swap vantage to ecowitt and you lose the data logger (stored in local hardware) → one day you lose critical data
ecowitt already have a ‘regularly call home' to china built in that adds no value to customer, only a dependency on ecowitt company. if ecowitt turn off their ‘ok’ response, everyone’s stations will reboot continually. i expect them to introduce paid-only access - but they are clever not to restrict the data but to disable the devices. (you might want to be wary of accepting their firmware upgrades in future, for existing devices.) it is like the printer market - they flog you a printer really cheap but 'charge like a wounded bull' for the ink. ditto future weather stations: cheap hardware, but lock you into constant revenue stream for service. as the weather station vendors try to lock down into paid-only services, i plan to migrate to open lorawan devices (because i want COTS or public domain products rather than build my own - more effective use of my time) but i do like my current setup, with vantage providing core weather data and ecowitt lots of other inexpensive nearby sensors augmenting it, plus lorawan for some more distant and more complex sensors than ecowitt provides. ⊣GE⊢ > On 9 Aug 2023, at 1:35 pm, Bob Rose <rose032...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been using the Ecowitt on my home weather station going on three years > now. I can not say anything bad about it. The Davis 6313 I am dealing with is > for an organization I belong to. It replaced the failing VP2. They are really > bummed that they spent so much money for something that does not have > accessible archives. I have even thought about sneaking an Ecowitt system out > there and telling them “I got it working”. > > > On Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 8:05:51 PM UTC-7 Colin Larsen wrote: >> Strangely enough I just replaced all my DIY hardware (weatherduino) with an >> Ecowitt setup and it's excellent for the money >> >> Colin >> >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 14:35, vince <vince...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >>> rtl_davis driver can help somewhat at a higher complexity level FWIW >>> >>> >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com <>. >> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/72f7c54d-ed55-4631-8eeb-0339cbf93588n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/72f7c54d-ed55-4631-8eeb-0339cbf93588n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3bbbaaf3-61b5-4574-8078-91992aca8ad4n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3bbbaaf3-61b5-4574-8078-91992aca8ad4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/944805D7-1FD7-4608-9836-A2506B3EE5CB%40geddy.au.
