Ecowitt HP2551-C Weather Station Display Console Review

[@timwillson2540]

I have the GW1004 which is the GW1000 and the WH31B combined. My question is what temp/humidity sensor do I need to rotate them in different areas in the house for them to display on indoor readings on the console? Thanks

[@syarifudins392]

Is it must used wi-fi connectivity to normal operation??Or Just wireless conectivity between the console and the sensor?? Please give us advice based your knowledge

[@pidzej]

why you have got different values on senzor and on console?

[@rwalkenhorst]

PJ, thanks for all of your excellent reviews. I just ordered the components to set up an Ecowitt weather station and would love to see more videos. I'm hoping to use an old iPad as a dedicated display, but it's good to know that the HP2551-C will work if the iPad doesn't.

[@phillipwolf4348]

Hi Roland, thanks for the kind words. I use my HP2551-C and iPad and iPhone and the ecowitt.com website interchangeably with ease. I teach a introductory meteorology course and use my data on ecowitt.com for creating daily station models with my students. I am very excited to see some of the new sensors from Ecowitt and will certainly add more reviews when I do. I hope you enjoy your weather station as much as I do!

[@rwalkenhorst]

@@phillipwolf4348 I'm going with just temp/humidity and rainfall for now. This is one of the things that attracted me to Ecowitt: being able to buy just the components that I need. Our old cheapie weather station is on our deck, and of course the wind swirls around, making the anemometer fairly useless. It's essentially just telling us "It's windy" or "It's not windy." We can tell that by looking out the window at the trees! I also want to monitor the temperature in an outbuilding that is about 100 feet from the house. If the GW1000 can't pick up an indoor sensor in the shop, I might try putting the bridge in the shop instead of in the house. I checked with my phone, and if I hold it up to the window inside the shop, I get four bars on the wireless network signal from the house. Ideally I would put the GW1000 outside, but I'm assuming that even if protected from moisture, it is not intended to be outdoors (specs say lower end of the probe's temperature range is 14F).

[@phillipwolf4348]

You definitely do not want to put your GW1000 outside. 100' should be no trouble. I haven't had any connectivity issues at that range with my temp/humidity sensors (rain gauge did have some trouble at first, but it was corrected by the engineers at Ecowitt - who are awesome!). I completely agree about the piece-wise functionality of the different sensors. Now I can mount an anemometer to the roof where it is exposed to actual gusts and not have my temperature probes stuck to it a few feet above a roof that radiates heat and throws off temperature readings in the summer sun. I did build a solar radiation shield and mounted it to a tree for my temp/humidity sensor and it has worked flawlessly. I promoted the idea to Ecowitt, even shared my design and they have recently put their own plastic solar shield into production, something you may want to consider!

[@rwalkenhorst]

​@@phillipwolf4348 Hi again, Phillip. A few more quick questions if I may. If I have this display, do I even need the GW1000? This display receives its data directly from each sensor, correct? And it can send all of that to the Ecowitt Weather Station site, Wunderground, etc.? Can I have as many indoor temp/hum sensors as I can have with the GW1000? Can the one that comes with it be renamed or is it dedicated to being the "indoor" no matter what? I did end up getting the anemometer too. These devices have phenomenal range. I carried it all the way down to the creek, more than 100 YARDS from the house, and it was still connected. The indoor sensor in my shop building is about 100 feet away and the signal is going through two layers of steel siding plus the house wall. Amazing. Edit: I suppose without the GW1000, I would not have a pressure sensor, and there would be no way to enter offsets to fine-tune the data.

[@pjwolf5910]

Roland, I apologize for taking so long to respond! You’ve probably figured this out by now, but YES, you do still need the GW1000. It is like the router for WiFi in your house. No router. No WiFi. No GW1000. No weather data. Hope this helps. I’d love to hear how your weather station is coming along! I recently acquired a water leakage sensor and a lightning detecting sensor that I’ll be creating a video review for just as soon as I get the time.

[@rmkilc]

Can this work side by side with the GW1000? And if so, do they both have to establish individual connections with each sensor or does each sensor just broadcast its info out which can be received simultaneously by multiple devices within range without using extra battery power?

[@pjwolf5910]

They connect simultaneously.

[@jmdds]

Mine has only one signal strength bar for the outdoor unit.

[@kd7eir]

Excellent review

[@phillipwolf4348]

Thank you for the kind words, Mr. Myers.

[@squirrelmanbob]

Just why? Why film vertically especially if it's a horizontal display you are filming. Vertical video is for attention seekers on ticktock filming themselves dance not what could have been a very good review

[@ppi57]

Argh!, that vertical video. me no like! ;)

[@squirrelmanbob]

I was just going to write something similar. Vertical video is bad but what makes it worse is when someone films a horizontal display vertically 😂