Invisible Man <axelle.apvri...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm considering the purchase of a EcoWitt HP2551 : it has a console + a > 7-in-1 sensor. Just not totally sure how to integrate it with Weewx. > People said here to use the Ecowitt GW-1100 driver, right? But EcoWitt > HP2551 does not have that GW1100 gateway. Will the driver work > nevertheless? > Basically, I'm not sure the EcoWitt HP2551 (or 2552, or 2553) has a USB > cable. So how would I connect it to the RPi on which Weewx runs?
I am unclear on details but am heading down the path of figuring out which EcoWitt station someone else should get. I lean to EcoWitt because it seems to be reasonable quality at very low prices and they seem to be open-source and local-access no-cloud-required friendly. So many things are cloud-only which I consider a total fail -- the interceptor driver is an impressive hack but it's a bad situation that it's necesary. The GW1100 is included with a number of display-less stations. As I understand it, there's a local API and the driver is just talking to that API and injecting to weewx. Thus it should work if the internet is down (or if the GW1100 is firewalled to keep the data from being sent to their cloud), but I'm not 100% sure as sometimes devices have code that phones home and stops if that doesn't work. Reading https://shop.ecowitt.com/products/hp2551 it looks like there is the equivalent of the GW1100 inside the console, because it says it uploads to similar places, and there is a list of optional sensors that seems to match. It would be sane to offer the same API and for them to reuse their code and circuit design, just sharing the case/etc. -- and doing so would be consistent with my impression of EcoWitt's approach. However, skimming the driver github site I don't see direct confirmation that the HP2551 is wire-protocol compatible. With any luck someone will post that they've used the driver. -- 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/rmimtbs621a.fsf%40s1.lexort.com.
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