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WeatherCat => WeatherCat iOS Clients => Topic started by: The Grand Poohbah on April 11, 2012, 11:04:21 PM

Title: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on April 11, 2012, 11:04:21 PM
Please put your feature requests for the iOS client in this topic.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: xtommo on April 12, 2012, 03:15:49 AM
access to daily, monthly and yearly stats would be a nice feature plus maybe a more,for lack of a better word, high tech/appleish design would be good. but i am so happy that we finally have an iOS app. i check my weather from my iphone probably 90% of the time so having this app is a huge plus for the weathercat software.

thanks

Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Barzi on April 14, 2012, 02:54:43 PM
Nice Job!

An iPad version with access to some Graphs would be great! An iPad with a wall support could do a really nice weather display!
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on April 14, 2012, 05:41:27 PM
Thank you. I agree that an iPad version could be a beautiful weather display. It's a big project and one that The Grand Poohbah will consider carefully.

--grand
Title: Designs for iPad Display
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on April 15, 2012, 09:37:05 PM
The Grand Poohbah would love to see designs for an WeatherCat display on the iPad in landscape orientation (1024 wide by 768 high). Show me what you'd like to see in a WeatherCat display.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: gb509 on May 07, 2012, 10:14:26 AM
Could we have an indication of reached Min/Max values for temp, solar UV and windspeed? If the bars could show that that would be nice feature.

Gerard
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on May 07, 2012, 07:09:05 PM
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Could we have an indication of reached Min/Max values for temp, solar UV and windspeed? If the bars could show that that would be nice feature.
That would be very nice indeed. I will see what I can do.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: homerc on May 10, 2012, 03:59:24 PM
Is it possible to have the rain total to be 0.00 in place of 0.0 ???  Rain yesterday was 0.23 and the program just showed 0.2.   [rain2]
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on May 10, 2012, 05:19:38 PM
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Is it possible to have the rain total to be 0.00 in place of 0.0   Rain yesterday was 0.23 and the program just showed 0.2.

Will do. You're timing is impeccable. I was just about to send the 1.1 update to Apple for review.
Title: Re: Designs for iPad Display
Post by: xtommo on May 16, 2012, 01:21:45 PM
I'm not too good with design and programming but it's definately an app I am willing to pay for. I know it's not a huge client base but you gotta start somewhere.

The Grand Poohbah would love to see designs for an WeatherCat display on the iPad in landscape orientation (1024 wide by 768 high). Show me what you'd like to see in a WeatherCat display.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: jg on June 28, 2012, 10:10:56 PM
I have two weather stations, the ability to toggle between them would be great.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: jg on July 02, 2012, 06:08:38 PM
I got the DNS working so I can use it outside of my house, it would be great if it could automatically toggle to the internet if the local connection times out after a set interval (10 seconds) or immediately if it wasn't connected to the local network.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on July 04, 2012, 08:25:08 PM
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I got the DNS working so I can use it outside of my house, it would be great if it could automatically toggle to the internet if the local connection times out after a set interval (10 seconds) or immediately if it wasn't connected to the local network.

Leave your setting at the Internet full-time (Settings, Network = Internet). If you are within range of your WiFi, the client uses the WiFi to connect to the DNS. If you are outside the WiFi range, the client uses cellular. It should be seamless.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: jg on July 08, 2012, 11:05:55 PM
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I got the DNS working so I can use it outside of my house, it would be great if it could automatically toggle to the internet if the local connection times out after a set interval (10 seconds) or immediately if it wasn't connected to the local network.

Leave your setting at the Internet full-time (Settings, Network = Internet). If you are within range of your WiFi, the client uses the WiFi to connect to the DNS. If you are outside the WiFi range, the client uses cellular. It should be seamless.

Thanks, that is working.  Any chance there will be an ability to toggle between two stations?  I have another two...
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on July 09, 2012, 06:24:25 PM
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Thanks, that is working.  Any chance there will be an ability to toggle between two stations?  I have another two...

There's a good chance it will be in a future release, but not soon. I've got to get the localized version out first.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: jg on July 09, 2012, 07:19:59 PM
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Thanks, that is working.  Any chance there will be an ability to toggle between two stations?  I have another two...

There's a good chance it will be in a future release, but not soon. I've got to get the localized version out first.

thanks
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: N8NOE on July 17, 2012, 01:39:05 AM
Need the Ability to Change or ADD Multiple Channels for the Sensors used.
Myself, Have a sensor inside my Humidor and would like to monitor it with the iPhone/iPad.
The WMR has 3 Extra channels.. Think the App should be able to get this data remotely..

