ECOWITT HP2564 Wi-Fi Weather Station with Wireless Solar Powered 7-in-1

I was fed up with my old weather station. It would eat batteries so that I had to replace them every 4-5 weeks. I decided it was time for an upgrade, if only to save on batteries - a solar powered version is what was needed. This is solar powered but still required batteries - I hope they last a long time as they shouldn't be needed most of the time. The station was easy to put together and set-up. The base station was pretty easy to set-up too, although the manual and the mnus on the device don't always match up. But a little hunting around usually found the setting I needed. Getting connected to the WiFi was straight forward and connecting the Android app means I can see the weather at home wherever I am - even if I'm in the next room and can't be bothered to go and look. I connected it to the MetOffice WOW service and that was also easy. The display is bright and vibrant and full of useful information. My wife doesn't like the backlight, but it can be turned down and also has a timer for auto-dimming between certain hours.Overall this is a great little weather station and comes packed with features for a reasonable price. I would recommend it.It did, however, seem a little stingy that there is no mounting pole supplied. I'm sure they could have included it for the price. Fortunately, I had the pole from my old station that I could use. I also wait to see just how good the solar panel is and how long before I need to replace the batteries. The details about how the solar panel works are non-existent (does it just provide power during daylight, does it charge an internal battery). If it disappoints in this department, I'll be sure to come back and update this review.

Lots of my old weather station was slowly failing, well known and expensive brand. Took the leap to replace fully and this Ecowitt is a revelation. Very nice colour display, if a bit busy. Super easy to set up, on line access via a faurly good app, and everything works out of the box. I've added multiple indoor TH sensors and the lightening sensor (not as sure on the later) and everything is easy to install and set up. The haptic sensor seem to work well too, certainly good enough for my use and it's one less moving part to fail. A big plus is the price, sensors are a fraction of the cost of my previous system and looks like everything modular is replaceable should the need arise. Would give it more stars if I could!!

There is a lot to like about this Weather station. The price point is good for the kit you get. There are lots of options and add ons available for monitoring other meteorological data. The unit seems robust and relies on batteries coupled with solar power to extend battery life. The indoor display is clear with instant data shown and updated in one min periods. The ability to view graphical data on the unit is excellent. It connects to my WiFi without any issues however the range is not the best but may be hampered by the location of my router.The application on my phone presents data in a similar way and gives the option of exploring data from other devices around the world. There are great features to connect to other monitoring services. Mine is connected to wunderground which give the device a gold medal for accuracy.The indoor unit give good options in calibration. The air pressure reading was bang on and I gave the sunlight reading a tweak of about 10% as it's location is by the sea which creates reflected sunlight was off slightly compared to met office weather stations in the area.The advantage of it being connected to both ecowitt and wunderground mean I can check the station anywhere in the world where I have Internet.The indoor monitoring unit is great and again gives perfectly accurate data.My only complaint is that there is no pole to mount this on and I had to make one out of an old shower curtain rail.I question whether the unit will work for a long period of time give the sea air but only time will tell, I hope support will be able to provide a part should it need replacing.

Successfully installed this to replace an ageing Watson. Quite easy to set up but there is a warning, or rather a lack of them! The only alarm setting the WS3800 Receiver has is to wake you up in the morning, there is no provision to set warnings regarding min/max temperatures etc. This must be done through the Ecowitt app on your phone. You must set up an alert sound through your email app but I guess you might have to use a new email address exclusively for this action.

Straightforward to set up, good console display and good wireless range. Very pleased with it and have bought a lightning detector as well. Mystified at first by a pack of bits and pins than came with it but with no instructions. That turned out to be an anti-bird perching kit.Despite waffle below, I'm more than happy with this weather station.The sensor array is sited to give maximum clearance above roof ridge. The main downside for me is that the array, despite a wireless connection to the console, has to be taken down from our gable end to upgrade its firmware, to press its reset button if necessary (not needed so far) and to change the back-up battery, which does not recharge via solar power.This is not straightforward ladder work for me and is hampered by the need to run a cable up the pole for the heater power in winter. The connector for this cable has to be unplugged to get the pole down but it is so short that it is almost at the top of the pole, in free space 2.5m higher up!I've had to leave a load of heater cable looped up and taped to the bracket at the base of the mast to give some leeway to get the pole and array down. It would be a lot easier if a short extension were to be supplied (say 2m to 3m) so that the heater cable could be disconnected near the pole mounting bracket and allow the array and pole to be removed in one go with no entangling cable.