Hi folks - pretty new here. I have a Davis VantagePro2 with WeatherlinkIP, recently set up, all working fine. My great offense seems to be that I use a Macintosh though Seems weird in 2015 but I have had a heck of a time feeding other services like Weather Underground, NOAA, etc. Today, I have been reading about Meteobridge and it would seem to overcome some of the issues. Wa thinking of contacting Davis and pleading that the IP was not what I actually needed, but the USB dongle instead. Whether they go for that or not, would it be correct to say that my console could "feed" the Meteobridge via the USB dongle and from there, I could export to Weather U, NOA< and so forth - perhaps even over WiFi? The documentation on Davis site is thin and really seems that I ought to be able to use a Mac. That said, I was about to get a low cost PC, stuff it int he basement, etc. but if Meteobridge will solve my trouble, seems much easier. How far off base am I? Thanks for any guidance.
1. The Meteobridge can use your current Davis IP logger without any problem.
No need to switch to an USB one.
2. Meteobridge can do almost all upload you want. To WeatherUnderGround and dozens others.
3. The Meteobridge can be connected in this setup to your cabled-Lan or to your wireless-lan (wifi).
4. The Meteobridge can also pass-thruogh the Davis logger to ONE other device/pc/mac with a weather-program and will act to that device as a real Davis IP logger.
This could be your setup, as an example:
a. Davis console/logger connected to your router using a RJ45 cable.
b. Meteobridge connected to your router either by RJ45 cable or by using the wlan of your router.
c. A Mac with WeatherCat (a Mac weatherprogram) wich would read the weatherstation by ip-meteobridge port 22222 and act if it was reading a WL-IP directly.
There is no need to physically connect the devices. They are "virtually" connected by your local IP network. The most diffecult choice is the place to put the Davis console with the IP-logger. Somewhere where it is acessible but close to a network connection.
There is no real need to use your Mac (or any other device) as the Meteobridge is capable of feeding WU-type sites and also your own future web-site.
Both the Saratoga- and the Leuven-Template fully support the Meteobridge as does the MeteoTemplate which also gives you a remote database of your data.
Success, Wim
P.S. Using an imac myself to develop scripts, and a mac-mini with weathercat and half a dozen other weather-programs to feed the demo site. Nothing weird to use a mac.