I am a very satisfied user of the Meteohub application for quite some years now.
Until 2012 there was a very lively development of this application and there were months there were more than one update posted.
Since the end of 2012 however further development and enhancements seem to have got a low priority.
Support for some new hardware has been added, and periodically a new version is published to extend the demo trial period.
Of course the current version is stable and Boris has built (in my humble opinion) a very good and complete weather server solution, but one would expect some improvements.
There are many wishes collected in another topic in this BB, and if one would ask the users many more wishes would pop up.
Many other suppliers of weather server solutions keep on innovating, and i fear that it will not be long before the lead Meteohub has always had on its competitors will be lost.
This would be a great pity.
What has happened to Meteohub
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Re: What has happened to Meteohub
Fully agree!
On the other hand I can understand things as well, as the flow of revenue comes more out of meteobridge than meteohub (assuming that this is correct), I can understand that Boris spends his time on something that pays.
Ysbrand
On the other hand I can understand things as well, as the flow of revenue comes more out of meteobridge than meteohub (assuming that this is correct), I can understand that Boris spends his time on something that pays.
Ysbrand
Re: What has happened to Meteohub
Just my thoughts about this thread.
I have the impression that there is some slowdown too. Meteohub is a great product, i have recently bought a second licence for evaluating new hardware. Support has his up and downs. But in my opinion the biggest challenge for Boris is always to make the right decision. For myself i think there where many good decisions but also a few "dead ends"
Software: Meteohub is a appliance. Operating System, Meteohub Backend and WebGui glued together, but Updates only on Meteohub-Package, not OS. The IT-Professionals especially the ones with Linux-Knowledge dislike the missing updates of the os. Some Images have still a out of support OS.
Indeed everything is still working fine, but it is no longer state of the art. Unbundling OS and Meteohub could help (but not in any case).
Hardware: NSLU was a perfect start, but then there where some difficult decisions again. I think the best long-term stable Hardware was ALIX. I still believe, that extending the platform to Raspberry PI could have opened a great new User Segment. Now too late. MiniX on the other side looks good and has an acceptable Kernel-Version. And AllWinner CPU has better OpenSource Support for Linux than the RaspberryPi proprietary CPU. But for my projects i prefer PcDuino (A10), Olimexino(A20) and PcEngines APU(AMD x64) which all of them I own myself. I think a perfect platform for not skilled users could be Olimexino-LIME https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/. It is under €50 with case and has industrial specs and longtime support compared to others.
@Boris: I have no relationship to all this Suppliers. But I offer you any of this board for one or two months for testing.
But i suspect like HLucas01 mentioned in his post that Meteohub itself is not in your focus this times...?
I have the impression that there is some slowdown too. Meteohub is a great product, i have recently bought a second licence for evaluating new hardware. Support has his up and downs. But in my opinion the biggest challenge for Boris is always to make the right decision. For myself i think there where many good decisions but also a few "dead ends"
Software: Meteohub is a appliance. Operating System, Meteohub Backend and WebGui glued together, but Updates only on Meteohub-Package, not OS. The IT-Professionals especially the ones with Linux-Knowledge dislike the missing updates of the os. Some Images have still a out of support OS.
Indeed everything is still working fine, but it is no longer state of the art. Unbundling OS and Meteohub could help (but not in any case).
Hardware: NSLU was a perfect start, but then there where some difficult decisions again. I think the best long-term stable Hardware was ALIX. I still believe, that extending the platform to Raspberry PI could have opened a great new User Segment. Now too late. MiniX on the other side looks good and has an acceptable Kernel-Version. And AllWinner CPU has better OpenSource Support for Linux than the RaspberryPi proprietary CPU. But for my projects i prefer PcDuino (A10), Olimexino(A20) and PcEngines APU(AMD x64) which all of them I own myself. I think a perfect platform for not skilled users could be Olimexino-LIME https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/. It is under €50 with case and has industrial specs and longtime support compared to others.
@Boris: I have no relationship to all this Suppliers. But I offer you any of this board for one or two months for testing.
But i suspect like HLucas01 mentioned in his post that Meteohub itself is not in your focus this times...?
Re: What has happened to Meteohub
As YJB stated, I was very busy with the development of the new Meteobridge product,
which is extremely capable when paired with the Meteoplug cloud service and also
matches a true demand for a tiny simple solution especially in the US.
Meteohub does definitely need a platform update. I hesitated to go to the obvious RPI
as I would like to combine this platform update with a major rework of some
underlying SW components where the RPI doesn't offer too much. However,
pain is growing and I will offer a new platform soon.
What keeps me away from doing that right now, is that I have another very cool project under
the hood, Meteobridge and Meteohub users can take a benefit from. But it is still in the works...
Thanks for offering support on HW try-outs, but I have plenty of stuff here as I must keep
track with the new things. Time is my limiting factor, so it needs some patience.
which is extremely capable when paired with the Meteoplug cloud service and also
matches a true demand for a tiny simple solution especially in the US.
Meteohub does definitely need a platform update. I hesitated to go to the obvious RPI
as I would like to combine this platform update with a major rework of some
underlying SW components where the RPI doesn't offer too much. However,
pain is growing and I will offer a new platform soon.
What keeps me away from doing that right now, is that I have another very cool project under
the hood, Meteobridge and Meteohub users can take a benefit from. But it is still in the works...
Thanks for offering support on HW try-outs, but I have plenty of stuff here as I must keep
track with the new things. Time is my limiting factor, so it needs some patience.
Re: What has happened to Meteohub
Boris,
Personally i (and i think many meteohub users) would like to see some meteobridge functionality incorperated into meteohub also. For example the mysql export and alarm posibility.
but i also understand you can't do all at once.
keep us posted and when possible provide us with some info about new things your working on. Keep up the good work.
regards,
Marcel
Personally i (and i think many meteohub users) would like to see some meteobridge functionality incorperated into meteohub also. For example the mysql export and alarm posibility.
but i also understand you can't do all at once.
keep us posted and when possible provide us with some info about new things your working on. Keep up the good work.
regards,
Marcel