Tidied up the installation of my Meteobridge Pro as originally it was inside a metal patch cabinet and I wanted to try using it on wi-fi.

The unit has been on test since it was returned from repair and has performed really well with no issues requireing a reboot, dropped uploads have been attributed to network problems, hence moving it outside of ther cabinet and off the wired LAN.

I monitor uptime from the Status Page of my weather web site, cumulative downtime is recorded in a rolling 7 day period within the MORE setting HERE.

The front USB port has a micro 16Gb thumb drive for saving scheduled backups.

Power for the Meteobridge Pro and the Davis Vantage 2 Pro are both  fed from a UPS in order to filter the mains to the adapters and to keep the units active during short duration ‘blips’ in power.

The screenshot below shows all the services the MB Pro is running perfectly with the bonus of significantly reduced power consumption.

I have had a number of PC to run my weather station and as I built the station up, the load on the PC got greater and greater until I ended up with a beast of a PC which will handle anything I throw at it.

Dell Precision 490 PC.

The problem is power consumption at 250watts, the cost to run this 24/7 is over £300 per year at current cost per unit of electricty.

Meteobridge Pro is an alternative to a PC, this device takes the feed from my Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station, (in my case cabled from the data logger, however, they do a wireless interface to pick up the ISS), and from this, control how your data is sent to websites via the internet.

The unit fits in the palm of your hand.

The Meteobridge Pro fits neatly within my 10″ cabinet.

Although extremely versatile, it is not meant to match the grunt of a PC, especially as the power consumption is only 2 Watts! however, what it can do is very impressive.

I bought the unit from Prodata in Ely and it came fully licenced and with the latest firmware updated.

I started updating the website on the 15 Dec 16 , converting the Saratoga Template, to the MB Plugin version.  The website was previously fed with data from the superb Weather Display software, due to the natural limitations of the Meteobridge Pro a number of pages and features from my site will no longer be available, this doesn’t detract from the core data, rather, the nice to have’s.

Update 5 March 2022

The Meteobridge Pro continues to perform faultlessly after an initial glitch, the developer issues regular updates to support all manner of features across the spectrum of differing weather station makes and models.

In terms of cost, this device has more than paid for itself in power savings as was expected, probably one of my better purchases.