I installed it in August of 2004 for a story I wrote for Macworld and it’s been running ever since. In the May issue of the Six Colors Magazine-one of the benefits of supporting this site-I did write about it a little. I’ve mentioned the weather station I have in my backyard in passing on this site and on several podcasts I do, but I realize that I’ve never presented the details here. I had a lot less gray hair when I installed my weather station 12 years ago. Use common sense and your past experience when migrating WeatherCat.Note: This story has not been updated for several years. However, most WeatherCat users customize their setups so that additional files may be necessary on the target computer than what has been listed here. This should be sufficient to allow you to move your WeatherCat installation from one computer to another. ![]() Be prepared to enter this information again on the new computer. Keep in mind this process cannot transfer either your registration key for your copy of WeatherCat or anything stored on your OS X keychain like passwords for FTP and electronic mail servers.Otherwise, the Network settings on the iOS app will not be able to find your new computer. If you have been using the iOS WeatherCat app, remember to assign an internal static IP address (DHCP Reservation) to your new computer and forward the WeatherCat ports to the new IP address.Usually this means moving a folder with a name like: WC Custom Web Templates and a corresponding folder that by default is called: WeatherCatCustomWeb The default location for WeatherCatCustomWeb is ~/Library/Application Support, but since you can set these locations for your computer, you must move these folder to the same location as where you had decided to place them on the source computer for the target computer's installation to work properly. Move the files associated with your custom website if you have one running.If you are a Davis weather station user and have needed to use Davis's own WeatherLink software to make adjustments to your console or Weather Envoy, then you should copy the WeatherLink software also to your target computer.If you are using any integration software (for example WeatherCat AppleScripts) you must copy them from your source to target computer and place them in the same directory structure as you have on your source computer.Not all of these folders may be present depending on your WeatherCat configuration. ~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatUpdate.~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatTemp. ![]()
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