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1. Image Viewer IM AGES File Composite GOES Lightning Radar Hurricane NHC Model Forecast Misc Loop The Image Viewer allows you to look at single images chosen from the main window or loop up to ten time lapsed pictures from the Image Menu If multiple graphics are available the Loop option will light up and begin cycling through the images You may start and stop the looping via that menu Also you can change the delay interval from the Loop option Edit HealEMWIN ImageMenu txt to modify the menus for the Image Viewer similar to the main RealEMWIN text display area NOTE This will not automatically update the images For that you need to utilize slideshow mode described later in this document RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 15 ADD INS FTP Engine This feature allows you to catch up on bulletins transmitted over the last 15min 1hou 3hours few hours 7ext will retrieve the TXT Text EN x files and mages gets GIF and JPG mages K El Ei pictures Choose from the previous 15 minutes 60 minutes or three hours The FTP service IS NOT RELIABLE so don t worry if you get a lot of refused or aborted connections County Lookup OHz0S1 OHZO025 OHZO0S30 OHZ014 OHZO089 OHZO7S OHZO35 OHZO59 OHZO79 OHZO70 OHZ040 OHZO52 OHZOS3 OHZO78 OHZO72 OHZ041 OH2Z048 OHZ0268 OHZO11 OHZ042 OHZ004 Tone Code Search Enter State Code I Facility List County Ashland Ashtabul2. RealEMWIN User s Manual Page2 REALEMWIN AT WORK RealEMWIN v1 6 Professional Version File Quick Bulletins Add ins Edit Help TORNADO SEVERE WATCH w KEWUX TX AKCYS WY KCLE 0H KCAE SC KBOI ID KBMX AL KABQ NM KWBC A KWBC MD KTOP KS KTBW FL KSTL MO KSLC UT KSFO CA KSEA WA KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY Dirt Track KSDF KY Racing Spri KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY KSDF KY QUSE VY SWOMCD 10 28 00 8 23 39 PM start amp ll RK 30 83 nbox M amp jabout bl f RealEM f SNRLBB ff SWOMC 8g d epm 4t E due 8 23 PM Notice a tropical storm discussion displayed on screen as well as the alarm Scroll Box in action with the latest Severe Weather Mesoscale Discussion SWOMCD HealEMWIN minimizes into the system tray as a thunderstorm symbol in the system tray which you can right click to automatically select from the five most recently received bulletins RealEMWIN User s Manual Page3 SETUP Download the latest release of the software from the Skywatch Services home page Run the self extracting installation program and you are ready to start receiving data After executing for the first time the software will ask if it should create the default directories which are as follows gt C Weather EMWINN DataN TXT files gt C Weather EMWINN HourlyVVXN Hourly o
3. an office override in that file Type in the name of a NWS Office you want more data from and xx copies of each product will be saved regardless of the product type For products that aren t in the RealEMWIN MainMenu txt file the generic purge setting from the RealEMWIN configuration menu are utilized The timer setting from the configuration screen is also in effect so if you tell it to archive 97 TOH s it will still delete any older than xx hours To keep them make sure you set xx higher if needed RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 19 NETWORKING If you have your ingest connected to a LAN other computers on your system can run HealEMWIN just like the hardware is hooked up right to that computer EMWIN Network handles the data distribution Ingest computer running RealEMWIN locally with 3 connected users eb After configuring RealEMWIN on the Ingest computer go to the HealEMWIN Ingest module and Configure the Ingest Path to something like CN weatherNincomingN and restart Run EMWIN Network and set the incoming data directory to that same directory Pick an outgoing directory to store the data for example c weather outgoing and make sure it is set to SHARED with Full Read Write Access Enter the directory count which is the total number of RealEMWIN clients you would use in the above example it would be 4 Click auto start if you want the program to start processing data when yo
4. clicking are quick links to print email or page the selected bulletin to list all text bulletins or images saved and to add the current header to the Alarm List To compress and expand the RealEMWIN window click on the blue lt or gt in the middle of the screen which changes the screen size HealEMWIN will continue to receive data while compressed or hidden Click on METAR to display the last 12 hours worth of observation reports Even though the files are sent with a checksum in some occasions you may get an unzip error with the SAHOURLY or SAORCMUS files If that happens RealEMWIN will attempt to unzip the file the next time it is sent that hour Once you have something displayed you can jump back and forth between older and newer products stored on your hard drive by using the lt and gt buttons on the top row of the screen or by hitting your F7 F8 keys RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 8 Image Viewer File Composite GOES Lightning Radar Hurricane Model Misc L p RUE Ai gw iX When you click on an image file instead of a text product a separate image display area will pop up You may resize this window to suit and when you close and re open the settings will be retained For a loop of the available imagery while in standalone mode go to the image window you may either select a single image or click the computer icon on the main window From there choose an image via the menu interfa
