WxOutside - intelligent weather decisions

WxOutside.tools

This is a fairly detailed list of all the changes made to the WxOutside website. This is primarily the WxOutside dashboard and the accompanying business logic.

26 June 2018

Aeris weather forecast as primary/secondary configuration
Weather forecasts now reattempted before failing
Failed weather forecasts now marked as such
Database indexes improved
Support for large historical data improved
Soil moisture forecast thoroughly checked and improved
Soil moisture filters improved
Imported data checked for consistency
FontAwesome fonts updated
Sensor summary page created
Detailed API results now an option
Outgoing forecasts available via API

24 June 2017

Soil moisture calculation first pass now based on near-term moisture window
Irrigation simulation improved
Simulation now supports multiple irrigation points
Simulation calendar dates are restricted to a 7 day window
Moisture forecasts restricted to the maximum known moisture value
Irrigation diary fixed to show irrigation moments at the top
Telemetry start date is now a setting that the user can control
Irrigation email links are marked with agent comments
7 day summary now on dashboard
Dashboard UI now has improved headers
Alerts now have a ‘yes-only’ option
Alert popup window fixed for inconsistent behaviour
Question support now confirmed to work for soil moisture and soil temperature
Live demonstration added to demo page
Old demo locations removed
Incoming telemetry API created
WxAdvisory wsb script fixed
Custom date ranges no longer disable other date links
‘Out of action’ tweet or email will be sent if alerts can’t be completed

24 April 2017

Email messages to sensors all use a consistent header
Soil temperature forecasting now supported
Battery voltage warning colours are now more reasonable
Question support for soil moisture included
Question support for soil temperature included
Graph UI improved to not show rain events if the moisture deficit is not visible
Automatic irrigation detection now included
Soil moisture summary table display issues fixed
Email notifications when the soil sensor battery is going flat
Irrigation diary page now available
Irrigation detection emails allow for manual override of events
The date from which telemetry is used is now a user-defined value
Irrigation simulation now available

8 February 2017

Evapotranspiration crop co-efficients now supported, on a monthly basis
Evapotranspiration graph will include the crop coefficient in the displayed data
Soil moisture forecasting algorithm deployed
Recent moisture forecast summary table now available
Bad soil moisture values can now be marked in the database
Rain events are now displayed on historical date requests
Custom date requests will now prevent bad dates from being submitted

11 December 2016

Notifications now retry for a max of 5 attempts
Aquaflex soil moisture now supports field capacity, refil points, PAW and RAW values
Field capacity etc added to soil moisture graphs
Uptime statistics now have a reset option

13 November 2016

Forecasted labels are hidden by default
Lots of improvements to WxAdvisory for question support
Bugs with vertical red line fixed
Sensor uptime now displayed as a percentage
Rain events now displayed on soil moisture graph
Question history now loaded as an AJAX request
Sensor logs now redesigned to be more readable
Notification emails rewritten to use HTML header and to look good on mobile devices
Temperature graph only uses on axis (all lines use the same unit)

2 October 2016

Composite graph types now supported (soil moisture, temperature etc)
Graph type colours now reflect the same colours as the reports
Battery icon now uses colours to indicate status
Hardware alerts set up - will email based on operating thresholds
Minor wording and layout changes

11 September 2016

Shutdown and restart commands can now be sent from the dashboard
Cancel shutdown/restart command can now be sent from the dashboard
Aquaflex sensor now replaces the old soil sensor
Aquaflex errors and battery information now included on the graphs
Volumetric moisture graphs now supported
Mobile website CSS fixed
Network location is now what's displayed on the map at the bottom of the page

28 August 2016

Reduced datasets now working perfectly
Any date range greater than 48 hours is now a day summary
'Custom date range' text now reflects the selected date rage
Footer for logged-in users now shows a map with their network location
Historical data now imported
Chart.js updated

7 August 2016

Sensor logs UI improved
Network name in the sensor page is now obviously a link
Notifications improved - formatting fixed for email notifications
Notifications UI fixed - retries of edited notifications now working
Compression script now included in sensor details
7-day and 30-day forecasts now display properly
Ticks in legend options are now black for better legibility
Improvements made to indexes on database tables
Logs now available for each physical sensor

31 July 2016

Notifications system completely redesigned
Notifications tab removed, notificaitons admin now incorporated into questions page

24 July 2016

Wind speed now returned in miles per hour for American locations
Temperature now returned in Fahrenheit for American locations
All demo graphs now the same consistent colour
User lines are now a small line with no dots
Graphs now return an optimised amount of data, so large date ranges load quickly
Time span links now disabled while data is being returned

18 July 2016

All guide lines are now in shades of grey
Soil moisture graph now has 'wet' and 'dry' guide lines
Sensor page now supports lat/lon values for both network location and sensor locations
Bug fixed where some demo networks defaulted to the first network for some requests

13 July 2016

Questions added to new locations on demo page
Scrolling to correct graph now fixed
Reports now filterable on questions

11 July 2016

Reports now available
Questions now colour-coded in reports, with the option to hide/show questions
More locations included in the demo page

4 July 2016

Threshold lines added to temperature humidity index, heat load index, and accumulated heat load index graphs.
Questions now detect sensor names.
Questions associated with sensors are now colour-coded against the sensor
Sensors now support locations in different countries, under the same network.
Questions are now clickable - the graph will auto-select and scroll to be visible

WxOutside sensors

These are the changes made to the physical sensors (the hardware) and the supporting software. Because these sensor are open-source designs, the changes are all found in the GitHub repository (https://github.com/WxOutside)