Stationless+Mode+-+Virtual+Weather+Station

Problem
How do I connect to Virtual Weather Station accross a network using Stationless mode?

Discusion
With Virtual Weather Station connected to your weather station on your local area network, you can launch Virtual Weather Station from any computer on the network and view this data real-time. The “host” computer (connected to the weather station) generates a comma separated file that is read by the “remote” computer. The following steps are required.

Requirements
You must be running Virtual Weather Station Pro or Internet Editions.

Solution
1. From the host computer (the computer connected to the weather station), select the option to generate a comma separated file. Select **Settings | CSV Export** from the menubar, Select the checkbox to **Create csv output file** and **Browse** to the location on your local drive to output the csv file. 2. From the remote computer (the computer on your local network that is not connected to the weather station), install Virtual Weather Station. 3. From Virtual Weather Station on the remote computer, select **Communication | Communication** from the menubar and select the **Weather Station: Stationless** button. 4. Select the **Stationless Settings** button and under the heading **Comma Seperated Value (csv) File Location**, select **Browse** to the csv file created in Step 1 (the filename is data.csv). An example of this filepath is:

remote_computer\c\vws\data\data.csv

where **remote_computer** is the name of the host computer on the nextwork, **c** is the disk drive, **vws** is the Virtual Weather Station installation directory, **data** is the directory path and **data.csv** is the name of the csv data file defined in step 1. 5. If you wish to access all of the historical graphs on the remote computer from the host computer (connected to the weather station), select the **Run VWS remote checkbox** and **browse** to the vws directory on the host computer. An example filepath is:

remote_computer\c\vws

where **remote_computer** is the name of the host computer on the nextwork, **c** is the disk drive, **vws** is the Virtual Weather Station installation directory.

Note for WeatherHawk Users: please download the generic version of Virtual Weather station here: http://www.wunderground.com/autoasp/downloads/ras.exe

4. If you are utilizing METAR File data (and not Virtual Weather Station running remotely), check this box and **Browse** to the METAR station name.

An example filepath is:

c:\vws\metar\KPHX.csv

where **c** is the disk drive, **vws** is the Virtual Weather Station installation directory and **KPHX** is an example METAR station csv filename.