@hulakai said in Regressing....it's 2025 and we STILL can't save a startup model:

Why, after all this time, is it still not possible to set the default forecast model that the app opens with? ie ECMWF is useless where I live, and even when the widget is set to something else the app opens with ECMWF. This was fixed at one time...sort of. I remember being able to set the widget to a model and the app would open in the same model when launching via the widget. Now that's broken again.

This is ridiculous (in my opinion). Can someone please explain why this is so hard...especially when so many have been asking for it for years and paying for premium while waiting? Why can't we have an option in the app to open on a particular model just like we have for all the other settings, locations, layers, etc.

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Sorry to rant so hard but I've been on board with Windy for years and I'm still complaining about things that seem like pretty basic and rudimentary, and seeing inconsistent and unexplainable bugs. I can't be the only one.

Thanks for asking this again! That's my main pain point using Windy, too. I cannot imagine how other people are really using Windy on a daily basis. Or are they all just using ECMWF forecasts?! That at least could explain a lot of the bug reports regarding unprecise weather forecasts here in the community ;-) The known "workarounds" are not really working for a simple daily usage.

Currently I have to use the multimodel view to get another forecast model that ECMWF but that's far away from comfortable or user friendly. Maybe Windy hast to pay for each query which is not ECMWF and therefore they want us to avoid using other forecast models...? I have to idea.

This seems to be the most wanted (and most basic) feature requested but sadly there is no road map for this. Apart from this missing feature I'm quite happy with Windy but I'm not using the app.

I'm not sure what happend, but now the multimodel/compare view uses the saved 1h/3h setting and also writes this setting if changed. This bug report can be closed, it is fixed for me :-)

Now we only need saving of the last used forecast model or at least make this setting bookmarkable. That would be awesome!

@hulakai said in Regressing....it's 2025 and we STILL can't save a startup model:

Why, after all this time, is it still not possible to set the default forecast model that the app opens with? ie ECMWF is useless where I live, and even when the widget is set to something else the app opens with ECMWF. This was fixed at one time...sort of. I remember being able to set the widget to a model and the app would open in the same model when launching via the widget. Now that's broken again.

This is ridiculous (in my opinion). Can someone please explain why this is so hard...especially when so many have been asking for it for years and paying for premium while waiting? Why can't we have an option in the app to open on a particular model just like we have for all the other settings, locations, layers, etc.

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Sorry to rant so hard but I've been on board with Windy for years and I'm still complaining about things that seem like pretty basic and rudimentary, and seeing inconsistent and unexplainable bugs. I can't be the only one.

Thanks for asking this again! That's my main pain point using Windy, too. I cannot imagine how other people are really using Windy on a daily basis. Or are they all just using ECMWF forecasts?! That at least could explain a lot of the bug reports regarding unprecise weather forecasts here in the community ;-) The known "workarounds" are not really working for a simple daily usage.

Currently I have to use the multimodel view to get another forecast model that ECMWF but that's far away from comfortable or user friendly. Maybe Windy hast to pay for each query which is not ECMWF and therefore they want us to avoid using other forecast models...? I have to idea.

This seems to be the most wanted (and most basic) feature requested but sadly there is no road map for this. Apart from this missing feature I'm quite happy with Windy but I'm not using the app.

I'm not sure what happend, but now the multimodel/compare view uses the saved 1h/3h setting and also writes this setting if changed. This bug report can be closed, it is fixed for me :-)

Now we only need saving of the last used forecast model or at least make this setting bookmarkable. That would be awesome!

@Suty May I ask how you tested this using the Windy app? I cannot see an option to reload the page or use bookmarks using the app. I usually don't use it and use simple bookmarks instead, but for testing purposes I would try it.

(My next answer will take some days)

@Suty said in "Remember 1h/3h setting" not used for directly accessed multimodel/compare view:

@theraser Hi, do you have that option to keep that setting in your settings on? Because I tested this behavior in the browser on the desktop, as well as mobile and also in the app on the mobile and it works okay on all devices.

Yes, it is enabled:

This issue only affects me if I reload the bookmark using i.e. F5 shortcut. If I open the forecast compare view from the windy map by hand, it works as expected and the saved settings are applied.

@Suty said in "Remember 1h/3h setting" not used for directly accessed multimodel/compare view:

@theraser Hello there, I tested the feature "Remember 1h/3h setting" and it works okay on my end when I am logged in. I have the switch turned on and when I leave Windy with 1h visualization, it is still there after returning to the app.

Thanks for testing this. Did you test it using my example link from above? I just tested it again on my mobile device browser and two desktop browsers - everywhere I got the same problem. I enable "1h forecast", simply reload the page and then I'm again at 3h forecast.

Example screenshots from my mobile device (I can provide a video if needed):
Page is loaded with 3h forecast by default:

I activate 1h forecast:

Reload the website:

Windy is back on 3h forecast:

Hello,

I'm a quite new user and I'm trying to use windy.com as my daily companion.

There is no option to directly access my favorite forecast model (i.e. using a bookmark) as I read at multiple community threads. I cannot understand why such a basic feature is still missing, as this results in unnecessary user interaction. Hopefully it is on the roadmap now...

As an alternative I tried to use the multimodel view (example), which can be bookmarked. This works fine, however the "Remember 1h/3h setting" is not working here. The view always starts with 3h and I have to switch to 1h every single time. Same with refreshing the page. I would expect that my saved settings are respected here since I'm accessing this page only logged in. I got the same problem with my desktop computer and mobile browser (same bookmarks).

Side note: The setting seems to be respected when I access the multimodel view manually from the map using the "compare" button. This again requires a lot of user interaction.

Is there a any chance to access such common views in a more comfortable way?

Best Regards

Setting I'm talking about: