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MB-Smart hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:45 am
by rzelle-K1TTC
I purchased a NANO-SD from Ambient weather to run on my Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus FARS. I have been very impressed with the NANO's Local Dashboard so I decided to try hosting the Beta versions of MB-SMART on my Synology NAS pushing data to it via the Home Weather Station -Weather34 Weather Net option. I have also setup the Http services pushing data to the charts modules as well as running the stationcron module as outlined in the 4 step procedure all modules appear to working well including Forecasting from WU and local METAR Data. Last version updated from Github as of 08/31/2019
The MB-SMART looks great and I would like to offer access to it for the developers so they can see it with Live Data from Methuen, MA US. It is live on the Internet but with with restricted access. If you would like access email me at
rzelle@actweb.com I can open access to your Public IP address.
The one Critique I have so far is the NANO's Rain Rate Colored Vertical Bar graph is much more useful during a rain event than the MB-SMART' s smail Rain number (Lower Right). Bring Back the Rain Rate Bar Graph ...

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Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:28 am
by weatherist34
rzelle-K1TTC wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:45 am
I purchased a NANO-SD from Ambient weather to run on my Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus FARS. I have been very impressed with the NANO's Local Dashboard so I decided to try hosting the Beta versions of MB-SMART on my Synology NAS pushing data to it via the Home Weather Station -Weather34 Weather Net option. I have also setup the Http services pushing data to the charts modules as well as running the stationcron module as outlined in the 4 step procedure all modules appear to working well including Forecasting from WU and local METAR Data. Last version updated from Github as of 08/31/2019
The MB-SMART looks great and I would like to offer access to it for the developers so they can see it with Live Data from Methuen, MA US. It is live on the Internet but with with restricted access. If you would like access email me at
rzelle@actweb.com I can open access to your Public IP address.
The one Critique I have so far is the NANO's Rain Rate Colored Vertical Bar graph is much more useful during a rain event than the MB-SMART' s smail Rain number (Lower Right). Bring Back the Rain Rate Bar Graph ...

MB-Smart-Screenshot-090119.png
hello thanks for compliment but its a few months off from being completed most of the focus right now is translations making sure there all aligned across each language option its a tedious task but i have help (piet) . the next phase will focus on getting the css files below the 100k mark right now there optimized at around 116k so just need time to ween out the unused stuff.
rain rate vertical bar it wont fit and it can get somewhat messy for example i use a stations data from singapore is rain rate at times is phenomenon due to there nigh on monsoon rates.. at the moment probably not going to do anything in that respect but later could simply create a horizontal rate bar to have it fit without having to realign everything else in the rain module.but need throw all rain rate scenarios at it first see how scales up and check between mm and inches

.i will add it to my list but dont expect anything soon but i will try and as always make it look pretty
right now there are daily minor changes and when its finally finished it will be a NanoSD only , if used with meteobridge pro,tplink type it will throw up a nag screen and display not compatible in all modules with a link to williams version as that supports all versions of meteobridge and is more flexible to using different hardware brands. also when finalized it will be a request only download and the github page will go private. there are numerous underlying reasons for doing this.
things that will or have changed no longer uses easyweathersetup file name this has been changed to mb-smart-setup.php
adds your local hardware supplier if you wish to support them list grow..
the upload realtime file will change from MBrealtimeupload.txt to simply nanosd.txt this wont happen till finalized hopefully late october early november as languages are easier todo as there are less.
so hang in there daily updates are minor and 90% of time just require simple file replacements which are easy to follow through github if you have some github experience.
there are no plans to use the internal nanosd charts in general the output at times is slow and if multiple visitors or charts get polled it grinds to halt . nanosd was never designed to serve simultaneous chart renders but if you have a private website it might be fine , take a look at williams website
https://baxleyweather.com/pws/ to see how he uses and implemented those internal generated charts .
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:24 pm
by weatherist34
could use a quick simple 1 line progress css method which doesn't congest the module and keeps a relatively clean resemblance something like this ?
..brian

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Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:26 am
by rzelle-K1TTC
Thanks Brian for the detailed reply I understand fully the time required and consumed by these projects.
I think what you show for the possible horizontal bar Rain Rate is a perfect if you can make it work and have the time to deal with it making it pretty with color as well ..