5. ingest Internet Allows for manual retrieval of data from the Internet RCM Unzip Run the RCM Unzip file upon receipt of new data to prepare SAORCMUS for GDRCM program Bulletin Use a descriptive name for incoming datafiles instead of Descriptions the standard NWS code METAR If checked will automatically display incoming METAR local airport observations when received separate multiple sites with a comma for example KORD KDTW KTOL Reverse If checked will display observations from old to new EMAIL While you set your personal email in the configuration section up to 100 groups are defined in the textfile email users txt which you can modify with any text editor Enter a descriptive name OFFICE LUCAS COUNTY followed by a comma separated list of email addresses RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 6 OPERATIONS Assuming all is well with your hardware and configuration products should begin showing up in the lower left listbox Live box as soon as you save the configuration The status display area keeps you informed about the product being received as data arrives Descriptions of the file naming convention as well as a list of local NWS site identifiers are available in under the Help menu To view one of the products simply click on it with your mouse Once you click inside either listbox you can also move up and down with your cursor keys To manually view a bulletin type the pro
6. preset email addresses Play audio wav file or use system beep Send to alpha numeric pager Shell the command line specified in alarm exe txt Only process alarm if current time falls within limits of the AM PM sliders on the right side You can hit Sort Alarms at any time to list the alarms alphabetically FEEDBACK will get all FEE FED products Pager support provided by abcPager from Spinning Hat Software download and TESTVWARN allows you to test the alarm functions You can do so by creating a text file called TESTWARN TXT with anything in it then copy that file to your Data In directory It will be processed and distributed using whatever alarm methods you have enabled install from http skywatch org RealEMWIN abcPager zip if needed RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 11 As products are received they wil be compared against your alarm settings and handled appropriately For email alarms if you are not connected to the Internet then HealEMWIN will automatically dial up for you assuming your Internet connection is properly configured If a scrollbox alarm pops up you can resize the box To display the entire bulletin click on the scrolling text which also closes the scrollbox If an audio alarm activates the sound will repeat every 10 seconds until you click on File Mute Audio Ctri M F 10 or the Mute Button which looks like a speaker on top of the Image Button on the main scr
7. RVICES Hobert P Dale 328 N Canal Rd Lansing MI 48917 rdale skywatch org HEALEMWIN V7 7 REGISTRATION FORM Name a Address _ Fax ROREM __ Check __ Money Order Please include 69 95 payable to Skywatch Services Online credit card registration available at http skywatch arg realemwin htrl RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 29
8. Real MWIN USER S MANUAL BRINGING REAL TIME WEATHER BULLETINS AND INFORMATION TO YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 1 INTRODUCTION HealEMWIN software was developed by Skywatch Services to assist in downloading and displaying weather wire data transmitted over the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network EMWIN Products available range from your local weather conditions and forecast to severe weather watches and warnings to satellite and radar graphics all available within seconds of being transmitted from the National Weather Service And information is not limited to the United States as bulletins from Canada Mexico and many international locations are available HealEMWIN can function on its own with either a GOES satellite feed or VHF reception via local rebroadcast or via Internet with thanks to ByteBlaster servers across the country The shareware version uses a 14 day free trial before limiting you to two alarms and 1 hour of operation although you can reload as often as you like Registration costs 69 95 and can be sent directly to Skywatch A Frequently Asked Questions FAQ list is on the Skywatch Services website so if after reviewing the documentation you still need help check there If you still need help after the FAG drop us an email For more information on EMIWIN check these web locations http www skywatch org http iwin nws noaa gov emwin index htm
