Newbie set up questions

[dcnicholls]

I have just bought a Meteobridge (yesterday). I works nicely so far (operates reliably on wifi, uploads camera images via FTP to a remote website, sends email alerts, accessible on the LAN). So far so good.

I have not tested it with a weather station yet - it doesn't seem to like my old Fine Offset WH1091 clone. Either it requires a powered USB2 hub or the Meteobridge doesn't support that model. I'll know soon when I install a powered hub.

[Edit]: The powered hub did the trick, it now connects to the WH1091. However, it looks like some of the observations are not reported correctly. I need to watch and check this.

First question: Has anyone got the Meteobridge working with a Fine Offset WH1091 or 1090? [Edit: yes, partly]

For the past 6 years I've been running the WH1091 via Cumulus on a Windows 7 laptop (24/7, 99+% uptime). I have customised the Cumulus interface quite a bit (http://www.deakinwx.com/wx) and added a lot of extra instrumentation. When I implement the meteobridge for another weather location, I'd like to retain the interface and appearance of the stock standard Cumulus as far as possible (mainly the current conditions entry page). I'm not after an exotic web display with maps, official forecasts and related stuff, just the local weather observations and weather camera image, and probably recent observation history. Also I won't be running anything except a weather camera and weather station.

Second question: Is there a template that can do that via Meteobridge on my own website? Or that can be readily customised to achieve that?

Thanks

DN

[admin]

Well known and supported templates are
- saratoga
- leuven
- meteotemplate
- homeweatherstation

[dcnicholls]

Thanks, I'll take a look at them. Should be good fun!

[doncurtis]

I have just bought a Meteobridge (yesterday). I works nicely so far (operates reliably on wifi, uploads camera images via FTP to a remote website, sends email alerts, accessible on the LAN). So far so good.

I have not tested it with a weather station yet - it doesn't seem to like my old Fine Offset WH1091 clone. Either it requires a powered USB2 hub or the Meteobridge doesn't support that model. I'll know soon when I install a powered hub.

[Edit]: The powered hub did the trick, it now connects to the WH1091. However, it looks like some of the observations are not reported correctly. I need to watch and check this.

First question: Has anyone got the Meteobridge working with a Fine Offset WH1091 or 1090? [Edit: yes, partly]

For the past 6 years I've been running the WH1091 via Cumulus on a Windows 7 laptop (24/7, 99+% uptime). I have customised the Cumulus interface quite a bit (http://www.deakinwx.com/wx) and added a lot of extra instrumentation. When I implement the meteobridge for another weather location, I'd like to retain the interface and appearance of the stock standard Cumulus as far as possible (mainly the current conditions entry page). I'm not after an exotic web display with maps, official forecasts and related stuff, just the local weather observations and weather camera image, and probably recent observation history. Also I won't be running anything except a weather camera and weather station.

Second question: Is there a template that can do that via Meteobridge on my own website? Or that can be readily customised to achieve that?

Thanks

DN

Yes.. I am using meteobridge with an Ambient Weather WS-1090 which is a Fine Offset clone. Works well, especially now that the meteobridge software has been recently updated to throw out all sensors when there is an out of range reading on any one sensor. Apparently the USB output on the console throws data spikes now and then... Especially rain and even though the spikes don't show up on the console, they had been showing up in the network data uploads. That is fixed now and I am overall quite happy with meteobridge's handling of my station.

I too am using a powered USB 2 hub on my meteobridge which I 'made' from a Dlink DIR-505L

Don