WeatherBug Driver OPC Server - KEPServerEX OPC Servers

WeatherBug Driver / PC OPC-WBAUT-NA01 (1-3 Stations) Yearly Service Agreement OPC-WBSRV-NA01	$795 $1,200
WeatherBug Driver / PC OPC-WBAUT-NA04 (4-9 Stations) Yearly Service Agreement OPC-WBSRV-NA04	$795 $3,500
WeatherBug Driver / PC OPC-WBAUT-NA10 (10-25 Stations) Yearly Service Agreement OPC-WBSRV-NA10	$795 $10,500
WeatherBug Driver / PC OPC-WBAUT-NA00 (26+ Stations) Yearly Service Agreement OPC-WBSRV-NA00	$795 Call

Overview

Kepware is proud to offer you real-time connectivity to weather information for use in automation applications. Kepware's WeatherBug for Automation solution is available for use with virtually any third party software for automation.

Weather information is brought to you through automation industry standards (OPC), as a yearly data feed subscription, from as few as 3 to 25 or more stations of your choosing.

WeatherBug is the leading provider of weather information services; they manage and operate a proprietary network of 8,000+ professional grade weather tracking stations. These weather stations generate live neighborhood level reports every second.

Devices

Supported Devices

WeatherBug connects to a proprietary network of professional grade weather tracking stations.

Features

Specific Driver Features

Specific

Supports the Automatic Tag Generation feature of KEPServerEX
The Subscriptions dialog enables you to control the OPC data settings for the WeatherBug subscription services you are using.

Station List
Station Information
Live Observations
Forecast
Alerts
Air Quality
Ultraviolet

General

Multi-threaded design ensures optimum performance
Full Time On-line operation allows on the fly changes
Channel Diagnostics with protocol display
OPC Diagnostic feature provides a real-time and historical view of OPC events that occur between any OPC client and the server
Additional System Tags provided for monitoring and diagnostics
Free OPC Test Client provided
Modem support included on all Serial port drivers
CSV file import and export of Server tags for easy configuration on large projects
Auto Demotion of Devices
Supports running as a Windows service
Supports direct scaling of device data which allows raw device data to be converted to engineering units for OPC client applications
Automatically backup project file on save
Includes a built-in User Manager that allows complete control over what types of functionality each individual user can access
Allows the user to specifically select a NIC card for use with any Ethernet driver or serial driver running in Ethernet Encapsulation mode
Supports up to 16 concurrent serial ports and PC card configurations

Client

OPC DA 1.0
OPC DA 2.05a
OPC DA 3.0

DDE CF-Text
NetDDE
AdvancedDDE
FastDDE for Wonderware’s Intouch

3rd Party Client Support

To see a list of HMI's and Clients that we support go to our HMI / Client Support page.

Required

Required Software and Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 2000 (SP4 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2003 (SP2 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows XP (SP2 or greater)
Windows Vista Business/Ultimate (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit)

PC Hardware

Minimum

400 Mhz Pentium CPU
128 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended

600 Mhz Pentium CPU
512 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Hardware Requirements

For Device and Hardware Requirements see the Devices tab.
Hardware Accessories

WeatherBug Service ID (purchased from Kepware)

The default service ID provides you with a working WeatherBug Service ID to use during an evaluation period. When the demo period expires, the default service ID will no longer be valid and the quality for any tags you have created will turn to bad.

When you purchase a license for the WeatherBug driver, you will be provided with your own valid WeatherBug service ID. After entering the new service ID, the tags you have created will return to quality = good.

Protocol

Communication Protocol

Weather information is brought to you through automation industry standards (OPC).

VB

Visual Basic

KEPServerEX Visual Basic OPC Client
Complex and Simple Visual Basic OPC Client Examples
Using Modems and Visual Basic with KEPServerEX.
Download the Modem and VB Example with Source Code
Knowledge Base

Help

Help/Links

Revisions

WeatherBug OPC Driver Revisions

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.270.416.0 (09/27/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where server menu buttons like 'New', 'Open', 'Exit' would become permanently disabled when attempting to perform auto tag generation on a driver that had missing runtime dependencies.
- Fixed issue that could occur when multiple items with the same scan rate are read by exception and another item is added/asynchronously read/removed at that same rate. This issue resulted in stale data for those tags read by exception.

WeatherBug (V4.0.13.0)

- New Driver