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Hi guys, as I mentioned earlier, it is with regret that free APIs are becoming a matter of past. WU is now making changes towards making their data paid (for developers), Google Maps now require credit card details, there have been several other APIs over the past 2.5 yrs for which I had to discontinue … Read moreYahoo API – retired
Hi guys, just wanted to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy new year 🙂 I know it sounds sterotypical and boring, but still 🙂 The image I posted is one of our manual air quality monitoring stations and the text reads “Merry Christmas, happy New Year and clean air” Have a nice time … Read moreMerry Christmas
Hi guys, this is not going to be a very positive post, unfortunately. First bad news – WU is discontinuing the free API keys. You guys know I´ve always been quite negative towards WU, and I knew why… the deal is – you now send them data, which they then sell to others, starting from … Read moreInfo
Hi guys, many of you asked about details regarding the upcoming changes in Google Maps API, so here is a few answers, which hopefully will make it more clear When will this change take place? Google says Jun 11, my experience is that it will be gradual and might be later Will my maps stop … Read moreGoogle Maps – continued
Hi guys, I assume most of you received an email from Google about changes in the Google Maps API. My understanding of these changes is that Google will only allow further use of the Maps API if you provide them with your card details and in case you go over the limit, will charge you. … Read moreGoogle Maps
Hi guys, I have been thinking about how to make Meteotemplate pages more interesting. One thing I noticed is that most of you choose one color theme and never change it. This surely makes the pages quite boring and so I came up with a new feature. In the next version – Meteotemplate 18.0 Rotten … Read moreNew feature – theme change
Hi guys, first of all sorry for my delayed replies (to those who emailed me in the last 3 days). I just came from my first longer business trip in my new position (btw. it was great, great colleagues and very helpful). As always… just when you are not available for a few days things … Read moreNWS problems
Hi guys, this is going to be a rather personal post, which however is related to Meteotemplate as well. Some of you may have noticed I was a bit less active in the recent past, both in terms of updates and in terms of posting on the forum. This was not a coincidence. Last two … Read moreMeteotemplate – Info
Hi guys please make sure that when you ask for a token, you provide a valid email address. Over the past 2-3 weeks I have received at least 4 or 5 token requests from users who made a typo in the email address. The email returns as undelivered and there is absolutely no way I … Read moreToken requests
Hi guys, I keep getting emails from people their station is offline. This has one common element – WU. Some of you might know this already, but WU has been having serious issues again for the past few days, the XML feed being mostly unavailable. The only solution I can recommend is completely abandon WU, … Read moreWU Down
Hi guys, meteotemplate.com will be temporarily unavailable tomorrow, Nov 2, 2017 between 3:30-4:30 AM UTC.
Hi guys, I would like to ask everyone to please read the below post and reply to it. It is essential in order for me to decide what to do next. Thanks http://www.meteotemplate.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=257
Hi guys, unfortunately the script which was supposed to generate data did not work well and my station has been offline since Saturday. Because I see there really is no point in keeping it online I decided to only keep my station data for myself offline. Several of you offered me to use their data. … Read moreDEMO
Hi guys, surprise surprise…. WU is making further changes on their site. As one of you noticed, they deleted the METAR pages they provided. As a result, for example the Station Comparison plugin is not working (only partially). You probably all know my opinion about WU and I will not go into details why it … Read moreWU problems
Hi guys, I have finished development of version 16 today and entered the testing stage. Public release date will depend on how well the testing goes. There are two important points I want to make: update tokens will first be issued only to people registered at the forum (later to everyone, but this is to … Read moreMeteotemplate update
Hi guys, the demo is working again. I created a script which uses a combination of my past data, current data from local METAR and creates some reasonable random number which is used when the station is detected as offline. Time will tell how this works especially during the winter, when it is usually wet/cold … Read moreDEMO
Hi guys, it is with regret, but I had to temporarily shut down the DEMO. Due to total nonsense that my station was sending there were major errors on the page. It works slightly differently than the default template so it does not handle “offline” status same way as it would do on your page … Read moreStation Offline
