SolentMet

- June 8, 2015

Everyone

Weather

( 29)

Description

SolentMet provides easy access to the data from four weather stations in the Solent area (the sea between the Isle of Wight and the UK mainland).

The data display corresponds to that shown on the ‘Chimet’ website and normally updates every five minutes.

A map displays the current wind direction and strength at the four stations and each can be selected to show all the latest data available from that station.

Further details in the form of 12-hour graphs of wind strength and direction, tide, temperatures and pressure, visibility, and wave height can be displayed (where available).

Reviews

3.4

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Andrew Baxman

Web site more useful OK, but is very unintuitive to use. There is no indication that you need to tap the pop-up after you tap a station to view more info, and not obvious that you need to tap Wind, etc, on the station details screen to view the graphs. If the developer insists on using this web-like paradigm to navigate between screens, they should highlight the links in an suitable manner.

jc jc

works ok for me - would be much more useful imo if the wind graphs on the chimet/bramblenet web sites were included.......oh, I just found them - maybe access to them they should be made more prominent - you need to tap the wind symbol on the map. then tap the info pop up, then tap the word WIND. Bigger graphs would be good, as would an option to open the app straight into a graph rather than going around the houses to get there.

John Webb

Crashes Has started crashing every time I try and start it in my Samsung 8" tab 2

Andy H

Needs polishing It was not obvious to me that you had to tap the wind direction icons to get more info. Same for the next sceen you get. Tidal info too limited, I'd like to see at least 24hr. Otherwise not bad, needs honing.

timothy hardy

Used to be good but now keeps crashing so I can't use it... Uninstall for now will try again another day after the next update

Mark Painter

Only the wind speed map shows on my samsung tablet. So not much use.

User reviews

Andrew Baxman November 29, 2015

jc jc April 13, 2016

John Webb January 14, 2016

Crashes Has started crashing every time I try and start it in my Samsung 8" tab 2

Andy H November 7, 2015

timothy hardy April 3, 2017

Used to be good but now keeps crashing so I can't use it... Uninstall for now will try again another day after the next update

Mark Painter November 24, 2015

Only the wind speed map shows on my samsung tablet. So not much use.

Steve Smith November 18, 2015

Constantly crashes on my Samsung S6

Rowena Warren November 18, 2015

Perhaps a change from blue on blue text might improve readability but it does what it says. Would be nice if it continued to work!!

James Sullivan February 27, 2017

Great for checking current and recent past wind and tide conditions in Solent and Chichester Harbour.

John Gladstone May 15, 2015

Essential info for those out on the water It's been a long time coming to android but finally it's here. Good start. Would be nice to have tidal information too like the Bramblemet website but great nonetheless.

The Waglan Group Limited May 25, 2015

Tidal data and 12-hour chart is available through the App for all stations. Please let us know if the layout on your device doesn't show it - check against screen shots on Google Play.

David Wisdom February 20, 2016

Crashing Using Lenovo 10". All it does is crash. Won't even load data.