Format

This plugin reads meteorological data from Meteoblue's packages API as a RESTful web service. To compile the plugin you need to have the CURL library with its headers present.

The meteorological parameters are defined by Meteoblue in this document. The update times are given in the
description of the modeling process.

Keywords

This plugin uses the following keywords:

METEOBLUE_URL: the API endpoint to connect to (default: http://my.meteoblue.com/);
METEOBLUE_APIKEY: the key purchased from Meteoblue that gives access to its API (mandatory);
METEOBLUE_PACKAGES: a space delimited list of packages to read data from. Please note that you must have purchased an API key that gives access to all the packages that you list here! (mandatory);
METEOBLUE_TIMEOUT: timeout (in seconds) for the connection to the server (default: 60s);
METEOBLUE_DEBUG: print more information in order to better understand when something does not work as expected (default: false);
STATION#: provide the lat, lon and altitude or easting, northing and altitude for a station to get the data from (see Coords() for the syntax). If your don't have the elevation of your station of interest, you can use latlongdata.com (mandatory);
- STATION#_ID: provide an ID for the declared station (default: "STAT#");
- STATION#_NAME: provide a name for the declared station (default: "STATION#");

Note: You can only get (at most) data from NOW-3days up to NOW+8days with the non-historical packages and the packages API as used here. Depending on the forecast length, various sources of data are used in the numerical models (see this introduction). In this plugin, the past 3 days are always retrieved (as they include satellite observations and ground measurements) up to the next 7-8 days. This means that the plugin will ignore any time period specifications when called but MeteoIO will later truncate the extracted dataset to the requested period.

METEO   = METEOBLUE
METEOBLUE_APIKEY = xxxxxxxxxxx
METEOBLUE_PACKAGES = basic-1h clouds-1h solar-1h
STATION1 = latlon (47.56, 7.57, 262)
STATION1_ID = BSL1
STATION1_NAME = Basel

Installation

On Linux, simply install libcurl for your distribution and cmake should be able to find it automatically. On Windows, please install libcurl (you can find pre-compiled binaries). Then you will most probably have to manually provide the file and path to libcurl.dll.a as well as to the "include" directory of libcurl in cmake in order to be able to compile the meteoblue plugin.

Picojson

This plugin relies on picojson for reading and parsing JSON data. Picojson is released under a 2-Clause BSD License. Please find here below the full license agreement for picojson:

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Copyright 2011-2014 Kazuho Oku
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