this is just a copy of the edited 1st post in this thread ..
Please read carefully and don’t assume it is what it reads !As of
April Friday 19th 2019 i can no longer offer support or maintain this template going forward , it is not a case of not wanting too or being just overwhelmed or bored with it .Other personal circumstances will take a majority of my time away from being able to offer support and offer any response in a timely manner , it may be many months before I can actually focus on it again and probably the chances I would have to re educate myself on most things relative to the template . As of now i can usually spot the obvious issue pretty much in a few minutes and resolve them in a timely manner(most issues I see are at server level in fact 90% is server issues and 10% is my oversight or just my stupidity not in crosschecking).
I
kindly ask do not email me or send any PM(personal messages via forums) i can not respond in any timely manner and probably by the time I get to read it or in a position to offer any possible answer you would have either resolved it with help from the forum users or just moved on with something else and gave up..
As the template is today it is primed for meteobridge users only , there other variants to support other software,hardware being maintained by other experienced enthusiasts listed below.
Meteobridge version is now in a bit of a limbo the offer back in January of being maintained as got some unexpected outcome his wife announced their having their first child and also he needs to relocate in his work to nearer home ,so if that was me I would be a happy man so it is what it is and I have not been able to find anyone willing to maintain it ,Updated : William Bailey aka lighmaster has agreed to maintain the GITHUB repo taking over support and maintaining the template for the foreseeable future .
so the GITHUB version
https://github.com/weather34/Meteobridge-Weather34-Template is the master version.
I
kindly ask
do not distribute any variants of this meteobridge version as I may in 6-12 months time pick up where it is today. I understand the personal tweaks many make for themselves I see no issues that it is your domain,website and you want it to suit your needs but importantly not all personal tweaks work for others for various reasons ,perhaps hardware differences,or a particular feature that is unique to your needs. So please this is the master version and having any chance to pick up in the future it would
likely need to be where I left off.
https://github.com/weather34/Meteobridge-Weather34-TemplateCumulus Version is kindly and much appreciated maintained by Ken True(saratoga) this version resembles a similar code to what is used in meteobridge version and has the possibility to use various modules from the meteobridge version where applicable based on cumulus realtime.txt values.Im in debt too many users from the cumulus forum over the last few years they were incredibly helpful and constructive in there ideas and resolving issues.
Weather Display Version is kindly maintained/developed and much appreciated by Wim van de Kuil(Leuven) this version is not really anything todo with myself or the meteobridge version completely different in its code structure and has little chance of using any recent modules made for the meteobridge version without some extensive rewriting of pretty much anything. This version just looks similar but underneath its completely not my code and therefore it is very important you liaise with Wim to iron out any issues .
Weewx Version there are a few variants but the main one is maintained by Ian Millard(claydonsweather) and is built on the recent framework of the current meteobridge this version seems to have very little issues and has a good chance of using any recent modules or design ideas from the meteobridge version.
Other variants like weathercat,atmocomm,rasperry Pi are around but I understand very little about these I guess google is your friend to try and source information.
Im often asked why I just focused on meteobridge ? the answer is really quite simple I trust the meteobridge product range and the developer(Boris) it simply does what I want without much upkeep I can leave it on for months just doing what I want it todo, im currently at 107 days without any changes or reboots now thats what i wanted stability and install / forget ..
as for the meteobridge product range runs exactly how I wanted to run a weather station from when I first was interested in owning a weather station, Ive never been interested in trying a dedicated computer to do what I want personally .Ive tried software approach many years ago but it never fulfilled my needs or offer any trust factor in terms of stability id wake up next day with a blue screen or come back a few hours later with locked up mouse.I simply loathe windows based computers and have never used one for anything reliable or dependancy for 14 years after losing many years of photography work due to a corrupt OS after an update,i learnt the hard way and I know what i should have done but hindsight always tells you that after and today I do it every day at 11:59pm automatically..
Also please never forget this template as always been free and has never been surrounded by calls for donations and costs of personal time or server upkeeps (i get that part and see no reason to question anyone why they feel the need to cover the costs for server and cost of there personal time but to me it is always a hobby the day it doesn’t feel like an hobby it is time to move on to find something else to occupy the free time) .
I also used the simplest methods of distributing where possible in recent years (early on I tried the get in touch approach and issue download but that just raised unnecessary assumptions about something that never existed and you just end up just dealing with a noisy bunch of paranoid views instead of trying to produce something useful). I also used a local server an old 2010 mac mini with XAMPP this allowed to constantly keep up with changes in various PHP releases from 5.7 upto the current XAMPP PHP 7.3.3 release.
Lastly a special thanks to two individuals
Boris at meteobridge(smartbedded)
https://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Home a true realistic logical person you know exactly where you stand and he gives the most honest answers and you get realistic outcomes .he is a generous man and strives for the perfect weather station solution , I honestly would not have a such a reliable setup in my honest opinion if I had never been able to work with him and communicate in a collaborative manner.
David St John at Weatherflow
http://weatherflow.com, another individual who is logical and responsively thoughtful ,his patience and understanding is admirable .this is also reflected in the way weatherflow reacts to there customer base .I strongly recommend to get behind this company if you want something fresh and innovative in the near future.
phew so you read this far
have a cigar,You're gonna go far,You're gonna fly high
or you may feel like singing aloud
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
have a great year ahead and do what makes you happy ….brian