Onguard - Weather Alerts

OnGuard Weather Alerts monitors the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) active weather alerts for advisories, watches, and warnings for your location (Within the Continental United States. Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico).

When an alert is detected for your current location or any of your static location entries, an appropriate audible, sensory (vibrate), and visual alert will be generated depending on the severity of the NOAA alert type (Advisory, Watch, or Warning).



Features:

- NO Signups, NO Websites, NO text messages, and NO ads! This application runs entirely on your Android device as a background service and pulls alerts directly from the source (NOAA).

- Dynamic Location Support.

- Static Location Support (unlimited # of entries).

- Audible, Sensory, and Visual alerts (Configurable).

- Insistent Alert Support (off/on configurable) for Warning level events (ie. Audible, Sensory, and

- Visual alerts will repeat until acknowledged).

- Configurable Notification Levels (Warnings Only, Watches & Warnings, Advisories & Watches & Warnings).

- Dynamic Location supports GPS and Network Based position determination.

- Dynamic Location is on/off configurable.

- Easily stop the service by simple unchecking a box in the preferences.

- Configurable interval for checking for alerts.

- "Check Now" Button for manual or instant checks.



FAQ:

Q: Is OnGuard hard on my battery?

A: No. The application minimizes the amount of power required by allowing the user to control whether Dynamic Location is enabled. Even with this feature enabled, the app only requests Dynamic Location updates every 15 minutes, thereby conserving battery power.

Q: How much data is used?

A: Not much at all. It varies based upon the number of active weather publications at a given time and how frequently you configure the background service to check for updates. Each time the app checks for new NOAA publications a 2k (kilobyte) data packet retrieved via an Internet connection for each location configured in your preferences. Using the default app settings (i.e. the background service checks publications every 15 minutes for one location) approximately 200k (kilobytes) per day or 6M (megabytes) per month of data is used. This is a very small amount given the allowances of most provider's data plans.

Tip: If data usage is a concern, consider disabling the background service and using the Check Now feature instead.