I would disagree with Chuck’s reply. Gary’s gw1000 has been rehosted in multiple places and works great.
There are multiple ‘new’ drivers being developed to change its approach somewhat and support backfill from the two ecowitt gateways that support that feature. Those efforts hopefully will converge at some point. Also disagree with Chuck’s commentary about Ecowitt requiring you to query their servers. Not true, You can run Gary’s driver and the only traffic to internet is occasional watchdog timer heartbeat type checks. I’ll be happy to point the wiki at one of the places rehosting Gary’s gw1000 driver. Agree with Michael’s reply that just appeared while I was typing this. Running the WH40 tipping rain sensor along with the piezo wind/light sensor is exactly what Ecowitt recommends, On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 7:54:05 AM UTC-7 vince wrote: > I would suggest not buying a Ecowitt piezo sensor. Even ecowitt’s manuals > say to use their tipping rain gauge if you want better accuracy. I > purchased a ws85 that was hopelessly bad at rain accuracy that I took it > down and boxed it back up. I was not able to tune its settings to get even > close to accurate readings. > > (If anybody in the US wants to buy it for the cost of shipping plus 40 > bucks contact me via email) > > On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 6:23:14 AM UTC-7 [email protected] > wrote: > >> I'd go for the GW3000/WS90 combo: >> https://shop.ecowitt.com/de/products/ecowitt-gw3001 >> >> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. September 2025 um 14:23:47 >> UTC+2: >> >>> I forgot to paste the link. Sorry about that. >>> >>> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005276861462.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.3.62dd7809CmFaML&algo_pvid=37cf5052-a9f2-416e-8ec4-d1ed80fe5f13&algo_exp_id=37cf5052-a9f2-416e-8ec4-d1ed80fe5f13-2&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%22185%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%7D&pdp_npi=6%40dis%21USD%21487.46%21268.10%21%21%213454.73%211900.10%21%40211b6c1717575029468506303e3a61%2112000036202949500%21sea%21DK%212071146943%21X%211%210%21n_tag%3A-29919%3Bd%3A6669c22d%3Bm03_new_user%3A-29895&curPageLogUid=MRbbS6GcnRbm&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A%7Cx_object_id%3A1005005276861462%7C_p_origin_prod%3A >>> onsdag den 10. september 2025 kl. 13.55.58 UTC+2 skrev >>> [email protected]: >>> >>>> You can combine almost endless combinations of sensors and gateways >>>> from ecowitt. And even more when using weewx with those devices. A classic >>>> tipping rain gauge can even be used in parallel with the piezo rain gauge >>>> from WS90/WS85 with a single gateway/console. >>>> >>>> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. September 2025 um 13:35:27 >>>> UTC+2: >>>> >>>>> Is this the one you had in mind? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Bent >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> onsdag den 10. september 2025 kl. 05.23.51 UTC+2 skrev Graham Eddy: >>>>> >>>>>> consider ecowitt. weewx acquires data directly from controller >>>>>> (bypass cloud) but controller is on ether/wifi not usb/serial >>>>>> *⊣GE⊢* >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10 Sep 2025, at 4:43 am, '[email protected]' via weewx-user < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I´m tired of my data not really being my data. I have to get it from >>>>>> their servers, and that they don´t work all the time. >>>>>> I´m tired of allway restarting and getting a new refresh token from >>>>>> their api page, because it can´t get data after a restart of the server. >>>>>> >>>>>> I´m so glad of weewx though, and I want to keep having a weather >>>>>> station, but I will not use oceans of money. >>>>>> >>>>>> But which new stations should be considered. I really liked the >>>>>> netatmo approach on the wind gauge, which is without moving parts but >>>>>> with >>>>>> ultrasound. >>>>>> Does any other stations use this approach? I know some professionals >>>>>> do, but they are far beond my financial reach. :-) >>>>>> >>>>>> And which stations have serial or USB output that can be used in >>>>>> weewx. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- 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/b64baaa9-8164-4c23-b6f4-486b075c3c55n%40googlegroups.com.
