I've got an ecowitt GW1000 and thinking about getting a WS80. From what I can tell, the GW1000 will lose 2/3 of the data from the WS80, though, because in WS View I can't configure it to send data more frequently than every 16s and the WS80 reports every 5s from what I understand.
We need more clarity on what you are trying to say. First some corrections. WS View does not send data. WS View only receives data from the GW1000 because it asks for it in its live view. I don't have a WS80 so your input here would be helpful. If you are saying that the WS View only sees updates every 16 seconds that is because that is how the WS View app has been configured....basically to just ask only every 16 seconds.
My reference to WS View was for configuring the GW1000. AFAIK, the only way to configure the GW1000 so it directly reports to weather services is using WS View. I've configured mine to report to a custom server (I've got a server running
http://www.weewx.com/) using the ecowitt protocol (being received by
https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-interceptor/). When configuring that, the reporting interval can be configured, but unfortunately only for 16s+. This determines how often the GW1000 will send a data packet to my web-based weather station.
Yes you use WS View to configure the upload to various services...but it still isn't WS View that is doing the sending to those services. The WS View is just a window into the settings inside of the GW1000. It is the GW1000 itself that then sends the data to the various services at some determined interval. These upload intervals are not able to be changed as they are defined by the receiving service. What I'm saying is that it isn't up to the GW1000 to decide how often to upload data to the various services...unless they allow it. For example Weather Underground is the only service that allows less than 16 second uploads. In my experience (from various brands of weather stations and loggers) you should not exceed 3 seconds when uploading to Weather Underground as the Weather Underground counter will really not process your data any faster than every 3 seconds. I believe that the GW1000 right now only uploads to WU every 16 seconds because that was the maximum of their spinning anemometer. I can see changing the GW1000 to be able to upload to WU quicker than 16 seconds if you own a WS80. The fact that the WS80 is only available through Ambient in the US in inconsequential for this change in the GW1000, because the GW1000 is used worldwide where the WS80 is available from Ecowitt....so this potential update to the GW1000 would be beneficial to GW1000 users worldwide.
Yes, I'm aware. Though you're mistaken on the upload intervals, when configuring a custom weather service, the reporting interval is one of the settings that is configured, along w/ IP/Port/Path/Protocol.
And yes, this change would be beneficial to GW1000 world-wide, which is why I'm reaching out on this forum.
I reached out to EcoWitt and they were super responsive, but unfortunately since I'm in the US where the WS80 is an AmbientWeather exclusive, Lucy basically said that unless other customers were interested in this, they'd hold off on doing anything about it.
See my point above regarding US sales of WS80. This should not be an issue. Ecowitt doesn't need to know where you are. This potential change would benefit all users worldwide. But I still need clarity that you are referring to WU or to just WS View itself or both.
I agree it shouldn't matter, but that's literally the first thing I was asked in response to my initial email. When I said I was located in the US, I was politely informed about AmbientWeather's exclusivity. I tried one more time to make my case, in ...
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