Disabled Alert Bug fix & Convective Outlook Alert enhancement

I was able to get some time to fix a disabled alerts bug and introduce a small feature related to the Convective Outlook alerts: Disabled Alert notification emails were only listing alert UUIDs and not the actual alert information. Not very useful, right? That has now been fixed to show which alerts are disabled. The …

Text-only email alerts (part #2)

I’ve now added the option to send text-only e-mails. This will apply to all e-mails coming from WxNotify. (weather alerts, daily forecasts, monthly tests, etc.) You can turn this on by signing into your account at https://www.wxnotify.com/login/, clicking on profile menu in upper right and selecting “Settings”. The first option is now “Send emails in …

Text-only email alerts

A subscriber requested that I bring back the option to send text-only e-mail alerts. I had mistakenly removed the option (only providing HTML emails) without realizing that subscribers actually wanted that feature! I will be working on adding that feature back in over the weekend.

Duplicate Alerts

I received reports of users receiving duplicate alerts. The reason was WxNotify showed EMWIN being the primary product source, however the NWWS-OI process was also running. Will add additional monitoring so I’ll know if something like this happens again. Apologies for the inconvenience!

Subscribers with AT&T using SMS contacts not receiving text messages

I was alerted to the fact that subscribers using AT&T who have SMS contacts set up are not receiving SMS text messages. I dug deeper into this issue and found that the messages to <number>@txt.att.net are bouncing when sent from my server. Some research on the Internet resulting in several posts on AT&T forums with …