Test 2

WeatherCat

WeatherCat is weather station software for Macintosh computers.

WeatherCat is designed to work with hardware-based weather stations; as of this time the following stations are supported:

• Davis Vantage, Vue, Envoy, Monitor and Wizard stations. WeatherCat also supports the WeatherLinkIP data-logger.
• La Crosse WS23xx range of stations.
• Oregon Scientific WMR 928/968 stations.
• WeatherHawk stations equipped with an IP server module.

As data is gathered and stored in its database, WeatherCat allows you to view weather statistics such as the lowest temperature, or the highest wind speed over any time period stored in the database. In addition, WeatherCat can generate and upload simple web pages which are quick to get going but lack a great deal of customisation, as well as template driven ‘custom’ web pages that can contain current conditions, simple and custom graphs, gauges, statistics, webcam image and time-lapse movies; these web pages can be uploaded to your server by WeatherCat for display via a web browser anywhere in the world. A live list of all possible ‘tags’ that can be used in your templates are available here.

WeatherCat can also send your weather data to the Weather Underground (Wunderground), the Citizens Weather Observer Program (C.W.O.P.) and provides close to real time Custom C.G.I. upload to a web-server for your own web-based applications.

WeatherCat monitors the weather and can run a set of pre-defined and user programmed alerts that can trigger emails and/or run scripts should an alert trigger; for example to switch on your sprinklers, heating or cooling. In addition WeatherCat can integrate with other systems via its AppleScript interface.

WeatherCat is designed to run 24/7/365 and doesn’t normally require user interaction or maintenance. Important events are notified via email – for example WeatherCat may detect a problem uploading weather data to Wunderground – it will typically be able to resolve the issue, but if it can’t, will send you an email.

Other features include:

• Real time gauges
• Scrollable and synchronised graphs/daily data/imagery with direct access to any date in your database (just enter the date you want to view)
• Comprehensive reports – recent, daily, monthly, annual. Daily and monthly reports are saved as PDF’s to disk, email option available
• Webcam integration via local connection, third party software or remote camera via http
• A banner generator for on-line forums/web pages (see user banners at top of this page)
• Programmable current conditions rules to suit your particular climate
• Forecasts (if available from your weather station)
• Easy to use daily rain editor
• In-built weather journal (journal can be posted to web-pages)
• Unlimited custom graphs with various drawing/plot styles
• Clients for OS X (supplied in the distribution) and iOS – both work over local network and internet
• Great user generated custom web-templates
• LWC2 compatibility (will import data and settings on first run)
• A custom CGI feature that can send raw weather data to your web-server in real time for further processing/display
• Additional custom web file processing for more dynamic web pages
• Data recording periods down to 1 minute with adaptive sampling
• Easy to understand central status view and more!

WeatherCat’s feature list is extensive – please feel free to download and browse the manual (7.5MByte, PDF).

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Requirements

Mac OS X 10.5 or later, supported weather station hardware, optional web-cam.

Download

You can download WeatherCat here (not available yet). WeatherCat comes with a 14 day trial period; during this period, all functionality will be available. After 14 days WeatherCat will stop collecting data and will require the purchase of a license to continue operation.

Purchase

Please go to our Purchase page to buy a license for WeatherCat.