Viewing WD data remotely

Viewing WD data remotely

Weather Display can be used to display data from your station on other PCs connected to your LAN or across the Internet. This allows the weather station to be connected to a PC which is not in the desired viewing location but is on the same LAN or connected to the Internet.

General definitions

• If a PC is the source of the data, i.e. the PC with the weather station attached to it, it is called the Server.
• If a PC is a viewer of the data, i.e. a PC without a weather station attached to it, it is called the Client.

Follow the steps in the Server or Client paragraphs below. When completed, all data collected from the weather station by the Server PC will be broadcast on the LAN. This broadcast data will be received by all client PCs and will be displayed on their Weather Display screens.

Viewing Weather Display data across a LAN

Server

At the PC where the weather station is connected:

1. Click on Setup, Setup FTP/Internet/...
2. Click on the tab labelled TCP/IP Client/Server.
3. Click the button at the upper left side labelled Server Enabled.
4. You may also want to click the button labelled Show indoor temp/hum on client.
5. Click OK.

Client

At each PC where the weather data is to be viewed:

1. Install Weather Display on the machine.
2. Follow the procedures in Quick Start but choose a station type of Stationless. You do not need to select a COM port, nor do you have to enable FTP.
3. Click on Setup, Setup FTP/Internet/...
4. Click on the tab labelled TCP/IP Client/Server.
5. Click the button at the middle left side labelled Client Enabled.
6. You may also want to click the button labelled Show indoor temp/hum on client.
7. Click OK.

Viewing Weather Display data across the Internet

Follow these instructions to view the data on a (Client) PC with an Internet connection where the weather station is connected to another PC which is not on your local LAN, but does have an internet connection.

1. Click on Setup, Setup FTP/Internet/...
2. Click on the tab labelled TCP/IP Client/Server.
3. Click the button at the middle left side labelled Client Enabled.
4. You may also want to click the button labelled Show indoor temp/hum on client.
5. Click on the box in the lower left corner labelled The data is from over the internet.
6. Fill in the URL of the station supplying the data.
7. Fill in your LAN's PROXY information if appropriate.
8. Click OK.

Note When using this method ensure the Use the clientraw.txt file from this location... box is NOT ticked on the client.

"Client Viewer" at LAN sites

The Client Viewer provides an alternative method of viewing WD data.

You can configure Weather Display to create a clientraw.txt file, either locally on a server, or sent by FTP to your web/ftp server. By default the file is created/sent every 3 seconds, but you can change this under Web Files Setup.

Alternatively the file can be created/sent at the times you select under the advanced internet setup (Customize Internet File Creation). For this option, you need to tick to Update this file under Setup, Internet Setup, Client/Server. You do not need to have Weather Display set up as a client or server to have this file updated by simply ticking that option.

When the file is being uploaded, you can use the free client viewer to view the weather data, updated every 3 seconds (or as defined). You need to set the viewer to use the data from over the Internet in the setup, and enter the URL of the clientraw.txt file. The alternative is to use a fixed IP address of the PC that is acting as you Weather Display server, i.e. the PC with the weather station attached to it.