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Hi guys, sometimes I get asked if I could make a block/plugin for a particular country. My goal is to have at least something for every country where there are some Meteotemplate users. Unfortunately it is sometimes a bit difficult for me because often the data sources are only in the language spoken in that … Read moreRegional Blocks/Plugins
Hi guys, I have some great news for you. About a year ago I had to stop the Meteotemplate network because it was overloading my server too much. I have now decided to give it another try, this time, knowing a lot more than I did year ago in terms of programming, I have been … Read moreMeteotemplate network is back
Hi guys, some time ago I promised I will make these Q/A (question/answer) posts with common questions and answers to them, so I thought I will do the first one today. Feel free to ask anytime and if your question is something I believe others may find useful as well I will include it. The … Read moreMay 17, 2017 – Q/A
Hi guys, unbelievable how quickly our “Meteotemplate community” grows. And I dare to say it now spread worldwide as I have just added a user from the 50th country today 🙂 Although it might not be so clear, I probably benefit from all this at least as you do because I meet people all over … Read more50 countries
Hi guys, I am about to start making some changes/updates and before I do so I need you to check something. You should now all be using the API for the updates either directly or indirectly (with the exception of NetAtmo, see below). First look at the diagram at the bottom of this page: http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/wiki/wiki5GB.php Even if … Read moreUpdates – VERY IMPORTANT!
Hi guys, as some of you know already, Boris, the Meteobridge developer, decided to make changes with regards to the Meteobridge licensing and updates. More info: http://forum.meteohub.de/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=12023 In short – you will only get free updates for 2 years. After that you will need to pay extra 20 euros otherwise you will not get new version updates … Read moreMeteobridge – support for Meteotemplate
Hi guys, the mobile homepage is really becoming a nightmare for me. However I think I made some progress in terms of deciding how to go about this. First thing I need to emphasize – it was not a good idea to call this “mobile” version simply because it is not really for “mobile phones”, … Read more“Mobile version”
Hi guys, as some of you might have noticed, I have not published a new issue of the Newsletter for quite some time. After thinking about this for some time I decided to do things a bit differently. There were two major problems with the Newsletter. One was time. It took quite a lot of … Read moreWhat happened to the Newsletter?!
Hi guys, I think the title says it all – I am looking for volunteers to help me. In particular I need someone to help me with testing the mobile version. I am well aware of the issues related to viewing the pages on a small screen device. After trying numerous times myself it is … Read moreVolunteers
Hi guys, to help you understand the logic behind updates I will try to clarify it a little bit. The template has a major version number and a minor version number. Example: Meteotemplate 14.2 – major version number is 14, minor version number is 2 New Installation download the Main download file which will install … Read moreTemplate Versioning – How to update
Hi guys, I would like to say a few words about getting information across to you. As some of you probably have noticed already, I stopped sending bulk emails to people after version updates etc. There are actually several reasons for this. One is technical – I would have to find a different way because … Read moreMeteotemplate Info
Hi guys, sorry for another fix we all mistakes so I hope you bear with me, it should only take you a few seconds to fix this. There is one more problem with the api.php. new users: download the main file, which is directly version 14.2 users updating from version <14Â – the update package has … Read moreBug Fix 14.2
Hi guys, as part of the bug fixes, please also update your menu.php. You can try the new direct update from your admin menu tab, if it does not work, just download it manually from the Downloads page.
Hi guys, so far 3 bugs were reported in the new version 14 (see Bugs page at meteotemplate.com). As long as no-one else reports anything I will release a bug fix package tomorrow. If you still found some issue then let me know (but please let´s concentrate on this update, not blocks and plugins for … Read moreVersion 14 – bugs
Hi guys, in the Bugs/Suggestions section at meteotemplate.com I added a section “Known bugs”. If you discover a bug first check if it is already on that list, if not, you can report it to me. I will fix them in bulk as part of some bug fix package. Thanks http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/issues.php
Hi guys, to help you understand how Meteotemplate now handles updates I created a little scheme in the corresponding wiki page. http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/wiki/wiki5GB.php. I also updated the update instructions, I originally forgot to mention that you of course have to also update all the files in the update package root folder (header, footer, index files etc.) … Read moreMeteotemplate Updates
Hi guys, I am proud to announce a new version of Meteotemplate is now available – this time a real major update in terms of new features and another on of the “front-end” updates – meaning most of the changes are changes you can directly see on the page, help you as an admin or … Read moreMeteotemplate 14.0 Rose Apple
Hi guys, tomorrow, April 30th 2017, between 12 and approximately 16 UTC certain pages at meteotemplate.com might be temporarily not available (DEMO, wiki, Downloads).
