Weather Forecaster Installation Instructions
This setup is almost as easy as the old standalone days... It is definitely the easiest of any other I have seen....this is assuming your receiver is already hooked up to tv and satellite dish and ready to go.
Personally, I would do a factory default, reset settings, and do a fresh scan of the sats.
Make sure your WF is hooked to your receiver via serial cable, make sure your network cable is hooked to your internet connection, via whatever your source, direct, router, etc... and also make sure power cable to WF is plugged in, then...
1. Load Factory firmware
Upgrade main S/W to the receiver through USB.
-. Ultra lite : PFTAUSW-100322UL (Ultra lite) or
-. Ultra : PFTAUSW-100322U (Ultra)
2. Go to installation => Serial Setup => Network Setup => Network setting => put your IP
-. If you use DHCP, just put the DHCP in Network setting. (Most will use DHCP)
3. Go to installation => Serial Setup => Network Setup => Network S/W upgrade => Start Upgrade.
-. Then the S/W for WF will be upgrade automatically.
Once the above is done, your stb flashed, used the serial setup to set networking settings, updated the WF via Network s/w upgrade... you are ready to test the weather feature.
To do this:
1. Go to installation => Serial Setup => Regional Weather
2. Choose Region => Pick your location or close by location
3. Move down to Get Regional Weather => Press Ok
4. Depending on your internet connection it may take up to 2 minutes to download Regional Weather Information.
Note: Weather Forcast feature is only available on factory firmware (100318 or 100322)
To get channels:
4. Load Latest firmware
Upgrade main S/W to the receiver through USB.
-. Ultra lite : PFTAUSW-100320UL (Ultra lite) or
-. Ultra : PFTAUSW-100320U (Ultra)
5. Go to installation => Serial Setup => Network Setup => Network S/W upgrade => Start Upgrade.
-. Then the S/W for WF will be upgrade automatically.