected location.
  • 2. Check Settings > Notifications to ensure that the app is configured for notifications. Turn on badge and alerts.
  • 3. If you are still unable to receive notifications and you are using a Wi-Fi connection, verify that the network or firewall is not blocking access to port 5223.
  • 4. If all above does not help, turn on and leave Airplane mode on for a full minute.
  • 5. Please note that push notifications may not work on jailbroken devices.


If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this feature please contact us:

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via E-Mail: weather@elecont.com


10-DAY FORECAST (FULL AND BRIEF)

The screen is divided into two basic areas:

● The day bar. It is placed at the bottom part of the screen.
● Weather forecast data for the selected day - at the top.

The details can be displayed in "brief" or "full" mode. Swipe up or down over the upper part to change the mode of the details. Swipe left or right over the bottom part to see the forecast for all of the days or just to select the day. For your convenience eWeather HD will remember the last mode for the details when you close the program.

CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS

Current conditions are displayed in the 10-day forecast mode as the first rectangle in the day bar.



Tap on the first rectangle in the day bar and you'll see the details for the current conditions at the top of screen. In the "brief" mode eWeather HD displays current temperature and "Feels like" temperature, in the "Full" mode air pressure, wind , humidity and weather trends.

WEATHER TRENDS AND BAROMETER

Weather trends are displayed in the 10-day mode (when you select the first element in the day bar).


Weather trends contains a histogram of the pressure for the last 24 hours (blue or red bars) and the graph of the temperature (white line).


Tap in the center of the trends to switch between temperature values and pressure values. eWeather HD will remember your choice after restart.

HOURLY FORECAST

Hourly forecast is displayed on the clock face. In order to access it press the button at the top right corner.


Just after switching to the hourly forecast you’ll see the forecast for the next 12 hours. The temperature and conditions are placed in the sectors of their respective hours. Swipe clockwise over the sector and you'll see the next 12 hours of the 24-hour forecast. Tap in the center of the clock face to change between current temperature, “feels like” temperatures, probability of precipitation and UV index and wind speed/direction.


ALERTS

Severe weather alerts displayed in the 10-day forecast mode and provided only for locations from the US.


The days with the active alerts are marked with exclamation mark in the day bar.


Swipe up or down over the central part of the screen and you’ll see the bulletin for the selected day.


WEATHER HEADACHE ALERT

eWeather HD displays the red bars in the weather trends in case of the dangerous change of air pressure during the last 24 hours.



WHERE IS THE BAROMETER

Please note that current weather conditions and barometer are not displayed in case if you downloaded the forecast more than 4 hours ago.

Click the button at the bottom left corner to update the weather from server.


TWO WEATHER PROVIDERS

eWeather HD 2.0 supports two weather agencies (providers): Intellicast.com (USA) and Foreca.com (EU).


There were two reasons for this. The first one - the number of locations. With new european provider the number of locations in EU (and other countries,except the US) has been increased by more than 5 times and now eWeather HD supports more than 130,000 cities.


The second reason is the accuracy. While intellicast.com is extremely accurate in the US, the foreca.com is the most trusted source for the EU. You may switch between providers by pressing the image (provider's logo) in the top left corner. Also you may add the location twice. You'll be asked to choose the provider.



DOPPLER RADAR (US only)

eWeather HD has built-in animated radar (NEXRAD) for locations from the US. Radar images are displayed on the Google Maps so you may use pinch-to-zoom to setup best view and scale.


Factory-defaults settings are optimized to provide faster loading speed. Even on EDGE connection you'll wait only seconds to see the last image and about 30 seconds to load all other frames for a entire the US.On 3G it takes 10 seconds and on WiFi even less.


In order to receive images with higher resolution go to options and override the settings for the desired connection type. Please remember that higher quality requires more time to download.


Additional support

Feel free to contact us:


via online form: click here


via E-Mail: weather@elecont.com

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