Velleman WS2800 Software User’s Guide Manuale Utente

LaCrosse Technology Heavy Weather Pro Software User’s Guide (for 2800 series weather stations with USB connectivity) Revision: 1.2

P a g e | 10 When the ‘Ready to Install’ dialog appears, click the ‘Install’ button to begin the software installation process. During the ins

P a g e | 11 Although the USB communication device can be installed on any USB port connected to your computer, using a non-powered USB hub or exte

P a g e | 12 3. The Heavy Weather Pro software is installed. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET INSTALLED THE HEAVY WEATHER PRO SOFTWARE, please refer to the sect

P a g e | 13 When you click the Resynchronize menu option, the Synchronize dialog will appear. Once we have the synchronize dialog displayed on your

P a g e | 14 DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS To tell the weather station to start communicating with the software, press and hold the button showing a down ar

P a g e | 15 IF SYNCHRONIZATION IS NOT SUCCESSFUL If the synchronization process is not successful; you will see a message similar to the one to the

P a g e | 16 MENU There are several menu options available from the Heavy Weather Pro main window. This section briefly describes the functions

P a g e | 17 FILE  New Template: create a new template file.  Open: Open an existing saved template or graph file.  Save as Graph: Save the cur

P a g e | 18 VIEW  Show Current Weather: Show or hide the Current Weather window.  History Files: show or hide the History tab in the file manag

P a g e | 19 GENERAL SETTINGS Language: This option sets the language for all windows and dialogs within Heavy Weather Pro. If a new language is sel

P a g e | 2 CONTENTS Contents ...

P a g e | 20 button is pressed, the Heavy Weather Pro application will transfer those settings to the weather station (if the weather station and co

P a g e | 21 DIRECTORIES History Files Directory: This is the path where the history data file will be written. The path for the history data file c

P a g e | 22 MIN MAX VALUES The weather station can also store data regarding the minimum and maximum values for several properties. The actual min

P a g e | 23 TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY The temperature and humidity section of the main dialog shows you: • The current indoor and outdoor temperatu

P a g e | 24 air can cause skin to crack and become irritated more easily. Typically however, a lower dewpoint is considered more comfortable becaus

P a g e | 25 RELATIVE (AIR) PRESSURE WHAT IS RELATIVE PRESSURE? Relative (also referred to as atmospheric) pressure is defined as the force per unit

P a g e | 26 RAIN The entire lower portion of the main Heavy Weather Pro screen is devoted to rainfall. This section will talk about each of these v

P a g e | 27 LAST WEEK The Last Week rainfall total represents the amount of rain that has been collected from Monday 12:00 AM to Sunday 11:59 PM OF

P a g e | 28 WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION Wind speed and direction is displayed in the upper right section of the main window. CURRENT WIND SPEED The c

P a g e | 29 CHARTS, GRAPHS AND TRENDS Heavy Weather Pro provides the ability to analyze the weather data collected from the weather station and its

P a g e | 3 Help...

P a g e | 30 WHAT IS A GRAPH? A graph is the resulting image created when we plot out and connect the data points in a particular history file. To

P a g e | 31 MAIN WINDOW There are two parts of the main window: On the left is the file management section, which allows you to select and show

P a g e | 32 THE FILE MANAGEMENT WINDOW HISTORY TAB When the History tab is selected, it shows all history files located in the history folder (~\My

P a g e | 33 WORKING WITH HISTORY DATA AND FILES By default, the history file is named history.dat and is located in the ~\My Documents\HeavyWeather

P a g e | 34 WORKING WITH TEMPLATE FILES Template files define the properties needed to construct a graph from a selected history data file and it’s

P a g e | 35 Min and Max: Use the Min and Max checkboxes if you want to limit the data set to records within a specific range. Indoor, Outdoor, De

P a g e | 36 STATUS The status section of the Properties window tells us if the data type and intervals we have chosen are valid. If we have selecte

P a g e | 37 WORKING WITH GRAPHS AND TEMPLATES Now that we know how to create templates and graphs, let’s go over some of the things we can do with

P a g e | 38 ZOOMING OUT To zoom back out, press and hold the left mouse button anywhere on the chart window and with the mouse button still pressed

P a g e | 39 TROUBLESHOOTING / FAQ HEAVY WEATHER PRO LOSES CONNECTION WITH MY WEATHER STATION OVERNIGHT. Many computers temporarily disable or “put

P a g e | 4 Gust...

P a g e | 40 manually reconnecting the weather station to its sensors (initiate the re-learn process on the weather station (press and hold the up ^

P a g e | 5 The Wind, Outdoor Temp, Dewpoint and Windchill are Blank ...

P a g e | 6 OVERVIEW elcome to Heavy Weather Pro, the display and management software application designed for use with your LaCrosse Technology wi

P a g e | 7 GETTING STARTED Let’s go over the things needed to prepare for installing the Heavy Weather Pro software application. LICENSING eavy We

P a g e | 8 SET UP YOUR WEATHER STATION HARDWARE Before installing the Heavy Weather Pro software on your computer, you should complete the setup o

P a g e | 9 If you have met these requirements, we’re ready to install the software. There are two parts to installing the Heavy Weather Pro softwar