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+ | * Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes a bug that incorrectly handles time slots when using time resolution "min10", "min15", "min20", "min30" within an export or chart generation. | ||
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+ | Released July 23, 2024 | ||
+ | * Meteobridge RPI: SQL import files in Meteobridge backup folder are listed for import (beside files on separate USB stick). | ||
+ | * Meteobridge VM: fixes the "exec format error" bug related to SFTP. | ||
+ | * Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes a bug that throws "database locked" errors while doing larger SQL imports. Now tests with a SQL file providing 60 mio imports runs fine (although taking several hours). Data logging gets automatically halted during import. After import a manually initiated "Reconstruct" of the database is needed (button is provided on Database - Administration tab). | ||
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+ | Released July 18, 2024 | ||
+ | * Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes a bug in template variable expansion when done exactly on the change of the hour. | ||
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+ | Released July 16/17, 2024 | ||
+ | * [[File:gaps.png|right|600px]] Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: Database browsing tabs (minute and hour) highlight missing data by color to make it more easy to spot data gaps. | ||
+ | * Meteobridge VM: fixes email send function. | ||
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+ | Released July 15, 2024 | ||
+ | * Meteobridge PRO2 NBIOT: fixes some data gap issues when reading data from an NBIOT connected Meteobridge. | ||
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+ | Released July 13, 2024 | ||
+ | * [[File:redmet2.png|right|600px]]adapts support for weather network "redmeteo.cl" to its new API which asks for user ID and password as credentials. | ||
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+ | Released July 10, 2024 | ||
+ | * fixes a bug that can prevent to receive data from Weatherflow stations. | ||
+ | * Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes an issue that database remains blocked until reboot when having done a databased deletion. | ||
+ | * Meteobridge PRO2 NBIOT: fixes some issues around importing NBIOT history data. | ||
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Released July 9, 2024 | Released July 9, 2024 | ||
− | * [[File:dbadmin.png|right|600px]]Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: "Database | + | * [[File:dbadmin.png|right|600px]]Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: "Database - Maintenance" tab has received some reorganization and functional updates. |
** "Reconstruct" and "Backup now" buttons are now grouped together and another option to delete the entire database is added. You need to additionally confirm before database deletion is executed. | ** "Reconstruct" and "Backup now" buttons are now grouped together and another option to delete the entire database is added. You need to additionally confirm before database deletion is executed. | ||
** There is a new SQL export option "Export now" which allows to write a SQL dump into a file. You can select if per-minute data is included in the dump. You can also limit the dump to certain sensors. When you specify "th0 wind0 rain0 thb0" only sensors starting with these prefixes will be exported. If no selection is given, all sensors are exported. Generated file is located in the "backup" folder of the SMB share, filenames start with "sql-". | ** There is a new SQL export option "Export now" which allows to write a SQL dump into a file. You can select if per-minute data is included in the dump. You can also limit the dump to certain sensors. When you specify "th0 wind0 rain0 thb0" only sensors starting with these prefixes will be exported. If no selection is given, all sensors are exported. Generated file is located in the "backup" folder of the SMB share, filenames start with "sql-". | ||
− | ** There is a new SQL data import option. All files in backup folder starting with "sql-" are subject to import. Please do not import SQL data from other programs, that will for sure generate a mess. | + | ** There is a new SQL data import option. All files in backup folder starting with "sql-" are subject to import. Please do not import SQL data from other programs, that will for sure generate a mess. When import has been done, don't forget to run "Reconstruct" option to regain data consistency. |
** All new operations log information into the "System - Logging" tab. It is highly recommended to check there if the initiated operation has performed fine. | ** All new operations log information into the "System - Logging" tab. It is highly recommended to check there if the initiated operation has performed fine. | ||
Revision as of 00:55, 27 July 2024
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.
Forum
Please make use of this in favour to emails, as a wider public can participate of your insights and problem resolution recipes. Forum is part of Meteohub Forum: Meteobridge Forum
Release Log
To have your Meteobridge running the latest SW release, just do a reboot or power-cycle. Updates are available for free for the first 2 years after initial license purchase. After that period you can buy another 2 years of updates for 19 Euro. Meteobridge PRO/PRO2 and NANO provide unlimited free updates.
Chapters below illustrate new features and bug fixes that have been realized in current and previous releases.
Version 6.0
Released July 27, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes a bug that incorrectly handles time slots when using time resolution "min10", "min15", "min20", "min30" within an export or chart generation.
Released July 23, 2024
- Meteobridge RPI: SQL import files in Meteobridge backup folder are listed for import (beside files on separate USB stick).
- Meteobridge VM: fixes the "exec format error" bug related to SFTP.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes a bug that throws "database locked" errors while doing larger SQL imports. Now tests with a SQL file providing 60 mio imports runs fine (although taking several hours). Data logging gets automatically halted during import. After import a manually initiated "Reconstruct" of the database is needed (button is provided on Database - Administration tab).
Released July 18, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes a bug in template variable expansion when done exactly on the change of the hour.
Released July 16/17, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: Database browsing tabs (minute and hour) highlight missing data by color to make it more easy to spot data gaps.
- Meteobridge VM: fixes email send function.
Released July 15, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO2 NBIOT: fixes some data gap issues when reading data from an NBIOT connected Meteobridge.
Released July 13, 2024
- adapts support for weather network "redmeteo.cl" to its new API which asks for user ID and password as credentials.
Released July 10, 2024
- fixes a bug that can prevent to receive data from Weatherflow stations.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: fixes an issue that database remains blocked until reboot when having done a databased deletion.
- Meteobridge PRO2 NBIOT: fixes some issues around importing NBIOT history data.
Released July 9, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI, VM: "Database - Maintenance" tab has received some reorganization and functional updates.
- "Reconstruct" and "Backup now" buttons are now grouped together and another option to delete the entire database is added. You need to additionally confirm before database deletion is executed.
- There is a new SQL export option "Export now" which allows to write a SQL dump into a file. You can select if per-minute data is included in the dump. You can also limit the dump to certain sensors. When you specify "th0 wind0 rain0 thb0" only sensors starting with these prefixes will be exported. If no selection is given, all sensors are exported. Generated file is located in the "backup" folder of the SMB share, filenames start with "sql-".
- There is a new SQL data import option. All files in backup folder starting with "sql-" are subject to import. Please do not import SQL data from other programs, that will for sure generate a mess. When import has been done, don't forget to run "Reconstruct" option to regain data consistency.
- All new operations log information into the "System - Logging" tab. It is highly recommended to check there if the initiated operation has performed fine.
Released June 27, 2024
- improves NBIOT data readout by allowing to specify how far into the past the data transfer should start with. Chosen option does not stick permanently but initiates a timestamp reset at the NBIOT server so that all subsequent data requests of the current Meteobridge for the desired NBIOT MAC will start at the specified point in time and will move continuously forward while reading data from it. It needs to press "save" to transfer the start point information to the NBIOT server. A message will tell if transaction has been accepted by the server.
Released June 26, 2024
- Meteobridge RPI: fixes a bug that prevents from re-installing the Dashboard.
Release June 17, 2024
- omits testing for correct credentials on "weather network" with Windy, as this can interfere with the 5 min access limit enforced by Windy.
- Meteobridge VM: modifies boot operations to load USB serial drivers in order to make Meteobridge VM working with USB serial devices. It needs two reboots to have this changes applied (1st for loading the updated boot code, 2nd to have it executed).
Release June 15, 2024
- Meteobridge VM: fixes an error regarding FTP uploads.
Released June 1, 2024
- adds Ecowitt WH46 to list of supported sensors for GW1000/GW2000 setups.
Released May 29, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO: makes backup script more robust by detecting and aborting a stalled backup onto an external USB stick.
Released May 28, 2024
- fixes a shortly introduced bug for TP-Link router platforms where all uploads were blocked because of a missing decompression statement for Meteobridge module "wnetd".
Released May 27, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO2: reduces power demand a bit by switching off the invisible LED on the VoCore2 SOC.
- Meteobridge PRO2: allows to disable WIFI completely when in "Stand-Alone" network mode. This option can be selected by the pin hole push button menu. Having done so it needs to select "Reboot as WIFI AP" or "Reboot LAN DHCP client" from pin hole button menu to get the Meteobridge connected to your local infrastructure again. Turning WiFi off reduces power demand, which makes sense when using the PRO2 in NBIOT mode where NBIOT is the only data channel to the outside world and when you are powering the Meteobridge with PV panels off the grid. Average power demand can go down to 5V, 250mA which is slightly above 1 Watt. Demand increases a bit when the NBIOT module kicks in for a few seconds by uploading data every 5 minutes to the Meteobridge server.
Released May 26, 2024
- Aurora downloads updated to Aurora May release.
- Finally Meteobridge VM is there! Now you can have Meteobridge running without dedicated HW. Simply install the Meteobridge VM image on your virtualization platform of choice. Meteobridge VM is x86_64 based and is tested on VirtualBox, VMware Player, KVM and PROXMOX. You find details and installation instructions here
Version 5.9
Released May 24, 2024
- Fixes a problem that prevented TP-Link TL-MR3040 from booting current SW package.
Released May 23, 2024
- Adds support for Gill Instruments WindSonic station, wich is a wind-only station.
Released May 22, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes an error when migrating sensor data to another sensor. Former implementation did not work with physical sensor names like "rain1!0total".
- fixes a newly introduced html-email send bug.
Released May 20, 2024
- Allows to set a specific MAC on "Station - Settings" tab that Meteobridge uses for communication with weather networks. This allows to keep weather network account unchanged in case Meteobridge is migrated onto a new platform. Although the new Meteobridge platform has a new MAC the old one can still be used for continuity of services. "Reset MAC" button inserts the MAC of the current hardware, which is default.
- Meteobridge now allows for a total of 80 events (instead of 20). Less capable platforms like TP-Link routers might not cope well with more than 20 events, but responsibility for stable operation with tons of events is now put in your hands. You are encouraged to inspect "buffer" value on "System - Information" tab to check if event queue is going to fill up. If so you have to reduce number of events or to trigger events less often.
- Event definitions are distributed on multiple events tabs, each representing up to ten event definitions. You can toggle between event definition tabs.
- CAVEAT! Format of event definitions needed to change in order to allow for more than 20. Once you have applied the new Meteobridge version, all existing events will be automatically transcoded into the new format. When you decide to go back to an older Meteobridge version, the events will not be visible anymore as old Meteobridge versions do not understand the new format. When you go back to a current Meteobridge version the new events will be visible again.
- It is recommended to store the old configuration on "System - Administration" tab with "Backup" option before doing any operation on the Meteobridge GUI, which will replace the old configuration file with the new one.
Released May 1, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: Fixes a bug that prevented migration of sensor data to another sensor on tab "Database - Administration".
Released April 25/26, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO2: Initial release of NBIOT option for Meteobridge PRO2. Please read here to find details: https://meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Meteobridge_NBIOT
Released April 20/21, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO2: some improvements on NBIOT option, before making it for some EU countries covered by 1NCE NB-IOT network available.
Released April 16, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: Offers download links for 34 Meteobridge Aurora Master File and Updates on "System - Administration" tab. Files are intended to equip your Web Server with the 34 Meteobridge Aurora templates, they cannot be installed on Meteobridge directly, but Meteobridge can feed your server with data to be shown via the templates.
Released April 14, 2024
- Update on code to avoid flooding of TCP socket pool when a misbehaving TCP/IP station (like some instances of WiFi logger) randomly close connections.
Released April 10, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that removes per minute data when doing a forced database rebuild.
Version 5.8
Released March 14/16/17, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO2, NANO: Better handling of low RAM situations to reduce CPU workload caused by "kworker system processes" kicking in less often.
Released March 11/12, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO2: reduces memory footprint of samba4 server to improve overall performance.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, RPI: does reset of USB connections during boot in order to have all connected USB devices showing up correctly.
Released March 10, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: some additions to the code rework on database handling, that improves consistency of RAM DB and persistent DB in edge cases like sensor data missing over a longer time, system restarts, etc.
Released March 6/7, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: a rework on database code solved some issues regarding providing an undelayed reporting of cumulative sensor data like "rainXtotal".
Released March 2, 2024
- Meteobridge RO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a shortly introduced system load bug. By adding the PHP module "php7-mod-openssl" performance degrades a lot. We made a work around that no longer needs this PHP module, even when grabbing data from a HTTPS web source. Newest version of the Dashboard gets rid of the openssl PHP module and by that gets rid of additional system load again. Please press "Reinstall Dashboard" button on "Monitoring - Dashboard" tab if you don't have version 3.5 already installed.
Released March 1, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2: Reduces OLED re-initialized schedule to once an hour to avoid regular display blink, which is a side effect of re-initialization.
Released Feb 27/28, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that occured when using blanks in metachart names.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2: OLED display gets re-initialized on every "clear screen" command. This prevents the display content from getting travelling along the y-axis on some displays in the PRO and PRO2.
Released Feb 26, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: adds selectors "mcount", "ycount" and "acount" for rainXtotal sensors in order to report the number of days with rainfall within the current month (mcount), year (ycount) and total observation time (acount). Example: [rain0total-mcount:--] reports number of days with rain in current month. rain day counts can be used with selector "count" in combination with point in time notations. Example: [rain0total-count@202312:--] reports number of days with rain in December 2023. To make this feature available, you need to issue the "reconstruct" command on "Database - Adminstration" tab. Selector "count" can be used in export definitions to get number of days with rain out of the database.
Released Feb 13, 2024
- fixes a factor 10 too low bug on "rain total" and "rain rate" values when reading data from WL Cloud.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that impacts time resolution and interval when defining graphic generation events past event #10.
Released Feb 12, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: adds event "WDL-Live SFTP Upload" to transport clientraw files via SFTP to your server. Please be aware that the event definition has to look like this:
- adds some more data fields for WOW upload (soil, wind gust direction).
Released Feb 7, 2024
- adds support for LabJack U3 measurement boxes (U3-HV and U3-LV are supported). Labjack U3 is a very versatile solution to measure voltages in 12 bit resolution (up to +/- 10 volts), frequencies, duty cycles, signal durations. This allows to connect any sensor that has a voltage or frequency output to Meteobridge. Data is reflected in Meteobridge via "data0num" to "data15num" sensors. Please refer to the LabJack documentation to understand how to configure the 16 ports provided by the U3. Only one U3 unit can be connected to Meteobridge. While LabJack U3 is rather expensive when bought new, there are many used units available for smaller budgets.
Released Feb 6, 2024
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: adds parameter for line thickness "Thick" in metacharts. Default value is "1".
Released Feb 1, 2024
- adds a cheap voltage/current measurement board (N4AIA04) as weather station to Meteobridge. It needs to be connected to a Meteobridge USB port via a RS485 adapter based on Prolific or FTDI chips. The board provides voltage and current on two channels. Measured data is reflected as numerical data entries: "data0num" (voltage 1st channel), "data1num" (voltage 2nd channel), "data2num" (current 1st channel im mA), "data3num" (current 2nd channel in mA).
Released January 4, 2023
- fixes a persistent bug when computing sea level pressure for Meteostick for 1st minute when no outdoor temp being measured so far.
Released December 21, 2023
- fixes a bug that prevents to take care of rain sensor mapping during upload to Meteoplug cloud service.
Released December 18, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO2: stops calculation of sealevel pressure for first 5 minutes, when no outdoor temp available.
- Meteobridge PRO2: sixes the rare situation when data from internal data (I2C connected devices) are suddenly no longer reporting and need a power-cycle to be operational again.
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes a bug that blocked Vantage RF reception if "save" button has been pressed multiple times on "Station" tab.
Released December 15/16, 2023
- fixes a bug that does report an error with weather network WeatherWizz on tab "Weather Nets" even when credentials are correct.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that prevents from deleting files with a space in the name when using "Download or Delete Files" button on "System - Administration" tab.
- removed misleading version number of data logging process. All Meteobridge components are now running under one version number and build number.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes shortly introduced bug that "use installed version" is not shown as option.
- Meteobridge PRO2: adds system sensors to default sensor mapping. This allows to easily make use of those in Meteoplug.
Released December 13, 2023
- adds selector for rain resolution (0.1mm vs 0.2mm) for weather station Lufft WS700/600/10
Released December 10/11, 2023
- speeds up "System" tabs. As there have been quite some code changes behind the scenes, introduction of new bugs on "System - Information" tab cannot be ruled out. Please report newly introduced bugs in forum.meteobridge.com to have this solved quickly.
- Meteobridge PRO2: speeds up web interface by changed memory settings.
Version 5.7
Released December 8, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2: adds vendor and product information of USB devices connected to the front or back USB connector.
Released December 5, 2023
- some space reductions on embedded pictures in order to give systems like MR3020v1 a bit more RAM headroom.
- reduces storage requirements for language files by storing them gzip instead of plain text.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2: display of any USB device connected to front or back USB port. If no storage device USB vendor and product ID will be shown on "System - Information" tab.
Released November 18/19, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: some improvements to avoid data gaps when using WSWIN "Dateiüberwachung".
- Meteobridge PRO2: adds "lowbat" and "signal" sensors to be stored permanently.
Released November 14/15/16, 2023
- adds an option to define virtual sensors on "Station - Virtual Sensors" tab. In a first step the sensor that should trigger to generate data for a virtual sensor needs to be defined. Next the virtual sensor needs to be selected. Virtual sensors are assigned to a virtual station #8. When trigger sensor and virtual sensor to generate data for are defined, next step is to define an expression that is used for computation of the virtual sensor data. To store this definition "Save" button needs to be pressed. "Reset" button deletes all virtual sensor definitions. The computation is using the same syntax as with templates. You can use any template variables and you can apply math to them in terms of arithmetic expressions. Also conditional #if#then#else#fi# expressions can be used, like with templates. Virtual sensors can be assigned away from virtual station #8 to any other sensor name on "Station - Mapping" tab. Examples: The definition for virtual sensor "thb8!0temp" (which is triggered each time new data for "thb0!0temp" arrives) tells that the current value of "thb0temp" is multiplied by 1.3 and stored as virtual sensor value. The generation of data for virtual sensor "wind8!0wind" is triggered by "wind0!0wind" and the value to be stored is the minimum of the last 3 "wind0wind" readings. Putting the mouse over the orange "i" icons pops up a text that outlines most recent computation of the virtual sensor data. Find more examples in the Meteobridge Forum.
Released October 31, 2023
- adds selectors "prev", "prev1", "prev2", ... to sensor template definitions to address data values in the past. Here which data to pick is not specified by a time frame but by occurrence of data. "[thb0temp-prev]" and "[thb0temp-prev1]" select the temperature data of indoor sensor "thb0" which has been reported by the sensor before the most recent data has been given to Meteobridge. So to speak "prevN" selects data from N steps into the past.
- adds selectors "prevtime", "prevtime2", "prevtime2", ... which work as the "prev" selectors but report timestamp from the past.
Released October 29, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes a bug that stalls MB PRO2 when remote login enabled.
- fixes a bug on computation of sea level pressure with "Weatherflow" and "Purple Air" stations.
- fixes a bug when uploading soil/leaf data from a Weatherlink Live station to Meteoplug Cloud. Sensor mapping defined in Meteobridge is now also applied to corresponding Meteoplug data.
released October 18, 2023
- adds an option to MR3020 models to define a boot delay on "System - Administration" tab. This option was previously limited to Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO, RPI. A boot delay can help to allow the router to start proper operation after a power fail before Meteobridge starts reaching out to the Internet.
