Meteobridge supports a wide range of weather networks. Beside classical weather networks there are also Meteobridge specific cloud services you can optionally make use of.

Meteobridge Specific Services

Meteobridge provides some distinct Cloud services that might be of special interest for you as a Meteobridge user. Apart from the Meteoplug service these are included in your Meteobridge license and do not need any additional subscription.

Meteobridge Aurora Dashboard

This is azero-config Dashboard based on the Weather34 design by Brian Underdown. IMHO it is an extremely appealing way to present your weather data to the public and stands out compared to what weather station manufactures offer bundled with their hardware. The Dashboard is located in the cloud, provides current weather data as well as some historical charts and can be individually composed of a wide range of weather data widgets. It also comes in 9 themes and adapts well to mobile devices, laptops, tablets, phones or an Apple Watch.

To make use of it you just have to select a data upload interval. You reach your personal dashboard by clicking onto the Meteobridge Aurora icon. Once setup, please do not forget to set a password for this template to have its settings secured.

Gallery below shows how the Meteobridge Aurora Dashboard looks like depending on the theme you choose.

Dark Theme 9
Dark Theme 8
Dark Theme 7
Dark Theme 5
Dark Theme 2
Light Theme 9
Light Theme 2
Options Menu
Weather Forecast
Temperature Chart of current day, month and year
Dark Theme 9 on smartphone

Meteobridge Weather Cam

Instead of uploading weather camera images to Weather Underground (which has been discontinued) you can upload to the Meteobridge server. All you have to do is to define an upload interval. When you click onto the left camera icon, you will be directed to the URL on the Meteobridge server, where the latest uploaded image is stored. In addition you can generate a copy of the image and overlay that with weather data. Image conversion is done by ImageMagick "convert" tool, which is extremely powerful. Please have a look here to get an idea what kind of image conversion can be done. The convert strings can include Meteobridge weather data variables, which does give you the option to include weather data the same way as described on Templates page. To give you an easy start, some convert strings are predefined. You can select from these by making a selection from the Template drop-down menu. You find more information how to use ImageMagick in Weather Cam Image Handling section of this wiki.

When you want to overlay a logo to your processed images, then you first have to upload a logo on "Station - Cam" tab. Then you can make use of it in the ImageMagick convert commands as explained in Weather Cam Image Handling section.

When convert commands and upload interval are defined, press "save" to make your changes permanent. Give it a few minutes to have a cam image uploaded. A click on the left camera icon points you to the unprocessed image as uploaded to Meteobridge server. A click on the middle camera icon shows the cam image plus the overlay text abd/or overly logo and a press of the right camera icon shows the uploaded logo (in case you have uploaded one).

Meteoplug Cloud Graphing

Meteoplug cloud service is not a traditional weather network, but a data graphing and presentation service dedicated to your individual demand. When you connect your Meteobridge with this service, every single piece of information delivered from your weather station is stored in the cloud and can be used for generating user-defined graphs. None of the existing weather networks does store that huge amount of data and none provides you with customizeable graphing options of that magnitude. You might inspect meteoplug.com and visit the gallery to get an impression what Meteoplug can do with your weather data.

Feeding data to Meteoplug cloud service is easily done by selecting an upload interval (full detail weather data from your station is bundled to buckets and then uploaded in one transfer chunk) and a live data interval that defines update speed of Meteoplug's dashboard for live data inspection.

When you select "Imperial" option, data will be shown in non-metric units (as used in UK/US) when you login to Meteoplug Cloud Graphing service. On the right of the live upload interval you find three icons that allow to make subscription-free use of three Meteoplug graphing appetizers. When "Imperial" mark is set, they will make se of imperial units, otherwise metric units will be used for display:

PC icon opens a window that shows a self-updating dashboard of your current weather data with dials and gauges.
iPhone icon opens a window to be viewed with your iPhone. Please use Safari on your iPhone to browse this link and to store the URL onto your iPhone's home screen, where it will look like a Meteobridge app. When you start it from your iPhone's home screen you will have three different views on your weather data, regarding the orientation of the iPhone (portrait, left landscape, right landscape). Apart from the dials and gauges in the dashboard the other graphs are generated once when the link is opened. There will be no updates while the page is in the browser.
iPhone QR icon is the same link as above, but when you click on it a QR code representing the link will be shown, which makes it very handy to transfer the link onto your iPhone (in case you have a QR code reader installed).

When you are looking for individualized versions of these graphs, you are welcome to subscribe to Meteoplug which will give you all the options to shape very special weather data graphing.

iPhone portrait
iPhone landscape left
iPhone landscape right (upper)
iPhone landscape right (lower)

Internet Weather Networks

Meteobridge supports a wide range of Internet weather networks. while most of it are free, Davis Weatherlink and Ambient Weather Cloud might need a subscription. These subscriptions are not part of your Meteobridge license.

The setup of uploads to weather networks is rather simple and straight forward. Meteobridge just needs some data to authenticate your upload and you select a data upload frequency. Therefore, we will not describe each weather network (see list on the right) individually, but give a more generic explanation how to setup upload to these networks.

Upload Interval

Each weather network defines a shortest interval in which it accepts data from your station. Meteobridge offers intervals that are in bounds with these weather network specific limitations. You might also be able to define a repeat interval in case the transmission failed. As repeating data sends for many times will fill up the Meteobridge sending queue and by that will delay all upload operations up to a level where no data at all goes through, we recommend to use no or very few retries. We also recommend to have a look at the buffer fill-up on "System - Information" tab as a filling up indicates that you are sending something too often or in too short intervals. Because of resource limitations Meteobridhe serializes all upload requests and manages that in an upload queue. Having an eye on this queue is a good idea, especially when having defined new upload services.

