Introduction
SMETAR is a weather monitoring tool. It accesses the METAR database, and displays it in a human-friendly fashion.




Important notice
As of december 2007, has been reported that the METAR information provided by the NOAA which is used by SMETAR, has changed its location to weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded. You will need to update SMETAR to version 0.60 or later in order to work.


Quick facts
- Native 32 and 64 bit versions.
- Tiny footprint, can be run from floppy disks, USB devices, hard disks, ...
- Blazing fast program execution.
- Quick startup time.


Key features
- System tray icon.
- Display wind, visibility, sky conditions, temperature, dew point, relative humidity, pressure, ...
- Obtain data directly from METAR services, without intermediaries services.


License
SMETAR is totally free, both for commercial, and private usage.


Requirements
- Operating System: Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista or 2008.
- 1 Mb of free memory.
- 50 Kb of disk space available.


Language
Currently SMETAR is only localized in english.


Sponsors



Download
- In ZIP format (27 Kb.): Ready to be used by uncompressing in any folder.

- Source code (18 Kb.): Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 source code.


History
- 2008/11/26. Version 0.87.138 Beta: 64 bit port available; reduced memory usage; added propper Vista UAC manifest; updated to Visual C++ 2008 SP1; ANSI/Unicode portability improvements; some socket code optimizations; other minor fixes.

- 2009/11/20. Version 0.86.129 Beta: Updated to Visual C++ 2010 Beta 2; updated to UPX 3.04.

- 2008/09/28. Version 0.86.127 Beta: Miscelaneous fixes; source code available.

- 2008/09/27. Version 0.86.123 Beta: Speed optimizationS using StrChr when appropiate instead of StrStr; improved altitude parsing; destroy systray icon inmediatelly after closing; expanded the help file contents.

- 2008/09/26. Version 0.85.121 Beta: Added weather metric; fixed bug displaying date; fixed a problem loading ini settings introduced in 0.80.113; fixed coordinates issue in View map.

- 2008/09/26. Version 0.80.113 Beta: Brand View map option; added temperature in C or F only; added dew in C or F only; added pressure in in or hPa only; added date/time; modified INI settings logic; Windows 64 source improvements; minor fixes.

- 2008/09/24. Version 0.70.102 Beta: Balloon tooltips for XP and later; reformated, and reordered how METAR info is displayed, to optimize available tooltip space; improved trayicon management; increased temporary buffers size to avoid overruns in error conditions; added default option to the context menu; expanded a bit help file contents; some code refactoring.

- 2008/09/22. Version 0.60.98 Beta: Fixed thread memory leak; added CHM help file; settings menu item implemented; reduced memory usage; add confirmation before exit; compressed with UPX instead of MEW11 to avoid false AV positives.

- 2008/09/20. Version 0.60.95 Beta: Updated METAR URL; upgraded to Visual C++ 2008; fixed about text; compressed using MEW11 instead of UPack.

- 2006/01/10. Version 0.50.87 Beta: Added systray icon; fixed bufferoverrun.

- 2006/01/09. Version 0.50.84 Beta: Changed procedure for obtaining ini file to make it work under when execution folder is not the current folder; minor bugs fixed.

- 2005/12/26. Version 0.50.78 Beta: Upgraded to Visual C++ 2005. Packed with UPack 0.39.

- 2005/10/30. Version 0.50.77 Beta: Added RAW metar information; added a check to see if SMETAR.ini exists; fixed problem with quotes in autorun; solved a buffer overrun.

- 2005/10/26. Version 0.50.75 Beta: Run update process in a separate thread; reformated tooltip in trayicon; added autostart setting; enabled Visual Styles; minor optimization and bug fixing.

- 2008/09/20. Version 0.60.95 Beta: Updated METAR URL; upgraded to Visual C++ 2008; fixed about text.

- 2005/09/29. Version 0.50.61 Beta: Rewritten to use Winsock instead of Wininet; removed all C library dependencies; lots of optimizations.

- 2005/08/24. Version 0.40.29 Alpha: First public available version.


Links
- Official SMETAR's website: guti.webcindario.com/static.php?page=SMETAR

- Official author's website: guti.bitacoras.com.


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