- fixes a bug regarding rain rate and rain total when using WL Cloud as weather station
- fixes a bug that prevented data for wet-bulb temperature shown on "Monitoring - Min/Max Data" tab
released October 17, 2023
- adds measurement of "wet bulb" to "th" sensors. "th0wetbulb" specifies the "web bulb temperature" of "th0" sensor. Wet bulb values can be used in templates, graphs and exports. Wetbulb data is available only after having updated Meteobridge, it is not applied to historical data. Used formular is:
wetbulb = temp * atan (0.151977 * sqrt (hum + 8.313659)) + atan (temp + hum) - atan (hum - 1.676331) + 0.00391838 * pow (hum, 1.5) * atan (0.023101 * hum) - 4.686035
released October 15, 2023
- fixes a newly introduced bug where data update stops after a while when reading data from Davis WLL (WeatherLink Live).
released October 13, 2023
- adds experimental support for the Instromet Weather Station Logger.
- improves code for evaluating 3rd party sunshine detector for Davis stations.
- makes station available indicators when selecting the type of a connected station more visible. A red mark indicates that a station of the selected type is currently not connected to Meteobridge. A green mark indicates that such a station is for sure connected/available. A missing mark indicates that it is not known if the selected type of station is available.
released October 7, 2023
- improves Weatherlink Cloud data download when using multiple stations. Per default data from all stations is evaluated. Presented station IDs are listed in the Log on "System - Logging" tab. To restrict reception of data to one station the station ID can be added as third parameter in the "V2 Key+Secret" field. When multiple stations report different data for a certain type of sensor, this might result into flipping data for an impacted sensor. To avoid this, a selection of a specific Station-ID might be a good idea.
- Meteobridge PRO and PRO2: adds a display on "System - Information" tab that shows connected USB sticks and I2C devices (PRO2 only). USB sticks are shown with vendor/model information, total capacity and installed file system. When USB stick is intended for backup use, it needs to be partitioned as it comes from the factory (vfat and partitioned).
- changes data uploads to weather network WeatherFlow from HTTP to HTTPS.
released September 30, 2023
- adds a "Proxy-SFTP" service that allows older Meteobridge platforms (that do no support OpenSSL 1.1 which is demanded by some SFTP servers) to upload files by using the Meteobridge server as a proxy. Upload can be tested as with FTP and SFTP before. When defining an event the Proxy-SFTP option needs to selected. Fastest repetition interval is "every minute". Proxy-SFTP events need to be prefixed with "proxysftp" as shown in the attached examples. To avoid running into timeouts file sizes should not exceed 10MB. By using this Proxy-SFTP you pass SFTP credentials through the Meteobridge server. Therefore, I would like to explain how this works, so that you can decide if you are willing to make use of this service. The file data and the credentials are sent by a HTTPS get/post request to the Meteobridge server. This means the transport to the Meteobridge server is encrypted and no one can read the data being transferred. The addressed script on the server takes the data and starts a SFTP session for the given file using the provided credentials. Neither file nor credentials are stored on the Meteobridge server, they are just used within the script during execution. Leak of data can only happen, when the Meteobridge server is hacked and the script gets modified. In theory I could of course lie to you and sneak your credentials, so you have to trust me not to exploiting your data and SFTP credentials. I hope this gives you some feeling in regards to security. The Proxy-SFTP service should not be your first choice for FTP/SFTP but might be a welcome option when direct FTP/SFTP fails because of lacking OpenSSL 1.1 on your Meteobridge.
released September 21, 2023
- fixes a bug introduced with last update which may crash the logging process and hides the GW1000 station option.
released September 18, 2023
- allows to make use of Davis Weatherlink Cloud as a virtual weather station. As many Davis products report data to Davis WeatherLink and some of these products (like new 6313 console) do not provide any data locally, Meteobridge now allows to read weather data from the Davis Cloud. When you are on a basic WeatherLink plan the sensor updates will only be available every 15 minutes. This is a solution inferior of getting local access to data in realtime, but ist is better that not having this data at all. Meteobridge makes use of WeatherLink API v2 and you need to insert API key and API secret (separated by a blank). Warning: Current implementation is still beta, errors might show up for certain sensor setups.
released September 16, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: improves fault tolerance of database restore script.
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes another bug that prevented from using SFTP.
released September 3, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes bug that prevented from using SFTP.
released August 21, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: adds line prefix symbol "@" for expert definitions. A line headed with "@" is 1:1 copied as header to the export file. In comparison to "$" (which does mainly the same) a line headed by "@" ist not subject to template expansion.
released August 11, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: gives access to file upload and download functions from "System - Administration" tab.
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: enhances download function to show file sizes and to also allow for deletion of files.
released August 9/10, 2023
- fixes a bug when feeding mapped sensors to Meteoplug Cloud service.
- limits sensor update rate to 50 secs for RS500 indoor temp/hum station (when no data changes appear).
released July 31, 2023
- As twitter dropped the v1 API Meteobridge relied on to upload messages, twitter support is removed from Meteobridge. Sorry guys.
Version 5.6
released July 24, 2023
- adds the facility to make use of "if-then-else-fi" clauses and numerical expressions inside export definitions. Example:
Template definition that reports maximum of th0temp and th1temp as last CSV value and also handles if one of the temperature values is missing:
[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD],[hh]:[mm],[th0temp-max.1:--],[th1temp-max.1:--],#if#{*[th0temp-max.1:-999]>[th1temp-max.1:-999]*}#then#[th0temp-max.1:]#else#[th1temp-max.1:]#fi#
Export result:
2023-07-23,00:00,16.6,--,16.6 2023-07-23,01:00,16.2,16.4,16.4 2023-07-23,02:00,15.9,16.3,16.3 2023-07-23,03:00,15.4,15.7,15.7 2023-07-23,04:00,14.9,15.3,15.3 2023-07-23,05:00,14.7,14.9,14.9 2023-07-23,06:00,14.7,14.9,14.9 2023-07-23,07:00,14.2,14.3,14.3 2023-07-23,08:00,13.9,14.1,14.1 2023-07-23,09:00,13.8,14.0,14.0 2023-07-23,10:00,13.7,13.8,13.8 2023-07-23,11:00,13.8,13.9,13.9 2023-07-23,12:00,--,14.2,14.2 2023-07-23,13:00,--,14.4,14.4 2023-07-23,14:00,14.5,14.5,14.5 2023-07-23,15:00,14.7,14.7,14.7 2023-07-23,16:00,14.9,--,14.9 2023-07-23,17:00,15.4,15.1,15.4 2023-07-23,18:00,15.8,--,15.8 2023-07-23,19:00,16.4,--,16.4 2023-07-23,20:00,16.7,--,16.7 2023-07-23,21:00,17.1,16.7,17.1 2023-07-23,22:00,16.8,16.7,16.8
released July 1, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes a bug that does show 127.0.0.1 instead of right DNS IP when setting IP manually.
released June 16, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: does some changes to WSWIN export processing to provide sporadic gaps when using WSWIN "Dateiüberwachung" mode.
released May 18, 2023
- fixes a bug that causes a GUI crash when webcam URL on "Station - Cam" tab is extremely long.
released May 7, 2023
- fixes a bug in regard to reporting history data from Davis Logger to Weatherlink Cloud.
released April 30, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: some bug fixes related to the import function.
released April 25, 2023
- fixes a newly introduced bug, where toggling the per-minute resolution option on tab "Database - Admin" was not remembered.
released April 23, 2023
- Slight redesign of the GUI to better group "database admin" functions and "station setup" settings. This also streamlines the busy "system admin" tab a bit. Tab "Live Data"is renamed "Monitor" and "History" is now named "Database". I hope you can more intuitively navigate by this in the future, once you got used to it. I cannot rule out that some function may be broke, so please post here in the forum if you face problems caused by the redesign.
released April 22, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: Import of Meteohub raw data had a bug that impacted cumulative data like rain total. Current release does have this fixed. There is also an option added allows to decide if hourly data to be imported only or per-minute data also being imported. Importing of per minute data will make import process extremely slow, so please choose wisely.
released April 15, 2023
- fixes a bug that can crash Meteobridge GUI
released April 6, 2023
- fixes a bug in support of WeatherWizz network that aborted uploads when soil sensors were present.
released April 4, 2023
- some minor image size reductions to spare space on older platforms, which are already filled to the max.
released March 30/31, 2023
- adds "WeatherWizz" to the list of supported weather networks.
released March 25, 2023
- Meteobridge NANO: When in stand-alone mode Meteobridge can now interpret date/time of Vantage console as UTC/GMT instead of local time. This might spare you switching console between changing DST settings over the year. Meteobridge will apply timezone and DST switching automatically without manual interaction with the console. When not in stand-alone mode Meteobridge will use Internet to keep date/time in dyes.
released March 22, 2023
- fixes a bug that kept TL-MR3020v1 in an endless boot loop. Last additions have grown image too much. Some image space reductions brought it back to fit.
- adds reporting of solar radiation to weather network "meteoclimatic"
released March 21, 2023
- adds support for second air quality sensor in a purple air device. Data of second sensor is reported as "air#!3pm" (10 um), "air#!4pm" (2.5 um) and "air#!5pm" (1 um).
released March 10/11, 2023
- fixes release 5.6 not shown as 5.6 on "System - Information" tab
released March 7, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug in "Station - Mapping" tab where "uv#index" sensors could be mapped to "th#heatindex" sensors, which is not making sense.
- Meteobridge PRO2: adds script "download.cgi" to give Meteobridge PRO2 full features to upload and download data via "http://x.x.x.x/upload.html" and "http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/download.cgi".
Version 5.5
released March 4, 2023
- Uploading data to weather network "meteoclimatic" is done in multiple steps. First Meteobridge generates a data file containing all what Meteoclimatic needs, then this file gets uploaded to the Meteobridge server at a dedicated URL. Finally, the Meteoclimatic network gets pointed to this file. This approach has the privacy disadvantage that the data you provide to meteoclimatic can be viewed by anyone, when the URL where to pick the data is known. Just released update allows you to specify an individual add-on to the URL. This way you can change the URL by adding a string and someone knowing the former URL will no longer be able to retrieve your data, unless you tell the new URL, which of course you can change again. When using this, please don't forget to inform Meteolimatic about the new URL as well.
released February 25, 2023
- Meteobridge NANO SD, PRO, PRO2, RPI: Database rebuild feature on "System - Administration" tab has been reworked to apply per-minute data deletion settings when doing a rebuild. This helps to solve situations, where the database has grown to the max because of per-minute data and now stopped operation because of disk being full. Just deleting records from the database does not shrink its physical size. It needs a SQL dump and reimport to build the database up from scratch again. While doing so Meteobridge now also applies the "delete per-minute data" option on "System - Administration" tab. Per minute data that is older as the given threshold will not make it into the new database. This helps to keep the new database small and to resolve the "disk is full" error. When no per-minute deletion is specified, all data will loaded into the new database as before. Rebuilding the database is a very time consuming process. Meteobridge now estimates in the log file how long it will approximately take.
released February 22, 2023
- Meteobridge NANO SD: supports Stand-Alone mode where the NANO SD is not connected to the Internet. NANO can be accessed via the WLAN AP it is providing via SSID "Meteobridge-XXXXXXXXXXXX" and standard password "meteobridge" (which can be changed). As Meteobridge does not have a RTC it asks the Davis console for date/time. By that recorded data can be time stamped correctly. Upload of data to weather networks or all other features that need the Internet are not possible in that mode of operation. However, it can log data locally and allows a technician showing up from time to time with a Laptop to connect to the NANO SD by WiFi, to start generating an local data export and to download the generated export file to the Laptop. In some edge cases this might be interesting for Davis stations being out in the wild where no Internet access can be achieved and just collecting logged data from time to time is good enough for the intended purpose. NANO SD can store tons of data in short intervals, where the internal Davis console logger falls short.
released February 11, 2023
- Meteobridge NANO: fixes a bug that option for high power WiFi mode on "Network" tab disappeared for newer NANO generations.
released February 10, 2023
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug in generated charts which sometimes prevented some icons to load correctly.
released January 17, 2023
- adds support for windguru for all Meteobridge devices
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes a bug that prevented data uploads to weather network AWEKAS.
released December 28, 2022
- Meteobridge PRO, PRO2, NANO SD, RPI: adds template variables "mbsystem-totalstorage", "mbsystem-freestorage", and "mbsystem-usedstorage" to report total, used, and free storage in MB.
released December 22, 2022
- fixes a bug in rain bucket adjustments for upload to Weatherlink Cloud in order to correctly report rain ticks on 0.01 inch rain buckets at Vantage stations.
released December 9, 2022
- Meteobridge PRO2: adds missing data upload option to place files onto the Meteobridge PRO2 via the web GUI (as implemented on Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI).
released December 5, 2022
- Meteobridge NANO SD, PRO2: fixes a bug that prevents from reinstalling local Weather Cockpit/Dashboard.
released November 30, 2022
- adds support for Shelly-3em a 3 phase energy monitor for the entire house.
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes a bug that prevents from defining display events.
released November 27/28, 2022
- adds support for new Meteobridge PRO2 devices
- implements experimental rain bucket adjustments for upload to Weatherlink Cloud in order to correctly report rain ticks on non 0.2mm rain buckets at Vantage stations.
- Meteobridge PRO2: fixes a bug that prevents definition of display events and does not provide a display power off option on "System" tab.
released November 24, 2022
- adds support for Shelly Plug Energy monitors. Parameters is full IP of first plug and last IP numbers of additional Shelly Plugs in your Class-C network.
released October 27, 2022
- fixes a bug that prevents reading data from WN35 sensors from GW1000 setups.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: modifies startup code to automatically boot with latest downloaded application stack when getting the stack from Moeteobridge server fails for 10 minutes during boot. This should avoid these devices to permanently hang on reboot when Meteobridge server is down.
released October 22, 2022
- updated French translation provided by user Jean-Marie.
released October 3, 2022
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug when displaying graphs in "5 min", "10 min", "15 min", "20 min" or "30 min" resolution. Bug appeared as unexpected gaps in the graph compared to "minute" resolution.
released October 2, 2022
- adds new template to feed TV3 network via FTP uploads: https://admin.meteobridge.com/templates/tv3.template?tv3code=1234&tv3name=XXXX
- fixes a bug when handling more than one URL parameter for FTP template expansion.
Version 5.4
release September 22, 2022
- fixes a bug that sometimes prevented the logger process of Meteobridge to be stopped on demand
released September 18, 2022
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes an import bug where rain fall on full hour time stamps has been ignored.
released September 15, 2022
- adds template variable [D0] which reports first day of month as "0" instead of "1". Same with [M0] which reports January as "0" instead of "1".
- in case not all sensors can be shown on "Live Data - Min/Max Data" tab a last row "missing sensors" is added that tells how many sensors are not displayed here. Affected sensors are still available and provide data, they are just not show on this overview page.
- increases limit of sensors that can be shown on "Live Data - Min/Max Data" tab for Meteobridge PRO, RPI and NANO SD.
- adds a sort order for "Live Data - Min/Max Data" tab. Sort priority is "station number", followed by "sensor category", followed by "sensor number".
released September 10, 2022
- Meteobridge RPI: adds new Aurora dashboard feature to RPI platform as well.
released September 9, 2022
- Meteobridge NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug which prevented from accessing setup section of internal Aurora Dashboard when connected via remote login
released September 7, 2022
- Meteobridge NANO SD, RPI: adds experimental support for internal Aurora Light Dashboard.
- TL-MR3020v3: adds support for legacy FJORD logger for Davis stations.
released August 20, 2022:
- some internal rework, like adaption of startup scripts.
released August 14/15, 2022:
- fixes a bug when having leaf/soil sensors connected to WLL that do not report temperature. Sensors have then been ignored so far. Now in that case a false temperature of 0°C is reported in order to have the TH sensor type fully equipped with data. Sensor ID mapping of a second or third leaf/soil unit will also change, but I guess that this will hardly be used by anyone.
- adds more logical sensors to assign physical sensors to. This is needed for sending data of complex sensor arrays to Meteoplug Cloud service, as only logical sensors can be handled by Meteoplug Cloud service.
released August 11, 2022:
- internal technical streamlining to keep the build trees for the multiple platforms in sync. Unfortunately, this has the risk to break something, but there was no way around. Keep fingers crossed. Please post here in the forum, when you are impacted by problems: https://forum.meteohub.de/viewtopic.php?t=16737
released July 25/26/28, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO: Does automatically reboot on case of IO database stalls to guarantee ongoing data logging even under worst conditions.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes the "delta24h" issue introduced with a prior version from July. It will need MB running a full day until "delta24h" being operational again.
released July 18/19, 2022:
- fixes another, previously overlooked issue on aggregating data when selected time zone has a sub hour GMT offset (like GMT+6:30 for example)
- fixes functional gaps in custom uploads from Ambientweather WS2000 and alike stations.
released July 16, 2022:
- fixes an issue on aggregating data when selected time zone has a sub hour GMT offset (like GMT+6:30 for example)
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: spares some RAM by reducing RAM database size when per minute storage of data is enabled on "System - Administration" tab. This helps Meteobridge PRO systems with many sensors connected to get some better RAM head room.
released July 8, 2022:
- allows to add up to 6 additional weather stations for a total of 7 (previous total limit was 5).
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds some debugging stuff for better inspection of rain total accumulation.
released June 11, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: Adds download of template files to the existing GUI download options introduced with 5.2.
released May 30/31, 2022:
- fixes a bug that might prevent multiple GW1000 stations being observed in parallel.
- fixes a bug related to weather station IPs when Meteobridge operates in WLAN mode with Ethernet bridge option enabled.
released May 7, 2022:
- fixes a newly introduced bug where time frame settings in chart definitions are stuck to individual definitions.
released May 1, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds more flexibility to automated chart generation. Beside pre-defined time frames there is an option "user defined" added, that allows to define the start and stop time freely. Definition is done relative to the point in time when the event gets triggered. Syntax is the same as when calling a chart generation via URL parameters. Start and stop times are specified like "Yn" (year), "Mn" (month), "Wn" (week), "Dn" (day), "Hn" (hour), where the first letter indicates the time scale (year, month, week, day, hour) and the consecutive number indicates how many steps to go into the past. Example: "from:H6 to:H0" indicates a period from 6 hours in the past (H6) to the current hour (H0). Time resolution can also be specified from minutes to months. There are no plausibility checks, so you are responsible not to select too large data volumes or invalid time period definitions.
released April 30, 2022:
- adds template date variables "mmm" and "ddd" which report day as English abbreviation for month or day of week in lower case letters, like "jan", feb", "sun", "mon", etc.
released April 18/19, 2022
- fixes a bug in reading piezzo rain data of ecowitt stations.
released April 14, 2022
- fixes a bug when reading solar radiation data via ecowitt custom server upload.
- adds some code to recognize Luftdaten devices in your LAN and to suggest these as "Found IPs" when selecting a Luftdaten station.
released April 11, 2022
- reduced RAM footprint of application stack to avoid boot loop of MR3020 v1 devices (and similar limited platforms).
released April 8, 2022
- fixes a bug that showed wrong version number (5.3) for current 5.4 version.
