Update 4.8 (incl. new license terms)

[admin]

As of the 1st of September 2011, Meteohub is a product of "smartbedded UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)". When updating an existing Meteohub version to 4.8 or newer you will have to accept that your new contractual partner for Meteohub is "smartbedded UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" and no longer Boris Pasternak, who is referenced in the former license conditions. "smartbedded UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" is a limited liability company under German law, which assumes all rights and obligations of its predecessor under the former license. In case you do not agree to have smartbedded UG (haftungsbeschränkt) as your contractual partner in regard to Meteohub, you can continue to use your current Meteohub version but will not be able to update to versions 4.8 or newer.

Update to Meteohub V4.8 (NSLU2, x86, SheevaPlug, DreamPlug) brings these features:

• fixed some dew point calculation issues on SheevaPlug platforms
• changes in license conditions, "smartbedded UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" is new contractual partner

Update Link: http://www.meteohub.de/files/update-v4.8.upd

[YJB]

Hi Boris,

Just wondering, is this new company a legal entity of Boris, or are you moving away from MH and retire? I just want to understand the logic behind this move (if I may ask).

Thanks,

Ysbrand.

[wfpost]

I installed 4.8 and I´m not really happy.

Two things that are not working compared to 4.7k to which I went back now:

With 4.8
1. Every five minutes my sensors / weatherstations are showing a signal age of "nie". So it seems that is a complete resetting, which I do not see with 4.7k.
With 4.7k as with the earlier versions, only time I see signal age of "nie" is after a reboot or clicking save on the weatherstations menu.



2. My plug-in which calculates the 3h pressure change value is not working with 4.8.
It always shows the absolute pressure, but not the 3hpress difference. With 4.7k the plug-in does work.
see script below -

#! /bin/sh
#
while :
do
# pull data filter the needed string
wget -O /dev/stdout "http://127.0.0.1:85/meteograph.cgi?text=all" | grep -E "actual_thb0_press_hpa|seqhour1_thb0_press_hpa" | gawk 'BEGIN {FS="_"} {print $4,$6}' | tr -s '\n' ' ' | gawk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} {printf "data9 %d\n", lround (($2 - $5) * 100.0) }'
# make sure output gets flushed
sync
# wait 900 seconds for next read
sleep 900
done

[rovinj]

I noticed that dyndns is not sending new IP when change of it occurs and station remains unreachable.

[admin]

@wfpost: colud you please arrange a login for me at the weekend. I would like to check first hand, what problems do keep post 4.7k versions to work properly.

@yjb: I will stay with smartbedded, don't worry.

[wfpost]

@ Boris,

Sure, I´ll email you my meteohubs login details later .

Thanks,

[gm4jjj]

I am running 4.7k and when I try to update I get "No Update Available".

[stefferber]

An answer to the legal/company question above. This is the official statement from the German Unternehmensregister

*** deleted by admin: Sorry, but posting content dragged from Unternehmensregister about my company into this forum, which is open to the public is not something I will tolerate here. The Contact/Impressum page of the Meteohub Website does give you the information needed. People that have a need to know more can request this directly from the usual official channels. Regards, Boris.

[stefferber]

Information from the Unternehmensregister is published by the German State for the public. I don't see where you take the right to delete this information.

[YJB]

Let me comment on this:

Is it really useful for the majority of the users on the board to know what the exact details are of this company? We all know how to contact Boris, and if there is really, really a legal issue then there could be a time to contact the German State.

Other than that, by publishing this kind of information in an unprotected forum, you will make Boris very vulnerable for a considerable amount of spam and other unethical activities. I don't think that this is what we wish to happen.

Ysbrand

[stefferber]

Ok. This is something I understand