Comparison

There are three products from smartbedded UG that handle data from a locally connected weather station, namely Meteohub, Meteoplug and Meteobridge. This might look confusing, but apart from being connected to a weather station each of these does focus to a slightly different task. Table below tries to line out what they have in common and where the products differ.

Feature	Meteohub	Meteoplug	Meteobridge
Description in one sentence	stores and evaluates data from a connected weather station and uploads graphs and numerical data to a webserver and to predefined weather networks	transfers data of a connected weather station to a dedicated cloud service where data is stored and evaluated and presented in terms of interactice graphs and dashboards, rendered in flash or javascript	transfers data of a connected weather station to a set of predefined weather networks and can feed individual HTTP or MYSQL servers with weather data
SW pricing (as of February 2013)	59 Euro, one time	29 Euro, per 12 months	49 Euro, one time
HW cost	starts at about 130 Euro (Sheevaplug, ALIX)	35 Euro (TL-MR3020)	35 Euro (TL-MR3020)
supported stations at a glance	Oregon, Davis Vantage/Vue, Davis Envoy8x, Rainwise, Peetbros, Lufft WS600, WSxxx, WS2300, Hideki, Nexus/IROX, WDE1, RFXCOM	same as Meteohub	Oregon, Davis Vantage/Vue, Rainwise, Peetbros, WSxxx, WS2300, Hideki, Nexus/IROX, WDE1
can handle multiple stations in parallel	yes	yes	no
generates graphs?	yes, via gnuplot (rendered as png)	yes, via amcharts (interactive in flash or javascrit) and gnuplot (rendered as png)	no, graphing is left to the feeded weather network
provides a dashboard?	yes, has a simple flash dashboard included and can feed WD-Live (flash)	yes, has freely configurable instruments via fusionwidgets in flash and javascript and a simplified WD-Live dashboard	no dashboard included
can smuggle weather data into documents?	yes, HTML pages	yes, HTML pages, tables and csv formats	emails and twitter messages can be filled with weather data
how is data provided?	graphs and html can be uploaded via FTP	graphs and html are provided via iframes	can uplod data to HTTP and MYSQL server
where is data stored?	locally on a flash media	remotely in the cloud service (manual up/download is supported)	remotely at the selected weather network
good for...	weather enthusiasts that want to have their data on their own equipment and don't hestitate to take a somehow larger HW invest for that. Meteohub can feed the Meteoplug cloud service, so best of both worlds is possible	weather enthusiasts that want a solution with minimal HW invest, easy to maintain from remote and who have adapted to the idea of having weather data in the cloud. Graphing features of the cloud service is significantly above what Meteohub can deliver.	junior weatehr observers that want a solution for bringing their data into one of the popular qweather networks with a minimum of cost, hassle and complexity. But also interesting as a building block for weather professionals looking for a solution on the client side.