9. a Inland Ashtabula Lakeshore Athens Auglaize Belmont Brown Butler Carroll Champaign Clark Clermont Clinton Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Cuyahoga Darke Defiance RealEMWIN User s Manual If you are unfamiliar with your local NWS office or associated zone codes go to the County Code lookup under Help Enter a two letter state code and the UGC Zone Code and local NWS ID wil be returned Use the UGC code for any filters in the HealEMWIN button file Page 16 Paging Setup If you have abcPager installed configure it from the Add Ins Dialup 5551 234 G Pager i 009850 Ese User ROB Characters 230 menu Under Dialup enter the Max Pages 5 modem connection for your Baud paging provider not your e 300 Pari Data Sto actual pager number Enter amp 1200 E i CE 61 your number some services 2400 use a ghost number and a 9500 C8 CN e Exit username of your choice Then input the maximum number of characters per page your provider accepts and finally the maximum number of pages you want per bulletin For example if a lengthy bulletin were sent to pager in this case only the first 5 230 1150 characters will be sent the rest will be dropped Finally configure the modem connection defaults as per your paging company Select Compress Warnings if you want the default f
10. accordingly HTML files will end in html text in txt and WAP files will be split up to no larger than 1600 k and uploaded with the wml extension RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 24 ADVANCED INFORMATION Here are some features that most users will not need to access If you have more than one EMWIN hardware package connected to your computer you may use one as the primary port and the other as a backup port Edit the file Ingest BACKUP txt and turn on backup support If no information is received on the primary port for 15 seconds it will switch to the backup and alarm you with a scrollbox If you have the recheck set it will turn off the backup and turn on the primary as often as you have it configured to do so If no data is received on the primary for 15 seconds it switches to the backup again and continues the loop until the primary port is active again You can also manually switch the ports under File Switch Some mail servers onelist com for example have problems with the linefeed characters used in the EMWIN files If that happens to you create a file called striplf txt in your RealEMWIN directory and restart HealEMWIN the file can have anything in it or even be empty Linefeeds will be removed from all outgoing email messages which usually fixes it If emailtag txt exists the text in it will be included with all alarm email messages that are sent If pager tag txt exists the text
11. bs and radar gt C Weather EMWIN ImagesN GIF JPG graphics gt C Weather EMWINN ArchiveN Archive Custom Alarms If you dont like these choices please edit them using the configuration form If you select directories that do not already exist on your hard drive RealEMWIN will automatically create the directories for you NOTE If you change these directories at any time you MUST shut down and restart RealEMWIN in order to enable the alarm settings RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 4 CONFIGURATION E Configuration Ox C Sende Mode Standalone C Network Intern Feed Iv US F N America F Pacific Comm Port Baud Text c Weather EMWIN Datal E Mail F Expand Headers fi mages c Weathen EMWIN Images Server telocity com Audio C Unlimited Restrict Once H ourly cAWeathenEMWIN Hourly wX Personal rdale skywatch org Data In d software realemwin v1l 7 track transfer Idle Alert 5 Custom c Weathen EMWIN Archive C E Mail memei TIR UTR WwxPLOT cec r wet m Loca WEO S pn foo fu C Pager V METAR v Reverse Purge Time 48 Delay KDLH Prods 3 Operational Mode Connect directly to serial port run with a network server or use ByteBlaster Internet Network mode will NOT start up the default comport ingest routine CommPort Baud Serial Port and Data Rate of Ingest Hardware Directories Location to store da
12. ce and all available images will loop To stop or slow the loop click on the Loop menu You may open multiple loop windows by repeatedly clicking the computer icon on the main window The default Image menu may contain graphics that are not always sent on EMWIN so don t worry if you keep looking for Houston lightning and it s never there The EMWIN feed is very fluid especially regarding graphics which is why made the menu file very easy for you to edit as changes are made RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 9 ALARM CONFIGURATION Watching the products as they come in can be fun and educational but not time effective when you are interested in being notified upon receipt of the latest weather information Go to File Alarm Settings and let HealEMWIN do the work for you 3 EMVVIN Alarms Fe SC F8 EN ET S8 I E ADMNFD No None None None All Yes g AFDCLE No None None None Yes No No No FEEDBACK No None None None 2 Yes No No No No No No Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No Yes FFA No None None None FFW No None None None SAW No None None None SLSMI No None None None SWOMCD Yes None None None TOR No None None None W MIZO61 No Yes Yes ilert5 None None E T 2 Time Range Time I ojojojo jojojojo Su Yes No No Yes ei Product State Print Dfsplayr Custom Scroll Compress Log p List ae Ec Display in text window TUE Pager Clear No
