"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
6...

I'm intrigued about the future development of Waetherlink, are you in a
position to reveal more?
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I honestly don't know, I'm afraid, beyond being aware that -
unsurprisingly - discussions are under way at Davis. TBH I'd be surprised if
there were significant changes to Weatherlink for Windows just around the
corner, but obviously I could be wrong. But it just doesn't feel like
there's any news of any import on this front about to break. Of course
January is traditionally when Davis release their new annual catalogue and
that often contains new product announcements, although these are nearly
always about hardware rather than software.

If you ask me to guess or to speculate then my hunch would be not to expect
significant further change to WL. It's a major project to rewrite the
software from scratch and that's really what's needed given the present
cosmetic state of WL. (The program still performs robustly and actually does
what most users need, without too many bells and whistles getting in the
way. But its cosmetics undoubtedly need modernising.) But it would take
quite a chunk of resource to do a complete rewrite, hence my doubts as to
whether it might happen.

I think what's much more likely is that the weatherlink.com network will
continue to see features added and the emphasis will change from storing and
processing data locally to doing so in the cloud (or at least on the server
set that hosts weatherlink.com). The expectation will be that stations will
be Internet-connected by default and that data will be uploaded by devices
like WeatherlinkIP (or MeteoBridge, to take a Davis-compatible third-party
device as an example) to the cloud services, which will then offer a range
of ways to to present the data, both near real-time and historic. So the
whole emphasis will be on the cloud functionality rather than the local
computer.

But this is totally a personal speculation, maybe the reality will be
something rather different.

John Dann
Prodata Weather Systems
www.weatherstations.co.uk

"General" wrote in
:

"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
6...

I'm intrigued about the future development of Waetherlink, are you in
a position to reveal more?
===================

I honestly don't know, I'm afraid, beyond being aware that -
unsurprisingly - discussions are under way at Davis. TBH I'd be
surprised if there were significant changes to Weatherlink for Windows
just around the corner, but obviously I could be wrong. But it just
doesn't feel like there's any news of any import on this front about
to break. Of course January is traditionally when Davis release their
new annual catalogue and that often contains new product
announcements, although these are nearly always about hardware rather
than software.

If you ask me to guess or to speculate then my hunch would be not to
expect significant further change to WL. It's a major project to
rewrite the software from scratch and that's really what's needed
given the present cosmetic state of WL. (The program still performs
robustly and actually does what most users need, without too many
bells and whistles getting in the way. But its cosmetics undoubtedly
need modernising.) But it would take quite a chunk of resource to do a
complete rewrite, hence my doubts as to whether it might happen.

I think what's much more likely is that the weatherlink.com network
will continue to see features added and the emphasis will change from
storing and processing data locally to doing so in the cloud (or at
least on the server set that hosts weatherlink.com). The expectation
will be that stations will be Internet-connected by default and that
data will be uploaded by devices like WeatherlinkIP (or MeteoBridge,
to take a Davis-compatible third-party device as an example) to the
cloud services, which will then offer a range of ways to to present
the data, both near real-time and historic. So the whole emphasis will
be on the cloud functionality rather than the local computer.

But this is totally a personal speculation, maybe the reality will be
something rather different.

John Dann
Prodata Weather Systems
www.weatherstations.co.uk



Thanks John, I am connected to the Weatherlink network so I should be
fairly future proof. Weatherlink also uploads to Wunderground erevy
15mins or so and the display there is much more comprehensive than the
current Weatherlink output which is limited.

Alan

On Friday, November 14, 2014 8:20:51 AM UTC, wrote:
"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:26:28 -0000, "General"
wrote:

To be honest, I'm not surprised you might have been having problems on a
Windows 7/8 PC if WL had not been installed simply to C:\Weatherlink, which
is always the recommended folder nowadays**. There are all sorts of
potential security clashes if it's buried in \Program Files somewhere.
There
are possible workarounds, though not always reliable, but it's 100% simpler
just to use C:\Weatherlink.

I installed WeatherLink into my DropBox folder and have been running it
from there, via a shortcut to WL.exe on the desktop, for about two years
without any problems. The advantage to me is twofold:-

It provides a 'secure' store for all my data,

When I change my computer I don't have to re-instal WL.

I run Agent similarly.
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If you know what you are doing you can install programs anywhere. That is
why the developers of WL give you an option, take the simple option or, if
you know what you are doing, do something else. In these days of cloud
computing it is rather quaint to install in C:\ ! :-)

Anyone who uploads their data just to a cloud is leaving themselves open for it to be CORRUPTED by MI5 / CIA to fit the official global warming line. I would suggest to anyone that if they must do it keep a seperate control on your C drive and, every now and then, make sure the files tally. This happened to one of Sir Piers disciples - the data average was bumped by a FULL DEGREE Celsius.

Stay safe these b*stards are watching our EVERY move

In message , Jim
Cannon writes
Anyone who uploads their data just to a cloud is leaving themselves
open for it to be CORRUPTED by MI5 / CIA to fit the official global
warming line. I would suggest to anyone that if they must do it keep a
seperate control on your C drive and, every now and then, make sure the
files tally. This happened to one of Sir Piers disciples - the data
average was bumped by a FULL DEGREE Celsius.

Boggle!
--
John Hall "Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own." Nelson Algren