Manual

Installation

When you install Media Center Weatherstation for Windows 7/Vista, you actually install two applications:

  • Weatherstation Server
    This is a stand-alone application that is responsible for downloading weather forecasts and, if applicable, retrieving weather information from your personal weatherstation.
    After installation, this application will automatically be started every time you start Windows.
  • Weatherstation for Media Center
    This application can be used to view weather information within the Media Center application.

  

Using Weatherstation Server

The Weatherstation Server application appears as an icon in your system tray:

Normally the application does not require any interaction.
In the background, it downloads weather forecasts and, if you have a La Crosse WS23xx weatherstation connected to your PC, it retrieves weather information from your personal weatherstation.

When you double-click the icon, however, you can use the server application to configure Media Center Weatherstation.
A window will pop up, that contains a number of tabs that can be used to change a number of settings:

Weather forecast
 In this tab you can specify if you want Media Center Weatherstation to show weather forecasts.
If so, then:
  • check "Show weatherforecast"
  • enter the name of the city in the text field
  • press the "Search" button
  • select the required city in the list
Weather station
 In this tab you can specify if you have a La Crosse WS23xx weatherstation connection to your PC.
If so, then:
  • check "The weatherstation is connected to this PC"
  • specify the COM port the weatherstation is connected to
  • specify the interval at which data must be retrieved from the weatherstation
  • specify the folder in which the retrieved data must be stored
Units
 In this tab you can specify the units that Media Center Weatherstation must use when displaying weather information.
Corrections
 If you have a personal weatherstation connected to your PC, it is possible that your wind sensor is not aligned completely correctly.
If so, you can use this tab to make sure that the deviation is corrected by the specified number of degrees.

  

Activating Weatherstation for Media Center

Before you can make use of Weatherstation for Media Center, you have to activate it.
Please do so the first time you start the application.

More information about activating our Media Center applications can be found here.

  

Using Weatherstation for Media Center

To view weather information on your Media Center TV:

  • go to the Start page of the Media Center application
  • select the option called "Accessories"
  • and click the "Weatherstation" option

as shown below:

 

If you have personal weatherstation connected to your PC, you will see something like this:

Here you can view information about the indoor:

  • temperature
  • humidity

You see the current values, but also the minimum and maximum values and the date/time those occured.

If you press one of the icons, you can view historic information.
For example, the history of the indoor temperature:

You can view information about the last week, the last month or the last year.

  

You can also view outdoor weather data:

You see the outdoor:

  • temperature
  • humidity
  • windchill
  • dewpoint

 

Also available is information about the rainfall:

You see:

  • the amount of rain that fell in the last hour
  • the amount of rain that fell in the 24 hours
  • the total amount of rain that fell since the last time you reset your personal weatherstation

 

You can also see information about the wind:

You see:

  • the current, minimum and maximum windspeed
  • the current wind direction

  

And finally you can see information about the pressure:

Here you see the absolute and relative pressure.

 

If you don't have a personal weatherstation connected to your PC, you can still see weather forecasts:

You see the forecasts for the city you specified in the Weatherstation Server application.
The forecast information is downloaded from AccuWeather.