13. d select option 1 Follow the explanation provided to draw a map of your area of interest then enter the county zone information and convert it After that s complete you may add it to the map section in your WXPlot Setup file Please send any accurate backgrounds as an attached file to maps skywatch org and we will include it in the next release The following products are plotted e Tornado Watches and Warnings e Severe Thunderstorm Watches and Warnings e Flash Flood Watches and Warnings Enable this by setting a custom alarm for the product desired i e SVR will plot all Severe Thunderstorm Warnings nationwide NOTE WXPLOT IS NOT A PART OF REALEMWIN IT IS PROVIDED AS A SERVICE TO REALEMWIN USERS BUT PROBLEMS WITH WXPLOT ARE NOT A FAULT OF REALEMWIN OR SKYWATCH SERVICES RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 23 HTML CONVERTER Would you like to upload some of the EMWIN data files to your webserver How about configure them for access from your WAP enabled cellphone or PDA web browser That s what the HTML Converter does for you Begin the process by setting custom alarms for the products you want uploaded The wildcard is acceptable so GHH will send all products from NWS Grand Rapids while TOR will send all Tornado Warning nationwide After configuring the custom alarms simply start the HTML Converter program set up your FTP information and it will check every 20 seconds for new files and then process
14. duct s filename in the Request entry box If you are unsure of the exact name try using the or as a wildcard i e TORPH will display the latest Tornado Warning from Philadelphia If the product you request is not on your hard drive and the Internet box is checked in the configuration area RealEMWIN will search the online EMWIN archives for the bulletin if a full 8 character EMWIN filename is entered i e SWRCLEOH To print a text file select a product and go to File Print You may also email a product with Send Email To quickly select an address from your configuration screen check one or more of the presets Save a file under a different name and or different directory on your hard drive with Save File or send it to pagers with Send Page If you would like to do a search of all available products by state country or forecast office enter the ID in the WFO area Examples OH GRR KWNH A list of all bulletins valid for that location will be listed in the upper left listbox where you can display the products with the mouse and or cursor arrows RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 7 The search is instantaneous but you may instruct HealEMWIN to recheck every 30 seconds by moving your mouse over the upper left listbox and right clicking Select Auto Update and the filter will continually rerun and display the revised results in the FILTER listbox Note the other options with right
15. e s M US None E Alarm File Sort by Prod Sort by Zone C Defaut C Rob s File3 C File4 C Fie5 add Ex amp on Type a product header into the Product box using or as wildcards or enter by right clicking from the main menu listbox and selecting Add to alarms Alarms based on the latest hourly weather observation can be set by using METAR as the code and alarms for the special off hourly reports are activated with the SPECI code If you use wildcards note that the length of the alarm must equal the length of the product desired MI will alarm all products intended for Michigan while MIA will get all Miami products SWR will get nothing it should be SWR After setting the alarm options see the next page click Add to insert the alarm to the list To copy edit or delete previously configured alarms left click to highlight the item from the list and then right click to copy edit or delete RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 10 ALARM TYPES Vv Vv VV VW VW VW VW VW VW WV Y Print Display Custom Scroll Compress Log List Email Alert Pager EXE Time Send to default printer Show in the main text display window Copy the file into the Custom directory Pop up scroll box click on scrollbox to view text Check to compress words within bulletin Append to weather txt in the RealEMWIN directory Add the product to the ALARM listbox Send to
