Discontinuation of built-in weather forecast service 6/30/2022

#1

Hello Users,

We have a general announcement about our weather forecast service becoming EOL.

Grandstream will officially discontinue our built-in weather forecast service. The last day of the service will be 6/30/2022.

thank you!

#2

Will upcoming firmware updates for effected products “delete” this feature and existing programming on the device to eliminate the NA on the display? I know you can eliminate it through programming, but asking for all those you don’t change their programming effectively…

#3

Hi alatarus,

Thanks for bringing this up. For phones currently have weather service, we plan to remove weather-related content from phone’s UI and release new firmware around the same time frame when the weather service is discontinued.

Best regards,
GSSupport

#4

Thank you for the update!

#5

RIP. Much Loved feature.

#6

I was just wondering why it says “Weather Ending Soon”… Now I know. I have a lot of customers who liked the feature too. I’ll be expecting those calls.

#7

The feature is also really liked.

#8

This feature may seem a bit futile and unnecessary but is highly appreciated by users.
An alternative should be appreciated.

#9

Indeed. The weather was an appreciated feature.

#10

Is there a replacement coming? It was a great addition so why is it being discontinued?

#11

Grandstream sells telephones and telecommunication accessories,
that was an “optional” service that is no longer offered.
Other vendors sell the weather stations.

#12

I have the latest firmware but the LCD still displays the N/A. Will this change in a newer firmware release?

#13

Grandstream officially ceased support in June 2022 for the weather service,
just look at the post above

#14

@damiano70

I did that’s why I asked the same thing since it hasn’t been resolved.

#15

The newest firmware for the GXP phones does eliminate the “N/A” on the display as the weather service has been removed as a feature (I believe it is 1.0.11.64)

#16

@alatarus thanks very much I was on 1.0.11.57 so not the latest so I just updated and yes it resolved it. Thanks again.

#18

You can just disable the service from config screen… After that, no N/A …

#19

Very likely as they used Weather Underground which closed the API and / or made it so expensive its not feasible to use it.

We are developing a software related product that uses weather and there still are free API available, so not sure why Grandstream didnt investigate them