- displays connection credentials to be used by Ecowitt Custom Server uploads in a way that better maps the corresponding input fields of the Ecowitt console.
released April 7, 2022
- adds readout of additional piezzo rain sensor (as introduced with Ecowitt "Wittboy") to GW1000/2000 stations.
- adds readout of Ecowitt FW version and used radio frequency to the Meteobridge log file ("System - Logging" tab).
released April 5, 2022
- adds support for a wide range of newer Fine Offset / Ecowitt consoles that do not provide a local API but allow to upload data to a custom server. When the URL "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/public/ecowitt0.cgi" is specified in the console, Meteobridge receives data from the station and can work with that. To allow multiple consoles to feed data to Meteobridge the endpoint of above URL includes the station number. When it is the primary station of Meteobridge "ecowitt0.cgi" has to be used, when it is the first additional station of Meteobridge, then "ecowitt1.cgi" is the correct endpoint, and so on. The URL to use in your specific setup is display in the "Connection" section of your station definition.
- freshly supported stations are: Ecowitt HP2551, HP3500, WH2910, WH2320; Froggit HP1000, WH3000, WH4000; Ambient WS2000, WS5000, WS2902
Version 5.3
released April 5, 2022
- adds support for Rainwise IP-100 interface.
- adds support for SPS30 sensor chip in Luftdaten devices
released March 22, 2022
- improves recognition of Davis AirLink devices
released March 16/17, 2022
- Meteobridge NANO: enables support for EPEVER USB device
released March 12/13, 2022
- adapts upload status reporting to changes in the Weathercloud upload api (return codes).
- adds an option to "livedataxml.cgi" to print out "station=X" as an additional XML parameter of each sensor. This indicates which station a sensor belongs to and can be usefull when driving multiple weather stations with Meteobridge. This option is enabled by adding the URL parameter "includestation" when calling "livedataxml.cgi". Example below shows XML output when called with "includestation" option.
<TH date="20220313214052" id="th0" station="0" temp="7.5" hum="38" dew="-5.9" lowbat="0" /> <T date="20220313214010" id="t8" station="0" temp="3.9" lowbat="0" /> <SOIL date="20220313214010" id="th10" station="0" temp="3.9" hum="255" lowbat="0" /> <SOIL date="20220313214010" id="th11" station="0" temp="0.0" hum="200" lowbat="0" /> <LEAF date="20220313214010" id="th15" station="0" temp="3.9" hum="255" lowbat="0" /> <LEAF date="20220313214010" id="th16" station="0" temp="0.0" hum="0" lowbat="0" /> <UV date="20220313214010" id="uv0" station="0" index="0.0" lowbat="0" /> <SOL date="20220313214010" id="sol0" station="0" rad="0" lowbat="0" /> <WIND date="20220313214102" id="wind0" station="0" dir="347" gust="0.0" wind="0.0" chill="7.5" lowbat="0" /> <RAIN date="20220313214010" id="rain0" station="0" rate="0.0" total="0.0" delta="0.0" lowbat="0" /> <THB date="20220313214010" id="thb0" station="0" temp="30.8" hum="20" dew="5.2" press="1017.8" seapress="1021.1" fc="2" lowbat="1" /> <DATA date="20220313214100" id="data10" station="9" val="19.00" lowbat="0" /> <DATA date="20220313214101" id="data11" station="9" val="11.39" lowbat="0" /> <DATA date="20220313214101" id="data12" station="9" val="2.00" lowbat="0" /> <DATA date="20220313214101" id="data13" station="9" val="56.00" lowbat="0" /> <DATA date="20220313214101" id="data15" station="9" val="64.00" lowbat="0" /> <DATA date="20220313214101" id="data16" station="9" val="2.00" lowbat="0" />
released March 9, 2022
- allows to define a FTP event that uploads any file on the file system by giving it a fully qualified absolute path, starting with a "/".
released February 4/8, 2022
- improves grabbing current date/time during boot from Meteobridge server. Invalid timestamps for logged data should be solved by this. Log file now also shows timestamp received from Meteobridge server.
Version 5.2
released February 1, 2022
- implements converter from km to miles when using template variables that report distances in km. Converter is named "mls" or "miles". Example: [lgt0dist-act=mls:--]
- adds Czech language as GUI option (Thanks to Lukáš Ronge for providing the translation).
released January 11, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: changes link names from "export#nn" and "chart#nn" to "export_nn" and "chart_nn" to avoid potential special character issues on URLs.
released January 9, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: generates a symbolic symlink on export and chart events that references to the number of the event that generated the file. Example: when event #3 generates an export file, then the link "export#3.txt" will show up in export folder and points to the generated file. These links can be used for FTP uploads to address the result of a certain export event. The same applies to charts, where links like "chart#2.html" will be added if event #2 generates a chart. The previously introduced links "lastchart.htlm" and "lastexport.txt" will remain operational to address the very last generated chart or export file.
released January 6, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: supports generation of heat index data on TH sensors during import of Meteohub and Meteoplug raw data files.
released January 4/5, 2022:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds a tool at "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/cgi-bin/download.cgi" which allows download of files in folders "charts", "export" and "backup" (not for MB PRO) with a web browser. Web GUI password will apply to have access to the folders. You can still also upload data to some folders by calling "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/upload.html".
released December 6, 2021:
- improves handling of Weatherflow Tempest station in regard to wind chill reporting.
released November 21, 2021:
- adds a switch that allows inspection of runtimes when doing template evaluation. This can be activated by placing "[mbsystem-debugtime:]" at the beginning of the template string. Doing so evaluation time of each template variable is added behind the evaluated variable, like "(35ns)". It also shows sum of all evaluations and total evaluation time, like "(sum:3ms, total:5ms)".
- changes handling of calibration data from "Station - Settings" tab in a way that calibrating temperature and humidity of a sensor is also reflected in the sensor's dewpoint and heatindex data.
released November 20, 2021:
- code changes which speed-up "System - Information" tab in certain situations.
released November 10, 2021:
- MB PRO: provides "usbswitch" on local storage (was formerly available via URL download only).
released November 4, 2021:
- fixes a calibration bug on wind sensors when uploading data to Meteoplug cloud service.
released October 28, 2021:
- changes how settings data is written to reduce risk of loosing settings.
released October 10, 2021:
- fixes a bug introduced with last update that caused logger crashes.
- fixes a bug introduced shortly when transferring soil and leaf sensor data to Meteoplug Cloud.
released October 8, 2021:
- improves support of multiple stations when doing upload to Meteoplug Cloud. On Meteoplug side sensors are named according the mapping done in Meteobridge on "Station - Mapping" tab.
released October 6/7, 2021:
- adds plugin "decentlab" to read sensor data from decentlab database via its API.
- allows to add static parameters when referencing a plugin via URL. Parameters are simply added to the URL and separated with blanks. When plugin is started by Meteobridge these paramaters whill be handed over as command line paramaters to the plugin script.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes another bug that prevented from having "nonzerotime" evaluated correctly for more than 3 days in the past.
released October 5, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds an option to overwrite existing data when migrating data from one sensor to another.
released October 3, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that prevents from securing "nonzerotime" values on reboot.
- introduces variable [DDD] that represents current day of week as Three character English abbreviation (Sun, Mon, Tue, ...).
released September 30, 2021:
- adds support for more URadMonitor devices: SMOOGIE, SMOOGIE Gas, Model A3, SBM20
- makes logger more stable to recover from socket connect fails.
released September 13, 2021:
- fixes a bug in support of GW1000 weather station, where extra temperature sensors have not be handled properly in the past.
released September 10, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug when defining a scheduled data export with resolutions min5, min10, min15, min20 or min30.
released September 7, 2021:
- fresh build of Meteobridge for all platforms because of Meteobridge server update.
released September 5, 2021:
- adds support for monitoring of EPEVER LS1024B charging modules.
- fixes bug on display of selected USB serial devices when having multiple devices attached.
released August 16, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug when importing Meteohub raw data that contains negative dewpoint temperatures.
released August 15, 2021:
- changes the way lightning data is handled with GW1000 stations. Formerly data was only stored in case of a strike event. As GW1000 community keeps complaining about that, lightning data is now always available and redundantly stored every minute, even in case of no strike event. Date/time of the last change in striking counts can be accessed as "lgtXtotal-nonzerotime". That time stamp should correspond reasonable good with the strike event date/time of the GW1000 itself. I hope this makes data more easy to use in follow-on processes. As I don't have these types of sensors, testing relies to the lightning obsessed fraction of the GW1000 install base.
- fixes a bug when using GW1000 with WH57 lighting detection sensor only.
- fixes a formerly introduced bug that WLIP wait times are not taken into consideration.
released August 14, 2021:
- fixes a bug in supporting weather station Froggit WH4000SE, ELV WS980, FineOffset WH2350 or Ecowitt WS2320E that resulted into erroneous values on some occasions.
released August 9, 2021:
- adds support for a weather station branded as Froggit WH4000SE, ELV WS980, FineOffset WH2350 or Ecowitt WS2320E.
- fixes a bug that prevents supression of invalid UV and solar data on a WH1080 station when no UV/solar sensor attached. Drop-down selection was there but was not working properly.
- fixes reading of leak sensor values for GW1000 station.
released August 8, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: chnages the was charts and exports are generated when cumulated values for day, month, year are used. Formerly, the data was propagated even into the future. Now data beyound the current point of time is mapped out.
released August 7, 2021:
- reintroduces the "reset sensor binding" checkbox for stations GW1000, WeatherFlow, AcuLink in the "Connection" row. Setting a mark into this box and pressing "save" will reset the binding of so far found sensors to Meteobridge sensors. This is very useful, when you replace a sensor and want to get rid of the old Meteobridge bindings that do not point to an existing sensor any more.
released July 27, 2021:
Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a minor bug when graphing or exporting cumulated data (like rainfall) in periods without sensor readings. Formerly this was set to zero instead of being omitted.
released July 23, 2021:
- adds support for uRADMonitor sensors (link). You only need to specify IP of the device in your LAN/WLAN to read out data locally. Grabbing data from the uRADMonitor cloud service is not supported. Supported sensor types are:
- indoor/outdoor temperature/humidity/pressure as thb0/th0
- air quality readings PM10/PM2.5/PM1.0 as air0/air1/air2
- CPM (radiation) as data0
- CO2 as data1
- CH2O as data2
- NOISE as data3
- VOC as data4
- VOLTAGE as data5.
released July 18/19, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a glitch how to handle gaps in data. Filling smaller gaps with data from previous time bucket needs to be reimplemented.
released July 15, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: supports user-defined export of data in freely defined timeframes and resolution on "History - Import/Export" tab. Start and end time are specified in "YYYYMMDDhhmm" notion, where "202107101300" specifies 13:00 on July 10, 2021.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: supports the new time resolutions also for self-defined metacharts.
released July 13/14, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds time resolutions of "5 Minutes", "10 Minutes", "15 Minutes", "20 Minutes" and "30 Minutes" to the selection when doing graphs or exports. These time resolutions need the data to be stored on per-minute schedule. Data is not stored in the database in these aggregations but computed when doing the export or chart generation. As this needed some changes deep inside the data extraction code, there might be some new bugs introduced. If you experience unexpected behaviour, please comment in the forum.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that prevented mapping of "heatindex" sensors.
Version 5.1
released July 11, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: restructures database maintenance section on "System - Administration" tab a bit to more clearly separate backup and restore functions. Restore of database now also allows deletion of existing database first to avoid out-of-memory situations when restoring a larger database. Please only use this option when told that there is not enough free storage and please do a backup of the old database first.
released July 8, 2021:
- allows to move a Meteobridge license from one device to another one. Meteobridge PRO and NANO are excepted as it is dedicated hardware which come with fixed licenses that cannot be transferred. All other Meteobridge devices can migrate their license to another non-licensed Meteobridge. In order to have this working as a self service, the donating and receiving Meteobridge need to be in the same LAN/WLAN. It might be necessary to restart both in order to make them visible to each other. Transfer is done on "License" tab of the license donating Meteobridge by simply selecting the unlicensed target device from a dropdown and to press "Migrate license now" button. Result will be displayed in the header when GUI builds up again. To have changes applied both units need to be restarted afterwards. I hope this self service will reduce e-mail requests to us to do license migrations. If the self service does not do, you are required to contact "info(at)smartbedded.com" to have it done manually by us.
released June 28, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, RPI: allows to rebuild a crashed database by making use of a connected USB stick as temporary storage. Rebuild can be selected on "System - Administration" tab and is done on next reboot. Operation can last several hours depending on your platform and amount of data. So please be patient when doing so.
released June 27, 2021:
- adds weather network "RedMeteo.cl".
- Meteobridge RPI: Fixes spontaneous Meteostick disconnects on reboot.
released June 13, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO RED or any Meteobridge with Meteostick: avoids zero humidity on outdoor sensors.
- Meteobridge RPI: prints out on console that Meteobridge is a headless device controlled via a browser, not via console. Some users connect a display to the Raspberry and wonder why no GUI shows up.
released May 30, 2021:
- suppresses UV index readings of 15 or above when using ObserverIP station.
released May 6, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: offers a feature on "System - Administration" tab to copy data from a sensor to another sensor. This helps to cope with a situation where the sensor name has changed and you want to copy data from old sensor name over to the new one.
released May 2/3, 2021:
- adapts sending of hourly rain data to "Weather365" network to send data of last hour within first 5 mins of current hour. This is needed as "weather365" is not able to compute hourly rain data from difference in total rain by themselves but relies on sending redundant information in an out of sync timeframe. This makes the "weather365" API the most inconsistent to deal with I have seen so far, but your milage may vary.
- adapts sending of daily rain data to "Weather365" network same way as done with hourly data. Not sure which kind of inconsitencies will additionally show up. I would recommend to use this network with some caution regarding meaning and correctness of data.
released April 29, 2021:
- allows outdoor temp/hum sensor of WMR300 to report 0% relative humidity without being blocked.
released April 25/26/27, 2021:
- hopefully fixes a computational issue when reporting apparent temperature to "Weather365" network.
- adds check against empty files when downloading templates from Meteobridge server. If empty, a reload is scheduled.
- adds triggering exports on a certain day of the week and exporting last 7 days of data.
released April 24, 2021:
- minor improvements on handling errors on TCP/IP socket connections.
released April 21, 2021:
- adds data on humidex, apparent temperature and cloudbase when reporting data to network "Weather365".
released April 17, 2021:
- fixes a bug how GW1000 reports lightning data, where strike count has been wrongly reported as energy.
released April 16, 2021:
- fixes an issue in the automated location identification, which has been caused by API changes of the location provider.
released April 10, 2021:
- adds support for weather network "Weather365" aka "Meteo-Services".
released April 9, 2021:
- adds reporting of air quality data (PM 10, PM 2.5) to weather network "weather cloud".
- fixes a bug when reporting "leafwetness" to weather network "awekas".
released April 8, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, RPI, NANO SD: adds "endir", "dedir", "nldir" als converters to data exports. This was formerly defined for use in template expansions only, but not implemented for database exports.
- fixes a bug where windchill and heatindex data was swapped for upload to Davis weatherlink network.
- fixes a bug in reading country information in "System - Information" tab.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug on preserving "nonzerotime" values.
released March 24, 2021:
- supports [MMM] selector in export definitions.
released March 22, 2021:
- fixes a memory leak when generating HTML data by an event definition.
released March 8/9/10, 2021:
- fixes a bug regarding GW1000 protocol changes since 1.6.x.
- fixes a bug regarding "rainXtotal-nonzerotime" template variable.
released March 7, 2021:
- fixes a bug regarding windXmaxdir sensor calibration.
released March 4, 2021:
- fixes a bug related to reporting of leaf and soil data the MeteoMap.cloud network.
released March 1, 2021:
- Meteobridge RPI: adds support for fan control of RPI POE hat.
- adds support for GW1000 leaf wetness sensor.
- fixes a bug when calibrating windXmaxdir sensor.
- fixes a bug that crashes on generating clientraw files as part of WD-Live uploads.
released February 7, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO: improves reading of indoor humidity to avoid reporting 30% as default because of no data available.
released February 7, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a shortly introduced bug on WD-Live (clientraw) exports.
released January 30, 2021:
- fixes a bug that interrupts data logging and often throws "No data hold period defined. Set to 300 secs as default" in system messages.
- adds French Davis Vantage forecast messages to be addressed in templates as [forecast-textfr].
released January 28, 2021:
- Meteobridge RPI: speeds up data import. Per minute import can be up to 10 times faster on RPI 4 than before.
- adds mapping support for sunXtotal sensors.
released January 24, 2021:
- Meteobridge NANO, RPI: adds "boot delay" feature to NANO and RPI models (prior only available for MB PRO). This can help to handle a power-cycle situation where the router needs a bit longer to build up connection when power-cycled as well. Remark: This feature will need two reboots until being effective (first installs, second makes use of it).
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes out-of-memory issues that could lead to spontaneous reboots.
- retries on FTP template reloads from the Internet when not done successfully during boot.
released January 17/18, 2021:
- Meteobridge NANO, RPI: adds a "Power Off" option on "System - Administration" tab.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug that prevents evaluation of "#pragma fillgap" settings when doing data export. "wswin-monthly" export format has also been changed to return no value instead of "--" when no data there. This should improve correct handling of not available data by WSWIN.
released January 14, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug regarding missing "panel" definitions in manual edited meta charts.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds option to add offset and factor in order to calibrate data in meta charts.
released January 10, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds an option the view date & time on a panels X-axis by choice.
released January 9, 2021:
- some fixes regarding new "Define Chart" feature (https://forum.meteohub.de/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=15446&p=37253#p37253)
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: enhances "Define Chart" tab to allow definition of multi-panel charts, where multiple panels with graphs can be stacked onto one time axis.
released January 8, 2021:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: Adds a feature to define metacharts via a the web interface. This makes it much more handy to define and test new charts. Feature is still experimental.
released January 6, 2021:
- fixes a bug that prevents from recording soil data that lacks temperature on Ecowitt GW1000 systems.
released January 1, 2021:
- adds support for GW1000 thermo-hygro sensors even when they just offer temperature data.
Version 5.0
released January 1, 2021:
- fixes some issues with Ecowitt sensor WH45 when used via GW1000 station.
released December 30, 2020:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: adds a feature to automatically delete per minute data older than 30, 90, 180 days or a year.
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: Fixes an error on mapping options for "rainXtotal", "lgtXtotal" and "solXevo" sensors on "Station - Mapping" tab.
released December 27, 2020:
- fixes a bug that did not apply calibration settings to data uploaded to Meteoplug Cloud graphing.
released December 22, 2020:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: fixes a bug where selecting per-minute storage modes is inversed on "System - Administration" tab.
released December 19, 2020:
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug on "System - Admininstration" tab.
released December 15, 2020:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI: per minute data storage is now publicly available and can be switched on on "System - Administration" tab.
released December 6, 2020:
- Meteobridge PRO, NANO SD, RPI being part of beta program: allows to select per-minute persistent storage modes: "no persistent storage", "persistent storage of all sensors", "persistent storage of logical sensors only". Number in brackets tells how many sensors are in scope for per-minute storage.
- makes AWEKAS upload to use "soil0" sensor instead of "soil1".
released December 1/2/3, 2020
- fixes a bug in assigning sensor names to envoy8x stations.
- fixes some issues/inconsistencies on handling Davis Vantage additional temp sensors since version 4.4.
