Let me first state: I am happy with the Ecowitt products not only with the measurement results, the many possibilities you have with the data, but also satisfied with the used digital implementation (including not encrypted locally). But there always room for improvement
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Here under, first my response to Gyvate’s comments/suggestions on/to my post and review(s), which have the same numbering as Gyvate’s comments/suggestions above.
The Tweakers.net site, where I published the 3 Ecowitt reviews, does not have people with a great/main interest in the Weather/Weather-station stuff. The reviews there are for the IoT people and especially for Home Assistant as there is an Ecowitt integration for Home Assistant.
The Home Assistant population does like to know more technical details. So your assumption is correct. But still, also on this forum I see sometimes very technical posts and people who know more about these (technical) details. I also see Ecowitt is doing more in the IoT world (your post of Facebook concerning beta-testing for Valve and Power-plug of Ecowitt on this Weather forum).
1) I corrected in all 3 reviews that Ecowitt is the "retail customer branch" of Fine Offset Ltd, so Ecowitt is not a re-seller.
2) My wife touched the GW2000 "reset button" while cleaning and called me in panic. She had not seen it was a button. Nothing happened as she did not press it long enough. My son (26 years) touched the button to see what it does (why not!) and he did press it long enough to cause a factory reset
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In my opinion a factory/fabric-reset (= hard-reset) button is normally designed to avoid accidentally using it and this button to my opinion therefore is wrongly designed. The button has no function-name (the "Ecowitt" brand is on it) and you would even think its not a button at all. Sorry to say: your argument for the easy use without tools, does not count for me. If there are "easy to reach/push" buttons involved in a factory reset it normally to push 2 buttons at the same time for some time to get the factory reset done. If the last thing is not the case: hide this button.
3) If I understand you correctly, you mean with your "calibration data" the "cumulative daily/weekly/monthly rainfall counters"(now abbreviated to CRFC) and with your "normal reset" you mean a "soft reset / restart of the device", including such one due to power off/on/outage (your power-cycling).
I checked my notes of the tests I did and there it was written unclear what would happen with a power off/on/outage of the GW2000 (mixed up with Home Assistant smart home connection test).
To be sure, I tested the power off/on/outage of the GW2000 again.
You are right the CRFC keeps there value after a power outage, as this will lead to a "soft reset / restart of the device".
I corrected my GW2000 review on this point and also added a picture of the set to zero after a power off/on/outage of the "max Daily Wind Gust” visible in Home Assistant.
The "reset or reset button" as Ecowitt describes the Factory/Fabric reset (=hard reset) does sets the CRFC to zeros as you too confirmed.
The issue I have, is that normally a factory reset means: settings of the hardware are reset. The CRFC are functional values and these should not be touched bye such Factory/hard resets or you should be able to "backup/restore them / manually enter them again" in the GW2000. Also Ecowitt does not document the this well as far as I can see. Ecowitt only writes:"Press reset button 5 seconds to enter setting”. I can not find more documentation.
Strange thing is that in the GW2000/GS90 German/English document of Ecowitt, Ecowitt does describe the factory reset of the GS90. Nothing of a factory reset concerning the GW2000!
4) When writing the Review of the GW2000, the GW1000 was still for sale in the Netherlands and the price was the same for the GW1100. I did not mention that the GW1000 is bad. But for me the builtin Web-server in the GW1100/GW2000 enables a far better user interface on a PC/laptop via the WebUI/browser then using the App on a smartphone. I wrote in the review: I certainly would not recommend the GW1000 because the GW1100 has as little bit more, namely the extra Web-server and this at the same price!
5) I cannot find the string “Router network” in my review. Not in the NL text and not in the EN google translated text, neither in the (to)-Deepl translation text. I did change “home network” to “LAN home network” in all reviews to make things more clear. Sub-net and/or VLAN I do not use in this “Simple” review. But it is correct what you state.
6) I think I describes it correctly in Dutch (as you describe it here). The English translation is somewhat less accurate with Deepl and with the Google translation (Broken English, Pidgin English, Steenkolen Engels).
7) As far as I no, weather data from your own weather-station on your own property is not specifically covered by the GDPR. Everybody may measure the climate on public space. But as this (electronic) data is not absolutely anonymously, when I see the weather-station in your garden and can pick up the signal. For the GDPR then the anonymously goes above “everybody can measure weather data”. As such, according to the GDPR the producer/factory of this product should protect (data of) the product, e.g. by encryption. As you mentioned, there is also your own local responsibility and that is also written in the GDPR. But again Ecowitt does not specify the 868/915/433MHz wireless signal is NOT encrypted as far as I could see (so people don’t know!). So Ecowitt at least/possible lacks to inform a possible buyer about these specifications.
Ecowitt promotes the Indoor use of the WH31 and as I wrote in my review, a burglar could possibly derive from this WH31 if somebody is at home or not. On the Ecowitt.net the default for the WH31 is to publish it publicly. It would be far better to change this default to “not publish publicly WH31 data” (private). Of course you yourself can put the WH31 on “private” (only for you to see) on the Ecowitt.net.
8. Nice to hear you have positive experiences with the shop.ecowitt.com.
I wrote in my review you can order at shop.ecowitt.com “if you trust” the site. As I myself have NO experience with this site, I with this statement leave it up to the buyer, that's all. I do not write shop.ecowitt.com is good or bad, you have to sort it out yourself.
9) You are totally right about Google. They collect everything of everybody, legally and not legally.
But this is a public review and Google already knows I wrote it and may also know I translate it with their tools. As I share your concerns about Google, I put a remark in the review that people could use also Firefox with the TWP add-on (is still by default Google translate) or (in)Deepl addon for translation in e.g. Firefox. I compared the Google and Deepl translation and unfortunately to my opinion Google does a better job in translating my reviews and also it is more user friendly as you can read the whole long review with one click “translate this page”. The “free” Deepl is limited in number of words. The Deepl is useful to compare the original text with the translation with there standard 2 columns, that nice.
Here under, my response to zoomx remarks/suggestions:Thanks for reading my review and for your the remarks/comment/explanation about the MCU’s and the Display (Ecowitt WH31). I have added to the WH31/WH51 reviews that their measurement data can only be uploaded to the ecowitt.net weather-site (not to others).
I myself hope that 868/915MHz Z-wave-LR (very long range, star-network) will become the future standard, especially now Z-wave Alliance allows other producers to make z-wave chips and hopefully they will become cheaper
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The mesh-network Z-wave(-plus) is also 868/915Mhz. Zigbee has also an 868/915MHz, but it is not used to my knowledge, only the mesh-network 2,4GHz. Z-wave and Zigbee are encrypted and require a handshake to pair components. The Ecowitt does not have this encryption/pair, with the advantage that you can receive the signal on more that 1 device.
Gyvate & zoomx:Thanks again for your detailed comments and suggestions, with which I could improve my reviews.