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SURVEY/POLL - Fine Offset Weather station (Ambient, Ecowitt, Froggit, Misol..)

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Gyvate:
Hi guys,
I'd like to get an overview how many of our users are using which of the available Fine Offset reseller brands as their Weather Station.
You can make three different choices if you own different consoles or gateways from different brands.

If you use an Ecowitt console and Froggit sensors, that's only a vote for Ecowitt.
If you use a Froggit console and other Ecowitt sensors, the vote goes for Froggit.
If you have an Ambient WS-2000 or WS-5000 or WS-1965 or Weather Hub 2.0 (ObserverIP 2.0) and in addition a GW1x00 or GW2000 etc. console/gateway, the votes should go for Ambient and Ecowitt.
If you have Froggit and Ecowitt consoles, the votes should go for Froggit and Ecowitt.
etc.
and - if you use Ambient only, your vote is welcome in the Ambient line too  :-)

If you have other Fine Offset/Ecowitt compatible brands in use (poll: other, no brand), I'd appreciate you posting a picture of the console and the name under which you purchased the device here in this thread/subject/post
.
Thanks for helping to get an idea about the distribution of the Fine Offset reseller hardware.

Gyvate:
interesting so far - about 50/50 for Ecowitt vs. clones ...
I would have expected a bigger number of Ambient devices though.
What is also interesting is that there are 350+ viewings of the post so far (07-Aug-2024 - 04:00 EDT) but only ~60 voters.
I would have expected at least 50% of the sub-forum visitors to own a Fine Offset (clone) console.
That would be 180 vs. ~60 voters .... - also interesting

Rover1822:

--- Quote from: Gyvate on August 07, 2024, 04:03:29 AM ---interesting so far - about 50/50 for Ecowitt vs. clones ...
I would have expected a bigger number of Ambient devices though.
What is also interesting is that there are 350+ viewings of the post so far (07-Aug-2024 - 04:00 EDT) but only ~60 voters.
I would have expected at least 50% of the sub-forum visitors to own a Fine Offset (clone) console.
That would be 180 vs. ~60 voters .... - also interesting

--- End quote ---
1. On the Ambient numbers, a lot of us own both , so it moves both numbers as we could select both in the poll selection.
2. The number of viewers includes everyone, including guests, and also repeat viewing, so it is not a metric to use. SMF user views is not unique viewers.

I'm not surprised by the numbers, but the poll is for a limited audience of those that review this channel. I would expect the Ecowitt numbers to be higher actually as this is a global response. But then again, limited to those that follow the channel

Gyvate:
@Rover1822
I see your point - that's why I already gave a 50% "leeway".
There are indications that Ambient stations have a rather high percentage in their sales compared to other resellers.
Also, there is a closed (need to register) Ecowitt family group on Facebook: ~ 2,500 users
whereas the Ambient Facebook group, also registration  needed, has 18,000+ users.

Of course, our forum is not representative as mostly only a few "nerds" and people in trouble come here.
At least ~ 5 years ago, at @galfert times, the dominating topics were Ambient related.

There are many people who are just happy with what they got and they never show up here or in another user group.
It seems that the WS-2902D is still the lead horse in the Ambient stables whereas here in our forum it plays a minor role

Also in Europe, just going through the online offers, the WS2910 and the HP2551 (HP2550 console + WS69/WH65 outdoor array), dominate the reseller offers (with the exception of Froggit who are closest to the Ecowitt product bandwidth in their reselling offers compared to others, even Ambient).

As a side-remark:
It's also interesting that after having had the opportunity to observe two years of the Ecowitt WS90 performance, they have decided to adopt it as their new WS-4000 station..

I know that many people in the forum walk the parallel path, started with Ambient and then add Ecowitt consoles/gateways.
That's why I allowed more than one vote in the poll.
But if the double users here are representative for all Ambient WS-2000/5000 owners is to be doubted.

One of the reasons for this poll is to get some more information beyond the usual and likely to be wrong speculations.

Jeje2:
As a pure side note - I'm shocked  :eek: with the amount of different brands under which Fine offsets products are sold in total. Many of these I had not heard about before. (Gywate: thx for sharing this information  [tup] )

How about the availability of these brands in different parts of the world? Like Froggit is Germany but can be said like Europe...  How about these others?

I'm quite happy with Ecowitt and as far as I've seen so far they have the widest product availability of Fine offset. (Or is there someone having a wider product range?)

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