wview 3.2.1 review

wview is a linux/*BSD/unix/MacOSX-Darwin application that controls a Davis Vantage Pro or Vantage Pro2 weather station console to ret

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Mark Teel

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wview is a linux/*BSD/unix/MacOSX-Darwin application that controls a Davis Vantage Pro or Vantage Pro2 weather station console to retrieve archive records and current conditions.

The archive records are stored in the Davis WLK file format (thus Weatherlink generated archive files can be used by wview). Archive records may optionally be stored in a relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL).

At a user-defined interval, wview will use the archive history and current conditions to generate weather images (buckets and graphs) and HTML web pages based on configurable HTML templates. Optionally, the web pages can be transferred to a remote web server via an ftp or secure ssh process included with wview.

Optionally, the wview alarm daemon wvalarmd can be enabled to deliver current conditions to TCP socket clients as a near real-time data feed engine. wvalarmd can also be configured to function as a weather data alarm generator to user specified scripts or binaries. Optionally, your station data can be submitted to the CWOP system for use by NOAA and others or to the Weather Underground.

wview can be easily configured for international or US units, labels and text. wview supports serial and USB data loggers. wview natively supports connectivity with a terminal server or serial server via TCP sockets - no intermediate software required to make the ethernet port "look" like a serial port.

Requirements:
Davis Vantage Pro/Pro2 Weather Station with Console
Weatherlink with Data Logger and Serial or USB Cable - Weatherlink isn't required but this is the only way I know of to get the data logger module
PC or Embedded Device to Host wview - this can be any platform running linux/*BSD/unix/MacOSX with an available serial or USB port and a network interface
linux/*BSD/unix/MacOSX Operating System
Standard Installations of: libz, libpng, libgd, radlib (2.2.4 or higher)
wview
libcurl (in the curl package) if you plan to submit data to the Weather Underground
MySQL (libmysqlclient.a) or PostgreSQL (libpq.a) client development library if you want to store archive data in a database

What's New in This Release:
Modified example images-metric(-mm).conf files to use zero decimal places for the weekly barometer chart.
Modified VP state machine to better detect and handle missed archive records.
Added support for the WXT-510 extra sensors to the Alarms processing.
Added two new HTML tags: --localRadarURL-- and --localForecastURL--. Added support for configuring them in wviewconfig and producing them in htmlgend. Added references to them in all of the homepage (index*.htx) templates. See examples/html/index.htx for example usage.
Fixed a bug in the common file for the endian conversion utilities.