My Weatherdirect boxes don't work anymore

*sniff* Weatherdirect has shut down its forecast service for their wireless forecasters that connected to the internet.

My unit(s) stopped working a couple of weeks ago and I read this on weatherdirect.com:

August 9th, 2017

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING WEATHER DIRECT FORECASTING SERVICE

If you are currently utilizing a WD- or WA- Series (Model # begins with WD- or WA-) weather station to receive forecasts, please read on for important information about your station.

Due to changing technology, reduced demand and a changing market-place that is driven by connected devices and phones, we will be discontinuing our Weather Direct Forecasting Service to all WA- and WD- Devices effective August 31st, 2017.

device We apologize for any inconvenience that discontinuing service on your Weather Direct station will or may cause. Current Weather Direct users should have received an email notification of this as well, and a second email will be sent with more information on possible replacement items for your unit.

It is our goal to exceed your expectations in our products and in our customer service, and we are committed to making the transition from old to new as easy as possible for our customers.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions at http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/support/index/form/

Sincerely,

La Crosse Technology


*sigh* I really liked these units as you could connect multiple receivers to one internet-connected transmitter. My favorite was the WA-1440U 4-Day Talking Internet-Powered Wireless Forecaster where you could send it speech and it could read the news for example. You could even customize it with your name for example and the speech was extremely smooth and fluid.

I had 3 units around the house and it was nice to glance at them to see what the weather would be. They will be missed.

It would be so awesome if someone could reverse engineer the wireless protocol but that'd be pretty difficult now that its all shut down.