16. een while an alarm is active The alarm will turn off automatically after 5 minutes if Limit Audio is checked on the configuration screen If you enter a graphical filename for an alarm it will display when received no email or other alerting with graphics In order to trim down the alarm list there is a special alarm code called WARP This covers a Tornado Severe Thunderstorm Flood and Flash Flood Warning TOR SVR FFW FLW This allows you to enter WARMIA on one line instead of three separate lines for TORMIA SVHMIA FFWMIA FLWMIA If you do use this option do NOT use wildcards in the WAR alarm WAR will NOT work RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 12 ADVANCED ALARMS Many options are available to you that allow for filtering of the bulletins based on county location All warning products and some forecast amp watch products are encoded with FIPS codes or UGC codes which RealEMWIN utilizes After selecting a product header in the Product textbox the State and County items will activate if that particular product uses the code Now you have the option to select a particular state and zone to further filter the alarm For example if have TORGRR set as a printer alarm all Tornado Warnings from Grand Rapids will be printed can also set TORGRR as a Pager alarm and select MI Ingham so that am only paged for warnings if they are issued for one specific county T
17. o filter multiple counties re enter the product header for each individual county of interest To enable the alarm for any product valid for a particular state select the product and state then ANY COUNTY in the county listbox This is useful for products like the Tornado Severe Thunderstorm Watches SEL or Mesoscale Discussions SWOMCD One additional option is the filter zone checkbox next to the county name This checkbox will appear for products such as Zone Forecasts State Weather Roundups and more that use UGC coding If the box to the right of the county selection is checked the alarm will only return the portion of the bulletin that affects your chosen county For example zone forecasts will only print out one section hourly weather only shows one region etc Alarms with the zone filter enabled will show up with a after the zone number in the listing Some products are sent with a UGC of STZOOO or STZALL where ST is the state the bulletin is intended for All counties in that state will be activated for such a product RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 13 File Quick Bulletins Add ins Edit Help MENUS HealEMWIN comes with a completely configurable menu system Quick allows you easy access to bulletins that you use the most This is also where you can view and clear the weather txt log file and check your incoming data status Edit the RealEMW IN Quick txt file in your installation directo
18. of that file will be sent at the start of all pager alarms Put lowercase txt in your RealEMWIN directory again it can be empty to save all products ingested with completely lowercase filenames All email sent will be logged to a file called email log txt which indicates the product type whether it was alarm based or manually sent time and recipient A similar file called pager log txt works with the paging system If your email provider requires a username password combo to send mail create a file called blat output txt in your RealEMWIN directory with u name whatever com pw email password RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 25 Associated Files Dictionary realemwin txt o Used for compressed alarms Modify any included words remove if you don t want them abbreviated or add any other words and abbreviations you would like FIPS63 txt o County FIPS Codes for Watch Warnings Pager Tag txt o If present will send a tag line prior to all pages can be deleted Email Tag txt o If present will send a tag line prior to all email can be deleted ZoneCode csv o County Name NWS Office correlation updated frequently check the webpage Stations csv o METAR Site identifiers AFOS List csv o AFOS Files in database format Alarm EXE txt o Configurable shell command for EXE alarms full product path and filename are sent as the first argument in the command County Prod txt o List of EMWIN header
19. or alarm text to fit on one page This does NOT override any alarms you already set just a default when entering the listings Lii Fi Group Paging Iof XI Group 1 Dialup fi 284567 Characters 200 Group Paging To page mutiple users or users with different paging companies than your default utilize the group paging The a leary Daa Sp main configuration similar to C 1200 the personal paging setup C 2400 9 9 e however in this case you can 9600 C8 CN C2 Ext enter up to 10 separate pagers numbers You are allotted up to 10 groups for a maximum of 101 different pager setups 5347324 RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 17 ADDITIONAL FEATURES For more information on RealEMWIN news and discussions join the mailing list by sending subscribe realemwin to majordomo onehop com Search Edit Features When displaying a text product you can select text and right click to perform all the standard cut n paste Windows functions Also under the edit menu are a keyword search or Ctrl F for Find and Ctrl N for find next and a zone code search or F2 You will find the station names sorted by METAR ID under Help Internet Mode If you have Internet enabled from the configuration menu and you are online while running RealEMWIN the software will search the Internet for any filenames you enter in the Request TXT box that are no
