The most prominent change since early 1.9 is that Meteobridge can now upload webcam pictures from a
connected Ubiquiti Aircam (or any other picture source that can be addressed via an URL) to the
Meteobride server. This makes your latest weather cam image available from everywhere in the
Internet without being dependent on a third party weather cam image providing facility,
like Weather Underground. Having your weather cam picture available in the Internet also allows
to use of it with other weather networks, like AWEKAS, which can read the picture from there.
Beside uploading the web cam picture as is, Meteobridge allows to put weather data into the image.
This is realized by an extemely powerful Linux tool, called "convert", which allows to draw figures,
write text, convert image sizes and formats, and much more. Syntax of convert parameters is
a bit complicated, but it is worth digging into this. Meteobridge provides a couple of predefined
convert statements for classical weather data annotation, which you can also use as a starting
point for your individual weather data stickers. Weather data gets smuggled into the convert
parameters by terms of Meteobridge template variables. Something you are already used to when
doing Meteobridge HTML or email or twitter texts with embedded weather data.
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