Best weather analyzing and presentation software?

[Luc Heijst]

Since one year now I'm using the Meteotemplate weather template. I'm impressed with the fast growing number of blocks and plugins to make it possible to create a weather site exactly to your wishes.

You will notice no two Meteotemplate sites look the same which make your weather site very personal. 

The blocks on the main page look quite impressive already (don't forget to click on the menu-icons on many blocks which reveal a block sub-menu), but the real power is "hidden" in the several menus. 

You will find there (and can install yourself) various weather data analyzing templates which produce on the fly (within a few seconds) tenths of quality Highchart graphs and tables which can be exported to a number of formats to use elsewhere.

 

Personally I think it is the best weather analyzing and presentation software I have seen and I invite you to test it yourself.

Not to mention the very fast and friendly response of Jachym, the developer, when you have a suggestion, problem or question.

You can have a look at my website first when you don't want to setup a version for your own weather site right now.. 

Main features of Meteotemplate 

• detailed statistics of your weather station data using interactive tables, graphs and visualizations
  
• modular structure - more and more plugins available (radar images, forecasts, calculations and much more)
  
• customizable design, units, language and content
  
• regular updates and new features
  

The template is FREE to try but if you really like it (as I do) a donation is much appreciated.

The developer has to work with very old and slow equipment and with enough donations he might be getting a fast PC...

Links:

Meteotemplate website: http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/index.php

My Meteotemplate site: http://www.lucdesign.nl/template/indexDesktop.php

Cheers, Luc

[Barton Phillips]

I have downloaded and run the setup.php but I can't seem to figure out how to get the information to show up on the display. How did you do it? Can you send me a config file or something?

bartonp...@gmail.com

[Luc Heijst]

One of the possible methods is to install the weewxWD package and let it create and FTP a clientraw.txt file to the server where meteotemplate runs. In meteotemplate configure data input for Weather Display and point to this file.
A possible better method with use of a weewx meteotemplate uploader to a meteotemplate api is currently in test and will be availlable soon.
Luc

[Robert Mantel]

Will the windrose in the steelseries gauge plugin for meteotemplate be fully functional with weewx as the front end?  

[Ruben Navarro Huedo]

Can be used this extension?

https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-meteotemplate

[Luc Heijst]

Can you be more specific? Which function do you like to see?

[Luc Heijst]

Currently we are testing this weewx uploader with meteotemplate. It wll be available in the next version (v12) of Meteotemplate.

[Ruben Navarro Huedo]

A lot of thanks
I installed it yesterday but I didn't find api.php

[Luc Heijst]

The most recent version of meteotemplate as of today (11.0 passion fruit) does't have the api function yet.

This will be available in version 12 which will be expected witin one or two weeks.

[Ruben Navarro Huedo]

Great!!!

[Jachym Brzezina]

Thanks Luc.... thank you very much for your continuous support and compliments 

[Luc Heijst]

Gladly done, Jachym! But I must thank YOU in the first place for creating meteotemplate!

What was really missing until now is a direct weewx uploader to meteotemplate.
The api we are currently testing makes it a lot easier for weewx users to configure the upload to meteotemplate.
As soon as the api is available I will notify the weewx users via this thread.

Cheers, Luc

[Ruben Navarro Huedo]

Thanks a lot !

[Luc Heijst]

Hi folks,

Meteotemplate 12.0 Orange is released !!!

See the details in the blog at: http://meteotemplate.com/blog/?p=2058

Version 12.0 (and onwards) works together with the new weewx-meteotemplate uploader written by Matthew wall.

You can download the weewx-meteotemplate uploader here: https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-meteotemplate

Installation instructions are in the package.

You can download he latest version of Meteotemplate here: http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/download.php

NOTE: For the Meteotemplate Full package or Update package downloads you need a token (key) which will be valid for 24 hours.

To receive a download token/key you will have to send Jachym a request at jach...@gmail.com with your name and the URL where you plan to host your site and Jachym will send you a download token/key you can enter in the download page. 

Jachym tries to deal with all requests within 24 hours. (The download of individual blocks and plugins is token-free.)

Before you start with installation, read carefully the Meteotemplate Wiki at: http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/wiki/wiki1GB.php

Success and enjoy !

Luc Heijst

[Ruben Navarro Huedo]

A lot of thanks
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