Happy Sunday! I wanted to let everyone know that I just pushed a large set of changes that overhaul how the WxNotify alert system works. Users can now create alerts that utilize more than one contact and/or more than one location! Since WxNotify users are limited to a max of 10 alerts, these changes will help reduce the number of alerts needed to achieve the user’s desired alerting behavior.
For Pushover users, this release also includes an update that abbreviates the alert sent by WxNotify, removing much of the unhelpful text in the product. Pushover limits messages to 1024 characters, and often NWS products are larger than that, so useful information has been getting cut off. A link to the full product will still be included in Pushover notifications. In addition, this release adds some copy changes, added a couple FAQ page items, and fixed a few little bugs here and there.
I have spent several weeks testing this new alerts feature, but it’s always possible I could have missed some bugs. As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues.
Thank you!