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<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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<br />Before you decide to go the Meteobridge way you might be interested to understand a bit more what to expect from Meteobridge right now, what is planned for coming releases and what Meteobridge will not be able to do for you.
  
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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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* Meteobridge can upload weather station data to  
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** Weather Underground
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** AWEKAS
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** WeatherBug Backyard
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** WeatherForYou
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** UK MetOffice WOW
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** Open Weather Map
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** Windfinder
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** CWOP (Citizen Weather Observer Program)
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* Meteobridge device is completely managed by your PC's browser, you don't have to install any additional software on your PC.
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* Meteobridge connects to your LAN or WLAN.
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* Supported WLAN types are be 802.11n, 802.11g, or 802.11b.
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* All main WLAN encryption standards are supported (WEP, WPA, WPA2).
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* When your LAN/WLAN is behind a proxy, Meteobridge can be configured to use the proxy instead of trying to directly connect to the Internet.
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* Your weather data will be sent directly to the Internet weather network, nothing in-between.
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* Meteobridge can be used for free during a 14 day tryout period. After that a one-time licensing of the device is necessary to use it further on. Licensing can be done via Paypal with a few clicks oder by a license key to be entered manually.
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* Meteobridge supports a broad range of weather stations. Please see Chapter "Stations" to get more details on this.
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* Meteobridge's web interface is secured by a password you can change.
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* Meteobridge can be resetted to default network behavior and default password with the unit's reset button. So you should never be locked out, whatever you did wrong when configuring the network parameters or changing passwords.
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* There is an Internet application that allows you to make a network configuration for your Meteobridge device without having that running yet. Configuration can be downloaded to USB stick and when starting Meteobridge device with this stick plugged in, it will use the stored configuration for startup. This is a significant simplification when setting up meteobridge as a WLAN device or in non-DHCP LAN environments.
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* Meteobridge can be asked by HTTP GET requests for recent ensor data in plain text or XML style.
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* Beside sending weather data to Internet weather networks Meteobridge can also  
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** upload weather data to twitter accounts,
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** send weather data to Internet servers via HTTP GET requests,
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** store data at a MYSQL databases,
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** send e-mails with embedded weather data.
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** ftp upload of files received from a http server in the Internet and with weather data filled in by Meteobridge.
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* Meteobridge can send e-mail and twitter alarms with customized texts, when user-defined sensor thresholds are reached.
  
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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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Please keep in mind that features marked as planned in this section, are not guaranteed to show up. Nevertheless, it might be interesting for you to at least get an idea, what next steps in development to expect.
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* Support for additional weather networks
  
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The characteristic of the device does also bring some limitations you should be aware of.
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* Hardware provides 4 MB of flash and 32 MB RAM. This is very very limited, so don't expect large additional applications which might for example display graphs locally to be able to run on this.
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* Meteobridge clients will not store gathered weather data locally. The most recent data to be transmitted to a weather network is available plus some min/max values. Beside that, no data will be stored locally.
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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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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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Have fun setting up a Meteobridge before you even have one ;-)
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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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* 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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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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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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Revision as of 03:31, 26 February 2013


Before you decide to go the Meteobridge way you might be interested to understand a bit more what to expect from Meteobridge right now, what is planned for coming releases and what Meteobridge will not be able to do for you.

Implemented Features

  • Meteobridge can upload weather station data to
    • Weather Underground
    • AWEKAS
    • WeatherBug Backyard
    • WeatherForYou
    • UK MetOffice WOW
    • Open Weather Map
    • Windfinder
    • CWOP (Citizen Weather Observer Program)
  • Meteobridge device is completely managed by your PC's browser, you don't have to install any additional software on your PC.
  • Meteobridge connects to your LAN or WLAN.
  • Supported WLAN types are be 802.11n, 802.11g, or 802.11b.
  • All main WLAN encryption standards are supported (WEP, WPA, WPA2).
  • When your LAN/WLAN is behind a proxy, Meteobridge can be configured to use the proxy instead of trying to directly connect to the Internet.
  • Your weather data will be sent directly to the Internet weather network, nothing in-between.
  • Meteobridge can be used for free during a 14 day tryout period. After that a one-time licensing of the device is necessary to use it further on. Licensing can be done via Paypal with a few clicks oder by a license key to be entered manually.
  • Meteobridge supports a broad range of weather stations. Please see Chapter "Stations" to get more details on this.
  • Meteobridge's web interface is secured by a password you can change.
  • Meteobridge can be resetted to default network behavior and default password with the unit's reset button. So you should never be locked out, whatever you did wrong when configuring the network parameters or changing passwords.
  • There is an Internet application that allows you to make a network configuration for your Meteobridge device without having that running yet. Configuration can be downloaded to USB stick and when starting Meteobridge device with this stick plugged in, it will use the stored configuration for startup. This is a significant simplification when setting up meteobridge as a WLAN device or in non-DHCP LAN environments.
  • Meteobridge can be asked by HTTP GET requests for recent ensor data in plain text or XML style.
  • Beside sending weather data to Internet weather networks Meteobridge can also
    • upload weather data to twitter accounts,
    • send weather data to Internet servers via HTTP GET requests,
    • store data at a MYSQL databases,
    • send e-mails with embedded weather data.
    • ftp upload of files received from a http server in the Internet and with weather data filled in by Meteobridge.
  • Meteobridge can send e-mail and twitter alarms with customized texts, when user-defined sensor thresholds are reached.

Planned Features

Please keep in mind that features marked as planned in this section, are not guaranteed to show up. Nevertheless, it might be interesting for you to at least get an idea, what next steps in development to expect.

  • Support for additional weather networks

Blacklisted Features

The characteristic of the device does also bring some limitations you should be aware of.

  • Hardware provides 4 MB of flash and 32 MB RAM. This is very very limited, so don't expect large additional applications which might for example display graphs locally to be able to run on this.
  • Meteobridge clients will not store gathered weather data locally. The most recent data to be transmitted to a weather network is available plus some min/max values. Beside that, no data will be stored locally.
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