CMC Data Fallback Should Mirror NOAA

Feature Requests & Ideas
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Possibly related: Select a complete source prio list - #2 by duane

This is a borderline feature request / bug report.

I am a Gold subscriber. And I noticed that when you select NOAA HRRR, FlowX intelligently overlaps the ‘best available’ data sources, to give the best available accuracy for all time periods:

  1. 18 hours of NOAA HRRR
  2. 42 hours of NOAA NAM3
  3. NOAA GFS as the chaser

I am in Canada, and I noticed this is not mirrored for CMC sources.

What I propose should show up for CMC HRDPS:

  1. 48 hours of CMC HRDPS
  2. 36 hours of CMC RDPS
  3. CMC GDPS as the chaser

What actually shows up:

  1. 48 hours of CMC HRDPS
  2. CMC GDPS as the chaser, after 48 hours. (The 18 hrs of RDPS is ‘missing’.)

Could you please blend the CMC sources, similar to the NOAA sources?

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A “Source Set Editor” is planned for the future. It’s a major part of the new code. Also I split out weather, wave and air quality data sources so you can independently choose them.

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Is this still happening? I just signed up for premium and now see this has been the plan since like 7 years on the forums dating back to 2019 haha. GDPS just isn’t very useful for 3 days out in Canada. A Source Editor is obviously better, but even just going HRDPS > RDPS+ > GDPS as a stopgap for now if you never get around to the Source Set Editor would be extremely useful for Canadians.

I would love that full editor though, a custom HRRR > HRDPS > RDPS+ or ECMWF would outclass all other weather apps. Just hide it in premium advanced settings to prevent troubleshooting emails.

Edit: Signed up for beta on Android and HRDPS > RDPS > GDPS is functional, this is great for now, makes the app much more useful in Canada.

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I have Flowx Gold.
If I select CMC HRDPS+, it does step down from HRDPS+ to RDPS to GDPS.

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Yeah, see my edit. I had to join the beta to get the latest update which fixes the bug so it works now.

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