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Weather Stations
Meteoplug supports exactly the same weather stations as Meteohub. As current Meteoplug clients just have USB and ethernet connectors, weather stations with USB connector (serial and HID type) or TCP/IP connection (connected via a hub, switch or router to Meteoplug client) are directly supported. To have a RS232 connected weather station supported a Meteoplug compatible RS232-to-USB converter is needed. Attached you find a list of supported weather stations.
Internal data logger of weather stations is in general not supported. Exception is Davis Vantage/Vue. Here Meteoplug checks for data in the internal logger of the weather station before doing reading regular live data.
Supported Weather Stations
supported weather stations
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| Davis Vantage Pro2, Pro1 (except firmware A)
| Vantage Pro including wind, rain, pressure, UV, solar radiation, indoor temperature, outdoor temperature and 7 extra temp/hum sensors are fully supported. Additional "Soil" and "Leaf" sensors as well as pure temperature sensors are also supported. Meteoplug can handle RS232, USB and TCP/IP (WeatherLinkIP) variants of Vantage. Data internally logged in Vantage is checked by Meteoplug when Meteoplug starts operation. If there is historical data not available to Meteoplug so far, this logged data will be transferrred to Meteoplug before logging of live data starts. RS232 Vantage must have set baud rate to 19.200.
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| Davis Vantage Vue
| Vantage Vue including all available sensors is fully supported. Meteoplug can handle RS232, USB and TCP/IP (WeatherLinkIP) variants of Vantage. Data internally logged in Vantage is handled by Meteoplug as explained for Vantage Pro. RS232 Vantage must have set baud rate to 19.200.
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| Oregon WMR928 (EU), WMR968 (US)
| This model has a RS232 connector that needs a RS232-to-USB converter (based on CP2101, FTDI or PL2303 chipset). Serial protocol of this weather station is well understood and widely documented. As a result Meteoplug does support all of it's features. Disadvantage of the station not to have a data logger included is compensated by Meteoplug. Station is limited in terms of sensor variety. It can handle a maximum of 3 additional thermo/hygro sensors and is lacking support of an UV sensor.
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| Oregon WMR200
| This model has a USB connector that can directly connected to the Meteoplug client. Internal Datalogger of WMR200 will not be used by Meteoplug. WMR200 has problems in reporting actual sensor readings, when data logger is completely filled. It is recommended to set the data logging interval to the maximum (longest duration). This takes care that the data logger will not reach its capacity for months. However, you should take care to empty the data logger's buffer from time to time manually at the WMR 200 base station. All sensors for WMR200 are supported, including additional thermo/hygro sensors as well as an UV sensor.
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| Oregon WMR100
| This model has a USB connector that can directly connected to the Meteoplug client. Meteoplug supports all available sensors for WMR100, including additional thermo/hygro sensors as well as an UV sensor
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| Oregon WMRS200
| This station is like a WMR100 with sensors from WMR200 but without any display. WMRS200 is powered from Meteoplug via USB connector. All sensors applicable to WMRS200 are supported by Meteoplug.
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| Oregon RMS300
| This station gets directly connected by an USB cable and is just capable to report data from a maximum of 3 temp/hygro sensors. Out-door sensor is included in the package (THGN-132N) and mapped to channel 0 by Meteoplug. Sensors for wind, rain, UV, pressure are not supported. Additional temp/hygro sensors have to be of type THGR810. temp/hygro sensor included in the console is reported on channel 9.
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| Hideki TE923
| TE923 weather station from Hideki is connected via USB and is sold with various brand names (Mebus, Irox, Honeywell, Nexus). TE923 had various hardware revisions over time. Meteoplug supports hardware versions 3, and 4. Very old version 1, that does not provide live weather data on the USB port, and version 2 are not supported.
Meteoplug just makes use of the live data of TE923, internal data logger functionality of TE923 is not used by Meteoplug.
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| Fine Offset Electronics WH1080, WH1081
| WH1080 weather station from Fine Offset Electronics is also branded as Watson W-8681, WX-2008, National Geographic 265 NE, Elecsa 6975/ 6976, Ambient Weather WS-1080/WS-2080. Meteoplug just makes use of live data of the WH-1080, internal data logger functionality of the WH1080 is not used by Meteoplug. Weather forecast icon is not supported as well.
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| Peet Bros Ultimeter 100, 800, 2100
| Ultimeter weather stations from Peet Bros are supported. Wind, rain, pressure, indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity are used. Supported Peet Bros data protocols are "data logging", "packet", "complete record".
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| RainWise MkIII
| MkIII weather station from RainWise is supported including wind, rain, pressure, outdoor temperature and humidity. Meteoplug uses classical CRC communication type. Sensor thb0 reports pressure and outdoor temp/hum. Sensor th0 also reports outdoor temp/hum.
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| La Crosse WS2300
| WS2300 weather station is supported. Data is received by a plug-in available under GPL. Source code can be at download from download section of "meteohub.de".
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| ELV WS300PC/444/500 and various clones (WS550/777/888)
| WS300 weather station and clones are supported and connected via USB.
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Supported Data Acquisition Devices
supported data ackquisition devices
| Device
| Description
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| RFXCOM 433MHz-Receiver for Oregon Scientific sensors (USB/LAN/WLAN)
| RFXCOM Receiver in 433MHz band can read all kinds of Oregon Scientific sensors and RFXmeter sensors, which can do monitoring of energy consumption. Receivers are available with USB connection (80002), LAN connection (81003), WLAN (82003)
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| ELV, Conrad Energy monitors EM1010PC and EM1000
| Meteoplug can read data from these USB connected energy monitoring devices. Information provided is actual power demand and total energy consumption.
