25
24
Meteotime Fiesta
- Weather Info Center
F: Outdoor transmitter (Fig. 3):
F 1:
Battery compartment
F 2:
Stand (removable) with wall mount hole
6. Getting started
• Open the battery compartment of the outdoor sensor and the basic station.
• Remove the battery insulation strip.
• The basic station will automatically scan for the radio-controlled clock signal
and the Meteotime weather signal.
• The device will alert you with a beep and all LCD segments will be displayed
for a short moment.
• The time signal symbol will be flashing and
SUCHE SIG.
(
SEARCH
in English)
appears on the display.
• The time and date signal will be received after a few minutes. Since there is
a large amount of weather information for all regions and days, the unit
needs about 24 hours from the time of the initial setup to complete the
reception of all data.
• If the basic station is able to receive the Meteo-
time signal successfully, the Meteotime icon
appears in the second row of the display. Other-
wise, the Meteotime icon will be
.
Symbol
→
Weather information
is received completely
Symbol
→
Weather information
is incomplete
• If the Meteotime icon changes to
, that means
there are potential sources of interference on
the unit. The sources of interference may come
from the electronics equipment such as TV-set,
computers, household machines etc. It may also
be due to lots of concrete, metal parts and elec-
trical equipment in the building. It may also be
due to your living area if it is very far away from
the radio-controlled clock tower.
• You may use the TEST function to find a better
location
• Press the [TEST
✔
] button,
EMPF.TEST
(
SCAN
in
English) appears in the display.
Meteotime Fiesta
- Weather Info Center
• Take the basic station to find a good location.
•
flashing: The test is running and the Meteotime signal reception is good.
You may leave the device in this position.
•
flashing: The test is running and the Meteotime signal reception is poor.
You need to keep on looking for a better location.
• The test lasts about 1 minute. You can restart the test with the [TEST
✔
] but-
ton at any time, and also discontinue the test by pressing the [TEST
✔
] button.
•
SCAN
: the signal strength will be indicated from 1 (very bad) to 9 (very
good).
6.1 Switch time and date
city
alarm
• You may press the [SET] button to switch from the display of the time and
date to city, weekday alarm (W-ALM), single alarm (S-ALM) and pre-alarm (P-
ALM).
6.2 Select the country and the city
• Press and hold the SET button for 3 seconds,
LAND EINST.
(
COUNTRY
in Eng-
lish) appears in the display. Press the [
▲
] or [
▼
] button to select the country.
Press the [SET] button to confirm the country.
STADT EINST
(
CITY
in English)
appears in the display.
• Then, press the [
▲
] or [
▼
] button to select the city
• Press the [SET] button to accept the setting.
• In the display appears
EINST.VORG.
(
EXIT
in English)
6.3 Activate favourites
• Once you have set your city as described above, you may select more cities
for easy access. Instead of terminating the setting with the [SET] button, you
continue as follows:
• If ‘Frankfurt am Main’ is your selection as one of your favourite cities,
then press the [TEST
✔
] button to confirm. A
✔
will be shown on top of
your selected city, and it will be stored into your personal memory list.
• Now, you may press the [
▲
] or [
▼
] button to select more cities in the same
country, and then press the [TEST
✔
] button to confirm.
• If you wish to select cities from different countries, you have to exit the
setting with the [SET] button and re-enter it again as described above in
order to change the country.
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