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Implemented Features

  • Meteobridge can upload weather station data to
    • Weather Underground (rapid fire, updates down to every 5 seconds)
    • Weather Underground Camera
    • AWEKAS
    • WeatherBug Backyard
    • WeatherForYou
    • UK MetOffice WOW
    • Open Weather Map
    • Weather Cloud
    • Windfinder
    • Windguru
    • Idokep
    • Weatherflow
    • Windfinder
    • Wetter.com
    • CWOP (Citizen Weather Observer Program)
    • Previmeteo
    • Anything Weather
    • Meteonews
    • Meteoplug Cloud service, to allow for advanced graphing of individual weather data
    • Meteobridge Weather Cam (including weather data annotation to the cam picture)
  • It can upload data to feed your own weather data website based on the well-known "saratoga-template" (example: http://tau.meteobridge.com/saratoga/index.php) or "Leuven-Template" (http://leuven.meteobridge.com/leuven28/index.php) or "Meteotemplate" (http://www.meteotemplate.com).
  • Meteobridge device is completely managed by your PC's browser, you don't have to install any additional software on your PC.
  • Meteobridge connects to your LAN or WLAN.
  • Supported WLAN types are be 802.11n, 802.11g, or 802.11b.
  • All main WLAN encryption standards are supported (WEP, WPA, WPA2).
  • When your LAN/WLAN is behind a proxy, Meteobridge can be configured to use the proxy instead of trying to directly connect to the Internet.
  • Your weather data will be sent directly to the Internet weather network, nothing in-between.
  • Meteobridge can be used for free during a 14 day tryout period. After that a one-time licensing of the device is necessary to use it further on. Licensing can be done via Paypal with a few clicks or by a license key to be entered manually.
  • Meteobridge supports a broad range of weather stations. Please see Chapter Stations to get more details on this.
  • Meteobridge's web interface is secured by a password you can change.
  • When selecting this feature you can reach your Meteobridge from the Internet without tweaking your router.
  • Meteobridge can be reset to default network behavior and default password with the unit's reset button. So you should never be locked out, whatever you did wrong when configuring the network parameters or changing passwords.
  • There is an Internet application that allows you to make a network configuration for your Meteobridge device without having that running yet. Configuration can be downloaded to USB stick and when starting Meteobridge device with this stick plugged in, it will use the stored configuration for startup. This is a significant simplification when setting up meteobridge as a WLAN device or in non-DHCP LAN environments.
  • Meteobridge can be asked by HTTP GET requests for recent sensor data in plain text or XML style.
  • Beside sending weather data to Internet weather networks Meteobridge can also
    • upload weather data to twitter accounts,
    • send weather data to Internet servers via HTTP GET requests,
    • store data at a MYSQL databases,
    • send e-mails with embedded weather data.
    • ftp upload of files received from a http server in the Internet and filled with weather data by Meteobridge.
    • can execute shell scripts received from a http server in the Internet and filled with weather data by Meteobridge.
  • Meteobridge can trigger any of the actions above based on user-defined weather data conditions.