Rain radar
· v3.0.0
About
This widget gives you the ability to view rain forecast, either an animated image a or chart, on you Edge device based on you current GPS location. You can simply activate the widget during an activity.
Get a free subscription (license key), which includes the features: full screen images, carousel and rain chart. Simply go to https://rollower.com/license-request-rainradar/ and fill in the form on the landing page. After filling in the form, I will send you the license key (manual process) within one business day.
Instruction videos, go to www.rollower.com/rainradar-for-garmin-edge
In case you encounter problems, please use the "Contact Developer" link before leaving a review (NOTE: do not forget to enter your email address, else I cannot contact you)
I am looking forward to your feedback!!!
What's new
3.0.0 (2025-03-12):
- Added support for Edge 1050, however, due to bugs, I am working on an improved version.
2.4.0 (2024-08-20):
Rainradar issues are solved. The coverage is extended to from Europe to world wide.
2.4.0 (2023-04-23):
- Added support for Edge 840 and 540
- Added glance support for Edge 1040, 840 and 540. The widget can be added to the Widgets overview on the start screen.
This makes it very easy to start the widget during an (cycling) activity)
- Stopped support for Edge 520 and 520plus
- NB:
- Since the latest Garmin device software, there is an issue when downloading multiple images (carousel) for the Rainradar.
- This issue is most likely related to the latest Garmin Edge software release, as it worked fine in previous releases.
- Downloading a single image and the chart is working fine.
2.3.0 (2023-02-23):
- Support for Edge Explore 2
2.2.0 (2022-12-08):
- Performance update
2.1.0 (2022-07-22):
- Support for Edge 1040 / Solar
2.0.0 (2021-05-15):
- Support to show a rain chart (licensed)
- Added Italian language
1.9.0 (2020-08-12):
- Support for Edge 1030Plus
1.8.0 (2020-05-24):
- Solved crash issue with Edge 520 and Edge 820
1.7.0 (2020-05-23):
- Support for Edge Explore
- Support for full screen images (licensed)
- Support in the Garmin Connect Mobile application for licensed user settings: carousel and rainchart
1.6.0 (2019-09-29):
- Added support for Edge 830 and 530
- Changed the basemap to get more details in the map
1.5.1 (2019-07-27):
- Add support for most of the countries in Europe
- Solved problem that users have experienced that images are not downloaded
1.4.0 (2019-05-05):
- Minor improvement of restarting the retrieval of the radar images in case of bad mobile internet connection
1.3.0 (2019-05-03):
- Support for Edge 1000, 820, 520Plus and 520
1.2.0 (2019-04-26):
- Added multi language support. Support languages are: English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch
1.1.0 (2019-04-14):
- The rain forecast is a fixed period of 1.5 hours
- The rain radar maps are downloaded based on the current GPS position
- Possibility to select region: city, province and country (this is the size of The Netherlands)
- Currently, only the English language is available
Planned features in the future:
- Improve performance of radar image download. Currently it takes 5 to 12 seconds to download all images