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[@CubeComputerChannel]

This is 100% identical to the Ambient Weather WS-2000 sold in the United States. Ambient Weather has a much more detailed users manual which may also be helpful considering the manual for this unit has errors.

[@TheDefpom]

Thank you very much, that was very helpful.

[@IanScottJohnston]

When I re-built my home workshop in 2005 the first big project I looked at doing was a home built weather station......this unit though blows it out of the water. Very nice.

[@TheDefpom]

IanScottJohnston - I am very pleased with it, it does a lot more than I expected.

[@matthewnowell4657]

I have got one of these, it's been active since January and has been perfectly reliable so far.

[@TheDefpom]

Good to hear, I’ve been very happy with mine so far.

[@eustache_dauger]

Kinda look like the Ambient Weather WS2000 don't you think? Perhaps even the same thing under different labels?

[@jmdds]

They are all made by Fine Offset.

[@AndrewJones-tj6et]

I've been running a Pantech WH2950 for a year now. Its made by Fine Offset foshk.com the same manufacturer as your Misol. I am in Australia so in setting up the outdoor sensor unit on a pole I had to face it such that its North marking is facing South so that the solar panel is facing North. I had to set the indoor console to STH "Southern Hemisphere" so that wind direction is correct. I'm not sure if your sensor array needs this "Southern Hemisphere" kludge so that the solar panel is facing the Sun. For fun I thought about making my own console using a ESP32 or Raspberry Pi with LoRa module receiving in FSK mode. I can receive the transmissions at 433.92MHz every 16 seconds from the sensor using a USB RTL-SDR and RTL_433 program. These "all in one" sensor units are great for economical easy setup but a bit of a compromise in ideal sensor locating so I find the more recent Ecowitt weather stations like the HP2553 interesting.

[@TheDefpom]

The solar panel seems to be ok, it isn’t being obscured from what I can tell, sounds like a nice workaround though.

[@jmdds]

Depends of your latitude.Mine in Cairns 16 degrees South is facing South and no need to re calibrate for southern Hemisphere

[@daveodessa]

Very useful and practical weather station. Not like the basic one I have.

[@v8snail]

I'm sharing this as I'd spent hours trying to work out why my HP2550 wouldn't connect to Ecowitt. The Ecowitt site is by far the most useful for displaying PWS data out of all I've tried. It displays and trends every aspect of my station including all the additional sensors (lightning as well) and the battery levels of each. It updates every minute and will allow you to set up email alerts for whatever you want. The main unit firmware can be updated with this address via an SDHC micro SD card formatted to fat or fat32: www.acpacific.com.au/Downloadable/PT-HP2550/Firmware/1.6.9/user.bin Just copy the user.bin file to the root directory of the card and insert. It will delete this file when finished upgrading and you may just need to power off then on again. The WiFi firmware needs to be updated if your unit is older than several months. This can be done via the 'WS View' app regardless of brand with a few caveats. Both your station and phone need to connected to the same WiFi on 2.4GHz. 5GHz on either will not work. Location setting on phone needs to be on. Ignore the 'Configure New Device' setting as the HP2550 won't be pictured there. Hit 'Back' and 'Menu' then 'Device List'. Your HP2550 should show up here with IP and MAC addresses within a short time. It should prompt you to download and install the latest EasyWeather WiFi firmware which is currently v1.6.0. Tap on this and the firmware should upgrade automatically on your station. You may need to set the Ecowitt upload interval in your station. 1 minute is good. Register with Ecowitt and enter your MAC address as displayed in 'About Display' or 'Weather Server Setup' on your station. All your sensors that show up on Ecowitt can be edited by clicking on the names of each, even the names in the battery level column. The alerts are configurable so play around with it until you are happy.

