"symantics"
No one calls an Access a "console".
The Access is a console without an attached display. The display for the Access is an app or web page.
Much like an Ecowitt GW1000 and an Ambient ObserverIP and a Davis WLL are all consoles.
An Xbox or a Playstation are consoles. They are game consoles. Similar type device to the console of a weather station where the controls are.
They all fit the definition you posted. "A panel or unit... [with] controls..."
The Access is doing exactly the same thing as a display console...which is making your data available online or on some app or display and it is the control center for calibration and other settings.
Sorry, but no. Nobody calls the Access a "console". Data isn't shown on the Access, and there are no controls where you can adjust operation.
If it isn't rain rate it is Linux and now it is consoles. I'll respectfully agree to disagree with you.
I'd love to agree with you on those subjects, but there's no point in both of us being wrong.
I don't expect you do agree with anything I say. I don't need any one person being the judge of what I say. You say what you say and I say what I say. I let the audience decide. I read many sources of information, books, articles, news outlets, documentation, white papers, blogs, reviews...etc. I'm free to judge any source. I don't like to use any one source alone. It is good to find consensus. Likewise I let other judge whatever I spew without judgement. I don't feel the need to educate or change 100% of my audience. The overall feedback I receive is indicative enough of the quality of my information.
I do see your point (shame you never see my point...yeah I know...I'm wrong, you are right). I get that perhaps Acurite doesn't want to call the Access a console....they call it a hub. If you take the words console and hub out of the discussion and you focus what the devices actually do then an Access is providing the same basic functionality that an Ambient ObserverIP console is doing, or a Daivs WLL or an Ecowitt GW1000.
This is like debating Motor vs Engine, or battery vs cell, or modem vs media access device which is a transceiver, bridge or adapter (no modulation/demodulation).