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Meteobridge is a device that is easy to use and which should not raise a demand for extensive support. However, there is a forum, where you can share experiences, questions, wishes with other users.  
<br><font color=red>''Resellers in US and Europe do offer fully licensed Meteobridge solutions "ready-to-go". Please checkout [[Where to Buy?]]''</font>
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==What is "Meteobridge"?== <!--T:2-->
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Please make use of this in favor to emails, as a wider public can participate of your insights and problem resultion recipes.  
Meteobridge is a small device that connects your personal weather station to public weather networks like "Weather Underground". This allows you to feed your micro climate data to a weather network in the Internet and to have it there visible from wherever you are. All you need is Internet access, to reach the weather networks's web pages, where you can inspect your current and historical data. By that you can also share your weather data with friends and you are actively participating in a large network of weather enthusiasts who also share their weather observations with you.
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Forum is part of Meteohub Forum: [http://forum.meteohub.de/viewforum.php?f=54&sid=c8736ec03d0ef75afa55c16f324623bd Meteobridge Forum]
Picture below shows how your weather station gets connected to Weather Underground with the help of Meteobridge, which bridges the gap between your weather station and your router.
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===Release Log===
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To get the latest relaease running on your rig, just do a reboot or power-cycle.
  
  
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====Current Version====
When you like check how the web interface of Meteobridge device looks like, you are welcome to the cloud simulator service: [http://config.meteobridge.com config.meteobridge.com]
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released 12th May 2013:
This is a Meteobridge ported into a cloud service to play with its web interface. Upload functions and data logging is not working here, also some system interactions (reboot, etc) are not implemented.
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* support for Acurite USB stations 1025/1035/1525
Have fun setting up a Meteobridge before you even have one ;-)
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==Why don't you take a regular PC for this?== <!--T:6-->
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released 6th May 2013:
Of course, instead of using a Meteobridge device, you can also connect your weather station to a PC and install SW there that uploads data to a weather network. Many people do that, but it demands you to
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* fixes a bug that still prevents from altimeter pressure being used for CWOP
* run a PC 24/7 which adds energy costs, heat and noise and beside cost is also an unpleasant waste of energy, which is not so nice, when you care about the environment
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* install and configure SW on the PC, setup is not something done in 5 minutes
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* take care of your pc really running undisturbed 24/7, which is normally not the case for an office-like PC
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To overcome these disadvantages of a PC solution, meteobrigde steps in by providing a very cost effective solution with unmatched low demand of energy (below 2 watts) and without generating noise or significant heat. As Meteobrige does not fulfill demands of true weather enthusiasts, who want all data stored locally and doing their own graphing of that, it is extremely simple to set up and will run completely hassle-free. Just install it in a few minutes and then totally forget about it. You will not find a smaller, easier to use upload device for Weather Underground.
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==What makes Meteobridge special?== <!--T:7-->
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The idea lined out above is very easy so you might ask, why hasn't something like that been created before. To make this idea work you need a cheap platform, powerfull enough to run such code plus a development environment to put the application code on top and you need application code that supports a lot of weather stations, to make it a solution suitable to a broad range of customer situations. Recently, these building blocks have come together:  
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====Version 1.4====
* small and cheap router devices from TP-LINK building the HW platform
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released 3rd May 2013:
* a stable OpenWrt Linux port for this hardware which supports LAN and WLAN
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* Dutch language support (translations provided by user "Wim")
* application software stack from smartbedded which is also used and tested with Meteoplug devices (www.meteoplug.com)
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* changed gust value for weatherbug network to "todays max gust"
Simply speaking, Meteobrige is bringing these building blocks together and focussing it to the specialized purpose to feed Internet weather networks with your weather station's data.
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* fixes a unit conversion problem with evapotranspiration on solar sensor equipped vantage weather stations
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* fixes the low humdity bug for CWOP data transfers
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====Version 1.3====
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released 21th April 2013:
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* fixes a stability bug on new LOOP2 supporting Davis Vantage drivers
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* has some modules included to allow 3G modem support based on Huawei's E160 adapter (still experimental and to be formally released in one of the coming versions, profiles for "t-mobile.de" and "vodafone.de" do exist for testing purposes)
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* a new firmare release (version 1.2) is ready for download (in "getting started" section). This firmware is only needed when aiming at 3G operation.
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released 13th April 2013:
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* added support for LOOP2 packets when using a Davis Vantage or Vue with firmware 1.90 or newer. This makes barometer readings more precise and better in sync with Vantage console.
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* fixes a problem with send email authentification
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released 7th April 2013:
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* fxing a bug uploading average windspeed to previmeteo
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* reduce timeout for mysql connection setup to 6 seconds
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* moving static reserve LAN IP from 192.168.1.111 to 192.168.168.111 to avoid routing conficts with typical user class c networks when switching to wlan
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* removing evapotranspiration values (which did appear randomly) from solar sensor data, if not Vantage station.
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* adding a display that shows how much of internal data send buffer is currently occupied (system tab)
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* reducing memory footprint of data send process to avoid triggering oom linux mechanisms
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* doing a reboot in case of oom situations by issueing a kernel panic instead of trying to stop some applications via oom_killer.
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* added support for generation of wind direction strings in German (dedir) and English (endir) within templates.
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====Version 1.2====
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released 29th March 2013:
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includes all previous updates, plus
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* adds signal strength to SSID drop-down list
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* fixes a configuration bug that prevents from reading data from WS2300 type stations
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minor updates, added on 17th March 2013:
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* make remote login for support services an option that a user can permanently disable
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* adds better support for Vantage extra sensors
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minor updates, added on 16th March 2013:
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* fixes a bug that might have caused Meteobridge to stall after a while when sending data to CWOP
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minor updates, added on 11th March 2013:
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* additional system variables as described in section [[Templates#System Variables]]
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minor updates, added on 9th March 2013:
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* support of additional temp/hum sensors for vantage, additional temp data to be reported to Weather underground (if there)
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* setup your own weather website setup with the help of "saratoga templates" (http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/setup-Meteobridge.php)
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====Version 1.1====
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released 5th March 2013:
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* more variables for templates (full documentation at http://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Templates)
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* balloon help on live data tab does show sequence of values for live data and time of min/max events for historical data.
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* added weather network http://www.previmeteo.com
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* length of paylod text fields for push services have been enlarged to 4000 characters
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* some bugs around swapped min/max historical values are fixed
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====Version 1.0====
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* inital release