I have opened up access to my site for anyone who wants to view it for now. It is displaying live data from NE Mass. US via the NANO-SD. The site is
https://weather.k1ttc.com/index.php.
I plan to update the site about once a week from github.
If you want me to update after changes right away let me know. Last update was on 08/31/2019
..Ron
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:30 am
by rzelle-K1TTC
I meant to comment on Williams site and the Charts .. Nice Job Very Impressive ..
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:52 am
by weatherist34
the rain rate bar is in the github download try it see how it is for a week or so easily revert back .but its just a basic one line css progress bar convert the rainrate to pixel width ..code doesnt have to complex if you think design. demo running
http://singaporeweather.info/ as this is the main site i test with for rain based ideas.
you will find moonphase data files were updated with a cleaner script a bit more accurate when showing phase near the full moon,new moon,first quarter,last quarter .
has for you updating its purely upto you if your happy has it is then no need ..if aint broke dont fix it..

Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:11 pm
by rzelle-K1TTC
I've updated everything as of early am 09/03 haven't figured out how to only download changes. All looks good except when you have a minute ..

the units for Forecast are always C even after I toggle between F and C and the value appears correct for F but when I toggle to C the value remains as F's value.
Thanks waiting for rain however there is a big storm possibly heading up this way later in the week. Will checkout Singapore as well.
.. Ron
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:32 pm
by weatherist34
thanks looks like the translation file is blocking the change so have removed the translations until find a workaround .thought it went too smoothly with the translations recently . file updated
forecast3wularge.php
FIX not displaying F symbol and corrected conversions ref Ron mb forum

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Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:10 pm
by weatherist34
weatherist34 wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:32 pm
thanks looks like the translation file is blocking the change so have removed the translations until find a workaround .thought it went too smoothly with the translations recently . file updated
forecast3wularge.php
FIX not displaying F symbol and corrected conversions ref Ron mb forum
ron.png
fixed now should be fine with non metric and translations thanks for the input..G7LIJ Not QRV..

Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:39 pm
by rzelle-K1TTC
Working well now here too ..
A QSA 5
.. Ron
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:34 pm
by weatherist34
rzelle-K1TTC wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Working well now here too ..
A QSA 5
.. Ron
good glad it is ok ,this afternoon it got a significant update took a few weeks to implement and try out different ideas but the end result was as clean as I could make it in terms of appearance and not going into information overload. the new extra modules are basically nanosd history generated data along with the original console forecast with one not nanosd data generated an additional earthquake module to fill the void however I do have a moonphase module to become an select optional at a later date.

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fix the missing webcam link in and think the translations are ok (ref piet)
as it is and test sites were updated automatically..love that feature but dont ask for it
anyone seeing this stuff I REITERATE it is purely for
NANOSD NOT 100% compatible with any other meteobridge products .
73's OM..

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Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:43 pm
by rzelle-K1TTC
I updated my site this morning's from Github as of 0800. Looking Very Nice

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I tried to use the original larger Moonphase module but the moon is not displaying correctly it appears in upper left of window but I like the newer smaller module appearing in lower right.
Here's a screenshot with the Moonphase issue
Looks like I'm getting a lot of hits on the site from all over the world ..
73s .. Ron
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 3:15 pm
by weatherist34
it was fixed earlier i spotted it earlier on your site . need to update css files and moonphase.php numerous other additions today so best check on github for the dates for today.
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:41 pm
by rzelle-K1TTC
The site is updated as of 11:51 ..

.. Ron
Re: MB-Smart Beta hosted on a Synology NAS in US
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:28 pm
by weatherist34
rzelle-K1TTC wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:41 pm
The site is updated as of 11:51 ..

.. Ron
ok there was still a minor issue in the weather34-moonphase.php and moonphase.php mooninfo.php but i managed to find the rogue inverted comma so just update those three and that should be ok for moon data now. most upcoming changes will just be css files has i go into the tedious task of removing unused stuff so keep an eye open . nothing in terms of significant changes will happen now as the hard part is almost done and there is nice bunch of testers constantly helping.. thanks for your feedback.