Hi All,
I am new to the group and I have a Bios Weather Home Weather Station BW953
http://www.thermor-ins.com/indexhome.html
The software for this system is rather primitive and somewhat inaccurate, so I would like to use Weather Display, but my weather station is not listed in the software and I can’t get the software to see the station. The receiver is connected to the computer by USB cable and I can’t find a port number for this.
Any suggestions? Has anyone tried this before?
These posts would seem to indicate WD will not work with it…
http://discourse.weather-watch.com/
http://discourse.weather-watch.com/p/192569
-Bob
yes, it should work
because its USB, there is no port number
just plug it in, and select the Irox Pro weather station type in WD, direct mode
and then also make sure the barometer reading on the console is within normal range (it seems that some people make the mistake of entering too much offset)
then the separate iroxdata.exe program should then get the missed data
Brian,
Just for clarification as past posts seemed to indicate that WD did not support the Thermor stations… WD does now support them?, as I was under the impression the Irox was different then the Thermor ?
-Bob
oops, i thought it was a Irox type station
no, WD does not support the Bios station, sorry about that confusion
but it does support the new station out there, usb, that has the easy weather software with it (via the data file that software updates)
This one says it comes with “Weather Analyzer Software” so I am assuming that it isn’t easy weather?
-Bob
Hi Bob and Brian,
Well, it certainly doesn’t look good. I tried the Honeywell TE923W/Irox/Nexus setting and weather display is receiving the data, but cannot display it. The data received button flashes green every few seconds and the number next to it advances and the data quality button is solid green.
I think the problem lies in the type of data being sent by the receiver. Weather display does not recognize the format. I looked at the data file for the station and it is in .ws format, which no one else seems to recognize.
Any chance of a .ws reader in Weather Display?
Eric.
the irox setting will not work with that station
are you saying that the software that comes with creates a data file that WD could read in?
are you able to view the data in say notepad.exe ?
The program folder has the weather analyser.exe, some dll files, the uninstall file, the cities.txt file and two files, data_date.ws and data_unit.ws. I think that these two files are the files with the data needed, but Notepad and Wordpad will not read them. I have tried a couple programs but none will read the .ws extension.
Eric.
.zip and email me those files…but no promises
For Windy,
It is possible that the BIOS .WS files are WordStar Ver. 5.0/6.0 Document files
I note that the Bios units use what appear to be identical sensor assemblies to that used by the WS2350 and even the main unit looks similar!!!
I have the BIOS Weather Station also. It records its data in a file called db.dat. That is a Microsoft Access database and can be opened using Access. I believe the data_date.ws and data_unit.ws files simply hold the supposed current date and the weather unit ID.
One of the biggest problems with this thing that I can see is that, for some bizarre reason, the entire database is erased and rewritten every time power to the main control unit is lost. So if you are running it through a wired (power) connection rather than through batteries, every time the power to the house goes out, the database is wiped out. When it does this, it also resets the date to its default of “January 1, 2006”.
The other major problem is that the rain guage records are not calculated correctly. It has 3 displays: daily rainfall, monthly and annual. But all three generally display the same thing. The daily rainfall reading doesn’t reset to 0 at midnight.
It doesn’t appear that Thermor supports their software anymore. Both of these would be trivial to fix if the source code was available but it’s hard to rewrite the front end and correct problem #1 without direct access to the instruments data stream. Simply using the data in their database won’t be an effective solution because you’ll still lose your data anytime the power (hardwired or battery/wireless) goes out.
Hi
I have managed to get a simple test program to work with the data from the Bios station
so I can now get WD to work with this station
but only if the weather analyser program runs at the same time (and then I am able to listen in on the USB data stream)
So yes I can add support for this station now 
I note that this station does not have a external humidity sensor though…only internal!
you can test run my test program:
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/biosreader.zip
Hi
the latest .zip update of WD has support added for the Bios weather station (see under misc weather station types)
note that you need to leave the software that comes with it running
also I have set the outdoor humidity to be the indoor humidity
Is there a wd version for download that supports the bios/thermor BW976 station?
I have downloaded every version I see and none have bios on it. I know I had one that supported it until my pc crashed.
By the way I saw some old posts looking for the weather Analyzer software. I can upload it if there is a place on the website for uploads
Hi
try build 81 maybe?
I used the wh1081 with my bios station when I had one. Then select with weather analyzer running.
PS I know this was an old thread but if someone searches they might find it like I did.