20. puters The city could run EMWIN Network amp Ingest on the main computer EMWIN Network is set for 3 users and Fire Police EMS each run EMWIN Network on their main computers with Incoming Data set to the Outgoing Data of Ingest Then their individual users connect internally so the city s main server isn t overloaded f you are using the Internet backup with the network distribution module make sure the network line is checked underneath File in the Internet Engine RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 21 COMM PORT RETRANSMITTING A new feature of RealEMWIN involves sending reformatted data out another commport on your computer This involves the add on EMWIN CommOut program To enable this feature run the program then configure your data directory should match the Custom directory in RealEMWIN the commport you want to use and the baudrate for outgoing data Shut down and restart to save your settings and the watcher will be active Data is put into that directory by setting a Custom alarm in RealEMWIN So if you re interested in warnings from Grand Rapids NWS office being formatted using the old Weatherwire headers and transmitted set VVARGRR as a custom alarm Now when any product matching that alarm is received it is copied into the custom directory EMWIN CommoOut is always watching that directory and when it finds a file there it reads it in to determine the appropriate headers adds the Weathe
21. rwire data to the beginning and end of the product and feeds it out via your commport NOTE This is NOT an EMWIN retransmission engine It is primarily used to feed crawl systems that need data in the old weatherwire format and or external alarms that are triggered with serial port voltage RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 22 WATCH AND WARNING PLOT Thanks to the contribution of Scott Plischke of the National Weather Service office in Amarillo RealEMWIN now interacts with WXPlot which enables dynamic watch and warning mapping VWXPlot can be downloaded and easily installed from the RealEMWIN website Make sure that when you unzip WXPlot you check Use Folder Names so that all files are sent into their correct locations wxplot bin wxplot inbox etc Then set your main directory usually c wxplot in the RealEMWIN configuration screen First you need to click on WXPlot Setup and scroll down to option 4 There you will see a fairly self explanatory setup file The primary area of interest is line 23 25 with time zone information If you do not store the EMWIN text files in c weatherNemwinN archive you will need to modify lines 158 162 with the proper directories Following that are several advanced options you are welcome to modify Save the file and you are ready to map The package comes with many backgrounds contributed by NWS Offices and HealEMWIN users If you would like to make your own go to the WXPlot setup an
22. ry using the for the wildcard if needed If you enter a wildcard or partial filename the search results will be listed in the FILTER listbox however if you use a full product header the latest bulletin will be automatically displayed To use the older 8 character EMWIN filenaming use a For example SVWRNYCNY If you d like to display a descriptive name in the Quick menu instead of the raw filename use a at the end of the product name then enter your descriptive name i e TORGRR Tornado Warning Bulletins is where most of the standard EMWIN products can be accessed Modify RealEMVWIN MainMenu txt to add new products remove products you don t use or move lines around BUTTONS TORNADO SEVERE warcH FORECAST HOURLY One touch buttons are included for the fastest easiest access to preset bulletins Edit HealEMWIN Button txt for up to 9 button definitions The first characters of the line are used as the caption followed by the EMWIN product header If you want to filter by UGC code for forecasts observations etc NOT WARNINGS use and then the full UGC code such as MIZOG7 following the product header For example ZFPGRRIMIZO67 will only show you that portion of the Zone Forecast from Grand Rapids that is valid for Ingham County Michigan To use the old 8 character EMWIN filename substitute for the P ie SWRSATTX TXZ08 1 RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 14
