Lightsoft Weather Center 2.0 supports more weather stations
updated 03:10 pm EDT, Tue August 3, 2010
Software adds adaptive sampling, AppleScript
Lightsoft has launched an update to its weather monitoring and analysis software, Weather Center 2.0. The app lets users track weather patterns, saving figures such as wind speed and high and low temperatures in a database. It can then generate webpages with current conditions, graphs and statistics. It can further generate webcam images and time-lapse movies, or upload to the Wunderground Personal Weather Station and the Weather Observers Program. It also supports Davis Vantage, Vue, Envoy, Monitor and Wizard weather stations.
Version 2.0 adds compatibility with WMR928/968 weather stations with support for all extra channels and rain bucket multiplication. The update expands compatibility with Davis Vantage stations, and adds basic support for server-based WeatherHawk stations. It also adds adaptive samplings that check for changes in weather, rather than constantly try to fetch unchanged data. Other improvements include AppleScripting, Wunderground historical uploads, new webtags and a WeatherLink V5 importer.
Weather Center 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. It costs $80, and is available via download.
