PLEASE Do Not get rid of the old station dashboard. Just just keep it around and let us have a choice.
Hi Galfert,
unfortunately that's not an option. As you are aware that dashboard was not working well for a lot of people, hence the switch. The new page is completely re-written with new data sources, so we can't just keep the old one running in parallel. Whats the feature you think is most important from the old PWS dashboard page?
Issues with new UI:- New UI is static and is not LIVE like the old dashboard. What is the point of rapidfire? You were the only weather site for PWS with this feature. You threw out a good feature. You could see before that the refresh in seconds that your station was reporting continuously. Now you have no idea how old the data is and how frequently that station is reporting.
- There is too much wasted space in new UI. Old Dashboard let you see every bit of data without scrolling. The old dashboard allowed it to be like a live console where you could see everything in one shot.
- New UI has reduced data quality by rounding many items to single whole digits. Temperature, Dew Point, Feels Like, Wind, Gusts, (no idea about rain yet because it isn't raining).
- map is squished. looks bad. Will be terrible for rain radar
- graphs are also reduced in quality because they show data in whole digits
I never felt like I needed a personal hosted website for my PWS because WU provided a LIVE nice view of all the data. Now I think I'm going to have to put up my own website with LIVE data. Not happy.
I participated last year on August 31 with Kristian Tumang in your limited one on one private showing of your new UI. I provided a ton of feedback. I never heard back. And I see that you have not listened to my feedback. Except for one thing...you kept the graphs under the new UI....thank you for that....but they are not as good as the old graphs.
Here is my long list of feedback that I provided and emailed Kristian after the long private demo of the new UI:
[I sent Kristian EVERTHING from this point to the end of this post]Feedback on today's demonstration (August 31, 2018):I really think everything is kind of large. Please allow a combined view of every single metric to be seen live without having to scroll. Basically like we have now. These improvements are eye candy and give more graphical detail but I want to be sure you don't forget to be able to see the full LIVE picture at one glance.
****** THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT...please don't mess up the current functionality with your new interface...it would be like missing the forest for the trees.
I noticed that the pressure graph in the demo is not scaled properly. It is all zoomed out. It is a flat line. That wasn't working when that screenshot was taken. Graphs should scale automatically to max and minimum plotted levels.
One other nice thing I thought of to have is the ability to compare this month this year with last year same month. Or maybe even this week this year compared to same week last year.
The wundermap view should indicate with a different color which stations are better rated. The outline of the station could glow in green instead of black.
Like this attached image...which I did rather quickly in Paint just to show the idea. Look at station showing 69 Deg how I made it different and it is glowing, this would be a 5 star station passing all metric quality controls.
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Areas of Improvement and New Features Request:
- ability to see registered station hardware for other countries (buying guide, more pws options, does not populate other countries)
- ability to see humidity graphed
- ability to have private indoor temperature and humidity published and seen privately for station owner only.
- ability of station owner to have test hardware not published on the live map...so only seen by station owner. (I'm cheating now by putting test stations on the map where they really arent)
- ability to combine multiple weather information sensors that upload into one station ID (so I could add separate soil and leaf wetness...etc and keep existing weather station hardware)
- make improvements to camera reliability and features like adding weather data over the image.
- Quality Checking reporting like MADIS does on individual sensors (better than old cryptic Gold Star). Let's incentivize station owners to maintain and replace their broken sensors. Identify good station that pass all quality checks versus those that don't. Compare individual stations only to other good stations for the station owner to see how their hardware is performing.
- ability for station owner to moderate conversation of their weather page comments section...get rid of Disqus which can have junk linger that others posted. Give us a better web chat tool and make it visible on the phone app so that it doesn't get ignored.
- ability to send messages to station owner. Disqus messages go unnoticed by station owner. They should be able to get an email notification without revealing their email.
- ability for wundermap to see METAR airport stations (at least ASOS and configurable on-off)
- ability for wundermap to see MADIS stations (configurable on-off)
- ability for graphs to compare neighboring stations by allowing selection of custom multiple nearby stations, but don't force a given radius...let me choose.
- ability to edit data charts and delete or fix bad data (that is broken now)
- ability to upload missed data from mySQL export or CSV file (useful for when Internet goes out), also useful for stations without live data connection and maybe they can upload from memory files that they pull daily.
- Live Radar that is not delayed, and higher quality.
- Decide what to do with Wunderstation...Please finally release an Android version or replace it with something that is available on both iOS and Android. The new Storm app is good but I can't see my station with it.
- give wundermap ability to see pressure (can you believe that is missing!) This is one of my biggest grips. People don't calibrate their barometers. Might help to be able to see it on the map and draw attention to outliers.
- add topology to maps. People don't know their elevation. They need easy way to click and determine elevation. But as a regular non-station user I should be able to cross reference if the altitude is correct.
- Fix old and unreliable Mapbox maps will all kinds of mapping errors, streets missing, zip codes and city names messed up.
- Fix Favorites!!! and also city named favorite should take me to my station ID ...not whichever one it wants for that city, or allow station ID to become favorites.
- ability for station owner to add email alerts if data stops reporting or receives bad data (broken sensor alert) at determined frequency.
- Weather Stickers (widgets) not working
- allow custom mix of units to be displayed. I want for example pressure in hpa but temperature in deg F. I'd actually like to see pressure in both hpa and inHG at the same time.
- ability to add/edit weather station pictures.
- ability to specify when adding a station the exact weather station hardware model. Especially for Acurite systems.
- Why does WU mobile app show station owners username but regular website doesn't? Be nice to have option to show a nick name or first name with email link rather than a username.
- Currently you can click on Report to report a station with bad data. But the report process only allows you to click on Temperature, Pressure, Wind, Forecast, and Station Offline. There is no place to report a station location problem, and It would be good offer a comments box for details. I know for example KFLWINTE856 is about 2.5 miles off. I know this because of a few clues. The station name is the name of a development 2.5 miles different than its location, and the rain fall data is exactly like it should be 2.5 miles away and does not fall in line with rain fall data from its shown location. It should be moved 2.5 miles toward the East. I've reported the station...but I don't think it will do any good because the Temp, Pressure,...etc are all good data. So that report will go ignored because I couldn't really convey the real problem.
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- Another little bit of added feedback goes back to when I mentioned Gold Star stations glowing on the map. I also think it would be nice if you zoomed out of the map that a Gold Star station should maintain visible presence for that area. It should be other stations that disappear on zoom out focus. I think currently older established stations take precedence..and that is good..let the new kid give way to the elder station. But sometimes people move, and an experienced station owner would lose map priority to some crappy station with the current system.
It think it needs to be a mixture of both Quality Control status (Gold Star) and station age, where Gold Star take priority and then followed by station age.
And lastly there is this post with more good feedback which were my notes that I prepared before meeting with Kristian on August 31, 2018. It was a lot to cover and we went over the allotted meeting time:
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34994.msg357636#msg357636