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Offline Fredster

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Hi All,

Newbie here:

I have bought a Ambient Weather 1001 Wifi clone, called 'MiSol WS-HP2K-1'. Seems to work fine and is uploading to WeatherUnderground...

In the About page on the device it reports:

Model: HP2000
Storage: 3844MB
Hardware revision 2.0
OS version: 3.1.5
Firmware: 2.3.8
Frequency: 433m

Can I use the 2.4.3 firmware (Date Jun 27th 2017) that I found:

https://ambientweather.wikispaces.com/ws1001-wifi

Or will that immediately brick my unit?

Also, I have found a EasyWeatherIP version 3.2 software and I can read my station's values. Is a newer version available anywhere?

Thanks!

Offline dupreezd

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Re: WS-HP2K-1 exactly the same as Ambient Weather 1001 Wifi ?!?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2017, 07:02:31 PM »
Fredster, welcome to the forum.

I can't answer your questions as I have a WS1200-IP, but this is what I do regarding updates.

With any update, there is a risk of something going wrong. Most of the time it works flawlessly, but there is Murphy's law  :-(
I read what the update is for, then ask these two simple questions.
1. Does this update fix a problem that I have?
2. Does it provide any new features that I will use?

If the answer is no for both, I don't upgrade.

Hope this help
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Offline rods55555

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Re: WS-HP2K-1 exactly the same as Ambient Weather 1001 Wifi ?!?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2017, 01:24:40 PM »
Hi All,

Newbie here:

I have bought a Ambient Weather 1001 Wifi clone, called 'MiSol WS-HP2K-1'. Seems to work fine and is uploading to WeatherUnderground...

In the About page on the device it reports:

Model: HP2000
Storage: 3844MB
Hardware revision 2.0
OS version: 3.1.5
Firmware: 2.3.8
Frequency: 433m

Can I use the 2.4.3 firmware (Date Jun 27th 2017) that I found:

https://ambientweather.wikispaces.com/ws1001-wifi

Or will that immediately brick my unit?

Also, I have found a EasyWeatherIP version 3.2 software and I can read my station's values. Is a newer version available anywhere?

Thanks!

I don't recommend using that firmware before editing some of the files, because the Ambient Weather version works on 915Mhz and the MiSol version works on 433Mhz. If you use that firmware without editing the files your station will not work anymore.
And I personally follow the recommended "if it's not broken don't fix it".