Just purchased the weather station as above and want to integrate it into HA (hopefully reasonably easily because I’m not a coder/programmer LOL). I’ve seen setups with the GW1100 so can someone confirm that this also works without a cloud account and I can pull info into HA via WiFi?
(As it happens in my case, I could also connect it via Ethernet, but that doesn’t seem to be an option). But I would like to be able to log weather over time so I have an understanding of why my tomatoes are late or my beans are early etc. Or, of course, when it’s freezing outside so I need to pay attention to my well shack and its heater…
Confirmed fine. Cloud account can be neutered once connected the first time (and no need to log in). But the Ecowitt does place calls to an NTP server in China (it’s not supposed to do that…it’s against the NTP rules). Am working to put it onto my IoT network and completely block it in my router from contacting anybody, let alone China.
Pulling the data into HA required a quick connect to an unused/unregistered phone device, loading on the Ecowitt app and setting a couple of parameters, then deleting the whole setup once it began to communicate with HA. Annoying to be sure.
Next problem is to figure out how to graph the data and how to get a battery %, which it doesn’t seem to want to register.
I have several of these. They have an enormous number of entities, though at least in my case their names & the associated entities are not obviously related. It takes a little experimentation to figure out which belong to which. Battery should be there. I use the custom history-explorer-card to track mine & don’t have any problem.
Correct. And since then I’ve added a couple of HN31 sensors to the mix and they needed nothing as they connected directly to the Ecowitt Gateway. Blocking the access to internet is beyond the scope here, but if you have a decent router or something like PiHole, VLAN them and then block the VLAN’s access to Port 53 (used for DNS).
The Ecowitt itself communicates via WiFi but does NOT require outside connection at all.
