User`s guide

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide
-16- 04/10/07
Figure 8 – Stationless Mode Configuration
6.6.8.1 Connecting to a Computer Across the
Network
With Virtual Weather Station connected to your weather
station on your local area network, you can launch Virtual
Weather Station from any computer on the network and
view this data real-time. The “host” computer (connected to
the weather station) generates a comma separated file that
is read by the “remote” computer. The following steps are
required.
1. From the host computer (the computer connected
to the weather station), select the option to
generate a comma separated file. Select Settings |
CSV Export from the menubar, Select the
checkbox to Create csv output file and Browse
to the location on your local drive to output the
csv file.
For information on the csv files created, reference
section 7.2.
2. From the remote computer (the computer on your
local network that is not connected to the weather
station), select Communication |
Communication from the menubar and select
Weather Station: Stationless.
Select the Stationless Settings button and
browse to the csv file created in Step 1 (the
filename is data.csv).
An example of this filepath is:
\\remote_computer\c\vws\data\data.csv
where remote_computer is the name of the host
computer on the nextwork, c is the disk drive,
vws is the Virtual Weather Station installation
directory, data is the directory path and data.csv
is the name of the csv data file defined in step 1.
3. If you wish to access all of the historical graphs
on the remote computer from the host computer
(connected to the weather station), reference
Figure 9 – Stationless Operation. Select the Run
VWS remote checkbox and browse to the vws
directory on the host computer.
An example filepath is:
\\remote_computer\c\vws
where remote_computer is the name of the host
computer on the nextwork, c is the disk drive,
vws is the Virtual Weather Station installation
directory.
* Note for WeatherHawk Users: please download
the generic version of Virtual Weather station
here:
http://www.wunderground.com/autoasp/downloa
ds/ras.exe
4. If you are utilizing METAR File data (and not
Virtual Weather Station running remotely), check
this box and Browse to the METAR station
name.
An example filepath is:
c:\vws\metar\KPHX.csv
where c is the disk drive, vws is the Virtual
Weather Station installation directory and KPHX
is an example METAR station csv filename.