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| Current Cost Energy monitor Envi CC128
| Meteoplug can read data from this USB connected energy monitoring device. Information provided is indoor temperature and actual power demand.
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Not Supported Weather Stations
These weather stations are not supported:
- WS2500, WS2000, WS3600 from La Crosse and/or ELV are not supported.
- Labjack U3 which is supported by Meteohub is not supported by Meteoplug.
- 1wire weather stations are not supported.
Meteoplug Client Hardware
Meteohub
Any Meteohub system can also feed the Meteoplug server with data. This allows to make use of Meteoplug's data storage capabilities as some kind of a raw data backup and this will also allow you the to make use of Meteoplug graphing features that are somehow more powerful than gnuplot based graphing on a Meteohub.
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| EBOX 3300
| ALIX 1D
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| fitPC Slim
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Definition of weather stations and sensors has to be done on the Meteohub. Meteoplug just mirrors settings you have done on your Meteohub. When you change settings on your Meteohub it might take some time until these changes are effective on Meteoplug.
You will find more information about Meteohub at meteohub.de.
Bifferboard
Bifferboard is the first true Meteoplug client hardware. Bifferboards are extremely small, low cost and take just 1 watt of power. If you are interested in that technology you might start reading here:
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When used with Meteoplug Bifferboard's internal flash storage has to be flashed with a Meteoplug client image. This Meteoplug client image takes care that Bifferboard connects to Meteoplug server during boot and loads the most recent Client applications into the Bifferboard. That means, you don't have to update your Bifferboard client software to get advantage of new features, but Bifferboard will just need a reboot to get the most recent Meteoplug client application.
When you don't already have a Bifferboard to use as Meteoplug client, you can order Bifferboards here. Please select a PCB, case and power supply. You can also add installation of Meteoplug firmware as an option. Choosing that you receive a Bifferboard pre-configured and ready to go with Meteoplug.
As Meteoplug client needs Meteoplug server to start up correctly it is vital that your Meteoplug client is embedded into a LAN where it gets an IP and necessary gateway and DNS information from your router via DHCP. When you don't have a router that keeps internet contact 24/7 or you don't have a DHCP server (mostly your router) in your LAN, then Meteoplug client will not work. In addition to that Meteoplug client relies on the capability to connect to the Meteolug server in the internet. Normally you don't have to make a setup for this in your firewall, as this is just outgoing http traffic on standard port 80. You just have to make sure that your router is not blocking http internet access on port 80 for the Meteoplug client. In 95% of domestic setups, Meteoplug client will work without any hassle, just plug in Meteoplug client into your LAN and login on the Meteoplug server with your browser to start setting up your account and receiving weather data.
As you can see, Bifferboard is really tiny, even when compared to the small NSLU2 or when holding it in your hand. Bifferboard has one USB and one LAN connector. When using a USB hub, more than one weather station can be connected. Power is attached by a small external power adapter that can handle 110-240 volts. Bifferboard has a tiny hole in the cover to allow for reset with a paperclip. A blue LED indicates power on and a yellow one blinks on LAN traffic. The unit gets hand warm during operation and is completely noiseless. Bifferboards come with 1, 4or 8 MB (latest model) of internal flash storage and 32 MB of RAM. All variants are working well with Meteoplug. Meteoplug client is loaded into RAM disk which eliminates risk of wearing out flash cells. As there are no write operations on flash storage there is no risk of flash storage going bad over time. Bifferboard automatically reboots after power failure. It has a watchdog running that reboots when system appears to be stalled. All in all Bifferboard brings all the features needed to provide a reliable data logging client.
Bifferboard Twin-USB
There is a variant of Bifferboard that has two USB ports and a SD card slot. Meteoplug does not make use of SD card slot (using this will disable on of the USB ports), but can drive both USB ports. This is very usefull, if you plan to connect two weather stations to Meteoplug client. Apart from twin USB feature this Bifferboard is identical to single USB Bifferboard.
Twin-USB Bifferboard provides a red LED that Meteoplug client software makes use of to signal client's LAN IP. This red LED is also on PCB of standard Bifferboards, but its case does no provide a hole to have a look at it. When you look straight into the not connected USB port of a standard Bifferboard you can see the red light of this LED a bit (will not work in bright sun light). Numbers are signaled by blinking red LED. Each of the four blocks of numbers is signaled with a slightly dimmed red blinking. Each digit inside a number block is represented by a corresponding number of blinks ("0" is ten blinks), Separation of digits is done by a short additional pause. Dot between number blocks is represented by a full-powered, undimmed red blink. When signaling of IP is done, red LED stays powered-on. This indicates, that Meteoplug client has booted correctly and is operational.
Please have a look at video below, which shows how LAN IP 192.168.123.232 is signaled.
Regular Linux System
You can also use your X86 Linux system to act as a Meteoplug client. Just download a small package and follow instruction in the README.
Fritz!Box 7270/7240
| As Fritz!Box 7270/7240 has a USB port, pretty much RAM (64MB) and sufficient processing power (350 BogoMIPS) I made a port of the Meteoplug client to this platform. Meteoplug client package can be installed by Fritx!Box regular web interface like other software updates. When doing so a message appears, telling you that this is not a regular update from AVM, which is certainly true. When you continue installation, a Meteoplug client software package will be installed on your 7270/7240. Please wait a couple of minutes after reboot and then try to browse to your Fritz!Box's IP at port 7770. You should see a not populated Meteoplug client dashboard there. Having that you should register an account at Meteoplug. Details about all that is outlined in "Getting Started" section of this wiki. Installation of Meteoplug client on your 7270/7240 is done at your own risk. Please notice that there always is a possibility to "brick" your 7270/7240 when flashing non AVM packages onto it. Meteoplug package is just for 7270/7240, other Fritz!Boxes are not supported.
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