Earlier today, I discovered that I needed to perform emergency maintenance on the WxNotify database, which unfortunately brought the entire service down for about 20 minutes. The service went down around 4:11pm CDT and came back up at 4:30pm CDT. Many apologies for any inconvenience. I have made some adjustments to prevent the culprit issue …
Category Archives: Announcements
Major overhaul to Alerts and other bug fixes
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 …
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Added more product type options!
I just added the products below to the list of available options when creating product lists. I also renamed the product categories to (hopefully) make a little more sense. Please let me know if there are NWS products that aren’t being sent by WxNotify that you would like me to add! Disclaimer: Some products are …
New Place File Feature!
WxNotify has a new page that includes several Place FIles for Storm Predicion Center (SPC) products that can be used with the popular commercial (i.e. paid) radar programs GRLevel 2 and GRLevel 3. There is also an open-source/free radar program called Supercell-WX that can also use Place Files. What’s a Place File, you ask? Place …
Missing & Disabled Alert Notifications
I discovered this morning that there were no alerts (other than daily forecasts) sent between around 9pm CDT 5/21 to this morning (5/22) around 9:30am CDT. Also, discovered that a number of subscribers erroneously received a notification that they have disabled alerts. I have since found the issue and fixed it. Apologies for the inconvenience!
Two-Factor Authentication Issue
I discovered after the upgrade that two-factor authentication does not seem to be working correctly. I am investigating the issue and will post an update here once the issue is resolved. Thanks for you patience and understanding! — EDIT as of 10:45 AM CDT 5/12/24 – Two factor is now working as expected.
Huge Update!
After many months of planning, upgrading software, fixing bugs, and implementing brand new infrastructure, I’m happy to announce that WxNotify has received some well-needed upgrades! The website and admin portal still look the same, (for now) but much of the background code and processes have been updated. These changes allow me to better monitor all …
Dynamic Locations comes to WxNotify!
I’m excited to announce that a new beta feature has just been integrated into WxNotify! The open source software Traccar is now being used to help provide real-time location information to WxNotify. With the use of a free iOS or Android client, WxNotify users can now be notified for weather alerts affecting their specific location, …
Site Updates
Haven’t posted in a while, since my time has been taken up by a recent move to a different state and my current job. From a site perspective though, I just deployed fixes for a few issues, including a pretty significant one that prevented new account sign ups. Also was recently notified that Verizon’s free …
Technical issue discovered today, now resolved
I have been out of town since last Saturday (7/16) and just happened to notice this morning that no alerts were being sent out from WxNotify! The issue ended up being a mismatch of versions between a Javascript library (socket.io) between Laravel Echo Server, and client. This mismatch began last week when I did some …
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