"General" wrote in
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"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



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