- fixes a shortly introduced bug which blocked data from "PurpleAir" and "Luftdaten" sensors.
- fixes a bug that sporadically broke "History" tab on some platforms.
- adds experimental support for air quality stations "purpleAir". Data is not relying on the PurpleAir Internet servers but taken directly from the Sensor in the LAN/WLAN.
- adds experimental support for home-brew air quality stations of the "Luftdaten" project. Data is not relying on the Luftdaten servers but taken directly from the Sensor in the LAN/WLAN.
released November 21/22/23,2020
- Meteobridge RPI, PRO, NANO SD: SMB PC file sharing service can be disables on "System - Administration" tab.
- Meteobridge RPI, PRO, NANO SD: fixes a bug when editing database values while being in "use imperial units" mode.
- Meteobridge PRO: reduces RAM footprint
- fixes timezone of Venezuela from GMT-04:30 to GMT-04:00
released November 17,2020
- Meteobridge RPI: fixes a bug in network bridge mode
released November 16,2020
- fixes a bug that inhibits access to https sites from Meteobridge on DIR-505 platform.
- better handles dropped-off extra temperature sensors for Davis Vantage.
- adds reporting of extra humidity sensors to weather network AWEKAS.
- some behind the scenes changes in regard to storing data on NANO SD, MB PRO and Raspberry Pi.
released November 13, 2020
- fixes a bug enumerating Davis WLL soil and leaf sensors.
- fixes a bug where resetting sensor mappings sometimes crashes.
- adds reporting of air quality data to weather network AWEKAS.
- adds support for industrial SLC microSD cards from Western Digital / SanDisk: SDSDQED-008G-XI, SDSDQED-016G-XI, SDSDQED-032G-XI, SDSDQED-064G-XI
- adds support for industrial SLC microSD cards from Greenliant: GLS93MP008G1-I-BZ801
released November 7, 2020
- adds extra temperature, soil and leaf sensors to WSWIN automated import via "Dateiüberwachung".
- fixes a bug that aborts logging process when using default mappings for "airXpm" sensors.
released October 31, 2020
- supports Meteobridge on Raspberry Pi models 3B, 3B+, 4B (please read here)
- Cloud simulator is updated to Meteobridge version 5.0. It now supports remote WLAN configuration for Meteobridge on Raspberry Pi.
- Meteobridge NANO: fixes license "limited to" issues popping up on first geneneration NANOs.
- Meteobridge NANO SD: fixes a stall on data uploads for local weather34 installations.
released October 24, 2020
- fixes a bug regarding import of WSWIN export files.
released October 18, 2020
- fixes a bug that blocks outdoor temp sensor data for WMR200 stations under certain conditions.
Version 4.4
release October 17, 2020
- fixes a shortly introduced bug in uploading data to Meteoplug cloud service.
released October 11/12/13/14, 2020
- reduces image size a bit to avoid reboot cycles of low memory platforms (32 MB) like MR3020v1.
- adds capability to send soil and leaf sensor data to weather networks (where supported by the network) based on soil/leaf sensor mapping on "mapping" tab.
released October 6, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a wind-only display template.
- fixes a bug that mixes up data of different stations when sending data to Meteoplug Cloud service. Meteoplug is not yet ready for support of additional stations, it will now receive data from the primary station only.
- fixes a bug that prevents making use of specified rain bucket size settings when using Davis Weatherlink Live.
released October 4, 2020
- fixes some minor bugs regarding import functions and sensor mapping.
- NANO SD: fixes some bugs regarding import features.
released October 2, 2020
- adds a "set date" button on "Edit Data" tab to define date selected here being default date for operations on tab "Import / Export".
- import feature has been reworked. Support of compressed files (.zip and .gz) has been stripped to allow import of very large files by cutting those internally into chunks. When import gets started it is done in chunks of 240 secs, then pausing 2 minutes to allow the database to work on the regular requests. This is repeated until the import file is handled completely. Progress can be inspected in "Logging" section of "System" tab. As import of massive files takes rather long this is a major improvement as a) regular Meteobridge operation is not paused during import time and b) large files are handled in the background, no need to cut into smaller chunks and to import those one by one.
- some rather fundamental changes in the sensor naming concept. Supporting multiple stations makes a change in the sensor naming schema necessary. From now on there will be two distinct views onto a given sensor.
- physical sensor: A physical sensor does include all the details that is exactly determining a sensor. This includes station number, sensor type, sensor number, measurement category. Example: "thb1!0temp" is a combined thermo-hum-baro sensor (type: "thb") from station #1 (station: "1") with sensor ID 0 (number: "0") and measurement category "temp". Physical sensor names are best suited to exactly address a certain sensor.
- logical sensor: A logical sensor abstracts from some details of a physical sensor. It does not carry a station ID, but represents a special meaning. For example "th0temp" and "th0hum" represent the classical outdoor temp-hum sensor, which delivers the temperature/humidity information to be broadcasted to weather networks or used in graphs or your exports. Meteobridge defines a set of logical sensors with a special meaning as you can see in the picture on the right. These logical sensors are mapped to the corresponding sensors of station #0 by default.
- Mapping of logical sensors to physical sensors allows you to adapt Meteobridge weather network support and graphing to your specific setup of stations and sensors. When you have an extra temp-hum sensor with ID #1 on station #1 and want to use this for outside temp/hum reporting instead of the one delivered with the primary station, you can simply map "th1!1temp" to "th0temp" and "th1!1hum" to "th0hum" and "th1!1dew" to "th0dew". In case you have a good source for wind chill temperature on temp-hum extra sensor #5 on station #1, you might also map "th1!5temp" to "wind0chill". As you see, this mapping feature is extremely powerful. It allows to adapt predefined weather services in Meteobridge (which are using logical sensors) to your specific station and sensor setup. In the picture on the right you see the new "Mapping" tab in the "Station" section of Meteobridge. This tab reflects the mapping mentioned before. "Mapping" tab replaces former definition of primary sensors on "Min/Max Data" tab, which is now a tab for data inspection purposes only, without interaction. Green sensors are the ones with predefined meaning by default, yellow sensors indicate that these have been mapped individually, white sensors are not attached to a logical sensor and can only be addressed as physical sensors. When moving the mouse over a sensor you get the mapping (if any) displayed as a balloon text.
- updates Italian language pack
- introduces an new sub page "mapping" that allows for mapping of physical sensors "th1!0temp" to logical sensors like "th0temp". This mapping page replaces former definition on primary sensors on "Min/Max Data" tab, which is now a tab for data inspection purposes only, without interaction. Green sensors are the ones with predefined meaning, yellow sensors indicate that these have been mapped individually.
released September 26, 2020
- adds a feature to avoid restarting of data logger when a certain station does not provide new data in the time frame defined by "data hold" parameter. This feature can be switched on/off for each particular station.
- NANO SD: fixes a bug related to latitude/longitude settings on Weather34 dashboard.
- removes blocking of upload to WeatherCloud network in case essential data like wind, temperature, pressure is missing.
released September 23, 2020
- NANO SD: fixes a shortly introduced bug that prevents from installing the new local Weather34 dashboard. Please use "Reinstall" button to install again, if local dashboard cannot be started on your NANO SD.
- switches with Davis Airlink from "pm_XXX_last" to "pm_XXX" to avoid zero readings.
- adds code to ignore phantom gust spikes on W835 weather stations.
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a shortly introduced bug, where rain bucket sizes were ignored and always defaulted to 0.01 inch.
- Meteobridge NANO SD: fixes a bug when entering setup screen of new Weather34 dashboard from remote.
released September 19/20, 2020
- adds support for ObserverIP's new firmware that reports air quality for indoor (air0pm) and outdoor (air1pm) sensors.
- fixes a bug that applies calibration of a specific sensor to all identical named sensors of additional stations (thb0temp, thb1!0temp, thb2!0temp, ...).
- fixes some bugs regarding user-defined plugins.
- fixes a bug when defining calibration factor or offset of sensors from additional (non-primary) weather stations.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: supports sensors from non-primary weather stations in exports and charts. Sensor number is replaced by station number an exclamation mark followed by the sensor number. Example "th1!1temp" addresses sensor "th1temp" from station 1. Sensors from primary station (station 0) do not need the station prefix "0!". Therefore, "th0!0temp" is identical to "th0temp". That way you don't have to change your existing chart, export and template definitions.
- Meteobridge NANO & NANO SD: adds option to use user-defined plugins.
- Meteobridge NANO SD: adds a new second row tab "Weather Dashboard" which allows you to have a look at your current data in the famous Weather34 style. On the tab you can select if data should be transferred into this dashboard. When you launch the dashboard it will come up in a separate window (your browser needs to allow Meteobridge to open a window). The dashboard can also be reached from the Internet, if you enabled Meteobridge remote login. Dashboard does not provide charts. You can add your WU API key to include weather forecasts from WU. Please don't forget to set time zone and UTC difference on the dashboard configuration page. Many thanks to Brian for developing this fantastic looking dashboard.
released September 16/17, 2020
- adds a "quick navigation" feature that allows a direct jump onto the tabs of the second row. When mouse moves over the tab name, a list with accessible sub-tabs is popping up so that the desired sub-tab can be directly selected. This is a short cut for first selecting a tab from the first row, waiting until the page has built up and then selecting the sub-tab where you want to go.
- fixes shortly broken support for "OberserverIP" stations.
- fixes a bug when using non-metric units for sensor calibration on tab "Weather Station" -> "Settings".
released September 13/14/15, 2020
- adds support for Davis Airlink, which needs to be integrated as an additional weather station with its own IP. This station reports temperature, humidity and 3 particle values (pm_1, pm_2.5, pm_10).
- fixes bug that prevents adding stations.
- fixes not being able to make initial use of IP given for Observerip or GW1000 stations.
- fixes number of supported language translation entires to 2000 instead of 1200.
- fixes bug not supporting "via Console" RF reveiving option on Metebridge PRO red or Meteostick equipped Meteobridges.
released September 12, 2020
- adds experimental support for new Ecowitt WH45 sensor (temp, hum, air quality and CO2).
- silently reestablish tcpip connection drops (caused by the weather station) without doing a complete disconnect/connect station cycle.
- Design of "Weather Station" tab has changed significantly in order to allow definition of multiple weather stations. Station is picked from a drop-down selection from the list of supported models. Then type of connection (USB, TCPIP, etc) is choosen and finally additional information like serial device or IP address is specified. Meteobridge takes care that only models that can be connected to your specific Meteobridge platform are presented. Beside the primary weather station a maximum of 4 additional stations can be connected to and evaluated by Meteobridge. This works even on the least powerful platforms like MR3020v1. The gallery below shows a Meteobridge MR3020v1 connected to five different weather station models in parallel.
- Template variables are modified to handle multi-station situations. Sensors of the primary station can be addressed as before like "th0temp". "th0temp" sensor of first additional station can be addressed as "th1!0temp". The "1!" prefix indicates additional station #1, "2!" prefix denotes additional station #2 and so on. As before you define which sensors are used as primary sensors used for reporting to weather networks (on tab "Live Data" -> "Data Min/Max"). Their names are displayed in green. You can change that be clicking on one of the yellow sensors and stating that this one should be used as a primary sensor. Definition of primary sensors has not changed, you just have more options when using multiple stations.
- adds support for user-defined plugins that can feed data from not natively supported weather stations to Meteobridge. This is done in terms of a simple, user-defined shell script that posts data to /dev/stdout in an endless loop. Format of data to be provided can be derived from the attached example script "simulstation.plugin" that provides random data for sensors thb0, th0, t0, rain0, wind0, uv0, sol0, data0. Plugin files need to have extension ".plugin" and can be located in "scripts" folder (only on PRO and NANOSD platforms) or can be loaded from an URL (on all Meteobridge platforms).
#!/bin/sh # i=0 while true; do temp="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(100+rand()*200)}'`" hum="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(20+rand()*40)}'`" baro="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(9800+rand()*400)}'`" echo "thb0 $temp $hum $baro" sleep 2 temp="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(100+rand()*200)}'`" hum="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(20+rand()*40)}'`" echo "th0 $temp $hum" sleep 2 temp="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(100+rand()*200)}'`" echo "t0 $temp" sleep 2 dir="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*359)}'`" wind="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*150)}'`" gust=$((wind+30)) echo "wind0 $dir $gust $wind" sleep 2 rate="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*100)}'`" total=$((i+2)) echo "rain0 $rate $total" i=$total sleep 2 uv="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*40)}'`" echo "uv0 $uv" sleep 2 rad="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*1000)}'`" echo "sol0 $rad" sleep 2 num="`awk 'BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*10000)}'`" echo "data0 $num" sleep 2 done
released August 28, 2020
- updates on Dutch language file, thanks to Gerhard (https://weeropdeveluwe.nl)
- updates maximum length of HTTP calls on "Services" tab to 8192 instead of 4096 bytes.
released August 18, 2020
- replaces the old mechanism to calibrate some sensors groups (wind0/rain0/th0/etc.) by a more general approach that allows for calibrating any sensor you like. "Station" tab has a sub tab "Settings" where you can define calibration. Calibration is done in terms of an offset and a factor. Although Meteobridge computes internally with metric units, you can apply calibrations in imperial units, if you like. It will be recalculated internally. The used calculation formular is displayed for you to understand how it works. Settings defined previously should be automatically converted into the new format.
released August 17, 2020
- fixes a bug in regard to moisture updates via new AWEKAS upload format.
- some minor improvements on "2 row tab" GUI.
released August 16, 2020
- introduces a new navigation schema for Meteobridge admin web interface. As the content on some tabs has grown over the past the pages were getting longer and longer so that a lot of scrolling was needed. We now changed to a 2-row tab approach, where the content of a tab is divided into "sub tabs" where appropriate. This should make navigation more convenient and also gives room for more features in the future. Color schema is not the best in the world, but I think it is not too much pain in the eyes. Please do a "shift reload" with your browser to empty its cache on CCS and background GIFs. When you face any quirks regarding the new GUI, please report in the forum.
released August 13, 2020
- some necessary technical changes behind the scenes
released August 4, 2020
- fixes an upload frequency bug for AWEKAS weather network
released July 25, 2020
- makes use of new V4 AWEKAS upload format.
released July 13, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: improves rain data import of WSWSIN export files.
Version 4.3
released July 12, 2020
- fixes outdated link to Weather Underground on station tab.
- fixes duplicate interval description (German text only) for weather network AWEKAS.
- adds sensors th1-th8 and t1-t8 when using Davis WLL.
released June 20-22, 2020
- adds support for weather network "Schleswig-Holstein-Netz".
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes import of Meteohub raw data.
released June 18, 2020
- supports additional temp/hum sensors for weather network "Wetterring".
- fixes the "via th" message bug for GW1000 stations
released June 16, 2020
- fixes a shortly introduced bug in handling if-then-else-fi constructs in templates. This had an impact on display messages on some MB PROs, for example.
released June 11-14, 2020
- fixes a missing % symbol in chart "allinone-wind1st" on Meteobridge PRO platform.
- adapts support for GW1000 station running on Ecowitt FW 1.5.9 (lightning, extra temp, leak).
- adds template selectors "lasttime" and "lastval" which report last recorded value and corresponding time stamp. "lastval" is not rendered invalid when hold time has passed (in contrast to "act").
released June 7-8, 2020
- adds support for WeatherFlow's new all-in-one station TEMPEST.
- adds support for WeatherFlow station setups with more than one rain sensor.
released June 2-4, 2020
- improvements on handling of template variable "nonzerotime" to make it to survive reboots.
- fixes a crash bug when doing too long HTTP strings.
released May 29, 2020
- minor changes in how data from TCP/IP connected stations is read. This is intended to better handle zero byte packets, which so far forced a disconnect/connect procedure.
- makes an attempt to fix signal 11 terminations of wnetd process.
released May 28, 2020
- adds so far missing sensor types "air" and "lgt" to data export function.
released May 26, 2020
- adds support for lightning detection for WS800 stations from Lufft. A lightning detection needs to be enabled manually on "Station" tab.
released May 14, 2020
- fixes a bug when selecting "MeteoMap.cloud" network.
released May 3, 2020
- adds support for lightning data of GW1000 stations
- update on Davis Vantage extra temp and hum sensor mapping
released April 7, 2020
- adds data upload support for HTTPS via TLS on DIR-505 hardware platform. This change is needed to feed current installation of Ambientweather Network. Other platforms already support TLS since Meteobridge version 4.1.
released March 27, 2020
- further improves mapping of vantage temp, hum and temp/hum sensors.
released March 22, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a shortly introduced bug that greyed out sensor selection for RF reception.
released March 22, 2020
- fixes a bug on cabled Davis Vantage stations that show phantom readings for not present additional temp sensors.
released March 21, 2020
- adds support for Gill Instruments station GMX600. Station is connected via a FTDI-based RS232-to-USB cable from Gill Instruments.
- Remark: As pressure data is traditionally bound to the indoor sensor and the Gill station does not provide indoor temp/hum the outdoor temp/hum data is replicated to the indoor sensor data with the pressure information added (just in case you wonder why non-existing indoor data is listed on live data tab).
released March 8, 2020
- disables credentials check on Meteobridge "Services" tab for disabled events.
released March 7, 2020
- fixes a problem with storing min/max data persistently for platform TP-Link WR902AC V3.
released March 5, 2020
- fixes a data upload problem regarding air pressure delta readings for weather network "Wetterwarte Sued".
released February 26, 2020
- updates support of weather network Metro Agro to its new API. User IDs and passwords remain unchanged.
- fixes a bug where "Weather Station" tab aborts when too many "Weatherlink Live" or other Davis IP devices are in your LAN.
- fixes a bug that impacts generation of first data set when starting WSWIN export services.
released February 9/10, 2020:
- fixes a newly introduced bug around unit conversions in templates.
released February 8, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: allows period parameter of "export.cgi" script to specify a range. Example: "period=20191201-20200115" specifies range from Dec 1, 2019 until Jan 15, 2020 (end date is excluded so it is effectively until 23:59 Jan 14, 2020).
released February 1, 2020
- expands conversion options of template variables by a generic factor/offset model. Example: "[th0temp-act=f0,5+3,5:-]" returns the current outdoor temperate in degrees Fahrenheit but multiplies the result with 0.5 (factor) and adds 3.5 (offset) to it. If factor or offset contain decimals, these need to be written with a comma "," instead of the dot "." because the dot has a special meaning when used with template variables. Factors and offsets can also be applied to export and chart definitions.
released January 30, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: "export.cgi" script can now handle url encoded parameters.
Version 4.2
released January 28, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a newly introduced bug which prohibited WSWIN style data exports.
released January 25, 2020
- adds Italian language support
released January 24, 2020
- adds two buttons for remote login feature. "Open URL" does open a new browser window/tab based on the remote login link, "Copy URL" copies the remote link into the clipboard.
released January 23, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: allows to feed "export.cgi" function with a template string instead of a pre-defined template file. Please keep in mind that these templates are used for mass data export from the database and they are not providing the conversion features known from the regular templates. Example: export.cgi?period=202001&resolution=day&template=[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD],[epoch],[th0temp-avg.1:],[th0temp-min.1:],[th0temp-max.1:],[th0hum-avg.0:] returns the data on the right.
released January 19, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: makes data export function available from the web interface by calling "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/cgi-bin/export.cgi?period=202001&resolution=hour&template=standard-iso.exp". This reports content of the database according to the template definition "standard-iso.exp" (from template folder) for the month January 2020 in hourly resolution.