Hi guys, those of you who haven’t read my previous post about lang admins and who they are, please read my first post first – here. Several of you volunteered to be a lang admin. In some cases several people wanted to be the lang admin for the same language, in which case I had … Read moreLanguage Admins
Hi guys, one major tip I forgot to mention yesterday with regards to speeding up your page is turning off the interactive header (I turned it off for the DEMO too). Enjoy
Hi guys, Now that we have the forum running (and so far so good, I have to say I am shocked how well-received it was and how many people have already used it), I decided to go one step further with making the template international. I came up with a concept of “Language admins”. This … Read moreLanguage Admins
Hi guys, I decided to give you some tips how you can speed up your site. Go through them in the order as they are listed and continue until you think your page is fast enough. The first tips will require no changes on your page so they are the ideal. Then later I get … Read moreHow can I speed up my page
Hi guys, first of all, I am very surprised how well received the forum was and it is amazing to see there is already almost 50 registered users after a few hours (on Sunday…). If you have any ideas for modifying the forum structure (add new categories etc.) let me know, I already added one … Read moreForum vs Blog
Hi guys, After a lot of thinking I have changed my mind and decided to create a dedicated Meteotemplate forum. It is something several of you suggested in the past, but I always dismissed the idea given how much time/work it is to administer/install a forum. However, due to the ever increasing number of users … Read moreForum
Hi guys, I just want to follow up on the Meteotemplate Pro idea. First of all I would like to thank all of you who filled in the questionnaire, where one of the questions dealt with this. I have taken into account several factors when deciding how to proceed: The questionnaire Technical issues Administrative issues … Read moreMeteotemplate Pro?
Hi guys, thanks to all of you who took the time to answer the questionnaire. I went through all of your answers and will take them into account in the future. Also, as promised, I noted down names of people who did so and in the future I will make sure you will get some … Read moreQuestionnaire
Hi guys, surprise…. WU XML feeds are not working. This affects several blocks and plugins and most importantly, if you are using WU as the source of database updates, your station will now show as offline because WU is not providing any data for the template to load. As to when this is going to … Read moreWU down
Hi guys, yesterday around 10PM CET we had a major squall line in my city, with gusts up to 100 km/h and over 40mm of rain in a matter of less than an hour. Unfortunately, even before it started raining, one of the gusts made my DEMO station non-functional again. The fixes I made after … Read moreDEMO station
First of all I want to thank everyone who shared their view and have to say I was very surprised by the positive reaction. I think we have come up with some ideas/solutions (see previous posts/comments). Whether this will work is a question, I think yes, but we simply have to try. In the upcoming … Read moreUpdate
Hi guys, Based on all your feedback (thank you very much), I have come to a conclusion that the best thing to do would be coming up with a list of Pro features, which would be in addition to the standard free Meteotemplate. Advantages: I still feel like when someone wants to use it and … Read moreIdeas…
Hi guys, Again a very hard post to write, but I need your feedback. I came to the conclusion that the best thing to do will be to simply discuss these things with you and hopefully come to a solution that will work for all of us. Some of you might have some speculations over … Read moreMeteotemplate – your feedback
Hi guys, regretfully, due to some personal reasons and due to some other long-term issues associated with Meteotemplate, I decided to disable all block, plugin and template downloads as well as developing further scripts. It was a very hard decision to make, but I want to emphasize that this does not mean the end of … Read moreDownloads disabled
Hi guys, I have received some emails asking me about NetAtmo updates not working. Doing some checking I found it is no longer working, but could not find why. After some googling it turns out the whole NetAtmo API is down for all, not just Meteotemplate. https://forum.netatmo.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8702&sid=a7a8378d902b7fd8f4ddadd903a2cc27 All we can do is hope it will … Read moreNetAtmo – Server Down
Hi guys, I am glad to say that Meteotemplate is now available in yet another language – this time quite an exotic one – Japanese. Over 98% of phrases are now translated and available for download on the Translations page. Special thanks goes to Kenji. Enjoy
Hi guys, unfortunately, due to some major changes at Meteofrance website, most French blocks no longer work, if you experience problems, just delete them, the data format is now completely different and it is not a matter of changing one or two lines to make it work again.