THANKS..
Jeff-N8NOE
Ham Radio & Cigars.....
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on July 17, 2012, 07:21:55 PM
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The WMR has 3 Extra channels.. Think the App should be able to get this data remotely.

WeatherCat determines what data is provided to the client and that does not currently include the extra sensors. A feature request has been submitted for WeatherCat to report this additional data when available.

(A sensor in the Humidor is a neat idea. Hmmm. perhaps one in the wine cabinet....)
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: N8NOE on July 20, 2012, 09:55:23 AM
THANKS!/...
Yes a Wine Cabinet, Humidor, Almost anything like this..
Been Doing this for Some time, but the iOS to follow this is good..
THANKS for your thought and requesting to report the added sensors..

http://www.n8noe.us/cigar.html

And the Weather Page, has the Graphing also..
OK a work in Progress, but a way to see whats going on with my Cigars..
THANKS!..
Jeff-N8NOE
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: medgasman on July 30, 2012, 08:35:22 PM
I would like to see the Heat Index on IOS.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: PB on January 04, 2013, 06:25:20 PM
Was thinking about this when I woke up this morning, not sure why, and jotted down the ideas. Something that looks like OmniFocus on iPad with thermometer graphs in the column on the left and line graphs in the wider pane to the right. The iPhone has line graphs when turned horizontally similar to GasBuddy. Fanciness: allow line graphs to be styled and overlayed.


- [ ] Left pane
    - [ ] Menu of icons along the top
        - [ ] Settings (gear icon)
            - [ ] Help
            - [ ] Trixology.com
            - [ ] Background
                - [ ] stock theme choices
                - [ ] image feed
            - [ ] allow overlap
                - [ ] yes
                - [ ] no
            - [ ] data choices
                - [ ] external temperature
                - [ ] external humidity
                - [ ] etc
            - [ ] Units
                - [ ] C or F
                - [ ] etc
        - [ ] Station (anemometer icon)
            - [ ] add
            - [ ] edit
            - [ ] choose
            - [ ] open Wunderground web page
        - [ ] Edit (to change Left pane) (wrench icon)
            - [ ] allow sorting thermometer graphs (three horizontal
                  bar glyph appears)
            - [ ] drag and drop to group to allow overlap displays
                  (allow some to appear "grouped" in a container (box
                  or contiguous bar border)
            - [ ] delete thermometer graphs (use Settings to add them
                  back)
                - [ ] swipe
                - [ ] left red button appears as option also
        - [ ] Hide the left bar and expand the line graphs to fill the
              screen (left arrow icon maybe)
    - [ ] Graphic with text showing current conditions
    - [ ] List
        - [ ] data set like current iphone app: thermometer graphs
        - [ ] black bars show max and min as per interval choice set in
              Right pane
        - [ ] check box to choose to display graph in Right pane (may
              display more thermometer graphs  on the left than line
              graphs on the right but not the other way around--there
              is a logic connection between the left pane and the right
              pane contents)
- [ ] Right pane
    - [ ] Backgrouund
        - [ ] set in Settings, is image feed or stock choice
    - [ ] Menu along the top
        - [ ] Interval choice 4 buttons
            - [ ] Day
            - [ ] Week
            - [ ] Month
            - [ ] Year
        - [ ] top configure style button to the far right (ie.
              paintbrush icon)
            - [ ] can select a single graph to edit one or no graph to
                  edit all before using this button
            - [ ] transparency
            - [ ] line styles
    - [ ] Line graphs as selected in L pane (none to many)
        - [ ] Overlaps in Right pane
            - [ ] grab one graph, drag to drop on another to get
                  overlaps.
            - [ ] double click overlap graph to split into single graph
                  parts
                - [ ] spring overlap into pane, allow each line to be
                      dragged to resort or dragged out to the base pane
                      as a single graph
                - [ ] to edit a single line in an overlap, remove it
                      from the overlap first as no style button is
                      available in pop-up pane
- [ ] iPhone version differs; mostly looks like left iPad pane with
      standard and edit views
    - [ ] has the interval buttons on top of the list panel
    - [ ] selected graphs appear in scroll view, one graph at a time,
          when phone turned horizontally, or together if overlap
          allowed (think GasBuddy)
    - [ ] In list mode, not in edit mode, allow thermometer graphs to
          be dragged "together" inside a box and then show those
          grouped graphs as overlapped in horizontal graph mode.
    - [ ] line graph style choices available by tapping line graph
          while in horizontal mode
Title: Aux Temperature
Post by: LMO on January 29, 2013, 03:55:52 PM
I am new to the software today, but I cannot figure out how to display the aux.temperature from wmr200
Title: Re: Aux Temperature
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on January 30, 2013, 06:27:24 PM
The iOS App cannot display auxiliary temperatures because they are not available.

