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Shutter Weather Protect          - starts an automatic closing of the shutter in case of bad                                                   weather.
                                                  For more information see:
                                                  Weather stations support

Weather Scan Interval             - the time interval the data from the weather station
                                                  will be updated
 
Lo/Hi Wind Speed (km/h)         - the limit of wind speed
from 0 to Lo                              - the weather is calm
from Lo to Hi                            - weak wind
above Hi                                   - strong wind

When the wind speed exceeds the Hi value the software prohibits opening the shutter and running Sync With Wind mode.


Weather Station Panel
Weather Station Type - choose the type of your weather station, if you do not have any weather station, type in this box value: None
Current Weather Data File Name - the name of the file to which the station logs its meteorological data
the arrow next to the name field opens the dialogue for choosing  the file’s name

Cloud Sensor Comfig Panel

Cloud Sensor Station Type - choose the type of your cloud sensor, if you do not have any sensor, type in the field value: None

Cloud Sensor Camera Ip Address - IP address of the image taken from CCTV camera connected to a video server monitoring the sky above the observatory. For example for the Grand IP Video Server video server type it will be address: http://192.168.1.105/Jpeg/CamImg.jpg

Current Cloud Sensor Status FileName - file’s name where the Cloud Sensor saves the data about the cloudiness, the arrow next to the name field opens dialogue of choosing  the file’s name

Boltwood Cloud Sensor Log Directory - the directory’s name in which the Boltwood Cloud Sensor creates daily cloudiness logs (files with names are in the format yyyy-mm-dd.txt, eg 2009-10-08.txt), the arrow next to the name field opens dialogue of choosing  the file’s name