MeteoVache plug-in for OpenCPN

MeteoVache (a.k.a meteovache_pi) is a small weather plug-in for OpenCPN. It provides weather forecasts anywhere in the World as long as you have an Internet connection.

Description

MeteoVache provides weather forecasts based on the following meteorological models :

• "Arome" : high resolution model (0.05°) from Météo France (Coverage : France)
• "Arome Antilles" : high resolution model (0.05°) from Météo France (Coverage : Antilles)
• "Arome Océan Indien" : high resolution model (0.05°) from Météo France (Coverage : Indian Océan)
• "Arome Guyane" : high resolution model (0.05°) from Météo France (Coverage : Guyana)
• "Arome Nouvelle Calédonie" : high resolution model (0.05°) from Météo France (Coverage : New Calédonia)
• "Arome Polynésie" : high resolution model (0.05°) from Météo France (Coverage : French Polynésia)
• "Icon D2" : high resolution model (0.02°) from Deutscher Wetterdienst (Coverage : Germany)
• "Arpege HD" : regional model (0.1°) from Météo France (Coverage : Europe)
• "Icon Eu" : regional model (0.125°) from Deutscher Wetterdienst (Coverage : Europe)
• "Arpege" : global model (0.5°) from Météo France (Coverage : World)

MeteoVache needs an Internet connection to retrieve weather data from MeteoVache server. It has been specifically designed to minimize the amount of data required to get a forecast at a given location. A typical request weights between 500 and 1500 bytes, making it suitable for very low bandwidth Internet connections like Edge GSM.

Author

• Ronan Demoment - Rodemfr

License

This program is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2. - see the gpl.txt file for details

Download

Since v1.1, MeteoVache switched to OpenCPN's managed plugin scheme which allow you to download it directly from OpenCPN GUI. Just go to the plugin settings page and download the master catalog. Meteovache should be in if your platform is supported.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to @OpenCPN team for providing a comprehensive set of templates and examples to develop plug-ins and to maintain this wonderful Open Source application.

Release history

v1.1

• Support for OpenCPN's managed plugin scheme
• Added Spanish & Italian translations
• Handles wxWidgets 3.2 and hi-DPI displays
• Support for dark color themes
• Fixed crash on exit
• Other minor bugfixes

v0.8

• Wind direction is now display with nice graphical arrows
• Recompiled against OpenCPN 5.2.4 to fix "small font issue" in contextual menu

v0.7

• Weather report is now using colors for better readability
• Cmake files are now arm64 compatible
• Minor bug fixes

v0.5.2

• Added an option to remove plug-in icon from tool-bar
• Minor translation fixes

v0.5

• Fixed issues in networking thread in case of long server response
• Added a status test in report window to inform on the status of the last forecast request (success, on-going, failed)
• Fixed bad background color in case of dark theme under Debian
• Added display of time zone in weather report
• Added possibility to select select locale/system time zone or UTC in preference dialog

v0.4

• Added a button to manually save weather forecast in a text file (normal or column format)
• Added options in the preference panel to enable automatic save of requested forecast (normal, column, with or without ZIP compression)
• Added experimental ARMHF build for Raspberry PI (untested, may not work at all)

v0.3

• Added a preference panel with the possibility to change display units
• Fixed negative temperature bug
• Plug-in now compiles stand-alone
• Windows installer is now generated
• On server side : added Arpege model with world wide coverage

v0.2.1

• First binary release for Windows x86 and Linux x64