ECOWITT Wi-Fi Weather Station Gateway, Smart Sensor, WiFi Gateway with Temperature, Humidity and Barometric Sensor 868 HMZ

Can’t be more happy….Really affordable and paired with their soil moisture detectors…. Awesome.

This is a gateway that speaks with your connected devices. Whether for knowing weather, or plant moisture, this is the heart of your system.

The product is good. It has good support. The only problem I have is that if you restart your wifi router then this weather hub needs to be restarted as well because is going to lost connection. In my case, my router is scheduled to reboot some nights at midnight then the weather hub lost its connection until I reset it in the morning.

I bought the gateway, two additional temp/humidity sensors (WN31 and WN32), a WH 40 rain gauge, and five WH51 soil moisture sensors. They all connected seamlessly, no problem. I'm also getting data from a neighbour's sensor array with a wind sensor.The one criticism I have is that the setup instructions for the gateway are not as clear as they should be. Even as a software engineer, I was puzzled for a bit until I figured out how things are meant to work. The calibration instructions for the sensors also are rather obscure. The wind and soil sensors are not that simple to calibrate, due to the imprecise instructions. Better instructions would make this easy.Despite the setup problems, I'm still very happy with the purchase. I had a question about the neighbour's sensor when it was picked up by my gateway. I sent off an email to customer support and received a reply within minutes (on a Sunday evening, no less). A follow-up question I had was also answered in less than an hour. Customer support is first rate!I've had the system for only a few weeks, so I can't comment on longevity. But, so far, I'm absolutely happy with it. The sensors (after calibration) are very precise, and calibration was already quite good with the factory settings. Upload to Wunderground works flawlessly and is very simple to set up. (You need a WN32 sensor for that, the WN31 cannot upload to Wunderground, only to the Ecowitt server.)If you want an affordable and fully-featured weather station, I can really recommend this system.

the only thing stopping this device being perfect is the fact that it is not water resistant.