ECOWITT Wittboy Weather Station GW2001, Includes GW2000 Wi-Fi IoT Hub and WS90 7-in-1 Outdoor Solar Powered Weather Sensor, Supports WU/WeatherCloud/Wow/Ecowitt Servers, 915 MHz

I wanted a weather station to add to my Home Assistant, mostly just for fun. But after using it for a couple weeks now, I'm impressed with how accurate it is. I have it mounted about 20 feet in the air, and I was concerned about the nearby trees (40'-60' Oaks and Poplar all around our yard, some within 50' of the station) distorting wind readings, but when I have compared with our nearby airport, they consistently match. The rain readings also matched our manual rain guage. So, whatever solid-state magic ECOWITT is using is very impressive. Relative pressure also matches the airport (just looked up my elevation online, and entered the pressure offset in the ECOWITT configuration web page). Integration into Home Assistant was very easy, I'm using ApexCharts and WindRose cards, which give very appealing displays for all the data I want (temp, humidity, dewpoint, wind speed & direction, pressure, even sun light). And by chance I installed the "base station" inside my chicken coup (just to be nearer the weather station), and found the precision and finer granularity of the temperature tracking much better than the YoLink X3 I was using - showed me a problem with the previous thermostat. So, I ended up replacing that too. Wish I would have started with the ECOWITT and never bought the Yolink or previous thermostat control (now just using a WiFi switch and an HA automation, much more flexible).

I’m really liking this weather station. It was very simple to get up and going. I connected and registered the gateway and once I added batteries to my sensors, the gateway instantly adopted them and I was able to see the sensor data. The gateway is about 150ft away from the weather station in a straight line. The signal has the pass through a brick wall and two interior walls. The gateway reports a strong signal to my weather station’s mast and lightning detector. I’ve got my station up and going and it is feeding live data to Weather Underground.

Everything with this unit is great except it is always reads 25% or more humidity than my other sensors outdoors. Their support was very easy to work with, and we came to an amicable solution. I really like how well it integrates with Home Assistant and the ability to add more sensors.

This is a great entry level weather station for getting extremely local weather information, and I love how it can be used on the local network, and even be blocked from external connections and still work, that's a rarity in today's tech world. I will say that I'm not so sure the rain gauge is accurate, BUT, if you have a normal rain gauge (I do not currently), you can take readings, compare, and alter the rain gauge on the local webpage for the hub to help it be more precise. It easily integrates into Home Assistant, and plenty of scripts can be written for it, like in the second picture in this review. Every sensor highlighted is straight from either the weather station or the included hub, but the ones not highlighted are calculated custom template sensors I added. The 'Feels like' temperature takes the wind speed and current temperature into account for wind chill (not 100% accurate, but I bet it could be if I included the sunlight/”radiation” into the equation), or it will take the temperature and the humidity when applicable and calculate the heat index. Still have yet to try the latter out, as it is a bit cold here at the moment, but looking forward to testing it out this spring. The 'Fire risk' takes the rain average over the last 10 days (default data storage for home assistant – haven't changed it), the current humidity, and the temperature into account to calculate the current fire risk. I am still learning, but this is all with sensor data that this weather station can output! Looking forward to doing more with it, and if you have smart lights, you can make a sliding scale for how bright they may be based on the sunlight the weather station is receiving, etc. Nearly endless possibilities. The hub itself supports much more than just this weather station, and we currently have three Ecowitt thermometers connected to it with no issues. Also looking forward to expanding our Ecowitt device collection and doing more home automation with them, too! Side note - if you are wanting to power your weather station via normal power, or use the heater, the cable for that is not available on Amazon (At least it wasn't for us at the time of purchasing), and it was quite pricey.

Super simple to set up and get started! I can view the outside temperature and inside almost instantly! I mean, as soon as you power it up and it's paired with the receiving base, it's already telling you the temperature! You can connect this to your smart home to really automate your thermostat, or close your blinds or whatnot. I have mine connected to Home Assistant, and also it reports to Weather Underground and comes with access to their weather site which will allow you to share your station with friends and family too!

The Ecowitt Wittboy Weather Station was very easy to set up. It is well built and comes with all the hardware required to mount it. The included WS90 sensor array connected straight away with the included GW2000 gateway. The temperature and humidity sensors seem to be accurate with results very similar to those recorded by the closest Bureau of Meteorology weather station. The rainfall readings were a little different but that may just be due to location and there has not been much rain since purchasing to verify this. This weather station works well with Home Assistant and was also easy to set up to send data to Weather Underground. Overall this seems like a great weather station and is very reasonably priced for the features that it has.

Very easy to configure and install and so far the unit is working just fine . It would be nice if it came with a mounting solution rather than you having to buy one separately

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Works great, fully integrated with Home Assistant.

It’s working well for most features however our unit gets three times the rain compared to other local units. Hours on message boards told us we were in over our heads. Will be purchasing a separate rain gauge, to pair with this unit. Also this unit has more features and available add ons, than we really needed. Live and learn. Still a decent price point, to be fair.