- improves reliability of data sending process by monitoring the corresponding thread
released January 18, 2020
- adds weather network "Wetterwarte Sued"
released January 12, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a rain total bug when requesting data exactly at the beginning of a new hour.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: enhances HTML generation service by allowing to use special characters like "\n" when using template string instead of a template file.
released January 11, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes display bug of rain totals on "History" tab
released January 8, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds web folder "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/public/html" where files located in "html" folder on the Meteobridge PC network share are delivered by the Meteobridge web server.
released January 6, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug on importing Meteohub raw data, where temperatures were partly import wrong by factor 10 when they were below zero.
released January 4, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug on importing Meteohub raw data, where sea level pressure was imported wrong by factor 10.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug where addressing data back into last year with "@Mx" selector points into the void.
- adds new sensor "wind0maxdir" that reports wind direction of maximum gust in the requested time frame. Example: [wind0maxdir-dmax:-] reports wind direction of todays maximum gust. [wind0maxdir-dmax=endir:-] does the same but reports as a text like "NWN" instead of degrees north. New "wind0maxdir" data starts being collected from installation of this version on, so it will not work back into the past.
released January 2, 2020
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds a service that generates HTML and text files based on a template file or a directly specified template description. Resulting file is stored in the "html" folder on the PC network share of the Meteobridge.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes an issue where most recent per minute data is not reflected in the hourly min/max or rain totals until the current hour has been finished.
- fixes a bug that cuts off filenames after a blank when doing an FTP upload.
released December 10, 2019
- adds support for extra temp, soil, leaf sensors to weather network MeteoMap.cloud
released December 4, 2019
- fixes a bug that prints out the wrong name of month when using [MMM] template variable in path names.
released November 23, 2019
- fixes a startup problem with Italian provider Vodafone which automatically redirects some HTTP requests to HTTPS at a time when Meteobridge does not have the HTTPS enabled components downloaded. Symptom is that Meteobridge PRO did stay stuck to its current SW version although being told to download newest from Internet during boot.
released November 22, 2019
- adds support for additional temp/hum sensors to station Ventus W835.
released November 18, 2019
- fixes a bug in regard to weather station "Lufft WS-700" where a lot of warnings have been reported in the logs.
released November 16, 2019
- expands maximum size of URLs used for individual HTTP uploads from 4000 to 8000 characters.
- adds soil min/average/max soil temperature values for day/month/year when uploading to awekas weather network (needs a Davis Vantage station).
released November 7, 2019
- fixes a freshly introduced bug when uploading via sftp.
released November 5, 2019
- fixes a bug in resolving date/time information in the target file name when uploading "lastexport" or "lastchart" files via FTP.
- updates support for Lufft WS10 weather station.
released October 28, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug regarding syncing of databases when passing over a daylight savings change. Symptom was that database does not store new values as it is stuck in an endless loop.
released October 26, 2019
- fixes a bug regarding gust speed when uploading via "WL Cloud" and using an old Davis console firmware (pre 1.90).
released October 25, 2019
- changed upload to "WL Cloud" weather network from HTTP PUT to HTTP POST for better compatibility between different Meteobridge platforms (especially to support MR3020 v1).
- adds support for old (pre 1.9 version firmware, which does not provide LOOP2 packets) on "WL Cloud" weather network upload.
released October 22, 2019
- some bug fixes on WL CLoud network support.
released October 13, 2019
- fixes a bug regarding rain reporting for weather network "Meteomap Cloud" on some stations.
released October 12, 2019
- reduces upload buffer size for Meteoplug Cloud network on systems with 32 MB RAM only. This is to avoid stalls/reboots on MR3020, MR3040, WR703N because of too low available RAM when buffers have filled up over time.
released October 6, 2019
- adds support for a new personal weather data upload service named "WL Cloud". This feature is only available for Meteobridges connected to a Davis data logger (Console or Envoy, not Envoy8x). It directly uploads data from the logger (not data from the Meteobridge) to an URL of your liking. Data consists of LOOP, HILOWS and DMPAFT data sets as provided from the Davis logger. Upload format is similar (and might be compatible) to what Davis uses to feed their weatherlink network. To have your web server ready for receiving the data, please use this perl code, which stores uploaded packet content on your server in separate files for further processing. Code is very simple and provides some comments to understand what kind of data is stored in the files. Feel free to use this code and change/distribute as you like.
Version 4.1
released October 5, 2019
- changes time stamp for meteoclimatic uploads to "UTC" by dropping the "UPD" line.
- fixes bug in "APM" selector for "moonrise" and "moonset" variables.
released October 3, 2019
- adds UTC data to uploads to weather network meteoclimatic.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes not showing rain total data in graph on history tab.
- has all images converted to GIF to free up some RAM.
- gives a bit more RAM headroom for platforms MR3020, MR3040 and WR703N when not using "Acurite Bridge" as weather station. This is to compensate for using new, bigger openssl libs to support TLS-only HTTPS uploads on those platforms.
released September 21, 2019
- fixes a bug that made version 4.1 not working properly on the less often used TL-MR3040 platform.
- adds support for Ventus W835 weather station which provides live data via USB.
released September 14, 2019
- adds support soil temp and soil moisture sensor types for GW1000 station
released September 8, 2019
- adds weather network Meteomap.cloud with a focus on weather maps and weather station data sites.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds chart template "allinone-wind1st-iso" which is a variant of "allinone-iso" with wind data on the top.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: template variable selector "nonzerotime" does now withstand a restart of the logger process.
released September 4, 2019
- fixes below mentioned issue for Meteobridge on TL-MR3040 platform.
released August 31, 2019
- fixed an issue where TL-WR703N systems do not load complete application stack of version 4.1. This has been caused by a tmpfs overflow because of downloading new openssl libs in order to allow HTTPS traffic to websites supporting TLS only (no SSL).
released August 28, 2019
- "template.cgi" endpoint does not return HTTP error codes 503 and 504 if template cannot be evaluated for any reason. This makes it more easy for a reading processes to react correctly.
released August 27, 2019
- fixes a twitter openssl issue introduced with the previous release.
released August 25/26, 2019
- updates openssl and wget support on MR3020 and Meteobridge PRO platform to handle HTTPS targets that do no longer support SSL (but only TLS) due to security concerns. Previous error message "OpenSSL: Error ... reason(1040)" should be resolved by this.
released August 19/20, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds the concept of meta charts to the graphing engine. Meta charts can easily be build by users and by that allow for easy creation of individual charts. Please read here about more details: https://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/PRO_Graphs#Meta_Chart_Definition
released August 16, 2019
- when computing sunrise, sunset and daylength data the current day is determined by using local time instead of UTC.
- adds "daysum", "monthsum" and "yearsum" as selectors for template variables in export definitions. This allows for example to sum up daily rain in an export file that has rows in an hourly resolution.
released August 15, 2019
- changes automated payment method from "PayPal" to "MyCommerce". This gives you more flexibility on payment options. When transaction is done, you get a license key to be manually entered on "License" tab and saved. Having done that, Meteobridge needs to be restarted to come up licensed. Update licenses to purchase additional 2 years of SW updates are handled the same way.
Version 4.0
released August 11/14/15, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that stalls logger operation when Davis Weatherlink Live has once been selected as station.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds reset button to local HWS dashboard to allow a fresh install of the dashboard in case code has not been completely installed or is corrupted.
released August 10, 2019
- adds support for additional air quality sensors for GW1000 station. Up to 4 air quality sensors are now supported.
released August 8, 2019
- fixes the rainfall issue when using Davis Weatherlink Live.
- fixes a bug that does only sporadically upload wind gust data to AWEKAS weather network when using fast link option.
released August 6, 2019
- adds a field "Station ID" to weather network Windy to allow feed multiple stations within one Windy account. Default station id is "0".
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug on wind speed import from WSWIN export files.
released August 4, 2019
- Meteobridge is now available for the TP-Link WR902AC Version 3.x router. Preparing_Hardware#Flashing_Meteobridge_Firmware_to_TL-WR902AC_(version_3.x) section explains how to make a Meteobridge out of the WR902ACv3 standard router. Meteobridge supports the 2.4 GHz WLAN but not the 5 GHz mode. Flashing needs to be done by a TFTP server (as with MR3020 Version 3.x). Currently, there is no VM available that has the necessary TFTP service enabled, so you will have to set this up on your PC on your own.
released July 27, 2019
- fixes a bug when uploading data to "Wetterring" network, where max pressure of the month has been falsely reported as max pressure of the day.
- adds support for more sensors on the discontinued Accurite smart hub.
released July 22, 2019
- relaxes timeout interval when loading templates from a HTTP site to compensate for potentially slow DNS resolution.
released July 16, 2019
- fixes computation for solar radiation on station GW1000.
released July 12, 2019
- fixes a solar radiation computation bug with GW1000.
- fixes a bug that forced restarts of data logging process under certain conditions.
released July 7, 2019
- Meteobridge NANO SD: changes update of local HomeWeatherStation Dashboard in a way that external APIs are only requested every 10 minutes. It just needs a reboot to have this update installed. Please give it a few minutes to download (short flashing LED indicates download of dashboard files).
released June 22, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes bug in timely computing of hourly data.
released June 20, 2019
- Meteobridge NANO SD: fixes a bug that limits local HWS dashboard updates to every 15 minutes.
released June 16, 2019
- now keeps wind direction for Davis WLL as has been before, when wind speed drops to zero (instead of setting wind direction to "N").
released June 15, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug that impacts computation of rain0total (and other cumulative values).
- fixes a bug that could have stalled Meteobridge when reaching out to grabbing a web cam image via https.
released June 11, 2019
- fixes average wind reporting to WU when using a GW1000 station.
released June 9, 2019
- fixes a buffer overrun error on non-PRO and non-NANO platforms that causes continuous restarts of the data logging process
released June 8, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO and NANO SD: fixes a bug in computing "mintime" values. Now always timestamp of first occurrence of minimum data is reported.
released June 1, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes bug when using sensor selector "starttime" within template definitions.
released May 30/31, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO: update under the hood to speed up initial flashing procedure.
released May 28, 2019
- fixes an issue during startup of Asus WL-330N3G.
released May 26, 2019
- improves template.cgi script to avoid stalls when called in parallel.
released May 25, 2019
- adds optional air quality data to meteotemplate upload.
- Meteobridge NANO: fixes reboot issue.
released May 22, 2019
- adds support for air quality sensor PM2.5 for Ambient Weather Observer-IP. PM2.5 data is reported as template variable "air0pm" and is displayed on "Live Data" tab.
- adds support for air quality reporting to weather underground and ambientweather network.
released May 18, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug on Meteohub raw data import.
- adds support for soil and leaf sensors to Davis WLL.
released May 11, 2019
- fixes a bug that prevented from making use of the optional "delete file after upload" option when doing SFTP file uploads.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds a generic import function called "direct" to support easy import of natively not supported data formats. All the other supported import formats are internally converted to this format and then imported. A section on import formats has been added to the wiki: PRO_Tutorial#Data_Import
released May 10, 2019
- adds rain bucket resolution option to Davis Weather Link Live station.
- changes wind direction reported to network "windy.com" to 2 minutes average instead of current direction.
released May 5, 2019
- adds experimental support for Davis Weather Link Live device. This is still very experimental, intended to find bugs with the help of Meteobridge users. No way ready for production. We still need a leaf/soil station connected to a WLL to read out and understand the data format for that particular sensor type.
Version 3.9
released May 5, 2019
- version 3.9 finalized.
released April 28, 2019
- adds support for new weather station gateway GW1000 from Fine Offset. GW1000 collects data from up to 8 WH31 sensors (temp/hygro with display), 16 WH51 sensors (soil temp and moisture with sensor cable and display), a WS68 sensor unit delivering outdoor temp/hum, wind and uv/solar data, a Wh40 rain counter, and finally a WH41 air quality meter. The GW1000 gateway connects via WiFi to your LAN and provides data to the Meteobridge, when Meteobridge is told the IP of the GW1000. Apart from the standard set the GW1000 supports soil sensors and an air quality sensor. Implementation has been tested with quite a few sensors in the meanwhile. Please report bugs in the corresponding thread in the forum.
released April 22, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that prevented some Meteobridge PRO to install latest scripts and support files.
released April 20, 2019
- fixes the pressure bug when sending data to windy.
- Meteobridge NANO: adds TX power boost mode for the new batch of NANOs (left picture, with a red strap instead of a black strap). This option makes use of the better RF power emission of the new batch of VoCore2 modules. Please be aware that this mode draws so much power that the console needs support by additional batteries or (better) a more juicy power supply (minimum 500 mA). The standard 300 mA power supply of the Davis console cannot feed this mode, voltage will plump on WiFi operation and make the NANO reboot. Please use this mode only, when you experience WiFi reach problems. If your WiFi operation is fine, don't mess with this mode. Black strap NANOs don't have this option.
released April 18, 2019
- adds weather network windy.com. It needs an API key that users can generate once they have registered an account.
released April 15, 2019
- more changes on OpenWeatherMap support. Meteobridge does now check for a station already being registered at the provided API key. If not, Meteobridge will register a station. If there is already a station registered the first one from the list (in case there are multiple stations registered) will be used by Meteobridge for uploading. This is still experimental, but please give it a try. Deleting the stations Meteobridge might have registered before is a good step to start with. OpenWeatherMap API documentation explains how to delete stations via HTTP requests. I am still disappointed that OpenWeatherMap does not provide features to setup/maintain/delete stations within their web interface, which is clearly the right way to go.
released April 14, 2019
- fixes a repetitive registration of station at openweathermap. Station registration is now only done one time.
released April 13, 2019
- Meteobridge NANO SD: fixes missing ".wswin.exp" file that is needed for continous WSWIN data exports.
released April 7, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a crash bug in data export function.
released March 26, 2019
- fixes a newly introduced bug that inhibits uploading to ambient weather network.
released March 25, 2019
- NANO SD: fixes backup script.
released March 24, 2019
- adds support for agriculture weather network Caburé in Argentina.
- adds periodical triggers for "every two days" and "weekly".
- fixes template variable "mbsystem-station" to report name of selected station type.
- NANO SD: fixes newly introduced bug which inhibits backup script execution.
- switches support for OpenWeatherMap to their new API 3.0. This was necessary because upload using legacy API is no longer available for new users. Using API 3.0 needs you to enter the APP ID you are granted by OpenWeatherNet when setting up your account. When you enter APP ID and station name and press "save" a station ID will be automatically assigned at OpenWeatherMap. Support for this rather complicated and complicated to use weather network is still experimental.
released March 17, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug that can make Meteobridge reboot when doing a database backup.
- adds experimental support for Davis LOOP2 packet evaluation when Meteobridge is in "slave" mode. In "slave" mode a PC connects to the Meteobridge on port 22222 and takes over control by directly accessing the Davis console and taking over control.
- adds Davis forecast texts in Spanish. Corresponding template variable is "texteshtml".
released March 13, 2019
- improves handling of semaphores in "template.cgi" script which can be used for polling weather data from the Meteobridge as HTTP replies. This should solve situations where the script did no longer report data when being interrupted once.
released March 11, 2019
- fixes a bug that limits AWEKAS uploads not to be less often than every 5 minutes when using fastlink option.
released March 2, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: allows to feed alien data (as "data21num") into Meteobridge by providing an executeable shell script as /root/datafeed that returns "data21 xxx", where xxx is an integer number which will be divided by 100 when used by Meteobridge. Example: File "/root/datafeed" is defined as follows and presents value "100.00" on the live data display for sensor "data21num":
#!/bin/sh # echo "data21 10000" exit 0
released February 5, 2019
- fixes data logger stalls when using Meteoplug graphing server uploads.
released February 3, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds French as chart language
- Meteobridge NANO SD: fixes HomeWeatherStation template in regard to unit changes on barometer values.
- Meteobridge NANO: disables internal WLAN access point 15 minutes after reboot, if Internet connection works fine.
released January 26, 2019
- fixes bugs on date/time format, solar radiation and UV index when uploading to meteoclimatic network
- fixes bad data issue when reading Vantage RF data directly and temperature is below zero Fahrenheit. Only some Davis temp sensors have been affected.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds support for chart languages Dutch and French.
released January 17, 2019
- fixes a bug for outdoor temp sensors for some Davis Vantage2 units when using Meteobridge PRO or Meteostick for data reception.
released January 13, 2019
- adds support for weather network meteoclimatic. Data is uploaded to the Meteobridge server and meteoclimatic data collector needs to be told the URL where to pick the data from. URL is individual and provided as "Data Link" on Meteobridge "Weather Network" tab. Green marks just indicate that the Meteobridge server did store the data, it does not show if meteoclimatic has grabbed data from there. This loose coupling is one of the disadvantages of the "drop and forget" data upload schema, you don't get feedback if data has finally reached its destination.
released January 6, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds export template "wswin-monthly" to generate monthly data exports for WSWIN (just on hourly level).
released January 5, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds a weather network entry "WSWIN Data Feed" that allows to build "import.csv" files in network folder "export". WSWIN can be pointed to this file to read data ongoing in per minute resolution from the Meteobridge. Interval to build this file can be between every 5 minutes up to every hour. Please keep in mind that doing short intervals will add to the wear of your USB or SD-card storage in the Meteobridge.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds option "pragma exportfile=xyz" to be used within export templates. Using this option will store export data with filename "xyz" in export folder instead using template name and selected time frame and resolution as file name.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds option "pragma append=y" to be used in order to add more line to an already existing file without repeating the header lines. Using this option is helpful to incrementally add data to an export file.
- adds soil temperature and soil moisture values of a Davis Vantage to be reported to ambientweather network.
released January 2, 2019
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds option "pragma crlf=y" to be used within export templates. Using this option will result into an export file with Windows style terminated lines (CR+LF) instead of just LF.
- stabilizes initialization sequence of Davis Vantage consoles by optimized timing.
Version 3.8
released January 1, 2019
- fixes a newly introduced bug regarding data upload to homeweatherstation template.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug when triggering two chart generating tasks and FTP uploads of "lastchart" on same time schedule.
released December 30, 2018
- fixes a bug where name of some weather stations is reported in two words instead of one (and by that confuses order of parameters) when doing HomeWeatherStation uploads.
released December 29, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: minor improvements on data imports.
released December 27, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds support for importing weewx database csv exports.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds support for importing WSWIN csv exports.
released December 25, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug in Cumulus import methods.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: speeding up imports a bit.
released December 24, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds support for import of Cumulus SQL and CSV files with ascending or descending time stamps.
released December 23, 2018
- WL330NG3: fixes a bug in the application stack the prevents systems to start after reboot
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds "Meteotemplate" and "Cumulus Monthly Reports" as import format. Please realize that support of all that new data import functions is still beta, as I don't have excessive data to test with.
released December 22, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds data import function on "Hirstory tab. In a first step import of Meteohub raw data files and Meteoplug monthly export files are supported. Files can be zipped (".zip") or gnuzipped (".gz") or plain text. Files need to be copied into "import" folder on PC network share provided by Meteobridge. There is an option to skip malformed records or to halt import. Meteohub and Meteoplug provide up to 4 million raw data records per months, so this can take half an hour (NANO SD) or an hour (PRO) to import. While import is running, new logged data is queued and stored into database when import is done. Feeding of weather networks is halted during the import.
released December 20, 2018
- adds support for ELV RS350 room climate logger, which provides 5 indoor sensors only (neither wind, pressure nor rain data).