Hi guys, this is just to let you know that today’s new release of WeatherCat 2.4.2 now includes direct support of Meteotemplate. This means you can now use the API and I will delete the WeatherCat plugin in a few days. Thanks to Stu for his co-operation on this. Enjoy
Hi guys, if you are using the wlIP (weatherlink) plugin to update your database then your station data is currently not being saved to the database. Davis made some changes yesterday evening to their XML feed and the result is that the XML feed is not a proper XML and therefore is not parsed by … Read moreWeatherLink Users – Important!
Hi guys, another language translation is now complete. Meteotemplate is now also available in Albanian and big thanks goes to Kristi for his help! Enjoy
Hi guys, the DEMO will no longer show wind direction. I tried repairing the wind direction sensor of my station which broke about 2 months ago, I managed to repair it, but it only worked for couple of days and now stopped again. I think the damage is permanent so all data in the DEMO … Read moreWind Direction
Hi guys, I removed all ads from the videotutorials so you can now enjoy watching them ad-free, just like the entire meteotemplate.com site.
Hi guys, all the translations are always done by a native speaker. With just one exception – English…. As you all know, English is not my native language and is far from perfect (sometimes I just follow my gut feeling :D). This includes not just the template, but also the wiki. If therefore you are … Read moreLanguage
Hi guys, this is something several of you asked me about. Our goal is always to try to make our websites load as fast as possible. To “help us”, Google created a tool called “PageSpeed”, and in fact there are several other similar services, which give your site a score based on how optimized it … Read morePageSpeed Insights
Hi guys, as part of preparations for v14 I want to optimize and make the update script even better. I am now in the process of optimizing the parsing of realtime.txt for Cumulus and we have a problem, which Im not sure how to solve – because there is no clear right or wrong answer. … Read moreCumulus users
Hi guys, thanks to all of you who have suggested links and sources for other countries for the pollen calendar. I will try to add them, but it might take some time as it takes relatively long because each data source comes in a different format and has to be coded differently. Feel free to … Read morePollen Calendar
Hi guys, I decided to now try to improve the translations of blocks and add missing ones. However, I want to say a few things about this. I have mentioned this before, it will never be a perfect translation. The template is by default created in English and if the translation was to be perfect, … Read moreMeteotemplate Translations
Hi guys, at the Meteotemplate homepage I added a new section on the left “Recommended Software”. In this section you will find a list of SW, which support the API and thus guarantee you will be able to use Meteotemplate to its full potential, ensuring highly accurate and reliable data and very easy to set … Read moreMeteotemplate Recommended Software
Hi guys, ideally you will always keep your template up-to-date. However, in case you fall too far behind, you might ask yourself whether it is worth doing the individual updates or a clean install. I will now try to give you some general tips. It is impossible to say how many versions behind you have … Read moreMeteotemplate Version Update Tips
Hi guys, as mentioned in a previous post, this is a very minor update, I only needed to add some things to the index file, which will greatly increase potential for new blocks / block improvements. I have also fixed one minor bug in one of the pages. I am primarily now working on version … Read moreMeteotemplate 13.0 Lemon
Hi guys, just like there is lots of blocks there is also lots of languages now, so again to make it easier and better adapted to the current situation, I added a new link in the Translations section “Download All”, which will download all the language files at once as a ZIP file. Translations Enjoy
Hi guys, just a little change on the Blocks download page. Over the time the number of blocks has grown to over 165. It could now be a bit difficult for a new user to easily choose the ones they want at the beginning. I have therefore decided to implement a new feature – each … Read moreNew – Blocks Page
Hi guys, just a little information about what is coming up. Probably quite soon I will release version 13. You might be surprised by this, but I will explain. This update will be very small; in fact I only need to update three pages. This is something I originally planned to do in v12, but I … Read moreMeteotemplate – What is coming
Hi guys, I am looking for a user with whose help I could develop some more stuff thanks to the new API. I am looking for someone who fits the following criteria: – you are running Meteotemplate 12.0 – you are using the API script for the udpates – you have some extra sensors (eg. … Read moreVolunteers needed
Hi guys, the Meteobridge issue should now be solved, please reboot your device and you should be able to set updates to the Meteotemplate API
Hi guys, just a quick reminder. I have mentioned this many times and it is emphasized in the wiki, however I still get emails from people who have problems because they ignore this. So, I will again mention it. If you decide not to update to the latest template version, that is perfectly fine, everything … Read moreLatest version – reminder!
