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LaCrosse Weather Station

  Date: Jan 11    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 769
  

My wife gave me a LaCrosse Weather Station for Christmas. It came with
a usb key for connecting to the internet to get forecasts. The
software that came with it was only for Windows. I registered and set
up the usb key using Windows 7. I am not sure that I know how it works
with the client since i get mixed results.

It updates fine in Windows 7 and in my Windows XP VM when I run the
client. It does not update from Wine although the client runs from the
notification area just like it does in Windows. So what I have been
doing to get updates is boot the XP VM, connect the usb key as a usb
device. Then it updates. I can then shut down Windows and it goes on
updating sometimes for a day or two, but periodically it stops and am
not sure why. Then I do begin the process all over again.

I am wondering: when does it need to run the client? why does the
client not connect through Wine? is there something that I am not
doing right? what makes it stop updating? The website and the
documentation is next to useless.

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4 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Jan 11    
 
Answer #2    Answered On: Jan 11    

These are not for my model but you got me thinking and I will
look for a Linux client for it. Perhaps I gave up too soon when the
manufacturer did not provide a client for Linux. Mine is a 3105 Weather
Direct with 4 day forecast and comes with an indoor unit, an outdoor unit
and usb key to download forecasts from the internet. It is not a weather
station in the sense of the 2300 which actually collects data and analyzes
it.

I guess I don't understand how it works because the manufacturer said it
works with Linux, but only provides a Windows client. So I thought
originally that once it was set up that it would work from Linux, but it
does not work that way.

 
Answer #3    Answered On: Jan 11    

LaCrosse has a history of strange implementations. On their RS-232 stations,
they passed data by toggling the RTS/CTS lines, not TXD/RXD! Good luck with
your quest. My station died about a year ago, and their customer service
department was not at all helpful.

 
Answer #4    Answered On: Jan 11    

I suspected that would be the case when I saw their documentation. They seem
more interested in selling than helping customers.

 
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