Sending Weather Warnings

Weather Display can run a program, play a sound, send an e-mail message, or notify a pager when certain local threshold conditions, that you have selected, are met.

Make sure the Main Internet switch is ON in the Connections setup in the FTP/Internet setup.

General

1. On the main Weather Display window, click Control Panel.
2. Click Setup weather warning email.
3. Set the threshold settings. They are Metric based, and kts for windspeed, but the equivalent US units conversion are displayed. To covert from kmh from kts, use the formula of 1.85 kmh for each 1 knot of wind.

You can easily get to this page by clicking on the alarm LED on the main weather display page. If this is flashing, then a warning has occurred, and then click on reset alarm LEDs to stop the flashing.

E-mail message warnings

1. Next, if you want to send weather warning e-mail messages to someone, add the recipient's e-mail address to the list. After typing the e-mail address, click >.
2. Type your weather station name, your name, your e-mail address.
3. Set up your e-mail settings that you use with your Internet service provider (ISP). If necessary, change the port number of the SMTP outgoing mail server, however, port 25 is the most common.
4. Make sure you turn the switch to ON, in the top right-hand corner to enable the weather warning e-mails.
5. Click Test to send a test report.

You can also add extra text to the e-mail message.

Warning to a pager

You can send an e-mail message to a pager with the information contained in the subject of the e-mail message.

There are a few settings here (bottom left hand corner) to note:

• If going to a numeric pager, then you need to select the e-mail to a numeric pager check box, so no special characters (like % and ^oC) are included. You also need to type the e-mail address to of the numeric pager. If you don’t want anything to appear in the body of the e-mail message, then selec the Use email subject line only for message check box. This is needed for a SMS e-mail service. If your station name is too long to fit in the SMS limited space, then enter a new shorter station name.

• If you have a list of e-mail addresses for the weather report e-mail message (see later in this help, and see under FTP setup, weather report/reboot), and you want to send the same people a weather warning e-mail message, click on import list from weather report list.

Execute a program on a warning condition

You can have any other .exe or .bat file on your computer run at the same time. Just include the full path name.

Play a sound file on a warning condition

If you want a sound to be played when a weather warning event has occurred, then just name a .wav file (either record one, or use a existing sound file (i.e a .wav file ) on your PC, but you need to rename the sounds, and have them located where weather display is installed (c:\wdisplay is the default location).

The sound file names you need to have are:

• rainin6hourswarning.wav -- For the rain in 6 hours threshold being exceeded.
• rainin1hourwarning.wav -- For the rain in 1 hour threshold being exceeded.
• pressurechangewarning.wav -- For the pressure change in 1 hour being exceeded.
• maxavwindspeedwarning.wav -- For the maximum average windspeed threshold being exceeded.
• lowavwindspeedwarning.wav -- If the threshold is not zero, then this warning will be activated when the average windspeed goes below the setting you have chosen.
• rainrecorded.wav -- each time rain is recorded, this sound will be played (to get the washing off the line!).

Note   Any threshold will only be set off at a maximum rate of once per hour and the low temperature threshold gets reset (so it can be set off again) when the temperature next goes above that setting.

The following is a complete list of all sound files that Weather Display can use:

• firstrain.wav
• pressurechangewarning.wav
• tempchangewarning.wav
• rainin1hourwarning.wav
• rainin6hourswarning.wav
• maxtemperaturewarning.wav
• mintemperaturewarning.wav
• lowavwindspeedwarning.wav
• maxindoortempwarning.wav
• minindoortempwarning.wav
• frostwarning.wav
• wm918battery.wav
• wmr918battery.wav
• minwetbulb.wav
• mildewwarning.wav
• maxindoorhumwarning.wav
• mintempextrawarning.wav
• maxtempextrawarning.wav
• mintempextrawarning.wav
• mintempextrawarning.wav
• minwindchillwarning.wav
• maxbarowarning.wav
• minbarowarning.wav
• maxheatwarning.wav
• speeddirwarning.wav
• dirtime.wav
• maxavwindspeedwarning.wav