I loved this program, and when the trial period ended I immediately registered, and have used it daily since then. It has been a little prone to resetting my Treo 650 on occasion (usually this is if I have failed to click any of the buttons in response to the alarms), but no harm done. Well worth it for local weather conditions & forecast ready and waiting for me when it wakes me up, reminds me to get out the door in the morning, and when it silently checks for me in the evening... I always know what to tell the kids to wear when the weather is at my fingertips, ready to go.
However, a week or so ago (late May 2007) I found I was unable to get any weather... all I get is a "welcome to TreoAlarm" message, w/instructions on how to specify zipcode, etc. Well, I've been setting it every day or two since then, using different zipcodes, but no joy...
Googling reveals others suffering the same problem. I have to wonder whether a critical server or software has crashed, or perhaps support for this has folded... Hard to say!
The support forum that they USED to have (forum.softwaretrenches.com) disapeared a while back, and the support address given on treoalarm.com yields no response (in the 2-3 times I tried it).
But it looks like the treoalarm.com site is willing to take orders for new licenses, which presumably don't work either...
Again, I LOVE this software, but what's a guy to do at this point?
Recomended, but ONLY IF IT STARTS WORKING AGAIN!
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Worked well for a year or two, but stopped...?
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Contributed by: aliastemp Friday, June 01 2007 @ 09:33 PM PDT
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UPDATE - aliastemp
The support address given on the treoalarm.com site apears to be dead, based on the following mail server message:=====
A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of
its recipients after 26 hours.
The message has not yet been delivered to the following addresses:
<support@treoalarm.com>
host treoalarm.com[74.208.11.70]:
mail transaction failed during initialization
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Most unfortunate... Where can one find this sort of functionality now? A Treo-compatible program that independantly grabs weather/forecast data & ties into alarm clock functionality....
Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 07:39 AM PDT
Worked well for a year or two, but stopped...? - aliastemp
Correction: version 1.17 has been out for some time, and that's the one that suddenly stopped working (presumably earlier versions also fail now).Reply to This
Friday, June 01 2007 @ 09:42 PM PDT