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To make a Meteobridge of of TP-LINK routers TL-MR3020 or TL-WR703N, you simply habe to install an applicable Meteobridge firmware image. Flashing the firmware ware can be done with the firmware update functions the router's stock firmware does provide. By doing so you will void the TP-LINK warranty, but having the cheap price in mind you will certainly not face a substantial financial risk in the unlikely event that you brick the router.  
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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.  
  
====Flashing Meteobridge Firmware to TL-MR3020====
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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.  
Please consult the TP-Link manual to understand how to get access with your browser to its web interface. What the manual will tell you is basically that you have to connect your PC/Laptop via ethernet cable, and log in to the router's web interface (IP is 192.168.0.254, login name is "admin", password: "admin").
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When you have access to web interface of TL-MR3020, overwrite factory firmware like a regular firmware update by [http://www.meteohub.de/files/meteobridge-tl-mr3020-v10.bin meteobridge-tl-mr3020-v10.bin]. Wait until unit restarts. After that it will be a Meteobridge client in standard configuration receiving an IP from your router in the LAN.
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====Flashing Meteobridge Firmware to TL-WR703N====
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Forum is part of Meteohub Forum: [http://forum.meteohub.de/viewforum.php?f=54&sid=c8736ec03d0ef75afa55c16f324623bd Meteobridge Forum]
As TL-WR703N does only come with a Chinese web interface, it might be a bit tricky to find the right menu item to initiate firmware update. First you have to login with your browser. To achieve that you have to connect your PC/Laptop via ethernet cable, and log in to the router's web interface (IP is 192.168.1.1, login name is "admin", password: "admin").
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When you have access to web interface of TL-WR703N, you select the item at the bottom of the left menu items, marked in light red on the picture below.
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[[File:wr703n-p1.png]]
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Next you choose sub menu item as marked in light red in the picture below and browse to target file by pressing light red marked file select dialog in the middle of the screen. Please use [http://www.meteohub.de/files/meteobridge-tl-wr703n-v10.bin meteobridge-tl-wr703n-v10.bin] to install Meteobridge firmware onto the device.
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===Release Log===
[[File:wr703n-p2.png]]
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To get the latest relaease running on your rig, just do a reboot or power-cycle.
  
Finally, a "are you sure" dialog will pop up, please press "yes" button and wait until progress bar has reached 100%. Unit will reboot automatically. After reboot it will be a Meteobridge in standard configuration receiving an IP from your router in the LAN.
 
  
====First Login to Meteobridge====
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====Current Version====
When Meteobridge is connected to your LAN it will try to receive a dynamic IP from your DHCP server during boot. Wait until blinking of the largest LED has stopped. Do a short press on the the transparent push button on top of the large LED (TL-MR3020) or a short press of the reset button behind the pinhole at the back of the unit (TL-WR703N). Now LED will start signaling the IP.
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released 6th May 2013:
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* fixes a bug that still prevents from altimeter pressure being used for CWOP
  
Meteoplug will signal its IP by pulsing the lead beneath the pressed button (TL-MR3020) or the blue LED on the top of the device (TL-WR703N). Sequence begins with LED going off, then each of the four numbers (delimited by a dot) will be signaled one by one. The dot between the numbers will be signaled by a "H" (LED shines bright). Each number is signaled by blinking digit per digit. Each digit is represented by a "M" (LED shines medium dimmed) repeated as often as the digit tells us. The zero digit is signaled by ten blinks. After having done this for all digits of all numbers of the IP, the end is signaled by LED staying off a while like it started with. When Sequenze is done, the LED is constantly turned on again.
 
  
Example: IP 192.168.10.77 Legend: M = LED medium dimmed, H = LED shines bright, _ = LED is dark
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====Version 1.4====
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released 3rd May 2013:
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* Dutch language support (translations provided by user "Wim")
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* changed gust value for weatherbug network to "todays max gust"
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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
  
<pre>Signal:                                          Comment
 
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M___H              192
 
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___H        168
 
___M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M_M___H                  10
 
___M_M_M_M_M_M_M___M_M_M_M_M_M_M___              77</pre>
 
  
If you don't like reading the blinks, you can also use an IP scanner (for example: [http://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/ Advanced IP Scanner]) or you can look into the logs of your router that provides IPs via DHCP for clients in the LAN/WLAN.
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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.
  
====Cloud Simulator for Network Configuration====
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released 13th April 2013:
If Meteobridge client cannot connect to your LAN or your LAN does not provide a DHCP service, large LED will not leave fast-blinking mode. To get network settings fixed, you can define the correct network parameters in a simulator in the Internet, which works as follows.
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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.
# Please browse to [http://config.meteobridge.com config.meteobridge.com]. There you will find a simulation of the Meteobridge web interface. Please select the "Setup Network" tab and configure settings as needed for your specific network situation.  
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* fixes a problem with send email authentification
# When settings are done, please press "save" and change to "Download" tab which will cause your browser to start downloading a configuration file named "config.tgz".
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# Please store that file (as is, do not unpack) on a USB stick formatted as FAT and start the Meteobridge with the USB stick plugged into the USB port of Meteobridge. When network settings are right, Meteobridge will stop with slow and fast blinking and turn on the LED constantly.
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# You can now remove the USB stick, it is no longer needed.
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==Configuration==
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released 7th April 2013:
When you have done the flashing of your meteobridge and initial network setup done, you can reach meteobridge for some final configuration with your browser by typing in its IP as URL. Following sections will tell you how to finalize the configuration so that your weather data gets uploaded to Weather Underground.
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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.
  
Your browser will show you meteobridge's web interface with 5 tabs. Please go through all these tabs and make the required settings. The page will show warnings for all still missing essentials until you have worked through all of this. It is just a few steps, which will be explained in the chapters below, page by page.
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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 20:01, 6 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 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