Difference between pages "Features" and "Live Data"

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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.	+	<br />This tab displays data currently transferred by Meteobridge to weather networks and push services. Meteobridge does spool weather data packets that cannot be uploaded for a certain time and tries to upload these later on, regarding if you have selected to go with retries in case of upload failures. However, there are just about 2000 slots for spooled weather data packets. When space is filled, the oldest ones will be dropped. When Meteobridge does a reboot or power cycle, spooled packets are lost, as Meteobridge cannot hold that information in non-volatile storage.
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−	* Meteobridge can upload weather station data to	+	[[File:page5.png]]
−	** 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.	+
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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.	+	Status field displays date and time of last upload to selected weather networks and activated push services. Notification includes information, if upload was successful. In case of a successful upload you find a green mark, if it did fail you see a red mark and an error description.
−	* Support for additional weather networks	+
−	==Blacklisted Features== <!--T:4-->	+	==Live Data== <!--T:4-->
−	The characteristic of the device does also bring some limitations you should be aware of.	+	This section shows current measurements of all sensors Meteobridge has received data for. "Signal" column displays how much time has passed since the last update of the sensor. Measurements are given in metric units and imperial units in parallel. A low battery symbol at the end indicates that battery power of the sensor is towards a critical level. Please inspect your weather station's console to decide if batteries need to be replaced or not, Meteobridge just works with rough estimates on this.
−	* 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.	+	==Historical Data== <!--T:5-->
		+	Meteobridge also keeps track of some historical data like min/max values of the day, month, year. As this information would be lost during a powercycle or reboot, Meteobridge does store this information on the Meteobridge Internet server in regular intervals. After a restart of your Meteobridge devices data is restored from there so that statistics have a chance to be correct even over a longer time period.
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		+	When you move your mouse over historical data and click, a dialog will pop-up which allows you to change historical values. Current values will be displayed in metric and imperial units. When you input data, you can use metric units (default when no unit is specified) or imperial units, which needs the unit to be added after the digits. Please only use one type of units, don't type in both values. The missing unit will be computed automatically. When you save changes, display will be refreshed and shows data you have updated.
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		+	"Erase" button gives you the option to get rid of all historical data. Before data is deleted a pop-up dialog appears to make sure you really want to erase your historical data.
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This tab displays data currently transferred by Meteobridge to weather networks and push services. Meteobridge does spool weather data packets that cannot be uploaded for a certain time and tries to upload these later on, regarding if you have selected to go with retries in case of upload failures. However, there are just about 2000 slots for spooled weather data packets. When space is filled, the oldest ones will be dropped. When Meteobridge does a reboot or power cycle, spooled packets are lost, as Meteobridge cannot hold that information in non-volatile storage.

Status

Status field displays date and time of last upload to selected weather networks and activated push services. Notification includes information, if upload was successful. In case of a successful upload you find a green mark, if it did fail you see a red mark and an error description.

Live Data

This section shows current measurements of all sensors Meteobridge has received data for. "Signal" column displays how much time has passed since the last update of the sensor. Measurements are given in metric units and imperial units in parallel. A low battery symbol at the end indicates that battery power of the sensor is towards a critical level. Please inspect your weather station's console to decide if batteries need to be replaced or not, Meteobridge just works with rough estimates on this.

Historical Data

Meteobridge also keeps track of some historical data like min/max values of the day, month, year. As this information would be lost during a powercycle or reboot, Meteobridge does store this information on the Meteobridge Internet server in regular intervals. After a restart of your Meteobridge devices data is restored from there so that statistics have a chance to be correct even over a longer time period.

When you move your mouse over historical data and click, a dialog will pop-up which allows you to change historical values. Current values will be displayed in metric and imperial units. When you input data, you can use metric units (default when no unit is specified) or imperial units, which needs the unit to be added after the digits. Please only use one type of units, don't type in both values. The missing unit will be computed automatically. When you save changes, display will be refreshed and shows data you have updated.

"Erase" button gives you the option to get rid of all historical data. Before data is deleted a pop-up dialog appears to make sure you really want to erase your historical data.