- directs link to weather cam inside HomeWeatherStation Dashboard to the Meteobridge Camera Service, which uploads your local weather camera pictures to the Meteobridge server in the Internet. You first have to enable this service on "Weather Net" tab.
- adds support for IP connected Lufft WS10 stations.
- Meteobridge on TL-MR3020v3: adds a feature that allows to act as a TFTP server to flash more TL-MR3020v3 devices into Meteobridges. All needed is to browse to "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/cgi-bin/clone.cgi" and to follow instructions. This does not help you to flash the first TL-MR3020v3 but allows you to more easily replicate once you have one running.
released December 9, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO: improves tests for WiFi connection issues and rebuilding WiFi connection if needed.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: shows data overview graphs on "History" tab in imperial units, when "imperial" flag is marked.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: improves handling of "lastchart.html" pointer, which now can handle generation and FTP upload of multiple charts at same point in time (as long as FTP uploads are directly triggered by a chart generation event).
- fixes bug that limits firmware updates for Meteostick to version 2.5.1 instead of using newest version 2.5.2
- adds support for Meteostick firmware updates to TL-MR3020v3 platform.
released December 5, 2018
- adds converter "epoch" to modify time stamps. It returns the Linux epoch time equivalent of the time stamp (seconds since Jan 1, 1970).
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds variant of allinone chart template that also displays a soil temperature (sensor "th1" is used). New chart is named "allinonesoil" and comes in ISO and IMP flavour.
released December 4, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a yesterday introduced bug on data export function and fixes operation of "emptylines=n/y" pragma operation.
released December 3, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO and NANO: changes code to potentially improve WLAN long-term stability.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: when calling a chart, URL parameter "sensormap" allows to use alternative sensors instead of the ones programmed in the chart definition. Assume a chart shows data for "thb0" and "th0" then adding "&sensormap=th1,thb9" to the chart URL will make the chart to show data for "th1" instead of "th0" and data for "thb9" instead of "thb0". This is an easy work-around to avoid definition of duplicated charts for various sensors of the same kind.
- Meteobridge NANO: changes reboot handling slightly.
released December 1, 2018
- Meteobridge NANO: supports special character "$" in WiFi passphrase.
- Meteobridge NANO SD: fixes dashboard graph for yearly wind speeds.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug where on each 1st day of a month the data of today is shown when data for yesterday is requested.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug regarding time stamps in monthly NOAA export templates.
released November 24, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds NOAA-style templates for data export (ISO and imperial units) for yearly reports (one line for each month).
released November 21, 2018
- Meteobridge NANO SD: We did a port of Brian's famous HomeWeatherStation template to run on the NANO SD. To have this activated it just needs you to select "Local Dashboard" on "Weather Network" tab and then to give it an upload interval. In order to have current conditions and forecast information on the dashboard, you need to signup to DarkSky an CheckWX services, both free of charge for private use. The HomeWeatherStation dashboard receives historical data from the NANO SD database and makes use of the Meteobridge charting engine powered by the amcharts JavaScript package. Dashboard can be used locally in your LAN but also from the Internet by a remote link. To access the dashboard no credentials of the Meteobridge admin web interface are needed. Dashboard also adapts to mobile devices. This is the first time we offer a powerful dashboard, locally hosted on a Meteobridge without any need for setting up a web server. We hope you enjoy this feature and I have to say a big thanks to Brian, who was so generous to allow me to bundle his template with the Meteobridge software in order to make it most easy for you to use. In case of technical interest you can download my adaption of HomeWeatherStation template from here. Let us realize for a moment that all this is provided by a stamp-sized module in the back of a Davis console! Future is now ;-)
released November 17, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug where "max1" and similar template selectors return no data, but being data available.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: makes non iterating part of an export template (the lines that start with "$") subject to general template variable replacements. This allows to add summary information about a month to an export that in principle just iterates all the days of the month. This is a new fundamental features to generate summary reports.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: adds NOAA like monthly reports a templates for data export. Both styles, ISO and IMP are available ("NOAA-monthly-iso" and "NOAA-monthly-imp"). These template allow to automatically generate a monthly weather data file in NOAA style file which can then be sent via email to an interested user or uploaded via FTP to a server.
- Meteobridge NANO SD: initializes SMB user "meteobridge" with password "meteobridge" on first start.
- fixes a shortly introduced bug that prevent rebooting the Meteobridge from the web interface. You do so by browsing to "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/cgi-bin/system.cgi?reboot" or when accessing from the Internet by "https://admin.meteobridge.com/...../cgi-bin/system.cgi?reboot".
released November 15, 2018
- Meteobridge NANO SD: adds Cactus industrial SLC microSD card "KS2GRIT-803M" as being accepted by the NANO SD.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: reactivates data caching for short-term data that still is in database queue.
- fixes a missing wind chill issue with Oregon WMR300 stations.
released November 14, 2018
- Meteobridge NANO SD: adds ATP micro SD card in SLC technology "ATP AF2GUDI" as being accepted by the NANO SD.
- Meteobridge NANO SD: some changes on database code, now making use of sqlite WAL storage mode which reduces risk of locking the database or keeping it in busy state for a longer time.
- Meteobridge PRO & NANO SD: fixes a bug that did result in not updated sensor data for "all" time frame.
- fixes a bug that kept loading application stack from internal storage (USB or microSD card) even when switching back to "newest".
- fixes an endianness bug on VoCore2 and TL-MR3020v3 platforms, when using Lufft WS700/600/200/10 stations.
- fixes a bug that inhibited location of station via IP WAN address on certain situations.
released November 10, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a shortly introduced bug in regard to certain mail templates.
- adds support for new Lufft WS10 station
released November 6, 2018
- improves twitter error reporting to better understand why a tweet has not been sent. Issue with reaching certain limits for Meteobridge twitter use is still there. I hope we can sort this out with twitter.
released November 5, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that does not delete uploaded files from local storage when told to do so.
- allows to hide email/ftp/mysql/twitter/sms credentials within "Services" tab.
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a proper "no data" logo when specifying date ranges on "History" tab where no data available.
released November 3, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a forced reboot action when the logger process is stalled in unrecoverable "disk sleep" mode. This prevents stalling of the whole system.
- Meteobridge PRO: will no show files with leading "." in drop-down lists used to select templates. This blocks display of meta data when operating with a Mac on folders shared over the network.
released October 31, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that delivers the day before yesterday when asking for yesterday. template variables with selectors ydaysum, ydmax, ydmin, etc where affected. Please also initiate a "Reconstruct" task on "History" tab. This might be needed to fix wrongly added rain totals.
- Meteobridge NANO: removes "USB switch" option from "Station" tab as NANO does not have any USB connection.
released October 28, 2018
- Meteobridge NANO: some improvements in startup script
released October 22, 2018
- Meteobridge NANO: some internal code adaptions to prepare for a set of new features.
Version 3.7
released October 21, 2018
- fixes a bug on enabling input fields in "weather network" tab on some browsers.
- fixes a shortly introduced bug that inhibits connecting to an Davis IP logger.
released October 16, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes bug that shows invalid daily rain fall when asking at 0:00 before any rain data for the day has arrived.
released October 13, 2018
- improves reporting on issues when doing HTTP uploads.
released October 12, 2018
- fixes bug that shows invalid daily rain fall when asking at 0:00 before any rain data for the day has arrived.
released October 8, 2018
- fixes a bug on certain long/lat values when uploading data to CWOP or other APRS networks.
released October 7, 2018
- improves handling of failed HTTP/HTTPS transmissions. Retries do now work more reliable and more retries can be selected than before.
released October 4, 2018
- new algorithm to compute rain rate for WeatherFlow stations
released October 2, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: improves handling of logger restarts when no data coming in. This should solve the repetitive "/dev/ttyMH" erros shown in the logs.
released October 1, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug when generating an export file for data of a year in hourly resolution. Formerly the export of data got stuck in an endless loop when reaching the boundary where winter time skips to summer time. This resulted into filling up of all disk space and a stalled export process.
- slightly increases longitude and latitude precision when using CWOP weather network or other APRS services. We removed a not so appropriate rounding in the formula used for coordinate transformation.
- fixes a bug on recording rainfall data when using a WeatherFlow station.
released September 22, 2018
- blocks admin web interface until Meteobridge is fully started. This is to avoid confusing error messages on admin interface caused by some mandatory processes not yet started.
- improves screen build-up on "weather station" tab, when Davis Vantage selected.
- fixes evaluation of template variable "MMM" to "Sep" in month September instead of "Sept".
released September 16, 2018
- adds AWEKAS support for soil temp sensor when using Meteostick or Meteobridge PRO red.
released September 15, 2018
- prevents WOW update interval to flip back from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.
released September 13, 2018
- adds option to upload data every 5 minutes to WOW network (formerly shortest interval was 10 minutes).
- updates logo for AWEKAS weather network.
- fixes a bug where on some platforms it needs a reboot to have the change of HTTP password reflected. Synchronized SSH password does change immediately.
- frees Vantage console out of RX-Test mode after power cycle in order to start data logging.
released September 11, 2018
- fixing a bug on station page when selecting Davis stations. The bug did show config dialog of transmitters even when this section was not marked.
- refactoring of some code sections, hopefully without introduction of new bugs.
- reflects migration of "WeatherForYou" to "PWS Weather". Uploads stay as they are, it just a renaming on the web interface.
released August 31, 2018
- adds reporting of low battery status of indoor and outdoor sensor to ambient weather network.
released August 29, 2018
- adapts to forced HTTPS data uploads PreviMeteo decided to use for the upload URL shortly.
released August 27, 2018
- fixes a freshly introduced bug that prevents web cam pictures to be uploaded to the Meteobridge server.
released August 26, 2018
- adds feature to transfer rain totals for day, month, year from Davis Vantage/Vue console to Meteobridge. Not supported on Meteobridge PRO.
- adds feature to transfer min/max data of some sensors from Davis Vantage/Vue console to Meteobridge. This is recommended for initial setup only as it might result into inconsistencies (thb0seapress data is provided, but no thb0press data) and it will also erase date/time stamps for those sensors as the console does not provide date/time stamps for all min/max values). Not supported on Meteobridge PRO.
- Meteobridge NANO: adds a feature to compensate for heating-up the console a bit by the NANO plug-in. This results into higher indoor temp readings as they actual are. An offset to compensate for that can be specified in Fahrenheit or Celsius. Recommended value is -6° Fahrenheit.
released August 25, 2018
- adds support for HTTPS URLs for grabbing web cam pictures.
released August 24, 2018
- improves handling of min/max time stamps. In case sensor is not there a request for the timestamp of a min/max event does now correctly default to the replacement string.
- Meteobridge PRO: adds "[sun0total-daysum.2:0.0]" to realtime.txt template in order to support 3rd party sunshine sensors for Davis Vantage.
released August 17, 2018
- some changes in handling data coming in over a TCP/IP socket connection. This should reduce logger disconnect/connect cycles when being connected with a Davis WLIP device.
- skips an demanded updating of Davis console time/date when difference is less than 60 seconds. This helps to reduce write cycles on flash storage in Davis console.
released August 15, 2018
- fixes a bug that Davis console initialization remains incomplete when all setup options are selected.
- adds a feature to set logging interval of the Davis data logger. This interval is meaningless for Meteobridge operation (as Meteobridge does not rely on the Davis logger) but might be interesting, when a PC connects directly via port 22222 to the Davis logger.
released August 14, 2018
- improves Davis console initialization code to better handle when console is in manual setup mode and does not respond to remote setup commands. In case of a failed remote setup this will be noticed in the "system messages" field.
- adds information about usage of Davis repeaters and retransmit settings of Davis console in "system messages" field.
released August 12, 2018
- support for AWEKAS fast link. When using an AWEKAS subscription-based "station web" service you can upload data in intervals down to every 30 seconds. All you need is to set the corresponding mark and to add your individual fastlink key to the AWEKAS credentials on your Meteobridge "weather network" tab.
- adapts Davis Vantage forecast text regarding expected North directed wind shifts, which need to be directed to the South when station is located on the south globe.
released July 26, 2018
- fixes a bug on platforms TL-MR3020v3 and TL-WR902AC that inhibited to make use of a bridged device on the Meteobridge LAN port by Meteobridge itself. Example: Meteobridge is connected via WiFi to your LAN and has a webcam directly connected to its LAN port. So far on TL-MR3020v3 and TL-WR902AC this webcam has been connected with the LAN fine (when bridge mode on Meteobridge is enabled on "Network" tab) but Meteobridge itself was not able to connect to it (while every other device in your LAN could). This bug is fixed now. Please note that only the mentioned new platforms have been impacted by that.
released July 20, 2018
- switches over to a new latitude/longitude reference web page on "system" tab as the former one was restricted to certain countries in the course of GDPR.
- fixes a newly introduced bug in the twitter services.
released July 8, 2018
- adds a calibration factor for wind speed on "weather station" page. Please use this option with care and only when you are sure the factor does really apply. It is much better to reposition your anemometer or to live with lower wind readings when anemometer cannot be positioned better.
released July 6, 2018
- gives more timeout tolerance for manually defined HTTP uploads at "Services" tab. This allows to better handle slow DNS resolution or weak Internet connections.
released July 1, 2018
- adds mapping of sensors to transmitter IDs to the Davis configuration dialog. This dialog should now provide all settings needed to even configure an Envoy without the need to use the Davis PC program.
released June 27, 2018
- increases limit of translated sentences in Meteobridge to 1200.
released June 26, 2018
- incorporates code for new Meteobridge NANO
- fixes a bug that prevents to find out location data from the IP
- adds support for Lufft Ventus V200A station
- adds setup menu on "Weather Station" when Davis Vantage Pro2 or Vue is selected. This is extremely handy when you cannot reach the Davis console physically or if your have a Davis Envoy and don't want to use the Davis PC program to have those settings applied. Following settings can be done:
- date and time as received from the Internet
- longitude, latitude, timezone and altitude based on the settings specified within the Meteobridge
- rain collector size (also rain season start as defined by Meteobridge)
- wind cup size (for Vantage Pro2 only)
- display modes for console regarding time and date format
Version 3.6
released June 9, 2018
- some minor internal changes
released June 3, 2018
- adds a feature on "live data" tab to define non primary sensors as being ignored. Those will not provide any data to weather network uploads. Ignored sensors are displayed in grey.
released May 30, 2018
- fixes a bug that prevents TL-MR3020v3 from connecting to WLAN if that is not on channel 6.
released May 13, 2018
- removed weather network "Weather Bug" which has been announced to be shutdown on end May 2018.
released May 8, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes bug regarding "ydaymin" and "ydaymax" values on first day of a month.
- some internal code adjustments to be prepared for new hardware.
released April 13, 2018
- fixes a buffer overrun causing a segmentation violation when sending data to HOMEWEATHERSTATION template.
- fixes wrong retry settings for HOMEWEATHERSTATION upload.
released April 9, 2018
- fixes a wind chill bug for Fine Offset stations WH1080, WH3080 and alike.
released April 5, 2018
- adapts to a new authentication for windguru (salted hash) and fixes the shortly popping up "hash error" on "weather network" tab when having windguru selected.
- Meteobridge PRO: better balances file storage between RAM and Flash to give Meteobridge PRO a few more MB of RAM headroom.
released March 31, 2018
- fixes a minor bug which throws a "file open" error on "system" tab.
released March 28, 2018
- todays release of a new firmware version (1.3) for TP-Link MR3020 V3 ** WHICH NOW ALSO SUPPORTS WIFI ** gives Meteobridge a cheap, capable and world-wide available Meteobridge platform for years to come. Compared to the legacy MR3020 we have double the ROM/RAM and we don't no longer need any USB hubs in order to have a USB weather station connected. When you had a former Meteobridge firmware installed on MR3020 V3 we strongly recommend to upgrade to the new one. Doing so will need to have your license adapted. Please contact "info(at)meteobridge.com" by providing the MAC of your unit, we will swap the license to the newly flashed MR3020 V3. Please visit hardware section to understand how to flash a MR3020 V3 and where to find the firmware image.
released March 11, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: optimizes memory usage to better support large sensor array setups.
- some minor additions to Dutch language support
released March 10, 2018
- adds template variable expressions "[mbsystem-primarysensors:]" and "[mbsystem-noprimarysensors:]" to control inside a template if "0" sensors (like th0, wind0, rain0, etc) should be replaced by sensors defined on "Live Data" tab as primary or taken literally. The mentioned template expressions are evaluated to the empty string and thereby do nothing directly in your template but control how variables are evaluated as a side effect.
- Centrally hosted upload template for "Hetweeractuel" has been updated to use primary sensors: http://templates.meteobridge.com/hetweeractueel.template
released March 4, 2018
- fixes a factor 10 bug on solar radiation measurement for WH2308 / 4000 weather stations.
released March 3, 2018
- adds new sensor type "lgt" for handling lightning events as provided by WeatherFlow AIR station. "lgt0dist" return distance in kilometers, "lgt0energy" the strength of the strike and "lgt0total" number of lightning strikes for a given time period. Template section of the wiki has also been updated accordingly.
released February 28, 2018
- adds weather network "Meteoagro NET"
released February 24, 2018
- adds full support for WeatherFlow AIR and SKY stations. Although these stations are part of your LAN/WLAN Meteobridge does not need to know their IP. This is a cool feature made possible by the station that sends data out as UDP broadcasts. Backside of this very convenient technique is, that the data cannot be routed and by that Meteobridge cannot connect to a WeatherFlow station outside the local LAN/WLAN.
- adds a feature to address the sensors marked on "Live Data" tab as primary in template definitions. Please read details here...
Since version 3.6 Meteobridge also supports selection of a sensor which has been defined on "Live Data" tab as primary. When no primary selection has been made all the "0" sensors (like "th0temp", "wind0wind", etc) are primary by default. But when you select "th3temp" as primary sensor and by that its data is reported as your stations outdoor temperature to all the weather networks, then you can now also select the primary sensor in your template definitions by selecting it as the "*" sensor. For example: "th*temp" selects the sensors defined as the primary outdoor temp sensor. When you use "[th*temp-act:--]" you get the current temperature of your primary outdoor temp sensor. This will be a synonym to "[th0temp-act:--] as long as you have not selected another sensor as primary outdoor temp sensor. But when you have selected "th3temp" to be the primary outdoor temp sensor, then "th*temp" will reference to "th3temp" instead of "th0temp". Please be aware that Meteobridge versions before version 3.6 will fail to evaluate "*" sensors. Therefore, it is recommended to provide both notations in a template and to make use of the conditional evaluation as explained in a later chapter. Here is an example that takes "th0temp" as default outdoor sensor on older Meteobridge versions and newer "th*temp" notation on current ones: #if{*[mbsystem-swversion:1.0]>=3.6*}#then#outdoor temp: [th*temp-act:--]°C#else#outdoor temp: [th0temp-act:--]°C#fi#
released February 23, 2018
- fixes a bug that requests a USB hub to be used with TL-MR3020v3, which is not necessary to use a USB hub.