Hi guys, sorry, there was a mistake in the link to the Weather Facts new block DEMO. I updated it and here is the correct one: DEMO
Hi guys, IE problem solved, I finally found the problem with IE and I created a Javascript function to overcome some of the limitations of IE so the Flexbox grid should now work for IE as well (though only for the latest versions 10 and 11, if someone uses something older then that I openly … Read moreFlexbox continued – continued 😀
Hi guys, ok, thanks to all for your feedback, unfortunately, seems like despite the initial optimism, there is a major issue with this new layout. As it turns out, not suprisingly, this new mode does not work in Internet Explorer. The result in IE is unusable and looking this up on the internet I found … Read moreFlexbox – continued
Hi guys, I decided to give a try to a relatively new CSS grid layout called Flexbox. This new layout mode in CSS3 should allow very nice scaling of elements on the page regardless of screen size. If this turns out to work I would try implementing it as much as possible because in ideal … Read moreFlexbox
Hi guys, last week I asked you whether you would prefer having more customizations, but at the expanse of longer settings, or rather less options, but faster and easier installation process. This time it was not an obvious win, but majority of you prefer less options and faster installation, so I will again take that … Read morePoll of the Week – Jul 27, 2017
Hi guys, one thing that is special about Meteotemplate and not used by the other major weather website templates is the use of database. This obviously has many advantages, many of the statistics and graphs shown by Meteotemplate would never be possible in the other ones, on the other hand, just like anything, this has … Read moreSpeed
Hi guys, I have received several emails recently from people with the same issue – database is updating, all database-using scripts work perfectly fine, yet blocks like Current, Gauges etc. show the station is offline. In all cases it has the same cause. In version 12 I first introduced the API, back then it was … Read moreDatabase update problem
Hi guys, last time I asked you about the design again and I have to say I am happy with the results again 😀 Majority of you prefer simple, clean design rather than fancy 3D effects and shadows. I myself prefer this as well, it is also the current trend in web design and most … Read morePoll of the Week – Jul 19, 2017
Hi guys, great news for all Weather Display users! Thanks to Brian´s continuous support of Meteotemplate, it is now extremely easy to import history data from WD log files to Meteotemplate. The monthly log now includes solar radiation along with the other parameters, there is an export utility to also export and subsequently import via … Read moreData Import
Hi guys, one of you recently asked me about the feature which sent an email notification whenever your station was offline. This feature was discontinued in version 14. I just want to explain why. Obviously this was a useful feature, however, those of you who are using Meteotemplate for longer will remember that before the … Read moreStation Status Notifications
Hi guys, last week I asked you whether you prefer the Dark or Light homepage theme. Majority of you voted for Dark, which is actually what I prefer as well and I am sort of glad this one won, because apart from the homepage, rest of the page uses this theme. New question for this … Read morePoll of the Week – Jul 14, 2017
Hi guys, another new feature in version 15 is a problem checking page. This script basically checks many of your template settings and lets you know whenever there is a problem with any of your settings. To view this script, simply go to your Control Panel and you will find it at the bottom right … Read moreMeteotemplate 15.0 – New Feature – Problem checking
Hi guys, probably the major new feature about version 15 is something many of you asked so many times – logging of the extra sensor data. This was absolutely impossible previously, it only became potentially possible with the introduction of unified API, but only in v14 the API was finally available to all. I had … Read moreMeteotemplate 15.0 – Extra Parameters
Hi guys, another new feature is the optional station status displayed in the footer. This can now be optionally enabled (disabled by default) in the Main settings. The way this works is that the footer checks directly the content of the current conditions file (meteotemplateLive.txt) and checks the timestamp in that file. The actual threshold … Read moreMeteotemplate 15.0 – New Feature – Station Status
Hi guys, just a quick update regarding my station. I came home very late from work yesterday so today I finally had time to look at it on daylight for first time. The good news is that the outdoor sensor transmitter is not damaged and works fine. I glued the plastic arm together again and … Read moreDEMO Station – Update
Hi guys, based on an access log one user showed me, this looks like the hacker was able to go straight in, bypassing the login page, authorization page etc. This is theoretically possible if someone stole the cookie from your PC/smartphone or was able to guess your password and re-create the cookie. For now, just … Read moreSecurity Measure