You all had me checking mine and I realized my wind readings were inaccurate. So I checked the history, checked the API response, and discovered my wind (and rain) sensors had not been working for at least a couple weeks.
Reached out to WeatherFlow and they had a replacement device shipped to me within a week (just arrived today). I did not INTEND to determine that my driver works with two separate stations reporting to the hub, but it does.
The old station is still semi-functional so it is going to sit in a different spot and be a secondary for testing as well as continuing to provide temperature and humidity. I might move it indoors by a window or such since how many different temperature and humidity readings do I need from my yard...
Just to close things out from the perspective of why I started this thread:
Weatherflow sent me a new Tempest, but I haven't installed it yet, for a couple reasons:
My Tempest kind of recovered by itself after I cleaned the solar panels with a moist rag.
I recalled that I had purchased a power boost accessory from them about 1 year ago. It lets you power a Tempest using 8 x AA batteries or using AC power. I installed the power boost accessory; powering by AC seems to make a big difference.
That's good to know. My existing sensor seems to be working ok, so I'm leaving it alone for now. I imagine the new sensor they sent me will have a fix for the moisture issue.
Just getting back to looking at this WX station as it's been on the back burner to add one. I've made a lot of use out of their weather network lately and have noticed a lot of stations not reporting all the data I thought they were configured to capture.
Also, a lot of my searches in this forum and elsewhere are coming up with return/replacement stories for one reason or another. Wondering if over the last year there has been a step change in component improvements or packaging (as some mention of moisture intrusion has been made of it perpetrating component failure).
My original unit lasted 18 months. The replacement has been in service for 12 months and has been working as expected. Unfortunately, it's still too early to tell if Weatherflow fixed the charging issue.
I received mine as a Christmas present in 2020 and installed it on 12/26/2020. It has been working great since that time. I live in NC where we get plenty of sun so I have never needed the power booster.