- improves timeout handling on testing credentials for weather networks on "Weather Networks" tab.
released February 22, 2018
- fixes a bug preventing from remote login on Meteobridge on TP-Link WR902AC and MR3020v3.
released February 18, 2018
- fixes a newly introduced bug that halted WS600 data recording
released February 16, 2018
- initial support for new WeatherFlow AIR station. Support for SKY station still pending.
- updates WS600 driver to also operate on wind only sensors. Furthermore, it now just reports once on missing sensors for station WS600.
Version 3.5
released February 11, 2018
- adds a "reset" button on "Live Data" tab which allows to reset manual sensor mapping.
released February 9, 2018
- fixes a freshly introduced bug that inhibits template variable "mbsystem-ip" to be correctly evaluated.
- fixes a SFTP upload problem.
released February 8, 2018
- fixes a bug the inhibits Meteobridge to prepare list of "known SSIDs".
released February 6, 2018
- fixes a shortly introduced bug that consumes too much file handles. Bug did throw error "Too many open files" in message section on "system" tab.
- Meteobridge PRO: improves handling of LEDs and display when doing a shut down.
released February 5, 2018
- fixes a bug with TL-WR902AV that has prevented from using LAN bridging mode when connected via WiFi.
- Meteobridge PRO: Adds feature to nest two levels of template variable replacement. Please read details how this works and what it can be good for here.
released February 3, 2018
- fixes a bug on TL-WR902AC platform that has limited WiFi operation to 5 GHz only.
- improves scan for existing WiFi by also showing RF band (2.4 GHz vs 5 GHz) in addition to SSID and signal strength.
released January 28, 2018
- Support for version 3 hardware of the TL-MR3020 from TP-Link has been added. This support does come with two caveats:
- As we are lacking reliable working Open Source WiFi drivers for this new device, Meteobridge can currently offer LAN operation only. It remains unclear if/when this limit can be lifted.
- The stock firmware only accepts updates of TP-Link signed updates. By that the Meteobridge firmware cannot be flashed to the device by the web interface. To work around this you have to setup of a TFTP server on your PC that provides the Meteobridge firmware for flashing. Flashing itself is easy, but it needs you to setup the TFTP server first.
- You find a description how to flash the MR3020v3 in the "Preparing Hardware" section and can have a look at the hardware details of this new platform in "hardware" section. First tests indicate that this version 3 of the MR3020 does no longer need a USB hub to connect to the weather stations, which is nice. As Meteobridge support for MR3020v3 is brand new, there will for sure still be some bugs. We are happy when you report those in the forum, so that we can get rid of them fast. As with all new ports, please be a bit patient if it takes a few days until an issue is solved.
released January 27, 2018
- some minor bug fixes on the new Meteobridge release for TL-WR902AC platform.
- fixes a bug with the firmware download links on "Preparing Hardware" page.
- adds Turkish language option and improves Dutch language support.
released January 24, 2018
- New hardware TL-WR902AC from TP-Link has been added to the list of supported devices. "Hardware" section and "Preparing Hardware" section are updated and explain how to flash these devices. The WR902 offers twice the RAM and Flash-ROM compared to MR3020, which makes developing SW for it a bit more relaxed. Feature-wise Meteobridge on this device is identical to all the other non-pro Meteobridge platforms. While WR902AC is able to operate on the 5 GHz band Meteobridge is currently only operating in the standard 2.4 GHz Band. This shouldn't be an issue as there are rarely any 5 GHz only WLANs and 2.4 GHz has anyway better RF reach and we don't really need top speed for Meteobridge operation. If the WR902AC also needs a USB hub to connect to USB 1.x weather stations is not known yet. It also has an Atheros chip, but it is another model and may be the drivers for this model do it right now... we 'll see. The port to WR902AC made switching from openwrt to lede on OS level necessary, so we had to setup a complete new compile chain. Therefore, the port might still have some bugs. If you discover some bugs, please report and please be a bit patient if fixing takes a few days. Currently the WR902AC is sold as hardware revision 1.x. You can see from the TP-Link pages that they are preparing to release a version 3 model, which seems to use different hardware. So take your chance to get a version 1 WR902AC which are widely available on world-wide level right now.
released January 21, 2018
- fixed a reset issue of TL-MR3040
- improves handling of wind max gust speeds for weather network Meteotemplate.
released January 11, 2018
- further improvements on WMR-300 driver
released January 11, 2018
- fixes a newly invented serial console kernel driver issue for Davis USB loggers for WL-330N3G platforms.
released January 10, 2018
- fixes an freshly introduced bug in regard to handling negative wind chill temperatures for WMR-300 station
- reduces pointless writing of same sensor values into internal storage every few seconds for WMR-300 weather station. Now data in Meteobridge is only updated when sensor data has changed or 50 seconds have passed. By that storage consumption is reduced without compromising on tracking fast sensor data changes.
- adds support for Oregon Scientific low budget weather station WMR-89. Support is still experimental, but we have been asked many times to support this station, which we now do :-)
released January 8, 2018
- fixes some bugs in the WMR-300 low level driver, which made reporting of sensors unstable in certain situations.
released January 3, 2018
- Meteobridge PRO: updates chart engine to latest version (3.21.12). This fixes a specific chart bug (shown in the picture on the right) that can show up when using the Chrome browser in combination with line charts.
- Meteobridge PRO: Does show size and free space of backup media when initiating a backup. Messages section on "System" tab will provide this information.
released January 2, 2018
- adds "MMM" template variable to report month as English three letter abbreviation ("Jan", "Feb", etc).
- adds multiplier to template variable converter. For example: Converter "F10" reports temperature in degrees Fahrenheit multiplied by 10. That way template variables can report current outdoor temp in 1/10 of degrees Fahrenheit ("th0temp-act=F10") or daily rain fall in 1/100 inch ("rain0total-sumday=in100").
- These features allow to generate CWOP/wxnow.txt (http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Wxnow.txt) data strings as follows:
Feb 01 2009 12:34 272/010g006t069r010p030P020h61b10150
Corresponding template definition looks like this:
[MMM] [DD] [YYYY] [hh]:[mm]\n [wind0dir-act.000:...]/[wind0avgwind-act=mph.000:...]g[wind0wind-max10=mph.000:...] t[th0temp-act=F.000:...]r[rain0total-sum1h=in100.000:...]p[rain0total-sum24h=in100.000:...] P[rain0total-sumday=in100.000:...]h#if#{*[th0hum-act.0:0]==100*}#then#00#else#[th0hum-act.00:..]#fi# b[thb0seapress-act=hpa10.00000:.....]
We got notice that TP-Link rolled out a new hardware version of the TL-MR3020. The new units cannot be flashed with Meteobridge firmware. You can identify these version 3 devices by the sticker on the packaging telling you that it is a version 3 model and by the new TP-Link logo and the "300Mbps" text on the front of the device. There is a posting in the forum that gives you even more details why these units cannot be used with Meteobridge right now.
released December 27, 2017
- fixes a bug sometimes impacting restore of settings on "System" tab.
released December 18, 2017
- increases handling of partly not available gust speed at weather station WMR-300.
released December 13, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: Allows a clean and save shut down by pressing the reset button (behind the pinhole) until vertical status bar has scrolled down completely and "Shut Down" appears on the display. Now button can be released. When red LED is turned off, system is powered down and can be unplugged from power without risk of data being damaged on the USB storage. It will need a power cycle to start again.
- Meteobridge PRO: A "Shut Down" button has been placed next to the "Reboot" button on "System" tab. Pressing it gives you a warning that it will need physical access to the device to get it started again. Confirming that, the shutdown will happen.
released December 11, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes erroneous "license update period expiration" messages on "System tab".
released December 9, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: adds delete option for newly introduced email attachments. Deletion of the attached file is only performed, when email was sent out successfully.
released December 8, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a feature to send charts and export files as email attachments.
Version 3.4
released December 4, 2017
- fixes a bug that prevents from uploading data to weather network idokep.
- allows to read data from webcams in PNG and JPG format (previously only JPG was allowed)
released December 3, 2017
- adds internal temp and humidity readings to idokep weather network
- reduces maximum RF sensitivity for Meteostick readings to -95db. More sensitive settings have turned out to be useless as they pickup too much RF noise to give a reliable reading of data.
released November 27, 2017
- improves error reporting on failed HTTP requests
released November 26, 2017
- fixes a bug that stalls the data logger when some weather network details left empty (like WU ID).
released November 19, 2017
- fixes a red mark error on "weather network" tab when using Home Weather Station. Previous fix has not been effective in all situations.
- renames Meteostick RF bandwidth options from "narrow / normal / wide" to "direct / via console". "direct" (which corresponds to formerly "narrow") has to be used when receiving data directly from the Davis sensors or from an external Davis repeater. When packets retransmitted from the Davis console should be read, option "via console" has to be used. This is identical to formerly used option "normal". Option "wide" has been dropped, as it has shown not to be useful in Davis RF context.
- adds support for "webcam.io" service, which users might use as replacement for to be terminated "Weather Underground Camera" service. Just setup a FTP cam upload service within Meteobridge and give this as path:
ftp://user:password@ftp.webcam.io:21/mycam-[YYYY][MM][DD]-[hh][mm].jpg
Prerequisite is that you have setup a free test account at webcam.io as explained here: www.webcam.io
released November 16, 2017
- fixes a sensor mapping error for th70 when using Davis sensors in combination with Meteobridge PRO or Meteostick.
- fixes a red mark error on "weather network" tab when using Home Weather Station setup with "mb.php" script located in subfolder "mbridge".
- Meteobridge PRO: improves handling of "database reconstruct" option by pausing data logging of sensor data just being reconstructed.
released November 4, 2018
- fixes email send functions so that quote characters (") can be sent.
- provides new HTML option to send HTML formatted emails. Below you see a definition of a HTML email in the Meteobridge "Subject # Body" notation and on the right you see how the resulting HTML email looks like. Images can also be included by HTML <img> references. Direct inclusion of images into the email is not supported.
todays temp at [hh]:[mm]#<body><table border="1"> <tr><td>current temp</td><td>[th0temp-act:--]°C</td></tr> <tr><td>min temp</td><td>[th0temp-dmin:--]°C</td></tr> <tr><td>max temp</td><td>[th0temp-dmax:--]°C</td></tr> </table></body>
released October 26, 2017
- fixes a bug on handling single quotes in camera overlay strings
relased October 24, 2017
- fixes a bug regarding ok/error mark for alarm events on "Live Data" tab.
- better handles slow down issue of some observerip models and avoids wrong selection of measurement units.
released October 14, 2017
- limits event history to 30 lines, but allows to show full history (up to 4000 bytes in total) when clicking onto upload status indicator. Event history will show-up in a new window.
released October 12, 2017
- adds event history to each of the upload services listed in upper section of "Live Data" tab. When mouse is moved over the upload status indicator a list of last upload events is shown.
released October 11, 2017
- does up to 3 retries on sending SMS. This handles spare situations where contact to SMS service does fail on first attempt caused by routing or Internet time out problems.
- Meteobridge PRO: enhances "@YYYY" addressing schema to be used with template variables. When "YYYY" is not defining a valid year but is in the range of "0000" to "0010" then "0000" is interpreted as the current year, "0001" as the previous year and so on. In that situation the 4 digit number expresses how many years to skip into the past. These skips need to be in 4-digit style, leading zeros are not allowed to be omitted.
- Meteobridge PRO: more robust execution of database repair tasks.
- fixes bug in testing HTTPS connections on "Weather Networks" tab for services "Meteotemplate" and "Home Weather Station".
- fixes a bug with Oregon WMR-300 station in regard how to handle wind chill computation when primary outdoor temp/hum sensor does not deliver data.
released September 30, 2017
- fixes a bug that stalls SFTP uploads on DIR-505 platform
released September 29, 2017
- adds SFTP upload option. This supports password protected SFTP upload only (no key based upload). SFTP upload services can be selected like FTP upload, parameters are the same. Implementation is still regarded beta. FTPS (aka FTP via TLS) is not supported. An option to test a SFTP connections is added at the bottom of the "services" tab.
- more nicely adapts HTTP timeout settings to given send intervals. This means tighter timeouts are applied for rapid sending and more relaxed timeout apply when data is sent just every 30 seconds or even less often. Maximum timeout is 13 seconds. A URL not answering in that interval can be regarded broken (even on slow cellular networks).
released September 22, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: allows to upload files via admin web interface to SMB folders "charts, "templates", "scripts" and "export". Simply browse to "http://ip-of-your-meteobridge/upload.html" and select folder and file to upload.
released September 21, 2017
- adds weather network "Wetterring". All you need is an ID key from Wetterring and you can easily upload data in user-defined intervals to the "Wetterring" network "http://www.wetterring.com". Main focus of Wetterring is Austria and Switzerland.
released September 10, 2017
- does no longer report temperature as dew point when humidity is at 0%. Behavior is altered, so that no dew point value is reported, when humidity is at 0%. This is because there is no dew point without humidity. When you urgently need some kind of dew point even when your humidity sensor reports zero, you can adapt humidity stretch as follows. A value of "0" will then be mapped to "1".
We got notice that TP-Link changed the NOR flash storage in some of the newer hardware batches named Rev 1.9 (see picture on the right) of the MR3020. Unfortunately, this chip is not supported by the Linux kernel we use in our current Meteobridge firmware and the unit will not boot. But we were lucky enough to patch the kernel this evening, so that the new chip is now recognized and Meteobridge firmware in new version 1.5 is now doing well again. For those who flashed one of the impacted MR3020 with Meteobridge firmware 1.4 the sad message is, that the unit is bricked. I just posted an instruction in the forum how to resurrect the device without opening it, but it is more for the hardcore techie: http://forum.meteohub.de/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=12318&p=23502#p23502
released August 17, 2017
- adds template variables "daylengthmin", "civillengthmin", "nauticallengthmin" which report length of shortest day (December 21) of the current year at the given longitude/latitude.
- adds template variables "daylengthmax", "civillengthmax", "nauticallengthmax" which report length of longest day (June 21) of the current year at the given longitude/latitude.
- adds converters "secs", "mins", "hours" to be applied to daylength results. Converter returns a floting point number that defines the time period in seconds, munites or hours instead of the standard "HH:MM" format. This makes it more easy to to math between time durations. Example: Template string "{* [mbsystem-daylengthmax=mins.0] - [mbsystem-daylength=mins.0] *0}" returns number of minutes the current day is shorter than longest day of the year.
- adds an option to specify number of leading zeros when using decimals specifier. "{*([mbsystem-daylengthmax=mins.0]-[mbsystem-daylength=mins.0])/60*00t}:{*([mbsystem-daylengthmax=mins.0]-[mbsystem-daylength=mins.0])%60*00t}" returns lost daytime compared to longest day of the year in "HH:MM" notation. "*00t}" sets output to 2 digits filled up with leading zeros ("00") if necessary and does not do rounding but cuts of decimals ("t").
Version 3.3
released August 13, 2017
- fixes bug that skips first rain data reading when stations rain counter has been reset to zero. This especially happened when using Davis Envoy8x.
- allows for up to 10 external temp/hum sensors when using Oregon WMR-200 station.
released August 2, 2017
- corrects solar radiation values for WH-2310 / 4000 stations to better match display data.
- handles return messages of weather networks in more secure way.
released July 27, 2017
- adds upload of monthly and yearly rain totals to ambient weather network support.
released July 26, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that breaks chart generation when a sensor used in the chart is disabled on "live data" tab.
released July 20, 2017
- improves reset handling of USB port when connected to Fine Offset 2310 / 4000 weather stations.
released July 11, 2017
- adds support for additional external temp sensor (channel 101) when using station Lufft WS600.
- fixes bugs on Fine Offset 3210 / 4000 implementation.
- fixes a bug where Meteoplug cloud service might show false sea level pressures in certain situations.
- adds heat index to WeatherCloud uploads.
released July 8, 2017
- fixes a bug in support of weather station Fine Offset 2310 / 4000 that blocked data logging once a USB CRC error has occurred.
released July 4, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug related to chart generation when using time frame "last quarter".
released Juli 3, 2017
- adds support for Fine Offset 2310 / 4000 weather stations, which are also rebranded as "Tycon TP2700".
released Juli 2, 2017
- applies non-standard primary sensor settings to HomeWeatherStation uploads. Changing primary sensors on live data tab did not had an effect on which sensors were used for feeding HomeWeatherStation uploads. With the new release, this is taken into account as with the other weather networks.
released July 1, 2017
- adds an option to send true rain rate data to WU instead of cumulated rain of last 60 minutes. Default Meteobridge upload of cumulated rain is in line with WU specification but some users requested to see rain data on WU as on their console. This can now be realized by setting the switch to "alternative rain rate".
released June 19, 2017
- removes user-defined retries for weather network ambientweather.net to spare server bandwidth.
released June 18, 2017
- improves algorithm to compute station pressure from SLP as reported by Vantage. Normally, Meteobridge directly requests station pressure from Vantage by means of LOOP2 protocol. But there might be situations where Vantage console is on old firmware level (below 1.9) not supporting LOOP2 or when Meteobridge acts as a slave to a PC weather program emulating a WLIP device and by that might not get LOOP2 packets. Please understand that back computation of station pressure from SLP is not perfect as average humidity and temperature of last 12h hours is not avail to Meteobridge. When you are operating in higher altitudes be prepared that some variation will occur. You can compensate by pressure adjustments on "station" tab.
released June 14, 2017
- fixes time triggers "before each new year", "before each new month" and non-PRO Meteobridges (PROs did not had the reported problem).
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug uploading export data via FTP. Latest export file is now available as "export:lastexport.txt" or "export:lastexport.exp" and a bug when using full qualified inline FTP credentials has been fixed.
Version 3.2
released May 29, 2017
- includes all changes until this point in time into release 3.2 which is the base release available for all licensed systems, regardless if 2 years of free update support has passed or not.
- adds HomeWeatherStation support on "weather network" tab to make it most easy to use.
released May 26, 2017
- adds template variable "epoch" which returns current date/time as unsigned integer in Unix style (seconds since January 1, 1970).
- Meteobridge PRO: changes OLED screen saver to show two moving vertical lines when active. Screen saver pauses a few seconds and shows original content when lines do meet in the middle of the screen. Moving lines avoid having the false impression that display is completely off.
released May 19, 2017
- fixes a bug that falsely reports that Meteotemplate URL is malformed.
released May 14, 2017
- adapts error handling to changes in return messages of weather network previmeteo.
- adds some checks on providing correct API URL when feeding Meteotemplate sites.
released May 7, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug (introduced with previous version) that impacted classical display loop templates.
released May 6, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes another OLED driver bug that tends to show first screen of loop after loop has been finished.
final 3.2 version released May 6, 2017
- introduces limited time frame for update support. Free updates are available for first 2 years after license purchase. Having passed that period an update license that covers another two years of free update service can be purchased for 19 Euros. Purchase can be made within the Meteobridge application via a PayPal button. Being out of update services users will stick to their current version, which will stay operational. Bug fixing and trouble shooting will focus on new versions, there are no plans on back-porting bug fixes or deploying new features to older versions. Meteobridge PROs are not subject of these changes, they still get all updates for free.
released April 30, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes start/stop issue of OLED driver and improves CPU efficiency of OLED driver code.