The iOS App displays the weather data provided by the WeatherCat for Mac program. The only temperatures that the WeatherCat for Mac program currently provides are the inside and outside temperatures. There is an open feature request for the WeatherCat for Mac program to provide temperature from other sources. When WeatherCat for Mac adds this feature, then the WeatherCat for iOS can be updated to display it.
Title: Weather Cat on Android
Post by: N8NOE on March 03, 2013, 02:33:02 PM
Hey there, I just got a Viewsonic gTablet that runs Andriod to tinker with, (I know don't say it)
Got a GREAT deal on it and wonder if anyone or if there is a WEATERCAT Application maybe in the Works?..
Jeff-N8NOE

(( YES, I sill have 2 iPads, iPhone5..... ))
 [cheers1]
Title: Re: Aux Temperature
Post by: PrivatePilot on August 07, 2013, 08:19:02 PM
Just wanted to bump this one...I love the app and setup was smooth, even the internet setup...however, I can't say I wasn't a tiny bit disappointed to see that remote sensors don't display on the app.   

Not being able to monitor my pool sensor via the app is certainly not he end of the world, but would be nice.   I use solar heating for the pool with the ability to turn it on/off remotely (also via my iPhone), so it's nice to be able to see in realtime if the effects of having it on are worthwhile or not based on a the reported temperature rise on my sensors.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on May 03, 2014, 02:34:44 AM
Any chance there will be an ability to toggle between two stations?  I have another two...

I can give you this by changing the Settings screen to have two Internet URL text fields and a way to select which one you wanted to use.

Select One: Local, Internet 1, Internet 2
Internet 1 URL text field
Internet 2 URL text field

Would this help?
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: jg on May 05, 2014, 02:11:38 PM
Any chance there will be an ability to toggle between two stations?  I have another two...

I can give you this by changing the Settings screen to have two Internet URL text fields and a way to select which one you wanted to use.

Select One: Local, Internet 1, Internet 2
Internet 1 URL text field
Internet 2 URL text field

Would this help?

Sure
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Blicj11 on May 05, 2014, 04:02:10 PM
Rick:

Any chance of the following?
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: jhoke on August 05, 2014, 02:39:40 PM
Just purchased the WeatherCatPad - love it...

Feature Requests in no particular order :)


THanks - and LOVE this :)
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: ELO on August 14, 2014, 05:21:37 AM
I'd love to see min/max markers on the dial (round) data options. The bar graphs have markers, but there are none on the dial type gauges.

Rick
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Blicj11 on August 14, 2014, 05:26:16 AM
I'd love to see min/max markers on the dial (round) data options. The bar graphs have markers, but there are none on the dial type gauges.

Love this suggestion Rick and I second the motion.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: boracay on December 22, 2014, 07:01:46 AM
gauges on iphone version.

ipad version has, iPhone version has not.
thank you
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on December 22, 2014, 09:39:28 PM
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I'd love to see min/max markers on the dial (round) data options. The bar graphs have markers, but there are none on the dial type gauges.

This feature is in the 1.1 update released on October 1.
Title: Soil Temp/Moisture
Post by: dfw_pilot on December 09, 2015, 04:47:42 AM
I would love to be able to see my soil temp/moisture numbers in the app.

Nice work, and thanks.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Blicj11 on December 09, 2015, 07:12:51 AM
dfw_pilot:

Welcome to the Forum!
Title: Thanks
Post by: dfw_pilot on December 09, 2015, 08:28:55 PM
Thanks, glad to be a part.
Title: Re: Soil Temp/Moisture
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on December 09, 2015, 11:45:32 PM
I would love to be able to see my soil temp/moisture numbers in the app.

