Weather Station Hardware > Ambient Weather and Ecowitt and other Fine Offset clones
Warning: Not all Ambient Weather Stations are made by Fine Offset
Mandrake:
You need to bare in mind that Ecowitt as a direct brand from Fine Offset has only existed a few years and is still growing.
Previously to that the only option to get a Fine Offset station was through resellers such as Maplin (RIP), Misol, Froggit, Aercus and one of the biggest of course being Ambient Weather.
There are of course many other smaller brands such as Pantech etc
In time I am sure that the Ecowitt brand will become much larger and more readily available worldwide.
galfert:
I have privately come to an agreement with Ambient. I have not deleted Ed's posts, he removed them. We should respect that Ambient is trying to preserve the brand name they have built.
What this means is that we as an enthusiasts community should stay clear of Ambient's Facebook and not discuss Fine Offset nor Ecowitt there. We should also stand clear of Ambient's Amazon Reviews Q&A and not discuss Fine Offset and Ecowitt there. In return Ambient will not try and stake any claim to their own Ambient forum section, because that will not work for our users that have embraced the expandability capabilities of having a Fine Offset clone station. To us it is all the same stuff and many of us have hybrid stations. We are a different crowd than what congregate over in Facebook and Amazon. It makes zero sense for us to have a separate Ambient and separate Ecowitt section. We are able to help each other because of the shared framework. We wouldn't solve anything by having separate sections.
Please be respectful when discussing Ambient on this and other threads on this matter. I fully support Ambient and their efforts. We want to ensure that Ambient remains a viable company. Feel free to throw polite constructive feedback.
I hope that Ambient and Ed continue to visit our forum. I'm very excited in the recent uptick in posts from Ambient and I want to continue to welcome them. I'm very excited also about the new Ambientweather.net 2.0 and there is much more to come.
Rover1822:
I agree, a separate Ambient section IMHO would probably lead to a lot of headaches trying to reduce cross posting and also increasing moderation efforts.
gszlag:
@galfert
...very diplomatically said.
Since WXFORUM is a weather enthusiast user forum, weather manufactuers/distributer participation here will definitely attract all kinds of technical questions and perhaps gripes regarding warranties, and all sorts of other issues etc. It has always been the case since the dinosaur age of the internet. Anyone remember usenet?
So yes, we will be mindful of our pints and quarts as always and manufacturers would of course try not to do too much corporate flag waving on our user forms.
Other than that, I am sure that my fellow forum-ers here would welcome any and all manufacturer representation with open arms if they have something to contribute.
A suggestion. Since this board (Ambient Weather/Fine Offset/Fine Offset clones) is a hardware forum, I've noted that many discussions ( i am guilty of this also) centers on the the Ambient Weather Network(AWN).
Since AWN has transitioned to a public weather network perhaps we can open up a new board under Weather Related Organizations along with Weather Underground, AWEKAS, etc. All discussions specific to the AWN could be addressed there.
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...Feel free to throw polite constructive feedback.
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galfert:
--- Quote from: gszlag on March 25, 2020, 01:58:50 PM ---A suggestion. Since this board (Ambient Weather/Fine Offset/Fine Offset clones) is a hardware forum, I've noted that many discussions ( i am guilty of this also) centers on the the Ambient Weather Network(AWN).
Since AWN has transitioned to a public weather network perhaps we can open up a new board under Weather Related Organizations along with Weather Underground, AWEKAS, etc. All discussions specific to the AWN could be addressed there.
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Ambientweather.net is not like all those other weather related organizations. All those other weather organizations are open to anyone that wants to send them data. These organizations then make that data available to their customers at a price. Ambientweather.net does not want anyone's data for the sake of the data. The purpose of Ambientweather.net is to provide a service only to their customers that purchased their hardware.
The purpose of Ambientweather.net is for their customers, much the same as Weatherlink.com is only for Davis customers and myAcurite.com is only for Acurite customers. They don't sell data. With Ambientweather.net you don't have to have their hardware to view stations that belong to others (if they are marked public). The same is true for Weatherlink.com.
If you want to discuss Ambientweather.net then do so in the Ambient hardware section, as what is uploading there is Ambient hardware.
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