[@testinstrumentspakistan]

HP2550-1 Misol Features: 1.The receiver(display) can store the historical data, which can also be copied to TF Card (optional), in format (*.csv), which can read out in Excel on the computer) 2. The color display also display the measured parameters with calculated data：Wind Chill and Heat Index, Dew Point, Wind Speed and Direction (averaged once per second over 16 seconds), Gust (the maximum wind speed sampled once per second in the 16 second update period), 10 Minute Wind Speed and Direction Average, Sunrise, Sunset, Moon Phase, Forecast, and more. 3.There’s an AC adaptor for receiver（display）, which need be plugged in all of the time to view and log data. 4.Indoor/outdoor Temperature in C/F. 5.Wind speed in m/s,km/h,mph,knot and bft. 6.Rainfall (inch or mm): rainfall hour, day, week, month and total. 7.Pressure in hpa, or inhg unit. 8.Alarm setting for indoor & outdoor temperature & humidity, Dew point, ABS Barometer, REL Barometer, wind, Hourly Rain, Daily Rain.(remark: it doesn’t alarm for the optional multiple channel thermo-hygro sensors) 9.MAX/MIN data records with time stamp. 10.User accuracy calibration supported 11.Moon Phase 12.Sunset/Sunrise with time stamp You can get the product at any of your places, at your doorstep in Pakistan, for the great essence of online shopping convenience. Payment methods such as, cash on delivery, bank deposit. We are also offering to provide the satisfaction. You do not have to search and buy your required product via the typical shopping method. We are also offering the best quality at the reasonable price. Here you can find best Electronics Price in Pakistan 2022. Order now: testinstruments.pk/hp2550-1-misol

[@jimreed6503]

Thanks for your review. I bought the same model with a PanTech badge, after seeing your video. However, I have an issue. I wonder if you upload your data to Weather Underground or another web server? Do you see any of the temperature graphs flatlining? I'm getting the problem about five times a week and it lasts for about an hour each time. I also subscribed to Ecowitt and found both the outside temperature and humidity were freezing for a while, but the wind and atmospheric pressure were being updated. The supplier gave me a site for upgraded firmware, and I upgraded before I noticed this issue. To me it's either the outside temp/humidity module going to sleep, or the console doing the same thing. Also have you tried to add an additional indoor sensor? I've one from a previous system, which is on 433MHz and addressable as per the manual, but can't get it to communicate with the console. I get email responses from the supplier, but the answers aren't that helpful. We shall see what happens over the next week. Cheers Jim

[@TheDefpom]

Mine is communicating ok with all sensors etc. I added soil moisture sensors, air quality sensor, and another couple of indoor sensors, all working fine. It could be that you have some kind of interference source that is effecting the signals from the sensors.

[@jimreed6503]

@@TheDefpom Thanks, but interference would surely affect all measurements on the outside sensor, not just temp and humidity. Also, got hit at 3AM, when it's very quiet around here. Cheers.

[@TheDefpom]

@@jimreed6503 turn off ipv6 on your router, that gave me trouble with connections dropping to the servers

[@skycam9085]

hi! and thx a lot - very helpful! .. does anybody know a way how to connect this unit to the ambient weather site?

[@hamzahbhatti5508]

Is there any other way to turn on the receiver screen without connecting it to the power adapter?

[@ikaoktavianti8698]

How far the signal will still strong from the monitor?

[@TheDefpom]

I think the spec was 100M, mine is at about 30M

[@alexandreretoi2440]

I have learned that the pole is not included to hold the weather station! Do you have one to recommend? And what diameter for the pole would I need? Thanks in advance

[@alexandreretoi2440]

For example "Satix Satellite Wall Mount Bracket 25 cm Support for Sat Antenna Aluminium" on amazon would be suitable?

[@TheDefpom]

The bracket is adjustable, so anything about 25mm to 50mm I think, might need to check the specs as I bet it’s listed there somewhere.

[@yulegoldschagg7788]

I have a question? Does the HP2550 support the WH51 soil sensor as well as the WH41 PM2.5 air quality sensor?

[@TheDefpom]

Yes I have both of those running on it.

[@jmdds]

YES.

[@sarahjones4176]

Hello Thinking of getting this for my sister and my question is can you add a soil moisture sensor, air sensors, and a lighting detector ?

[@TheDefpom]

I just had a couple of soil moisture sensors arrive for it, I haven’t set them up yet though, you can get other additional sensors for it too.

