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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.

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 release running on your rig, just do a reboot or power-cycle. Chapters below illustrate new features and bug fixes that have been realized in current and previous releases.

In the Works

• fixes a timezone bug on TP-Link platforms

Version 1.6

released June 22, 2013:

• fixes a bug that impacts correct start/stop of datalogger when connected to an acurite station.
• adds support of triggering a user defined shell script that can incorporate weather variables. This allows to start actions on other devices by http requests initiated by the shell script.

released June 13, 2013:

• fixes a bug that prevents from reading data from acurite stations via USB hub.
• adds optional client bridging mode that enables a Wifi connected Meteobridge to connect devices connected to the Meteobridge's LAN port with WLAN.
• adds support for Ubiquiti AirCam to be used as weather cam for Weather Underground and for upload of weather pics via FTP to a user's server. Picture quality is fine for a 100 Euro priced consumer cam which can handle varying daylight situations quite well.
• adds support for new AirCam firmware 1.2, which provides pictures in 1280x720 resolution as displayed below on the right. Meteobridge automatically detects firmware version of AirCam and loads pictures in best available resolution.

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  FW 1.1 (640x480)

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  FW 1.1 (640x480)

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  FW 1.2 (1280x720)

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  FW 1.2 (1280x720)

Version 1.5

released June 1, 2013:

• adds http-based data request mechanism "template.cgi?template=XXXXX&contenttype=text/plain"

released May 30, 2013:

• adds heat index on outdor temp/hum sensors
• adds monthly/yearly values for evapotranspiration
• makes upload interval for backup of historical data selectable (from every 10 minutes to once a day)
• adds new variables to allow time stamps in 12h notation: HH, H, APM, apm (see "Template" chapter for details)

released May 23, 2013:

• fixes upload abortion problem with CWOP

released May 14, 2013:

• adds option to specify a month to be used as starting point for annual rain measurement. Default is January.

released May 12, 2013:

• support for Acurite USB stations 1025/1035/1525 added
• adds option to calibrate pressure by an offset on "select station" page

released May 6, 2013:

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

Version 1.4

released May 3, 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 April 21, 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 April 13, 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 April 7, 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 March 29, 2013:

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

released March 17, 2013:

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

released March 16, 2013:

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

released March 11, 2013:

• additional system variables as described in section Templates#System Variables

released March 9, 2013:

• support of additional temp/hum sensors for vantage, additional temp data to be reported to Weather underground (if there)
• setup your own weather website setup with the help of "saratoga templates" (http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/setup-Meteobridge.php)

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