Hi guys, I have just released a new version of the template – Meteotemplate 12.0 Orange! Some of you might think this is a rather very small update, however, in reality it is actually a major one and it was very difficult this time to prepare it – mostly because it did not depend just … Read moreMeteotemplate 12.0 Orange
Hi guys, some of you might have noticed already, I have made a change in the Downloads section. The main template and update packages can now only be downloaded with a download token. To get a token, all you need to do is email me and this token will be then valid for 24 hours. … Read moreDownload Tokens
Hi guys, unbelievable for me… I would never imagine there will be more than 10 to 20 people using this… July 17, 2015 – First release February 27, 2016 – 100 users August 31, 2016 – 200 users October 29, 2016 – 300 users January 9, 2017 – 400 users February 25, 2017 – 500 users Thanks! … Read more500 users, 46 countries!
Hi guys, before I begin let me tell you that this is the hardest post for me to write out of all so far in this blog. The only reason I decided to write this is because I would feel bad if I had to do something and people then said “why didn’t you say … Read moreMeteotemplate – Info
Hi guys, just as I was uploading the recent block update my laptop froze again just in the middle of the update process and some core files on my website were corrupted. Rebooting and restarting everything always takes about 20 minutes so during that time the website was totally down again (except demo and blog, … Read morePossible outages
Hi guys, up until now, even though I did have a Twitter account, I hardly ever used it, it was only for testing purposes. Because some of you asked me if I could also post about updates/news on Twitter, I decided I will try. If you find it easier to follow Twitter than this blog … Read moreTwitter
Hi guys, on one hand I hate to spam or annoy people with emails, messages etc. On the other hand, I need to somehow be able to get information about Meteotemplate across to you. I have said in the last two newsletters that it is crucial you follow this blog RSS. Yesterday I had to … Read moreMeteotemplate – Information/Poll
Hi guys, the website is currently down. My PC is becoming totally unusable, it freezes every hour and has to be rebooted. About 2 hours ago I just wanted to update the translations and unfortunately my laptop again froze, but during the worst possible moment – while the files were being updated/uploaded. This means the … Read moreMeteotemplate – Feb 14 outage
Hi guys, because so many of you asked about this, I decided to try to make commented videotutorials of me installing the template. However, there are couple of points I would like you to please take into account, most importantly the fact I had to record everything in just a few hours in one go, … Read moreMeteotemplate – Videotutorials
Hi guys, just a few quick things I want to mention. questionnaire/your ideas – it is actually quite interesting, many of you suggested new features, some of which were technically not possible, some of which were really interesting and hopefully feasible ideas, which I put on my to-do list. What is interesting however is that … Read moreFew quick points
Hi guys, first of all thanks a lot to all of you who took the time to fill in the questionnaire and sent me their feedback. I replied to all of you and I would like to now talk about some of the commonly asked questions. Many of you suggested interesting features. Sometimes they cannot … Read moreQuestionnaire Responses
Hi guys, another year has passed since I last made a similar questionnaire, in which I asked you about what you like/don’t like about Meteotemplate, what you would want to see etc. A lot has changed, a year ago, there were no blocks, no GUI, no control panel, no translations, no newsletter etc etc. That, … Read moreQuestionnaire