About this app

****ABOUT Touchstone Energy Weather Connection ****


Touchstone Energy Weather Connection (TEWC) is more than a weather app, it is a premium safety and security alerting application built upon a highly scalable, fully redundant, alerting infrastructure. With TEWC you will receive critical alerts via voice and push notification regarding life-threatening weather events. Enjoy the power of a NOAA Weather Radio, with all the convenience and precision of a smart phone. 




***GENERAL FEATURES***


•Precise Alerts: TEWC provides more precise alerts than those offered by the typical consumer alerting services. You only receive an alert if your device or saved locations fall inside a watch/warning box

•Follow Me: Follow me is a critical feature if you are on the go. This app will alert you when a new watch/warning is issued for your location without you having to do anything

•Friends and Family: Touchstone Energy Weather Connection can follow your current location and alert you to dangerous weather but you can also save an additional FIVE fixed locations. This means you can ensure friends and family at school, out of state, at a ballgame, etc., are safe

•Battery Management: Because this application uses location services to track the location of the device and provide precise alerts, the app will consume some battery. However, the developers have made a significant effort to conserve battery life. You can now control how much accuracy you want the application to use for your location and thus impact the battery management

•Audio: Touchstone Energy Weather Connection provides audio alerts in the form of beeps followed by a brief description of the alert type

•Custom Content: In areas with participating Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, users can receive custom alerts directly from the local Co-op

•Trusted Weather Provider: Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. is a weather-content and technology partner for many major weather brands in the U.S. Weather is our business and weather safety is our passion

•Free trial period for the features in the Essentials Pack (See in-app purchases below) 

*Data and alerting available for the United States only 




**** IN-APP PURCHASES ****


•Push Notifications – Receive push notifications for severe weather warnings, watches, and advisories issued by the National Weather Service

•Add Another Location – Enable the ability to track weather warnings for a single remote location

•Map Overlays – Enable additional display layers on the map, including warnings, watches, hurricane tracks, and more

•Voice Audio – Spoken alerts and forecasts

•Essentials Pack – Ability to enable push notifications, background tracking, voice alerts and forecasts, and map layers at a discounted price

•Premium Pack – Enable push notifications, background tracking, voice alerts and forecasts, and map layers, plus five saved locations at a discounted price




***SUPPORT***


Visit our support page for FAQs and questions.

https://wdt.zendesk.com/entries/22965842-touchstone-faq

New features

Ver. 2.7.6
Bug fixes and performance enhancements

Ver 2.7.0 Build 542
Fixes Twitter issue
Under the hood improvements for a better app experience
Various bug fixes

App Permissions

Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.