Revision as of 15:15, 12 May 2013

Meteobridge is a device that is easy to use and which should not raise a demand for extensive support. However, there is a forum, where you can share experiences, questions, wishes with other users.

Please make use of this in favor to emails, as a wider public can participate of your insights and problem resultion recipes.

Forum is part of Meteohub Forum: Meteobridge Forum

Release Log

To get the latest relaease running on your rig, just do a reboot or power-cycle.


Current Version

released 12th May 2013:

  • support for Acurite USB stations 1025/1035/1525

released 6th May 2013:

  • fixes a bug that still prevents from altimeter pressure being used for CWOP


Version 1.4

released 3rd May 2013:

  • Dutch language support (translations provided by user "Wim")
  • changed gust value for weatherbug network to "todays max gust"
  • fixes a unit conversion problem with evapotranspiration on solar sensor equipped vantage weather stations
  • fixes the low humdity bug for CWOP data transfers


Version 1.3

released 21th April 2013:

  • fixes a stability bug on new LOOP2 supporting Davis Vantage drivers
  • has some modules included to allow 3G modem support based on Huawei's E160 adapter (still experimental and to be formally released in one of the coming versions, profiles for "t-mobile.de" and "vodafone.de" do exist for testing purposes)
  • a new firmare release (version 1.2) is ready for download (in "getting started" section). This firmware is only needed when aiming at 3G operation.

released 13th April 2013:

  • added support for LOOP2 packets when using a Davis Vantage or Vue with firmware 1.90 or newer. This makes barometer readings more precise and better in sync with Vantage console.
  • fixes a problem with send email authentification

released 7th April 2013:

  • fxing a bug uploading average windspeed to previmeteo
  • reduce timeout for mysql connection setup to 6 seconds
  • moving static reserve LAN IP from 192.168.1.111 to 192.168.168.111 to avoid routing conficts with typical user class c networks when switching to wlan
  • removing evapotranspiration values (which did appear randomly) from solar sensor data, if not Vantage station.
  • adding a display that shows how much of internal data send buffer is currently occupied (system tab)
  • reducing memory footprint of data send process to avoid triggering oom linux mechanisms
  • doing a reboot in case of oom situations by issueing a kernel panic instead of trying to stop some applications via oom_killer.
  • added support for generation of wind direction strings in German (dedir) and English (endir) within templates.

Version 1.2

released 29th March 2013: includes all previous updates, plus

  • adds signal strength to SSID drop-down list
  • fixes a configuration bug that prevents from reading data from WS2300 type stations

minor updates, added on 17th March 2013:

  • make remote login for support services an option that a user can permanently disable
  • adds better support for Vantage extra sensors

minor updates, added on 16th March 2013:

  • fixes a bug that might have caused Meteobridge to stall after a while when sending data to CWOP

minor updates, added on 11th March 2013:

minor updates, added on 9th March 2013:

Version 1.1

released 5th March 2013:

  • more variables for templates (full documentation at http://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Templates)
  • balloon help on live data tab does show sequence of values for live data and time of min/max events for historical data.
  • added weather network http://www.previmeteo.com
  • length of paylod text fields for push services have been enlarged to 4000 characters
  • some bugs around swapped min/max historical values are fixed

Version 1.0

  • inital release