Nice work, and thanks.
Soil temperature and moisture are not currently provided by the WeatherCat desktop software (the server). If the 3.0 release of the WeatherCat desktop software adds these measurements (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), I'll update the client software accordingly.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Steve on December 10, 2015, 02:53:06 AM
Soil Temp is currently available as STAT$ST1:CURRENT$ where 1 is the soil temp sensor #1 through 4
Soil Moisture is currently available as STAT$SM1:CURRENT$ where 1 is the moisture sensor #1 through 4
Leaf Wetness uses the tag LW1 through LW4

Examples of the above, and graphs can be found on the soil tab of my web site.
Steve
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on December 10, 2015, 07:28:54 PM
Soil Temp is currently available as STAT$ST1:CURRENT$ where 1 is the soil temp sensor #1 through 4
Soil Moisture is currently available as STAT$SM1:CURRENT$ where 1 is the moisture sensor #1 through 4
Leaf Wetness uses the tag LW1 through LW4

Examples of the above, and graphs can be found on the soil tab of my web site.
Steve
Unfortunately, these tags are not available to clients.

The WeatherCat desktop software treats clients and web sites differently. The iOS and tvOS clients poll the WeatherCat server and receive a binary packet of weather data in response. Web sites are passive and receive uploads of textual weather data, with tags, from the WeatherCat desktop software.

Clients poll whereas web sites are passive and receive their data when the desktop software initiates it.
Clients only require "Enable WeatherCat Server" to be checked in the desktop software preferences.
Web sites require more complex configuration in the desktop software and, of course, a web site.

At least that's the way I, The Grand Poohbah, humbly understand it.  :-\
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Steve on December 10, 2015, 08:47:32 PM
Unfortunately, these tags are not available to clients.
<snip>

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize how you grabbed the data. Maybe V3, then. ;)
Title: A case of changing community interest. (Re: iOS Client Feature Requests)
Post by: elagache on December 10, 2015, 11:10:40 PM
Dear Grand, Steve, and WeatherCat "feature junkies," . . . .   [biggrin]

Unfortunately, these tags are not available to clients.

This is a case where a feature of WeatherCat sat around mostly unused for years and then suddenly became popular.  The feature is the server/client facility that drives the little WeatherCatClient Mac OS app that is bundled with WeatherCat.  For many years only Stu's own software was using this facility and only a few users took advantage of it.  You needed a household with multiple Macs and people in the house actually interested in current conditions.  Even in our house, WeatherCatClient is only used by 50% of the potential "customers."  Other those conditions, Stu had little incentive to expand on the WeatherCat server/client system behind WeatherCatClient.

Enter the family of iOS apps created by Grand, and almost overnight, the potential user community increased dramatically.  Driven by these apps, there is an explosion in interest and desired functionality.  Fortunately, this change of community interest hasn't gone unnoticed by Stu.  So as they say in TV lingo . . . . . stay tuned!! . .  (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/tune_in_TV_emoticon.gif)

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: xairbusdriver on December 11, 2015, 12:12:02 AM
Edouard, you are certainly showing your age!!! How many can remember actually having a TV with "tuning" capabilities?! [lol] Reminds me of my 18 yo Granddaughter being amazed  that Zip Codes had not always been around! :o
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Steve on December 11, 2015, 01:27:04 AM
How many can remember actually having a TV with "tuning" capabilities?!
::raises hand:: Oh, Oh,!! Me, Me! :)

My grandfather had a round screen TV that you tuned between stations like tuning a radio, as in turning the rheostat to move between stations, not turning between channels. We didn't even have a TV back then (mid-late '50s), and went to his house to watch. I forget when we got our first TV, but I remember going to a friend of my Dad's to watch Cinderella (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057950/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6) in color on TV in 1965! (Wow, was I in lust with Lesley Ann Warren...)

Then there were the TVs that you could change channel by jingling your keys.
Title: Remember TV before color? (Was: iOS Client Feature Requests)
Post by: elagache on December 11, 2015, 11:50:09 PM
Dear X-Air, Steve, and WeatherCat "well-seasoned" human beings, . . .

Edouard, you are certainly showing your age!!! How many can remember actually having a TV with "tuning" capabilities?! [lol]

I was too young to remember the TVs before a rotary tuning dial but our first TV after returning in 1968 from an overseas assignment was a used black and white TV with a rotary tuning dial.  It wasn't long before we upgraded to a color TV.  I think we had the color TV for the first landing on the Moon - those Moon pictures where so much better in color! . . . .  [rolleyes2]

So how many people remember the Apollo 11 landings personally?

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]
Title: Re: Remember TV before color? (Was: iOS Client Feature Requests)
Post by: Steve on December 12, 2015, 12:51:04 AM
So how many people remember the Apollo 11 landings personally?

