[RE-RELEASE] EcoWitt and Wittboy Weather Stations And Sensors (Local)

In this instance this is the HTML Tiles I was workin on a few days ago. I finally figured out how to get them to display the Text, but not the icons I mistakenly thought they were supposed to


Supertile wouldn’t work in this case, but I figured out how to make it work in a custom tile

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Should that be decreased discomfort now, in that last screenshot :wink: Now that you have figured it out... Nice work btw, getting this going. I should probably make some notes at some point about various options outside of the tile templates feature, i.e. displaying EcoWitt data in other ways or in other platforms like SharpTools.

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I’m so over summer, but this is Texas, there’s at least 3 more summers until our week and a half of winter and summer starts again.

We're just getting started, 35 C and we're not long into Spring.

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Yep, we were in Geelong on vacation (came home yesterday), and the last two days were 29c! :scream:

That’s about 85f for those still living with measurements from the 1600’s.

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Yeah Sydney's sweltering !
36c on my Wittboy @ the coast but look what tomorrow's high is forecast to be !!
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Good afternoon All,

I just got this working and so far love it! Thanks @sburke781 very much appreciate your efforts with this! I do have a question regarding the child devices that are created. Is there no way to change the names of these devices? For example a child device was created for a temperature sensor and the name it was given is "Ambient Sensor 1". As I have these currently in the freezer, I was trying to name them the for the various freezer. Thanks @aaiyar for your suggestion in another thread. Just looking to see if this can be changed somehow.

Thanks much! Scott

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I don’t have my Hubitat running right now (middle of a move), but can you not change the device label for the child device?

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I got it! :slight_smile: Long day and getting tired. Quick question for you though, on the Ecowitt app what should I be using for the "Update" interval? Currently it's set for 1 minute. I was think this was a bit much, but wanted to ask nonetheless.

Yes you can.

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I think mine is set to 1 minute, but probably is a bit too often for most weather changes. I expect you could probably get away with 2-3 minutes. I guess it depends on what automations you may have, if any. If you are interested in rain detection the maybe 1 minute would be needed. See how it performs and adjust as you need to would be my advice.

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Sounds good! This is purely for monitoring the freezer temps and then getting notified if a problem is going is coming. I suspect I can probably push this out for 10-15 minutes if I really wanted to. We had a chest freezer go down awhile back and I don't want to be in that same boat ever again. I had used Zigbee sensors in the past and I always ran into battery issues. I have been wanting to try this and everything just came today - fun stuff! As I have another sensor coming tomorrow, how will that new senor then get grabbed and brought into Hubitat?

There's a resync sensors command on the gateway device in HE. Would be interested to know how it affects your label change. Should be ok...

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Sounds good! I will let you know how things shake out when it arrives. Have a great evening! :slight_smile: I believe it's time for some bourbon.

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An interesting update on the Wittboy vs traditional sensor, at least as far as rain goes. Within a week of installing the Wittboy, we finally got our first measurable rain in several months. I was under the impression the Wittboy with the piezo-electric rain gauge would be more accurate, but after this rain event, it appears the Wittboy was detecting slightly less, almost 2/10ths of an inch less than the traditional rain cup (yes I left it in the system, and plan to continue to. This actually has me curious enough I may go ahead and pick up the traditional mechanical sensor array just to do a side-by-side comparison to see how far off (or close) to each other they are.

below are the device readings from both devices in the Ecowitt app:

thats what the settings in the ws view app are for raise the number on each of the amounts that are off.

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Is it worth using an old-school rain gauge to work out which is more accurate?

Even that is not 100% accurate
It relies in the opening size to let rain in and if there is any wind that changes things. Wind.could nlow more in or less in. Very complicated.

True, I guess no one is 100% accurate. Will be an interesting test then to see them side-by side.

I'm not going to get too obsessive over it, at least not yet. This is just one real rain event. Even the measurements in the traditional rain gauge aren't entirely correct, as since I bought it we haven't had that much rain. When I installed it I had to adjust the yearly rate based on a USGS stream gauge about 3 miles north of my house. At the time I installed it (in I believe May or June), we had only had 11.59 inches. I just thought the difference was interesting, and not at all what I was expecting to see. I may just get a traditional sensor array, set it up on my old GW1100 gateway to see what happens (not including that into Hubitat or anything, just idle curiosity,

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