weatherBoxx PRO2 - Wetterdatenserver PRO2 (mit MeteoBridge PRO Lizenz)

weatherBoxx PRO2 - Wetterdatenserver PRO2 (mit MeteoBridge PRO Lizenz)

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SKU: wbx PRO2
Category: weatherBoxx PRO
Manufacturers: smartbedded

weatherBoxx PRO2 with meteobridge license - a MUST for every weather freak and technician

480,00 CHF

incl. 8,1% VAT ,

More than 2 pieces in stock, deliverablefrom Bolken (Switzerland)
Delivery time: 2 - 3 Workdays (Other countries)

Why A Next Gen weatherBoxx PRO?

As weatherBoxx PRO was launched in 2015 time has come to present an improved successor. We are happy to announce that the PRO2 is now ready for prime time. The success of the weatherBoxx PRO over the last years motivated us to keep its basic strengths and to selectively improve capabilities. Top priority was to keep its low energy profile to make it a really carbon footprint friendly device for weather data storage, aggregation, analysis, graphing and publication.

Browsing through the new features some might ask, why we did not use a much more powerful base (like an RPI CM4 module). To be honest, we took that into consideration, but the amount of heat these platforms generate and the hefty power demands would eradicate all the benefits the weatherBoxx PRO stands for. weatherBoxx has always been a showcase to examine how much PC-like functions one can realize with minimal space and power requirements. The ones who don't care much about space and power can still make use of weatherBoxx on RPI, which is a pretty capable platform for weatherBoxx SW. Having this in mind, I hope you can see the PRO2 as an improvement worth the development work. We also dropped the idea of a weatherBoxx PRO2 with and without RF receiver for Davis sensors, the RF function is now always included.

Exterior

The exterior dimensions of the PRO2 are unchanged compared to the PRO. You can distinguish it from the previous model by the completely black housing. Front panel has the same structure as before. You have a reset hole, LEDs for power, status and RF reception, an OLED display and a full size USB2 port. Back panel comes with a WLAN and a RF antenna, a micro USB power connecter, an additional micro USB port, an Ethernet socket and a 4-pin I2C port for future expansions (like an I2C temperature/humidity probe that does not breath the warm climate in the PRO2 housing). Beside the I2C port there is not much difference compared to the PRO from the outside.

Inner Values

Better CPU

weatherBoxx PRO2 is no longer driven by the Carambola2 SOC but by the VoCore2 SOC (MTK7628AN) that had its premiere with the weatherBoxx NANO. This SOC upgrade gives the PRO2 about 30% more processing punch and reduces power consumption of the complete PRO2 down to an average of 1.5 Watts (regardless WLAN or LAN operation). While the weatherBoxx PRO did heat up noticeably over time, the PRO2 remains hand warm and does not feel hot at all. The VoCore2 provides double the RAM of the Carambola2 which gives the PRO2 more headroom when running code. As an effect the PHP-based dashboards introduced for weatherBoxx NANO SD are now also available on the PRO2.
Better Internal Sensors

The PRO2 has an improved internal temperature/humidity sensor (SHT31) and a better barometric sensor (BMP390) compared to the weatherBoxx PRO. The external accessibility of the I2C bus that drives internal sensors also allows easy and cheap connection of an I2C external sensor to get true indoor temperature, not affected by warm climate inside the PRO2 enclosure.
Better Data Storage

The previous model stored data on a 1 GB industrial SLC USB stick. That was a proper solution for the time, but USB sticks draw more power than SD cards, are in general slower and are rather bulky. weatherBoxx PRO2 switches to a 16 GB industrial SLC micro SD card, so we get much more room for data, which allows to store per minute sensor data for a decade or more, with a much smaller footprint as before.
Better Display Exchange

While OLED displays are very crisp and bright they are suffering from wear. After a year of display usage these wear marks will start showing up. To allow for a cheap and easy display exchange it is no longer soldered but put on a socket. That allows the technical experienced user to exchange the display himself. We would prefer to use displays that do not suffer from wear, but currently the OLEDs suitable for a weatherBoxx cannot provide this.
Better Operating System

weatherBoxx PRO2 comes with OpenWRT 21.02.3 which solves a lot of SSL related issues of the previous model. SFTP and SSH issues can now take a rest. Furthermore WPA3 and up to date SMB protocols are supported.
Better Add-On Options

The previous model had a two board sandwich-like configuration, where the main computing components were on the base board and above that there was a connected daughter board that holds the USB storage and the circuits for reading Davis RF sensor data. By placing all needed parts on the base board, the PRO2 can host an additional custom daughter board to integrate new features. The daughter board will have access to power, USB, and a serial connection from the base board. Having this upgrade path makes the PRO2 even more future ready. It is obvious that we are currently thinking about 4G/LTE modules or NBIoT modules as possible daughter boards. Please don't take this as an announcement, it is just sharing obvious thoughts.