- Meteobridge PRO: improves "once" display scripts to erase static screen content (like smartbedded intro logo) when triggered. This helps to render screen black after each round of displaying weather data.
released April 28, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: improves display operation. While default display scripts show weather data on the display in a loop for a period of 5 minutes, there are now script variants available that run throw the loop only one time and switch off display after that. These variants end with "once" in the drop-down list, where you select the display scripts. When you trigger these scripts every 2 minutes, you get about 40 seconds of data being displayed, then display goes off and starts again displaying data when 2 minutes are passed. This helps reducing screen wear-out while still providing you with data on the display.
released April 26, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug related to display operations.
released April 22, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: switches OLED into sleep mode after 5 minutes of inactivity. After that content is displayed for 3 secs every minute. When new data is sent to the display, it wakes up immediately and 5 minute countdown to sleep starts again. This measure protects display from early wear out. Timeout to sleep is hard coded and cannot be changed by the user right now.
released April 12, 2017
- fixes a bug that blocks "weather network" tab on certain conditions, like a freshly setup system.
released April 11, 2017
- fixes a bug regarding "1 minute" uploads for Ambientweather Network.
released April 10, 2017
- adds support for new weather data dashboard from AmbientWeather.
released April 8, 2017
- fixes a bug introduces with previous update, that inhibits selection Vantage stations when using Meteostick.
- adds French language support.
released April 2, 2017
- adds support for Envoy8x additional Soil/Leaf stations to be used by Meteotemplate uploads.
- adds support for Thies Clima Sensor US station (9600 baud, 8N0, ASCII mode, ID=01).
- fixes a bug handling negative temperatures with Rainwise CC3000 console.
released March 29, 2017
- switches to sealevel pressure computation inside Meteobridge, when WS600 station does report identical values for station and sealevel pressure.
released March 22, 2017
- adds Spanish as language option
- fixes a bug related to additional temp sensors in regard to meteotemplate weather service.
released March 13, 2017
- fixes a bug that prevents from selecting "meteotemplate" weather network list.
released March 12, 2017
- fixes a HTTPS related warning when including Meteobridge PRO charts, uploaded to your web server which operates on HTTPS.
- allows to read templates and scripts from HTTPS URLs
- drops complete set of sensor data from FineOffset WH-1080 station and clones, when any data in the record is detected being false.
- adds support for "Jachym"s Meteotemplate, which can now be selected as a standard weather network.
- fixes a bug that slows down WU updates.
released February 18, 2017
- fixes a bug when selecting SSID from drop-down list that includes a colon ":".
- adds support for weather network "agroclima".
- fixes a bug when using CWOP and APRS services in parallel.
released February 11, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug in handling local timezone for charting purposes.
released February 5, 2017
- fixes a bug in handling wind direction from Acurite Aculink devices.
released February 4, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a function on "History" tab that starts a complete reconstruction of the database from the recorded hourly values. This helps in situations, when time zone has changed and as a result higher level aggregated data for days, months, etc will not have the correct time stamps anymore. The reconstruction will take some time and during that period storing new data will delayed until reconstruction has finished. Per minute data for the last hours will be lost by performing this operation. Progress of reconstruction will be reflected in messages section of "System" tab.
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a deficiency, that database process can run into a failure loop, when some database tables are missing (because sensors might have been deleted on "History" tab). When this happens now, one error message will be reported and database table will be setup again to allow next operation on that sensor to be successful.
- Meteobridge PRO: adds an adjustable boot delay. This allows the Meteobridge PRO to wait 1 to 5 minutes after a restart before reaching out to the Internet. Optional boot delay can be adjusted on "System" tab.
- summarizes repeating entries from the logger process in the messages section of "System" tab.
- fixes a bug that did no correctly handle events "before" and "after" day break. Time stamps used for collecting associated data were not correctly used.
released January 29, 2017
- fixes a bug that resets timezone to UTC when doing a reboot that forces to start in "LAN DHCP client" mode. This bug did show correct timezone settings on "system" tab but UTC was actually used.
- avoids redundant messages on "system" tab. Identical follow-up messages are replaced by a repeat notice.
released January 22, 2017
- fixes a frequent disconnect issue when using 3g USB dongles for Internet connectivity.
released January 21, 2017
- fixes a bug that prevents from triggering events bound to a specific time of the day.
released January 17, 2017
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a chart to show sunshine duration in case you have a modified Davis station that has a 3rd party sunshine sensor attached.
- fixes a bug in handling of "no windchill" option on "station" tab (when used with Meteostick or Meteobridge PRO RED).
released December 25, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: better handles RAM database inconsistencies by purging RAM database automatically if needed.
Version 3.1
released December 22, 2016
- fixes a bug regarding "no windchill" option on "weather station" tab. Now, when you select this option wind data gets reported even in case no temp sensor for windchill computation available. Formerly, this only worked for Meteostick operation. Now this feature can be used with all weather stations.
released December 19, 2016
- improves handling of WMR-100 station USB hang-ups.
released December 17, 2016
- fixes a bug when evaluating "wind0dir-valX" template variables on non-PRO Meteobridges
released December 3, 2016
- fixes a "running out of RAM" problem when using meteoplug cloud service.
- fixes a bug when FTP file names are specified with a trailing blank.
released November 26, 2016
- fixes a bug related to Weather4You.
- add version 3.1 to the list of versions to manually stick at.
released November 19, 2016
- expands set of characters that can be used in SMS messages.
released November 16, 2016
- hotfix that prevents from filling up ram disk with temporary test messages. This makes Meteobridge stall/reboot after a while.
released November 13, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes time frame selection for graphing on a weekly level
- some internal SW redesigns
released October 30, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug related to change of daylight saving. This bug could make database synchronization to run into an endless loop and blocking storage of incoming data.
- Meteobridge PRO: adds new heatmap charts for comparing temperature of a sequence of days.
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a feature on "System" tab to force a complete database rebuild during start.
released October 24, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes some bugs with allinone chart templates
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a new tempminmax chart template to display min/max temperature values
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a new allinoneminmax chart template that works like "allinone" but display min/max data which is suitable when looking for summary data on daily and monthly level. This charts show min, average and max values in the legend and also presents balloon data including date/time of min max data when moving the mouse to one of the data sets. As with all Meteobridge PRO charts, they are based on Javascript, which is embedded into a regular HTML file that can be uploaded to your server and can be presented there by iframing.
- Meteobridge PRO: reflects selection of sensors to be used as primary sensors from "Live Data" tab when plotting charts.
- Meteobridge PRO: changes execution of export data generation which should now handle parallel triggering events with successive FTP uploads of lastexport files fine.
released October 20, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: Redesign of lastchart handling to make sure chart generations executed at the same time and which triggered FTP upload events are handled the right way to avoid mixing up the order of execution. When changes have proven being bug free, same will be applied for handling data export events which currently can't be executed at the same time in parallel.
released October 19, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: Making use of automated chart generation and upload should now be fully supported. As there occured a few questions how to use it, I give an example on the right. As you can see, event #6 generates every full hour a chart of todays data just before the new hour shows up. This triggers event #7 which uploads the generated html chart to a web server and gives it the name "daychart-(year)-(month)-(day).html". Current data for year, month, day is inserted by means of "gnu c strftime" function, which defines "%Y" as year, "%m" as month, and "%d" as day. After successful upload, the local file on the Meteobridge PRO is deleted, as indicated by the "Delete file" mark.
released October 17, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: minor bug fixes related to the introduced chart feature.
released October 16, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: initial support for generating charts. Feature is still beta, feedback from users is highly welcome. Charts can be defined on "Graphs" tab, where time period, resolution, language and chart type can be selected. Meteobridge shows chart inline and provides two URLs, where the chart can be accessed. "local URL" works in your LAN, while "remote URL" allows you to access it from the Internet, when you have remote access enabled. Charts can also be generated on "Services" tab in a periodical manner. Charts are stored as html pages in "charts" folder, which can be accessed as Meteobridge PC network folder. FTP Upload of charts is also supported, by which you can make these accessible on your web server. "chart:lastchart" mechanics can be used for an FTP upload triggered by making the chart (this works analogous to the "lastexport" item when uploading export files). There is only one chart defined right now (allinone) in iso and imperial flavor, but more to come. Chart definitions are located in "templates" folder and have extension ".chart". Meteobridge charts are based on the "amcharts.com" package which smartbedded has licensed in a redistributable way. Nevertheless, please be aware that you are not allowed to used the included chart libs for purposes outside Meteobridge. Meteobridge charts are interactive, you can select and deselect data, you can modify the time line, and much more. You find a chart generated by my Meteobridge PRO here. Feel free to inspect it.
released October 13, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a shortly introduced bug throwing errors in system log when uploading WD Live data packets.
released October 10, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug where wind direction is not provided correctly in the database.
released October 8, 2016
- supports additional SMTP authentication schema "plain" to allow i.e. use of godaddy smtp server.
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that prevents from exporting per minute data for last 30 hours.
released October 7, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug on rebuilding data base on demand.
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug when deleting all sensor data from data base for a given time period.
released October 3, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes some bugs around manual editing of values in database.
released October 2, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: removes no longer used per minute data from USB database during database initialization on startup.
released October 1, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: improvements on internal database handling.
- fixes issue that sometimes "no Internet connection" is displayed instead of WAN IP on "System" tab.
- fixes issue that provider and IP-based location determination was no longer functional as data provider has changed return format.
- adds support for Ubiquiti cams with firmware 3.4
released September 28, 2016
- minor bug fixes
released September 25, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: adds a feature that allows to turn off meteobridge display a) always or b) during night or c) during a manually specified period of the day/night.
- fixes a bug introduced with September 23 update, that prevents storing th0temp data for building average/minimum/maximum values for shortly passed periods (th0temp-avg5, th0temp-min5, etc).
released September 23, 2016
- adds support for sun shine duration sensors for Davis Vantage as sold by "weerhuisje.nl" and "weatherstations.co.uk". You need a Meteostick or a Meteobridge PRO to make use of this feature. It adds a new station type item "Sunshine Station" to select and provides a new sensor variable "sun0total" which sums up hours of sunshine on daily, monthly, yearly level.
- adds support for Ambient Weather Observer IP WS-900 weather station
released September 12, 2016
- maps soil temperature sensor of Acurite Aculink bridge to sensor IDs "t?temp" where "?" is a number starting at 10.
- pushes date of pure temp sensors with IDs "t10temp" until "t13temp" as soil temperature to weatherunderground. This allows non Davis stations to also report soil temperatures as Acurite Aculink bridge, for example.
- better support of Davis leaf stations with Meteostick.
released August 24, 2016
- fixes a bug that an event which is triggered by another event might be started in reverse order.
- fixes handling of return messages from WOW weather network.
- fixes a bug that does not correctly start/stop logging process after making changes on "station" tab. This could have produced database locks on Meteobridge PRO systems.
- adds time control for periodic data exports to be triggered before or after a full hour, day, month, year has been started. Example: This allows to export all data of the current day just before day has passed (option: "before day break"). To be precise, this service is triggered when the day has just passed but data taken into account is limited to the day that has just passed. This makes definition of services that intend to export data of completed days/months/years more easy and straight forward.
- adds option to FTP upload service, that allows to automatically delete the file from export folder when file has been uploaded successfully.
released August 17, 2016
- adds optional retries for HTTP push services. Number of retries depend on send intervals.
Version 3.0
released August 9, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug related to evaluation of template variables with selectors "val", "avg", "sum", "min", "max".
released August 2, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug causing "services" tab to fail when over 300 files are located in export folder.
- Meteobridge PRO: allows to sum up rain data up to 36 hours (has been limited to 24 hours before), "sum30h" will now work.
released August 1, 2016
- fixes a bug related to reading rain totals from Aculink bridge running new firmware.
released July 31 / August 1, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes bugs when using "@" time addresses with template variables, like "rain0total-sum@h12" which returns sum of rain fall during last 12 hours.
- finalized support for new Aculink bridge firmware. Meteobridge does now support old and new Aculink bridge firmware.
released July 29, 2016
- alpha support for new Acurite Aculink bridge data format (still looking for a users bridge to test with)
- larger input field for WOW site ID to better handle the new very long ID token from WOW.
- THB sensors with missing temperature and/or humidity data are no longer added with artificial temp/hum data. Temp/hum information for these sensors are no longer provided (example: On Meteostick variable "thb0hum" is missing and on Acurite Aculink bridge "thb0temp" and/or "thb0hum" are be missing).
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes some bugs on database requests,
- Meteobridge PRO: adds check for RAM database consistency, when database repair option is selected.
released July 21, 2016
- reduces fastest update interval for WOW to 10 minutes, in order to avoid bad packet messages with WOW.
- fixes current changes to final version 3.0 and allows to stick to this version on "system" tab.
- shortest WOW update interval is set to 10 minutes to avoid rejected data transmission.
released July 20, 2016
- fixes LOOP and LPS errors occurring when using Vantage IP data logger.
released July 19, 2016
- fixes a bug related to sending data to windfinder on Asus Meteobridge devices.
released July 15, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: automatically erases database tables lacking data. This will remove sensors from sensor list on "History" tab that don't have any data in the database.
- Meteobridge PRO: reduces database writes when syncing RAM and USB databases on process start.
released July 14, 2016
- increases logging timeout period of 15 secs to 20 secs in order to allow more stable WLIP uploads to Davis weather link server.
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes error messages popping up on early 3.0 version when generating WDL exports.
released July 12, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: massive rework of how data is stored. In essence there now is a pseudo persistent database keeping data in per minute resolution for the last 36 hours and a database in internal USB store that holds data on per hour/day/month/year level forever. Flash wear is reduced by about factor 60 and capacity of 8GB also looks to be overstated as USB database will grow very slowly. As so many code fractions needed to be adapted, there might still be some bugs here and there. Please report bugs to "info(at)meteobridge.com". We expect things going smooth after s short time.
released July 6, 2016
- adds code to terminate stalled logger processes that might keep tcp ports busy.
released July 5, 2016
- fixes SMS sending bug introduced with June 28 release
released July 3, 2016
- makes use of a vector adding method to compute average wind direction. Result is no longer restricted to a fixed number of direction buckets (have been 16 in the past)
- Meteobridge PRO: in order to eliminate the USB flash defects which are likely to occur after a certain time of use, we decided to dramatically reduce update interval of the internal database. Now data is only written every 15 minutes to the internal database. When this works flawless, update interval is planned to be further extended to every hour. As a result database will no longer provide per minute data. Nevertheless, the current 24h data will be available in RAM, so min/max/avg data of last minutes hours can still be computed correctly. RAM data also survives controlled reboots. Impact of stripping away the per minute database representation in regard to template variables is described in the Template section of the wiki.
Version 2.9
released June 28, 2016
- fixes a bug which sometimes stalls https requests and by that blocks all uploading.
- information: Sonotrigger has released an Android app to display Meteobridge data easily and nicely on your smartphone (http://software.sonotrigger.com/)
released June 18, 2016
- minor bug fixes
released June 8, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: changes in the boot process to better handle internal storage setup problems, which might have caused a stall during boot in certain situations.
- Meteobridge PRO: enhancement in "cannot connect" black start page, which now also includes system log and list of running processes.
released June 2, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a sometimes occurring bug in WD-Live exports.
Version 2.8
released May 29, 2016
- fixes bug with "nonzerotime" selector when applied to rain total values (was fine on MB PRO, but wrong on standard Meteobridges).
released May 18, 2016
- fixes a rain sensor issue occurring on some for Davis stations
released May 16, 2016
- fixes a bug that prevents from using rain total counter for summing up sunshine duration reported via a modified Davis rain station.
released May 14, 2016
- minor optimization on FTP uploads and upload task scheduling
released May 10, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a few bugs in regard to the manual data export options.
released May 8, 2016
- adds selector "nonzerotime" which reports the sensor's last occurrence of a value above 0.0. This is useful when applying to "rain0total" sensor to identify time stamp of last rainfall.
- applies definition of primary outdoor temp sensor also the sea level pressure and windchill calculation.
released May 7, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: adds features to address data from the past by giving an absolute or relative point in time description. This allows a very flexible access of data from the database when designing templates. Details can be found here: http://meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Templates#Meteobridge_PRO_Additions
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a sporadic occurring bug in reporting temperature and humidity inside the box
- adds more precision when computing sea level pressure for Ambientweather ObserverIP solution. This might be noticeable when operating in higher altitudes.
released May 6, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that can add phantom rain on reboot.
released May 1, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug that crashes the system (caused by RAM shortage) when generating very large export files (many sensors of a month in a one minute resolution).
released April 28, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: SMS send service can now handle multiple recipients separated by comma.
released April 27, 2016
- adds support for weather network Wedaal
released April 26, 2016
- better handles load peaks when many services try to upload via slow network protocols like FTP. This will improve stability for power-users pushing Meteobridge / Meteobridge PRO to its limits.
released April 23, 2016
- fixes a bug in regard to total rain fall computation, where sometimes rain fall was not registered.
- supports new HTTPS upload URL of windfinder
released April 18, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: fixes a bug related to sending emails from template folder that contain line feeds. Bug was rather nasty as it stalls the data logger.
released April 13, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: adds "Sunrise Switzerland" as predefined 3G provider.
- adds script that can be called to keep WAN connection alive by pinging Google DNS 8.8.8.8. Script URL is "http://templates.meteobridge.com/keepwan.sh".
released April 9, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: allows to pre-configure MBPRO for distinct reseller options by means of a USB stick. If you have a need for mass pre-configuration please contact "info(at)meteobridge.com" for details.
released April 5, 2016
- fixes a bug that throwed an error when selecting network tab. Bug was limited to Meteobridges licensed by ambientweather.
released April 3, 2016
- minor bigfixes
released April 2, 2016
- adds Dutch WOW-NL network, which runs a partnership with UK WOW office.
- Meteobridge PRO: write frequency of "non-weather" data like signal level, battery level, all the system information is reduced to every 5 minutes instead of every minute. That reduces write load and write volume in regard to the database significantly and makes database operations more crisp and reduces "database locked" situations.
released March 28, 2016
- adds "=apm" converter to template variables about sun/moon rise and set times.
- adds option on "Station" tab not to compute wind chill. This is useful when you don't have a temp sensor and wind speed recording will be blocked while waiting for an outdoor temp sensor to show up in order to compute wind chill correctly.
released March, 26, 2016
- allows to use "\#" in email subjects to insert a "#" into the subject field. Quoting the "#" character is needed as an unquoted "#" will indicate that subject ends and following characters are part of the email body.
- fixes a bug in reporting min/max time stamps in AM/PM notation
- fixes a bug that prevented DIR-505 platform to update Meteostick firmware.
released March 21, 2016
- Meteobridge PRO: minor update on optional database repair function.
released March 20, 2016
- changes to a better sea level pressure computation algorithm for Meteostick used with Meteobridge
- Meteobridge PRO: does some improvements on optional database repair function on reboot.
released March 19, 2016
- adds converter "apm" to allow reporting min/max time stamps as local time in AM/PM style. Example "201603011123344AM" indicates "2016 March 11, 12:33:44 AM".
- fixes a bug when reporting dew point via port 5556.
- fixes a bug reporting dew point data to Meteoplug live cloud service.
- fixes a bug regarding IP-Observer solar radiation read out.
released March 13, 2016
- fixes a bug on handling of multiple threads initiated by the weather network daemon. The bug seemed to be responsible for stall