Weather Capture Advance 1.4

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The Weather Capture Advance 1.4 software comes on a disk with the Ventus W831 Weather Station. Multiple languages are offered.

While it provides a wide range of measurements in an attractive and easily readable form there are some problems with the settings options.

The first problem is that full screen viewing is not available despite the usual "Maximise" button being provided.

Here is a larger image of only the [software] viewing screen area captured on a sunny morning in mid April with very light winds and no rain.

Note the very large range of readings available. The screen can be saved as an Excel file or as a text file. Both can be recorded automatically or at many different intervals chosen by the user.

I particularly like the wind rose to indicate wind direction and speed. A handy feature for recording highly complex data. Making it larger would have been desirable but there isn't much room on such a complex graphic.  

The Location settings box is clearly chopped off at the bottom. There is no means to fine tune location despite all the adjustable scales being provided unless one chooses USR [defined] which does not allow any location name to be entered. Otherwise, moving the cursor over them produces no reaction. What is missing at the bottom?





Here the Temperature/Humidity settings adjustment box is chopped off at the right. How can one make any meaningful choices regarding dewpoint? 







These are the display settings for the software chart/screen. [Not the W831 display unit] All is well here with quite a decent range of options.

These are the W831 display screen settings.

Note how the settings box is chopped off on the right. There is no settings confirmation button so one can only press 'Enter' on the computer keyboard to confirm changes. Rain and Wind cannot be altered.

BTW: I have adjusted all the box sizes in PhotoFiltre image handling software. In reality each Settings adjustment box has its own size.

I tried uninstalling and reloading the software without any noticeable change.

To add to the confusion this is how the software appears on Ventus' own product website:

As can be seen it is completely unlike anything on the supplied disk.

I have contacted Ventus by email to see if this software is available.

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