Tee-Boy software have just announce the release of version 2.0 of their WeatherSnoop for Mac OS X. WeatherSnoop interfaces with a wide range of personal and professional weather station hardware as well as Internet-based data sources. The software now produces full colour graphs of your historical data for trending an analysis plus beautifully rendered instruments and gauges that show temperature, wind, rain, and more changing in real-time…
Prairie Ronde, Louisiana – Tee-Boy today is pleased to announce the release of WeatherSnoop 2.0 for Mac OS X. Designed to procure, analyze and publish weather data, WeatherSnoop interfaces with a wide variety of personal and professional weather stations as well as Internet-based data sources.
This new release includes the all-new and highly requested graphing feature. WeatherSnoop 2.0 now produces full color graphs of your historical data for trending an analysis. You can select the value and the range to view your data with just a click of the mouse. Also featured in WeatherSnoop 2.0 is support for two professional weather stations: the Peet Bros. ULTIMETER 100/800/2000/2100 and the RainWise MKIIICC-LR computer interface.
“We are extremely pleased to provide Mac weather enthusiasts with support for these two quality weather stations,” said Boisy Pitre of Tee-Boy. “Both Peet Bros. and RainWise readily provided support and expertise in adapting their respective stations to WeatherSnoop, and we’re happy to have partnered with them.”
“As a manufacturer of weather instruments since 1974, we’re excited to announce a new partnership with Tee-Boy to sell WeatherSnoop,” said Lonnie White of RainWise. “Having offered PC software with our equipment for many years, having a Mac version will undoubtedly increase our appeal. Over the years, we have turned away many people looking for a Mac-based solution. It will be refreshing to now say ‘yes, we support the Mac!'”.
About WeatherSnoop: WeatherSnoop makes it easy for your Mac to interface directly to one of many popular weather stations or an Internet-based data source such as Weather Underground. Watch your weather come to life with beautifully rendered instruments and gauges that show temperature, wind, rain, and more changing in real-time. Once your weather data is obtained from the selected source, it can be published to Internet-based weather services such as Weather Underground and the Citizen Weather Observer Program. Your weather data is also available via an XML feed using WeatherSnoop’s built-in web server, so other applications can obtain the latest weather quickly and easily.
The Weather Report feature summarizes the current weather conditions in a concise and easy to read format, and can even be read aloud. And since all weather values are archived in a fast and compact SQLite database, they can be edited or exported to a spreadsheet using the built-in Data Custodian.
Features:
- Beautiful, realistic weather instruments and gauges that show your weather changing in real-time
- Full color graphs for easy analysis and trending of weather data
- Publishing local weather data to services such as Weather Underground and Citizen Weather Observer Program
- Easy-to-understand Weather Reports that summarize and even speak your latest weather
- Data sharing via HTTP allows other applications to easily get the latest weather
WeatherSnoop supports a wide range of weather stations, including the Davis Vantage Pro, Oregon Scientific WMR100/WMR200/WMR968, LaCrosse WS-2315, Ambient Weather WS-1080/WS-2080, iROX PRO-X, Honeywell TE923, Peet Brothers ULTIMETER 100/800/2000/2100 and RainWise MKIIICC-LR.
Requirements:
- Apple Macintosh Computer (PowerPC or Intel)
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard or later
Pricing and Availability: WeatherSnoop is available for just $59.99 (USD), with a Lite version available for only $19.99 (USD). A trial download is available at Tee-Boy online.
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This is a really good app for the Mac I have been using it for a few months now. The developer is very responsive to any problems you may have and is willing to spend time sorting them out. I am in the process of writing a web front end for it which I hope to release soon under the GPL. What I have so far can bee seen at http://g1gsw.dyndns.org/~g1gsw/
I can certainly recommend WeatherSnoop app if you have a weather station and are in the market for a really good Mac app that is designed for OS X.
Colin,
Thanks for this. As a result of your comment, I was finally motivated to buy a weather station, and the one you mention on your website turned out to be on “end of line special offer” at my local Maplin, at half the price of the replacement model 🙂
Further to the above, I actually ended up with my wife giving me the station for Christmas.
Now set up, and running with WeatherSnoop, which also shares the weather with WeatherUnderground at:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IWESTSUS45