Continuing with de-railing GPB's thread, but that was only 46 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. I also vividly remember the Mercury Seven introduction in 1959, Glenn's flight, the many pre-Mercury test flights, etc. School would be interrupted, or television shows to show hours of pre-launch and post. By the end of the shuttle missions, you were lucky to find even a few seconds of the launch on TV. Space, and reading science fiction, was my life s a kid, and I fully expected to have already been there by now...
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: xairbusdriver on December 12, 2015, 12:51:15 AM
Come on, Edouard, we both know those Moon landing images were done in a studio in LA. They used black and white just to make the Moon look older!

We "watched" those landings on our Sansui stereo tuner purchased at the BX at Clark AFB. I did record the broadcasts (on a Teac reel-to-reel tape deck), but we didn't have a TV to watch while we were there!
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Bull Winkus on December 12, 2015, 01:58:56 AM
I'm still waiting for the Ted Turner colorized version of the moon landing to come out.

 [cheers1]
Title: Re: Remember TV before color? (Was: iOS Client Feature Requests)
Post by: Blicj11 on December 12, 2015, 06:44:40 AM
So how many people remember the Apollo 11 landings personally?

I remember it well. I also remember watching Disney's Wonderful World of Colour on my grandma's Motorola. She had one of the first television sets in our little town.
Title: Remember color Disney as well. (Was: iOS Client Feature Requests)
Post by: elagache on December 12, 2015, 11:05:40 PM
Dear Steve, X-Air, Herb, Blick, and WeatherCat visitors to nostalgia lane . . . .

I remember it well. I also remember watching Disney's Wonderful World of Colour on my grandma's Motorola. She had one of the first television sets in our little town.

Now that you mention it, that is one of the color programs that I also remember.  That was "big stuff" for a kid in those days.  Come to think of it, that was about the first time I had a "weather station."   

http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=824.msg7258#msg7258 (http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=824.msg7258#msg7258)

These horrible things are a bit harder to find but they are still out there. . . .

http://www.amazon.com/Copernicus-Personal-Weather-Bureau-Kit/dp/B00LZY5FSC (http://www.amazon.com/Copernicus-Personal-Weather-Bureau-Kit/dp/B00LZY5FSC)

(http://www.rainbowresource.com/products/019870i1.jpg)

And you thought the next generation was going to be any better off!! . . .  [rolleyes2]

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: xairbusdriver on December 13, 2015, 02:44:32 AM
WOW!!!

But where is the Solar array? And where does the battery fit? Must be a very small transmitter, also!!!
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Felix on September 01, 2016, 04:41:03 PM
Grand, I presume you're tracking the third-party Siri support in iOS 10. Although SiriKit initially only supports a very narrow class of apps, dare we hope that weather apps might be part of a future expansion?


How cool to use Siri on my iPhone or Apple Watch to interface with your app and quickly find the temperature at my weather station, or rainfall the past hour, or the max rainfall intensity in the current storm, windspeed, etc...all without having to physically open up WeatherCat for (mobile device).
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on September 01, 2016, 05:21:51 PM
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How cool to use Siri on my iPhone or Apple Watch to interface with your app and quickly find the temperature at my weather station, or rainfall the past hour, or the max rainfall intensity in the current storm, windspeed, etc...all without having to physically open up WeatherCat for (mobile device).

Give some examples of what you would say in your request to Siri.
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: Felix on September 01, 2016, 07:43:11 PM
Give some examples of what you would say in your request to Siri.


Examples:


Newtown = PWS


Hey Siri, What's the Newtown temperature?
Hey Siri, how much did it rain at Newtown today?
Hey Siri, what's the Newtown rainfall rate now?
Hey Siri, how hard is it raining at Newtown now?
Hey Siri, what was the Newtown temperature at 10 am?
Hey Siri, what's the Newtown wind now? (expecting current direction and speed)
Title: Re: iOS Client Feature Requests
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on September 04, 2016, 07:43:56 PM
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Hey Siri, What's the Newtown temperature?
Hey Siri, how much did it rain at Newtown today?
Hey Siri, what's the Newtown rainfall rate now?
Hey Siri, how hard is it raining at Newtown now?
Hey Siri, what was the Newtown temperature at 10 am?
Hey Siri, what's the Newtown wind now? (expecting current direction and speed)

We'll see what Siri has to say about that  :)

Thanks for the examples. That's very helpful although that would require a WeatherCat client on steroids. I'll investigate as time permits.