Weather link networking?

[billtc]

Hello from a newbie, both to this group and to weather monitoring!

I recently set up the Davis Pro2 weather station along with Weather link 5.7.1, but I have a problem in that I have two computers in my home, and would like to be able to access the weather station console from both of them.

The two computers (one running Windows XP Home edition and the other Win XP Pro) are networked, and communication between them is fine, as far as I can tell. But I can't find a way (either through trial and error or in a user manual) to get real time weather data over the network on the remote computer (i.e. the one not connected to the weather station). Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Bill

[keywest]

Try your luck with Tech support with Davis.
Lonely in here isn't it.

Paul

[jaded]

There are a lot of options available to you, but none are simply "run a second copy of the WeatherLink program".

It's not the greatest answer, but you could use VNC or Microsoft's remote console from the one machine to view the other computer running WeatherLink. That'll give you full view of the host machine's weather data. But it's a funky log in every time you want to see it.

If you don't need the "real time" updates of the bulletin window on the remote computer, you could use WeatherLink to generate a web page of the current weather every minute. Then use file sharing to make that web page visible to your other computer, and set a bookmark to load the weather page from the network share. You can even include a refresh attribute to have your browser reload it every minute.

If you want to be a bit lazier and are willing to accept slightly more delay, you could install the Weather Underground's expansion module. This will copy your weather data to their web site (you can set it to update every 5 minutes, 10, 15 or whatever time interval you want.)

There are several advantages to this approach. From any computer in the world including your other computer, you can visit your near-real-time weather data on the weatherunderground site. WU has some really nice graphs that are generated for you. This gives the Weather Underground another valuable data source. And other web sites that use WU data will automatically include your station.

Actually, nothing is preventing you from using all these approaches.

[Mark / Ohio]

I use Virtual VP to do it.

www.softwx.com/weather/virtualvp.html

[Dragonfly]

I'm with Mark, I use VirtualVP and with the new Weatherlink 5.8 you can use TCP/IP in WL 5.8 for live console update

[billtc]

Thanks much for the replies and suggestions. I'll give them a try.

Bill