Can you help trouble shoot Sharper Image Internet Weather Station EC-WS115?

Hi Stefan:

I too get the date 2/11. This has happened before where I don't get the Date, Time or weather. At that time I reinstalled the software and the bug did not go away. What did happen was after a few days I dont remember how many but more than 3 the problem went away on its own. My guess at the time was that the WS was not receiving the data. You seem to have determined that the data is coming in but not being interpreted properly. Why two different WS would simultaneously develop a bug that gives the same wrong date and time seems unlikely. What tool did you use to intercept the data and send the correct epoch to the WS? Is it available online?

I tried changing my computer date to 11/2/2011 and updating, I still get the wrong time and the date stays 11/2 and no data as all the weather data is set to zeros. Sorry I can't be of more help.

ept8202

I'm having a weird problem with this weather station too in receiving weather forecast data, and I think I've figured it out where it goes wrong but didn't find a solution yet..

This is what the software (V1.1) is doing for communicating with the server:

First it's getting the time:

http://server2.netinfostation.com/gettime2.php

Result will look like "13385041 1338504189 22:43:09 May-31-2012"

Then it tries to receive the weather forecast data:

http://server2.netinfostation.com/getweather.php?city=105976783

Result looks scrambled, but that's okay.

In the application, I can see the time showing up on the Home Weather tab. The time looks fine, but the date is off. Today it shows time as "2/11", while in fact it should be "31/5".

Looking at the data received for the gettime action, the second number appears to be the epoch for 31 May 2012 22:43:09 GMT.

Using a tool to intercept data from server and putting in my own response, I fiddled around with the epoch and found out that if I change this to "1325119180" it would show the correct date and time, and actually retrieves weather data.

So... my conclusion is that the current time/date code as received from the server is wrongly interpreted by the software, resulting in the software thinking it's November. So when weather data is received for May, it doesn't know what to do with it...

Anybody knows more about this?

Stefan Viveen

Fraser Valley Software

Hope, BC Canada

Software version V1.1.0 (which shows as "Version 1.02" in the Settings window) can be downloaded from the server where it gets it data from as well:

http://server2.netinfostation.com/getapzip2.php?model=NIS01\_INSTALL\_2380

Stefan Viveen

Fraser Valley Software

Hope, BC Canada

I did get it fix  I just had  to keep  fooling  with it  in the  compatibility    issue

I need some way to get a copy to you....

you can contact me direct using my nickname + @aol.com (******@aol.com)

They do have a customer service number  1-888 856 6781  but I think they charge for the software...you can check that out but if you still want a copy from me...I can do that too but need an email address (send zipped file) or snailmail address to send a hard copy 

I am using the software I have with Win7 Pro and have had NO problems using it..just installed the software..connected the sender unit turned on the station and it connected..then you have to set your location....took total of 5 mins and still working.