Virtual Weather Station User's Guide
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sound when the rain rate is exceeded, or a bird chirp when
the temperature is high enough to open windows in the
house. In addition, you can run an executable or batch file
when a condition is exceeded.
6.23.1 Alarm Settings
Parameter. Specify the alarm parameter
Condition. Specify the condition required for the alarm to
sound.
Example:
"Send an alarm when the Outside Temperature is less than
70.00"
Outside Temperature < 70.00
"Send an alarm when the Wind Speed is greater than
20.00"
Wind Speed > 20.00
Sound (Wav) or Exectutable (exe, com, bat) Filename.
Specify the wav file to play or the executable to run.
VWS includes sample wav files in the sounds sub-
directory.
Reference Section 6.23.2 for details on launching
executable or batch files.
Browse. Browse to the wav file location.
Alarm LED. LED Displays RED when the alarm condition
is met. Otherwise, the alarm LED will remain gray.
Alarm Timer. Specifies the frequency you wish to sound
the alarm. The alarm is also played at start-up.
6.23.2 Launching Executable or Batch Files
VWS starts running a program and returns without waiting
for it to exit. The executable can be either an MS DOS or
MS Windows executable, including *.exe, *.com, *.bat and
*.pif files.
If you need to execute a command built into command.com
such as copy, dir, etc, you can call "command.com /C
DosCommand args",
where DosCommand is the shell command you want to be
executed.
For example, "command.com /C copy c:\\temp\\file.tmp
c:\\tmp" would copy file.tmp from the temp directory to the
tmp directory. Refer to your DOS documentation for
further help with command.com.
.exe, .com, and .bat DOS programs use the settings in
default.pif (in your Windows directory) when running. You
can change their priority, display options, etc., by editing
default.pif or by creating another pif file. Refer to your
Microsoft Windows documentation for help on creating
and editing pif files.
Figure 26 - Alarm Sound Settings
6.24 Synchronize Date and Time
Menu Shortcut: Settings uu Synchronize Date and Time
Your computer may lose time because of accuracy of the
ROM BIOS. Virtual Weather Station allows you to
synchronize your computer clock to the Weather Station's
clock automatically. This is particularly useful because the
WMR-918 and WMR-968 are equipped with the RF Clock
feature that synchronizes to the atomic clock (this feature is
available with the European model only).
Check your WMR-918 / 968 Weather Station Instruction
Manual for more details on this feature.
Note that you must be the Administrator for this function to
work on an NT based machine.
The WM -918 station does not report the year, so careful
attention must be taken at the beginning of each year.
6.25 Desktop Options
6.25.1 The Taskbar
Virtual Weather Station displays an icon on your taskbar.
To hide Virtual Weather Station, double click the Virtual
Weather Station icon on your taskbar. To display Virtual
Weather Station when hidden, double click on the Virtual
Weather Station icon again.
6.25.2 The Toolbar
Virtual Weather Station displays the following parameters
on your toolbar (when minimized only):
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