Migration

Today the PRO2 is nearly identical to the PRO in terms of functions and how to use. If you are new to the weatherBoxx PRO/PRO2 please make use of the PRO sections of the wiki, they also apply to the PRO2. Currently only differences are that PRO2 will not support any mobile dongles and does not act as WLAN/LAN bridge for web cams and other equipment that might intend to use the PRO2 as a gateway to the LAN/WLAN or Internet. As this is a very etch case, I don't think 99% of users will even notice that. What users will notice, is that the PRO2 supports an embedded Aurora weather dashboard like the NANO SD does.

Although the PRO is end-of-life we are committed to continue porting new SW releases to the PRO. However, because the PRO2 offers more to play with, PRO2 will get more attention and features in the next quarters, leaving the PRO more and more behind over time.

If you migrate from a PRO to a PRO2 the settings file can be ported one-to-one. Porting the database from a PRO to a PRO2 is done via an external USB stick. weatherBoxx PRO needs to backup the database to the external USB stick first. Having done that the USB stick is inserted to the weatherBoxx PRO2. When you select options to restore database a "USB" marked entry will appear on the PRO2 and you can start importing from there. System log file will tell you when import is done. When restore is completed the external USB stick can be removed.

keep low power foot print and find ways to monitor power use
keep size real tiny
get rid of necessary USB hubs
add permanent storage for local data persistence
integrate RF features to directly readout data from Davis sensors
equip with proper RF and WiFi antenna
allow direct GPRS/3G operation with a optional standard USB mobile dongle
add a database for permanent storage of data
allow flexible data exports, where data can be picked up from SMB share or sent via mail of FTP
have some sensors in the box itself (pressure, temp, hum)
some kind of status and data display would be great
sensor data graphing features out of the box would be great

Shipping weight:	0,59 kg
Item weight:	0,39 kg

WebSite mit integrierten Grafiken der weatherBoxx (Davis-Wetterstation)

wetter-Lüterkofen >>

Sehr einfache Definition einer Livegrafik für die Homepage - und ebenso einfacher Aufruf der dynamischen Grafik via Link:

Livegrafik >>

Datenexport in diverse externe Wetternetzwerke. Hier als Beispiel wunderground.com mit den vielfältigen Möglichkeiten. Unter Anderem auch Darstellung der Karte mit den Wetterstationen und den Wetterwerten sowie der Möglichkeit zum Einblenden von Satellitenbildern und Niederschlagsradar:

wunderground >>

Google-Map mit den weatherBoxx Stationen (Wetterstationen in privaten Messnetzen sind leider nicht sichtbar)

weatherBoxx Map >>

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Gute Alternative zu Wswin
Ich habe mit Wswin sehr viele Statistiken für meine Webseite erstellt, die weatherBoxx wird nun eingesetzt um diese Vorlagen mit Daten zu versorgen. Gewisse Funktionen sind hier zwar nicht enthalten, dennoch kann dieses „Böxli“ Wswin fast komplett ersetzen. Bei mir läuft wswin nur noch einmal pro Tag um die Statistiken zu erstellen, nachfolgend ein paar Dinge welche in meinem Fall noch fehlen: - Sonnenscheinzeit ermitteln (Wswin berechnet die zum aktuellen Zeitpunkt mögliche Solarstrahlung) - Variable für Klimatage (Eistag, Frosttag usw.) Im Vergleich zu Wswin ist es mit der WeatherBoxx massiv einfacher sich eigene Vorlagen zu erstellen, dies besonders da die Variablen und Berechnungen hier besser dargestellt sind. Es können auch mehrere Wetterstationen miteinander kombiniert werden, die Daten fliessen dabei alle zusammen. Dazu kommt noch dass die Davis-Konsole weiterhin über TCP/IP erreichbar ist, somit kann man diese parallel dazu noch auslesen und deren Daten als Sicherungskopie verwenden, falls die WestherBoxx mal nicht will.

Dominic S , 18.06.2023

Reply by SwissWetter.shop:

Vielen herzlichen Dank für die Bewertung. Es freut mich, dass die weatherBoxx/meteobridge bei Ihnen gut funktioniert. Vielen daqnk auch für die ausführlichen Rückmeldungen, das geben wir gerne so weiter an den Programmierer/Hersteller. Beste Grüsse, Markus Brotschi, SwissWetter.shop

19.06.2023

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PDF-Datenblatt der weatherBoxx PRO - meteobridge PRO

Meteobridge PRO ist das erste Meteobridge-Produkt, das aus Hardware und speziell darauf abgestimmte Software besteht und eine neue Produktkategorie, den „Personal Weather Server“ definiert. Meteobridge PRO ist extrem kompakt aufgebaut (hat ungefähr die Größe einer Zigarettenschachtel), verbraucht nur 1-2 Watt, kann bis zu 8 GB intern speichern, kann ins heimische LAN oder WLAN eingebunden werden, besitzt eine grafisches OLED-Anzeige, bietet zwei externe USB-Anschlüsse und kann Daten der Davis Aussensensoren direkt per Funk empfangen. nsoren direkt per Funk empfangen.

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