[@sarahjones4176]

@@TheDefpom thank you

[@TheDefpom]

I set up the soil moisture sensors, very easy, I just put the battery in and they automatically connected and showed up on the display... couldn’t be easier.

[@jmdds]

Yes .definitely.

[@unmanaged]

you should run NMAP on it to see if it has any open ports

[@TheDefpom]

Interesting idea, I use a Mac so it is a different program but I could well do that out of curiosity.

[@davidv1289]

Great video, interesting and seemingly well engineered product. Wait, no tear-down??? The word you were searching for is anemometer - a device for measuring wind speed. If they have a temperature sensor with a remote thermistor you could use it to remotely monitor the internal temperature of a piece of equipment :-)

[@TheDefpom]

David V - now there’s an idea... monitor test equipment temperatures for long term logging... it actually does logging to the microsd I believe.

[@davidv1289]

@@TheDefpom Yes, nerds helping nerds!

[@v8snail]

@@TheDefpom I had the same idea when I bought mine. Unfortunately it doesn't log any of the add on sensors. Future firmware upgrades may change this.

[@BoarischeBratwurst]

Hello, do i only get the current sensor data from the weather station or does the device also make a weather forecast for the next few days?

[@TheDefpom]

it is only the current and past conditions.

[@tmr022]

Great i will buy one.

[@petrucioci07]

I can't figure why i can not register my ecowitt station to wunderground. I have internet signal good on it but it says on website that my station is offline

[@TheDefpom]

I had a similar issue, I found it was something to do with the way I was entering the details into the unit, sorry I don’t remember what it was.

[@richardscudds4753]

I have a pantech module , i think this weather station is brilliant with me being an amateur radio operator , my question to you is , ii have a lightning bolt just above the word humidity , what does this me

[@jmdds]

The lighting bolt icon is when the Dew point is over 21 degrees

[@v8snail]

I bought the Pantech HP2550 in Australia in Jan 2019 and couldn't be happier with it. The Aussie seller supplies updated firmware when available. I've had two major firmware upgrades. The Energizer cells in the remote units are still at 1.45V and 1.51V in the station after 21 months. The station has a solar cell and super capacitor which clearly do their job so the AA cells are effectively redundant or for places that experience polar night. I bought 5 extra TH sensors and had all six sitting on the bench reading exactly the same temp and humidity. Incredibly consistent. The extra sensors are only displayed, not logged unfortunately. This may change in a future firmware update. I find Wundeground a terrible site to work with and rarely refer to it. It is slow, clunky and keeps reverting to Fahrenheit. Weathercloud is faster, much more intuitive, displays beautifully and is my go-to, especially from my phone. I never was able to connect to WOW. It's a right pain in the arse.

[@chingwc79]

Is the coupon code still valid? I couldn't find where to enter the code

[@TheDefpom]

I am not aware of coupons expiring, I believe you enter them at the payment stage, I've never tried to be honest.

[@chingwc79]

@@TheDefpom I found a coupon entry and entered the code, but it says coupon code not valid. Wanted to buy.

[@TheDefpom]

@@chingwc79 - it sounds like the code has expired, that is a pity, but it was about a year ago when I did this review. My unit is still working perfectly.

[@jmdds]

You need to get accustomed to the unit before making a video.Rainfall season is JANUARY.Absolute barometer reading is where your station is and relative is at sea level pressure.This console Unit is exactly like Ecowitt and ambient and you will love it.

[@TheDefpom]

As I say over and over again my reviews are done INTENTIONALLY the way they are, to replicate how a new user would find using the unit, I don’t rehearse my reviews and provide kind of fake demos., Rainfall season certainly is NOT January... it usually doesn’t rain at all where I live between mid December and the end of February.

[@v8snail]

@@TheDefpom The rainfall season setting is for the annual rain totaliser. If January is selected, the annual rainfall will zero then start counting up from the 1st day of January. This is where you want it set to give meaningful year-to-date rainfall measurements even if the actual rain season is mid year.