Sharper Image Weather Station EC-WS115 not updating

Anonymous
2020-12-07T00:50:36+00:00

Thanks to this community, I have found the software for the Sharper Image EC-WS115, and I've learned how to deal with its USB issues under Windows 10. 

But, it stopped updating the forecast on November 30th, 2020.

The 5-day forecast software gives me an error saying "Cannot connect to server. Please try again later" whenever I try to update the forecast.

Is anyone else having this issue, or just me? Has Foreca shut down the server used to feed information to these devices?

I don't want to send this device to a landfill.

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Anonymous
2020-12-20T19:05:29+00:00

I finally had some success this morning utilizing a workaround that was developed with a lot input from a number of people.  I've created a step-by-step guide as to what I did to get my Sharper Image EC-WS115 5-Day weather forecast station up and running again after the server quit working back on November 30th.  If you use Windows, then this solution should work.  I just got it working this morning, so I haven't fully tested it yet to see if it automatically updates like it used to or if there are any bugs in the code.  If you're interested in taking a peak at the process (5 steps), then download the zip file containing all the files you will need to make it work.  The step-by-step guide is a filed titled 'Read Me.pdf'.  Thanks to all those who did the hard work by decompiling and writing new code in order to make it work.  The zip file can be downloaded here (just click on 'download' in the upper-left-hand corner):  

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yin1t3oqjnyxwe1/5-Day%20Weather%20Forecast%20Workaround.zip?dl=0

Best of luck and Merry Christmas!

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Anonymous
2021-01-01T14:40:14+00:00

Can anyone put a detailed process on how to get the weather station up and running.  I have downloaded the zip files, gone to Weatherbit and got my personal number.  But , I cannot find the file folders that I have to copy other files to.. please help me.  I want  to get my weather station back on line.  Thanks!

Good morning Michael, as Eric mentioned in another post, check the ReadMe.pdf file that has step-by-step instructions on where everything goes.  Here's also a link to a 27-minute video tutorial that steps through each step in detail.  Hope this helps.  Happy New Year!

https://vimeo.com/495872313/ca3d3d378e

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-24T16:23:45+00:00

    Indeed, I seem to have the same problem as Nora. Weather updates fine but transmitting to the received doesn’t really work. I believe I screwed up when swapping USB ports or reinstalling the application. I shouldn’t. I was probably impatient and tried different things before setting up Wamp. To make things worse, I also think that my computer doesn’t go to sleep anymore as it was doing before, probably because of wamp. I’ll fiddle with it some more before giving up. 

    I remember the days when I upgraded to Win 10 and had a hard time to get it to transmit. And, as most of you, I had to unplug and replug after every computer restart, but I got used to that. 

    I also beleive there are 2 version of the 5-days application, one is version 1.0.0 the other is 1.1.0. I could not find the later. To check version, if you find the target of the shortcut and then check properties, details you should be able to see the version. If somebody has the 1.1.0 installation I would appreciate it.

    Again, I really apreciate the workaround and the time Casper took to create the turorial. 

    I had to disable my antivirus, then send the data to the receiver. once it updated I re-enabled antivirus. The step beyond this is to add 5 day forecast.exe to the exceptions in your antivirus. (whitelist it.) if you don't whitelist it, you will have to disable AV every time you want to send to the receiver.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-24T02:50:34+00:00

    Sorry, false alarm. The app was running in the background. The Foreca data service is still inactive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-24T01:24:23+00:00

    Okay, that starts to make sense, if the weather information is coming from another source (Weatherbit).  

    Is that something that we can expect to be durable going forward?  Or does anyone even know.  I'm not trying to be negative, just curious why Weatherbit would allow this.

    BTW, I'd be willing to pay a subscription for weather data to keep the EC-WS115 working.

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