23. s that use UGC codes SlideShow txt o List of products to loop in a slideshow Alert wav through alert9 wav o Audio files for alarms can be modified with your own wav files Emaillog txt RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 26 o Heports all email sent or alarmed Pager log txt o Listing of all pages sent or alarmed Email users txt o Used to configure additional email groups Printer font txt o Sets the printer fontsize Status txt o Report on data reception archived as status IMMDDYY txt o View it from the Quick menu Product List txt o EMWIN Header Abbreviations viewable from the Help menu Facility List txt o Listing of NWS Offices and ID s view with Help Lowercase txt o If present will save all bulletins using lower case filenames StripLF txt o If present will remove all linefeed characters chr10 before sending email messages Ingest BACKUP txt o For users with multiple EMWIN ingest hardware connected to your computer serial ports Blat output txt o Editthis file to send special commands to the Blat email software RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 27 Weather txt o Text file created via alarms with Log setting enabled o View and or clear under Guick RealEMWIN MainMenu txt o Configure product purge times o Configure color combinations HealEMWIN ImageMenu txt HealEMWIN Quick txt HealEMWIN Button txt o Modifiable menus for main and image forms RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 28 SKYWATCH SE
24. t on your hard drive Use the old 8 character EMWIN filename You may override the local search and force a download of Internet data by hitting F12 or File Internet Mode The Request box will turn green and now any products you enter will be downloaded from the Internet until you toggle the Internet switch All data successfully retrieved will be saved on your hard drive using the correct filename for future retrieval If you have an alarm for the particular product retrieved it will be activated RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 18 Slideshow Mode For occasions where the system wil be running without human intervention a slideshow mode is available Edit slideshow txt with desired text and or image products Use a zone based filter for forecasts watches and more NOT warnings by entering a after the product and then the full UGC county code OHZOO37 To activate a slideshow select the menu option under File Do not manually select products while in slideshow mode turn it off first While the slideshow is running image loops will be automatically updated with new pictures as received Purging Products Notice RealEMWIN MainMenu txt now has lines that end in a That is the number of archive copies to keep of a particular product type So if you type in 4 you ll have 5 copies of that type of product saved If you type O you ll have 1 copy If you type 1 you wont save any of those files There also is
25. ta files Text txt htm files Images gif jpg graphics Hourly raw surface obs radar reports Data In location to retrieve new files from Custom location to copy custom alarmed files WXPLOT Directory of WXPLOT map plotting software usually CN wxplotN Local WFO s Three letter ID of NWS offices that have products highlighted in the receive listboxes amp LOCAL list RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 5 Purge Time Number of hours to hold data Prods Number of old products to archive O to 9 For example if set to 3 it will save 1 new copy and 3 older versions US NA Pacific If checked will display bulletins from those regions Audio Length of time to sound audio alarms Restrict 5 minutes before muting automatically time setting configurable in RealEMWIN MainMenu txt file Compress Bulletins When manually emailing compress bulletins used to fit messages sent via email to pager gateways Expand Headers If checked will make the subject line a detailed description Tornado Warning GRR instead of TOHRGHH Server SMTP mail server outgoing Personal Your email address Idle Alert Send message to your personal pager and or personal email if no new bulletins are received for Delay minutes Select the I Net option if you would like RealEMWIN to automatically start up the Internet feed when the signal is lost from the satellite
26. u run it otherwise click GO and data will be flowing into the output directories On the Ingest computer configure RealEMWIN s Data In directory to use the outgoing directory followed by a where any number from 1 through the directory count you entered in EMWIN Network In this case use cC weather outgoing 1 On your networked computers configure HealEMWIN for Network mode and the Data In directories to NNingestN c weather outgoing 2 ingest c weather outgoingN 3 NNingestN c weather outgoing 4 and when RealEMWIN restarts you will start seeing data flowing live into all four computers RealEMWIN User s Manual Page 20 Ingest computer NOT running RealEMWIN locally with 3 connected users o In this case you still need to configure RealEMWIN as before on the Ingest machine However EMWIN Network only needs a data directory count of 3 since Ingest won t be running RealEMWIN on it After setting things up on Ingest you only need to run RealEMWIN Ingest on the ingest machine and not the entire RealEMWIN program Set the LAN user machines up as in the previous example One other option for users distant from the main ingest involves running the Ingest and EMWIN Network on a host computer then running EMWIN Network on several remote computers and letting those secondary copies of EMWIN Network handle the user distribution For example let s say a city wants to send EMWIN data to Fire Police and EMS com
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