ID and Password

All weather networks need you to authenticate in some way. Most networks give you a user ID and password for data upload when you do the sign-up to their network. Please enter these credentials in the corresponding Meteobridge input fields.

A few weather networks make use of the MAC of your Meteobridge to identify you as the sender. You cannot change the MAC in the weather network settings, it is hard-coded by Meteobridge. When you want to use a different MAC than the one of the Meteobridge (because you already uploaded data to this service with another MAC), please go to "Station - Settings" tab and insert the MAC you want to be used in the "Weather Network MAC" field.

Submit Changes

When you press "Save" your settings are stored permanently and Meteobridge does test for all weather networks with valid upload intervals. If the weather network accepts your credentials a green mark will be displayed beside user ID and password of the corresponding weather network. If credentials are not accepted, weather network will be marked with red crosses beside user ID and password and an error message might be shown.

Disabling a weather network data feed is simply done by selecting "no upload" for the upload interval definition of the weather network. After having pressed "Save" the weather network will no longer be listed, but can of course be selected again from the drop-down list. Credentials will remain stored in case you decide to enable this service again.

Inspecting Uploads

Assume you have defined the network uploads below.

While upload intervals are defined, it might be interesting to know if the uploads did happen as planed or not. Meteobridge logs the upload events and presents this data on "Monitoring - Upload Status" tab as shown below.

When you hoover or click on the green checkmarks, Meteobridge will show the history of successful and failed uploads. In the example below you see the uploads to "Weather Underground". Upload was done in rapid-fire mode, interval was 5 seconds. The line "2025-05-08 17:27:52 Success: 2025-05-08 17:27:51" tells that upload was initiated and put into upload queue at 17:27:51. At 17:27:52 it was processed by Meteobridge and upload was successfully executed. Uploading data prepared on 17:26:52 failed at 17:26:56 because Weather Underground server (or Internet connection in between) took too long and Meteobridge decided to abort after 4 seconds of wait. There were no retry cycles defined, which does make perfect sense when sending data anyway every 5 seconds. Meteobridge defines rather short timeouts for very fast repeating uploads to avoid queuing up data.

Examples

This section list some examples about weather networks supported by Meteobridge, especially those that have some non-standard configuration needs.

Weather Underground

Weather Underground has been market leader for decades and is still one of the most important Internet Weather Networks although it suffered at lot in terms of innovation and aspiration by going through the hands of The Weather Channel and IBM.

As some users did not like to see the projected rainfall for next 60 minutes (an estimate based on how fast the rain counter is currently increasing) represented as rain rate, Meteobridge offers an alternative where rain fall of last 60 minutes is presented as rain rate instead. The "alternative rain rate" checkbox does switch to reporting in the latter way. It is recommended not to set the switch, in order to comply to the meteorological definition of rain rate.

Davis WeatherLink

In case you are having a Davis logger connected (WLIP or USB) or are using a NANO the Meteobridge can feed the Davis Weatherlink network. You just need to enter the upload frequency, which station to take data from (in case you have more than one Davis station connected) the default server URL to the Davis network "wl6.weatherlink.com/bin.php" the ID given to you by Davis to identify your station within their network and a corresponding key.

APRS

APRS is the weather network for radio amateurs. Some of the gateways do need a valid registration number to be requested at [https://apps.magicbug.co.uk/passcode/].

AWEKAS

Meteobridge feeds AWEKAS via API v2 definition. In order to upload data you need an AWEKAS account, which can be requested here. Meteobridge needs user name and password.

WeatherBug Backyard

In order to upload data you need a WeatherBug Backyard account, which can be requested here. Meteobridge needs publisher ID, station number and password.

WeatherForYou aka PWSweather

In order to upload data you need a WeatherForYou account, which can be requested here. Meteobridge needs user ID and password.

UK MetOffice WOW

In order to upload data you need an UK MetOffice WOW account, which can be requested here. Meteobridge needs site ID and a AWS PIN.

Meteoclimatic

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. To avoid this you can 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.

Windfinder

In order to upload data you need credentials from windfinder to be requested here. Meteobridge needs user name and password.

Windguru

In order to upload data you need credentials from windguru to be requested here. Meteobridge needs user name and password.

Citizen Weather Observer program (CWOP)

In order to upload data you need credentials from CWOP to be requested here. Meteobridge needs a CWOP ID.

Open Weather Map

In order to upload data you need an Open Weather Map account, which can be requested here. Meteobridge needs user name and password.

Previmeteo

In order to upload data you need a Previmeteo account, which can be requested here. Meteobridge needs user name and password.

Local Dashboard (depreciated)

When you have a NANO SD, PRO2 or RPI you also have the option to feed data into a local dashboard derived from a former release of the "Weather34 Home Weather station" template. This template is hosted on the Meteobridge itself and can be used for well-looking weather data inspection. To be fully operational it needs a DarkSky and a METAR key for forecasting purposes.

Caveat: This services is no longer updated and only available as-is. DarkSky does not provide forecast data anymore and opening up the Meteobridge to be accessed from the Internet comes with security risks and when load ramps up, it will make the Meteobridge crashing because of lacking resources. We recommend to use the "Meteobridge Aurora Dashboard" instead, which has a similar look and offers more features and does not expose your Meteobridge to the Internet.

When you browse the the "local dash" URL data will look like this.

Weather Networks