"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
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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