I would love to see an option for widgets to open the app to the view you want. (ie...the radar widget opens to weather radar view in the app)

I live in a hostile weather area and keep 3 windy widgets on my home screen. One of those widgets is the radar view, but I hate having to navigate around in the app to bring up the full view in the app. It would be extremely handy to be able to tell each widget what view to open inside the app so people can get to the information they need quickly.

Thanks for your consideration.

Was directed here from another post.

I am trying to find a quicker way to get my local/closest tide data without having to zoom way in on my android device. There are a lot of tide stations near me and I have pinch zoom a bunch just to get to the correct data. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I wish there was a button somewhere when you have the tide layer on that would just pop up the data for the station closest to your location. I'm hoping this is just user error.

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I keep 3 Windy widgets on my home screen, but I still have to use another app to get a clear view of the temperature and precipitation trends. No matter how hard I try to read the little cloud and rain droplet icons, my mind doesn't lock in the same way it does with a graph.

The winds are graphed by colors so you can instantly notice the subtle changes and trends, but you don't get the same precision by looking at icons that you would with a graph. I realize that the app is called Windy for a reason, but I don't see why it couldn't highlight other data as well in optional widgets. I would certainly love to only keep a single weather app. The information is in there already, just not in an easy accessible way.

Thanks as always for the great app, and your consideration.

This is a couple years after my first post to this thread and I still find myself using other apps to check the tides. (Ones with graphs) First of all it's quicker unless I keep my tides layer active, and it's just easier to read.

You can absolutely discern the information you need from how the information is presented in Windy, but it's so much easier to consume and see the entire picture when it's plotted over time and height. You can quickly spot aberrations at a glance instead of having to read text. One of the very best things about Windy is the colored wind bar/graph. I only wish the same could be applied to other data as well.

It could be one of the "Display as:" options that launch other graphs that Windy already uses. (Wave, WInd, Meteor., etc...)

Hi,
I'd like to say that I love the constant improvements to the app. It just keeps getting better and better. 🙏

There are a couple of things I thought could make it even better.

The first is that when you open the hurricane tracker that the view would be zoomed to a level that includes your currently selected location. That way you can easily see how it relates to you without excessive zooming out and trying to find where it is. Maybe then add a quick way to zoom into the view that opens now.

Also, I've posted before, but I'd still love to see a visual graph instead of a list of numbers for the tides. After using visual graphs in my other dedicated tide apps over the years, I just can't get the same feel of the data by looking at a list of numbers. Windy has always been a very visual app, and I hope you'll consider applying that same design philosophy to your tide data.

Thanks!

Hi @Ondřej-Šutera, and thanks for the reply.
I realized when checking back here that I didn't have email notifications set up, so I never realized I had a reply.

Here are the notification setting from both the app itself, and from Android.

I use multiple widgets, which I'm guessing accounts for the redundant Android notifications?
Either way, I have not been receiving my daily notification in my notification drawer, so I just enabled the second setting in the Android settings.

I'd just like to get that notification back, using imperial units, and be able to decipher the color scheme so I know what I'm looking at.

🙏

I'm still uncertain what conditions trigger the notification to show in my drop-down notification area, but when it does, it is not using the imperial units that I have set in the application.

If I click on the notification to launch Windy, all units are imperial as would be expected.

Also, I'm curious if there is more information on configuring this more. I remember there used to be two notifications that "lived" in my drop-down list. I had disabled one of them so there was one one left, but now that one has disappeared without my intervention. When I clicked on the one I'm speaking about this morning, it was then removed from my notifications. Can I make it so that one is always in my drop-down like it used to be?

I'm also interested in how to read/decipher the the colors and shapes that back the notification. It seemed to be a purplish color with a shape that didn't mean much to me. I'm locked in on the colors for wind, but these colors don't mean a lot to me.

Thanks!

Hi,
I'd like to say that I love the constant improvements to the app. It just keeps getting better and better. 🙏

There are a couple of things I thought could make it even better.

The first is that when you open the hurricane tracker that the view would be zoomed to a level that includes your currently selected location. That way you can easily see how it relates to you without excessive zooming out and trying to find where it is. Maybe then add a quick way to zoom into the view that opens now.

Also, I've posted before, but I'd still love to see a visual graph instead of a list of numbers for the tides. After using visual graphs in my other dedicated tide apps over the years, I just can't get the same feel of the data by looking at a list of numbers. Windy has always been a very visual app, and I hope you'll consider applying that same design philosophy to your tide data.

Thanks!

Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G
Widgets no longer auto-update after latest Android update. Manual updating works fine.

Checked location permissions and there is no option for "Allow all the time", so I have it set with the most unrestricted setting which is "Allow only while using the app"

Data usage and battery settings are completely unrestricted.

I figured Android made some change that broke the app, but I couldn't find any information about it. Is there anything else I should try, or is this something you are aware of?

Thanks!

@ryansund
I use a widget on a fishing report I manage that sounds like exactly what you are after.
https://fishingreport.friscorodandgun.com/
You can drag the circle along the graph to to see exact times and wave heights.

I've asked before for a graph style tide graph but it never got much traction. It's hard to understand as their wind graph is the best in the business so I know they understand the importance of a visual graph vs printed data. Hopefully more people will chime in.

Cheers

@idefix37

"There is no reason to keep ‘feet’ as first unit as there are very few countries using it for tides.

I would think amount of users would be more important the amount of countries in that respect. What I don't understand is why it just can't be set as a preference in settings like most other units? Then everybody wins. Right?

This is a couple years after my first post to this thread and I still find myself using other apps to check the tides. (Ones with graphs) First of all it's quicker unless I keep my tides layer active, and it's just easier to read.

You can absolutely discern the information you need from how the information is presented in Windy, but it's so much easier to consume and see the entire picture when it's plotted over time and height. You can quickly spot aberrations at a glance instead of having to read text. One of the very best things about Windy is the colored wind bar/graph. I only wish the same could be applied to other data as well.

It could be one of the "Display as:" options that launch other graphs that Windy already uses. (Wave, WInd, Meteor., etc...)

I keep 3 Windy widgets on my home screen, but I still have to use another app to get a clear view of the temperature and precipitation trends. No matter how hard I try to read the little cloud and rain droplet icons, my mind doesn't lock in the same way it does with a graph.

The winds are graphed by colors so you can instantly notice the subtle changes and trends, but you don't get the same precision by looking at icons that you would with a graph. I realize that the app is called Windy for a reason, but I don't see why it couldn't highlight other data as well in optional widgets. I would certainly love to only keep a single weather app. The information is in there already, just not in an easy accessible way.

Thanks as always for the great app, and your consideration.

I would love to see an option for widgets to open the app to the view you want. (ie...the radar widget opens to weather radar view in the app)

I live in a hostile weather area and keep 3 windy widgets on my home screen. One of those widgets is the radar view, but I hate having to navigate around in the app to bring up the full view in the app. It would be extremely handy to be able to tell each widget what view to open inside the app so people can get to the information they need quickly.

Thanks for your consideration.

Was directed here from another post.

I am trying to find a quicker way to get my local/closest tide data without having to zoom way in on my android device. There are a lot of tide stations near me and I have pinch zoom a bunch just to get to the correct data. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I wish there was a button somewhere when you have the tide layer on that would just pop up the data for the station closest to your location. I'm hoping this is just user error.