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New user experience
I purchased and installed the WS-2902D-WH31E wx station in July 2024 and am extremely pleased thus far. Installation was straightforward and I dutifully read and followed the instructions. The wx station console is well organized and the station itself is functioning well. It is connected into the Ambient Weather Network and the station and additional WH31E units are all reporting data. The graphing and charts are helpful.
However, there is a certain “clunkyness” to the AWN Dashboard. I would advise making it look more like my 2902D console with a concise display.
My big complaint is how often, when I open the AWN app, that I receive the dreaded “There’s no real time data yet. Give us a sec…” message on the dashboard. I’ve given it over 30 minutes and still no data. IMHO, this is not acceptable behavior. My internet operates on highly reliable a 200 MBPS fiber service (up & down) so the problem is not coming from my stations transmissions. What gives.Show lessThinksDeeply
Planned Obsolescence, Force You to Buy New Dashboards
I purchased the ambient weather station and console when I purchased my home. Everything worked great until the Internet disconnected. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to reconnect. Hours and hours I spent. Even got my internet company out to replace and reset the routers. Turns out, if you dig deep enough in the help documentation (and I'm pretty sure this was added a few months after I started troubleshooting), the console I bought has some kind of bug as of the beginning of this year and if it disconnects from the internet it's no longer supported. But oh hey, Ambient Weather will give me a discount off a new console! That's unfair. What's to say they won't depreciate the next one in less than a year, too, and force me to keep tossing out the console every year to buy a new one? What a waste and a disappointment. I guess it's time to take down the weather station and find some other sucker willing to take a gamble on this hobby and this company.Show lessdina_g
Very good weather app, 1 complaint
I primarily use the app to look at my home station weather and it is very good and stable.
My complaint is that when I launch it, the time of the data displayed is often displayed to be hours or days before even though I had previously launched the app minutes before. My preference would be to set the time and data to the current time. It seemed to be this way for a while but at least several months ago it reverted back.Show lessSpace wizz
Very good quality weather station
I’ve been using WS2902 system for six months and am very impressed with the quality, accuracy and reliability of the weather station itself and the AWN APP.
One disappointing thing is the lack of options and editing ability on the Dashboard, eg I would like the ability to see the wind direction in degrees and not just an arrow on a blank circle as is currently the case. Also the ability to change the order of the information tiles on the mobile app. A big PLEASE to the developers to look into this?
All in all though this is a very high quality weather station and I am extremely satisfied and impressed.Show lessRascley
Someday, but not Today
Someday, some vendor is going to develop a reliable and easy to use internet interface for their weather station. So far, we are not there. I have used AcuRite and Ambient Weather stations and they regularly drop their feed to the online apps or weather reporting web pages. They jam, they stop uploading, they do everything except maintain a reliable connection. The hardware on my Ambient 2902D is nice. The software looks good on this AWS app, BUT after a few days it will inevitable stop reporting and I will have to delete the App and reload it. Who knows why. The developers sure don’t! Or, if they do, they don’t care.Show lesssjfotos
Excellent
Great app. Much better than the other stations I've had.
If I could make one change it would be to the rainfall tile. If you live in a wet area, the bars on the graph other than "year" will all look like they are zero.
But excellent layout for iPhone.302anon
Someday, but not Today
Someday, some vendor is going to develop a reliable and easy to use internet interface for their weather station. So far, we are not there. I have used AcuRite and Ambient Weather stations and they regularly drop their feed to the online apps or weather reporting web pages. They jam, they stop uploading, they do everything except maintain a reliable connection. The hardware on my Ambient 2902D is nice. The software looks good on this AWS app, BUT after a few days it will inevitable stop reporting and I will have to delete the App and reload it. Who knows why. The developers sure don’t! Or, if they do, they don’t care.Show lessWorked great at first
I loved this weather station and app for the first year and a half I had it, but I don't know what sort of update happened about 8 months ago. I haven't moved the station or my router, and its constantly disconnecting and needing to be restarted. The station shows accurate info, but there is no communication to the app. Customer service has been no help and says to just reset everything, which doesn't fix the issue. Long story short, this works if I'm at the house and staring at the actual station once it's been restarted, but useless for checking the weather at home from afar. Might as well just use the weather channel.Show lessLexivh
love the hardware. app is dead
This has been a trusty and helpful weather station through storm and good weather. I’ve never loved the app but it was functional. I usually look at the actual data on weather cloud but the air quality data doesn’t get through so I’m stuck with the app. which hasn’t opened successfully for a year or so at this point. It just tells me “other customers have had luck uninstalling and reinstalling”. even the latest release, which supposedly gets rid of the white screen of death doesn’t actually do anything. Then I learned that the app is just a shell around a web browser. Surprisingly (that was sarcasm.) the webpage also doesn’t load. It looks like they are failing the basics.Show lessdaz10000
Recent update issue
I have had this weather station app for several years and find it more useful that my home display with all the information from my station readily available. Unfortunately, with the recent update, they have added an extra step to get to this information. I now must select My Dashbord button to view my infomation from map view of stations in my area. This is a ridiculous extra step. My dashboard gives me an opportunity to see stations near me, IF I want it. With this change it also now has a large left side bar with menu options for things I rarely if ever use. We should have an option to hide that sidebar. Not sure who the developer is trying to impress, but it is not me.Show lessAwest006
