Weather Display is an extremely feature rich and powerful package. It requires some effort on the part of the user to set it up but once you have you will find just how capable it is.

You can find out somthing about its capabilities, but not all, about it by visiting www.weather-display.com. You can download it from here and it will work as a 30 day evaluation after which you will have to license it to continue using it.

Because it comes at a very low price for such a powerfull tool and because it is constatnly being developed there is no manual for it. There is however an excellent forum with many thousands of users around the world who have experience of using WeatherDisplay. Additionally the author monitors the forum regularly and this is the best plase to get support from him.

The forum is at www.weather-watch.com

We borrowed this page from MicroRidge Systems, Inc. who deal in all manner of technical computer peripherals;

The purpose of this page is to provide a better understanding of USB and serial ports, and to dispel some myths about serial communications and the rumored demise of the serial ports. Let's take a look at a couple of the more common myths that some of our customers believe to be fact.

Myth #1: Serial Ports are Obsolete?

Many of the new computers that are shipped today are shipped with multiple USB ports but do not contain RS-232 serial ports. Many people think that since new computers do not have any built-in RS-232 ports, that devices (scales, interfaces, etc.) with RS-232 outputs are obsolete. Since some new computers do not contain a parallel printer port, does that mean printers are obsolete? Neither of these ports (serial or parallel) are obsolete, just the method of connecting these

You will need install the full working version, wdisplay32.exe, from the CD supplied. Once you have done this save the key file to the root directory / folder of the WeatherDisplay32. By default this is C:/program files/wdisplay. You can do this MS Outlook by right clicking on the attachment, selecting "Save As" and browsing to the correct directory / folder.  When you start WeatherDisplay32 it will find the key.

From there you will need to locate the station, use the correct weather station settings, e.g. WMR928 or WS2300, and configure your units and offsets.

To make sure you are up to date with the very latest version of WeatherDisplay32 download;

HeavyWeather software is produced by the manufacturer of the Technoline and La Crosse Technology weather stations. It is very simple to use but they don't offer any support or forum.

There are several parts to the software starting with the the basic station software to which you can add the review and web publishing modules.

The software was included on the disk that came with your weather station but later versions / updates can be downloaded from;

http://www.heavyweather.info/new_english_uk/index.html

On the above link you need to click on Software Downloads at the top of the page and choose WS2300 from the European models. You are directed to the software page. Click on Heavyweather at the top and view the information and download the software.

During 2009 Oregon Scientific changed their instruction about the data logger capacity the 2010 manual is correct and says;

There are a few possibilities when you experience no connection or no download.

The station is a serial data logger so it need to connect to correct serial port. On conventional PCs this is the 9 pin D connector. Serial is always the preferable connection as it is hardware controlled and not a software device such as USB. However today most consumer PCs and all lap tops come without a serial connection.

If they are using a USB to serial adapter then they need to have installed the drivers that came with the adapter. This will create a VCP (virtual com port) and again they need to know the port number it creates. The driver software will usually tell them this otherwise they can find it from their Windows Device Manager > Ports.

Once they do this communication should be OK.

Very occasionally we hear reports that the station stops receiving data. This is usually because something has affected the data logger, possibly an electrical

Here is a link for the manufacturers "HeavyWeather" software for the WS2800;

http://www.lacrossetechnology.fr/dl_it.php?fichier=setup_hw_wv5_eu.exe

At the time of writting the station does not work directly with WeatherDisplay. It can be used by setting WeatherDisplay to "piggy back" on the HeavyWeather data files.

If you need to replace the ISS transmitter board or the Temperature Humidity sensor then here is a link to a couple of video clips on the Davis web site that explains how;

http://www.davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/manuals/07395-243_IM_06930.pdf (Select the web address, right click & select 'go to web page')

Please go to www.multimap.com

Enter your location

At the bottom right-hand side of the screen your Longitutde and Latitude will show. You will need to enter it into your Davis as the decimal point reading and take note of East or West for the Longitude.