If you don’t need backfill you can possiblt still use the original driver.
Two issues. The first is whether your old gateway can read data from a new model sensor. I had to upgrade from my old gw1000 gateway to a gw1200 to be able to hear a newer ws85 sensor. The second issue is how to merge multiple sensors into one weewx database. Generally you just need a sensor-map to select which wind or rain sensor to use. Worst case two instances and MQTT should work. FWIW my experience is that the ecowitt piezo rain sensors are horrible. I found no way to calibrate my rain readings to be able to believe them even with a calibrated cocorahs manual gauge nearby. I gave up trying and took the ws85 down. I never worked trying to see if its wind readings were good or not. On Monday, July 7, 2025 at 4:48:05 AM UTC-7 Vetti52 wrote: > So, my first approach seems to be promising. Maybe, I will at first, run > the Wittboy in parallel, without integration into Weewx and compare the > data and calibrate, when possible. At least I will have to omit the wind > data, because in the area there will be no suitable place to measure the > wind speed and orientation, because at an elevation of 2m AGL there are too > many turbulences and will result in a data mess pretty sure. As far, as I > have read the documentation of GW1000 or GW3000, there is no method to > silence specific sensors of the array. So I will have to find out, how to > ignore wind data in Weewx. Am I right? > Besides, since now, I never needed to backfill data from Ecowitt or WU. > So, I hope, this remains that way, and I do not need the new backfill > method. However, I am not sure, if there are other advances, which will > urge Ecowitt users to switch to the http based driver, Gary was working on. > But, maybe, there is some progress on this project from other specialists > here in the forum, that can enlighten me meanwhile. > > Thanks so far > Peter > > [email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 4. Juli 2025 um 19:31:42 UTC+2: > >> I use two GW2000 with one WeeWX instance, one with the Ecowitt Gateway >> Driver as a Driver, the other one with the Ecowitt Gateway Driver as a >> Service. I am on 0.6.3, which isn't capable of backfilling data from the >> gw3000s SD-storage in case your WeeWX wasn't running for whatever reason. >> >> Vetti52 schrieb am Freitag, 4. Juli 2025 um 18:46:51 UTC+2: >> >>> Since a couple of years I have an EFWS2900 working without any failure >>> now. This is an Ecowitt 2900 clone, positioned on a pole at 6m above >>> ground. It has a colored console, which is just used for visual checks. I >>> added a Froggit DP1500, which is a clone of Ecowitt GW1000, serving as >>> source >>> for weewx, using the GW1000 driver, version 0.6.3. This works perfectly. >>> However…. >>> When there is only drizzling rain, the sensor does not react. I >>> therefore decided, to add another rain sensor, which should be positioned >>> at 2m AGL. >>> My current approach is: >>> I have purchased an Ecowitt GW3001 (coming next week), which consists of >>> a Wittboy sensor set and a GW3000. I plan to replace the WS2900 on the pole >>> with the Wittboy and place the WS2900 at a position 2m AGL nearby. This >>> should then be used for additional rain measurement only. >>> The GW3000 should be connected per LAN, situated directly at the router >>> in the basement. The temperature sensor is thus not relevant. The old >>> GW1000 remains in the living room for temperature and, maybe, for pressure >>> measurement. >>> So, I need a setup for collecting data from the GW1000 and GW3000. My >>> first approach was, to stay with the current setup using the GW1000 driver, >>> and ad the GW3000 with a second GW1000 driver, but running as a service. >>> Is this possible? And, if yes, how should I configure weewx to „merge“ >>> the data into an arrangement, which provides a „smooth“ transition? >>> I have seen the thread started from gjr, concerning a separate GW3000 >>> driver, which indicates, that there are improvements coming, concerning >>> Ecowitt drivers at all. But the actual situation of gjr being „offline“, >>> touches me considerably. >>> So, I am hesitating to follow my approach. Or should I, instead, replace >>> the complete GW1000 driver based data collection setup by something, which >>> is more „up to date“, and which needs, however, still to be developed? >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/bfe70fa9-43d7-469e-b08a-748aabcbd9dan%40googlegroups.com.
