Volcast vs Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

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Weathervane is the dashboard for your Ecowitt weather station. It connects to your gateway or console over your own Wi-Fi, or to Ecowitt Cloud from anywhere, and puts everything your station and sensors measure on one clear screen: live conditions at the top, a tile for every reading, then charts, records, forecast and radar. It keeps your history, tracks your records, watches the weather around the clock and alerts you when something matters. Multiple stations, Apple Watch, widgets, Siri. Free, with no ads, no account and no tracking. WHAT IT SHOWS • Outdoor temperature with today's high and low • Indoor temperature and humidity • Humidity, dew point, feels like • Pressure with 3-hour trend and outlook • Wind speed, gusts, direction on a compass • Rain rate, hourly, today, event, week, month, year • Rain intensity in words • Solar radiation and UV index • Sunrise, sunset, daylight • Moon phase, moonrise, moonset • Lightning count and distance • Air quality: PM2.5, PM10, CO2, AQI • Soil moisture and soil temperature • Leaf wetness • Water level and distance • Water leaks • Black globe temperature • Comfort: how the air feels • Compared to yesterday • Battery and signal for every sensor • Daily, monthly and all-time records • 5-day forecast, radar and weather warnings SENSORS Every sensor paired to your gateway gets its own card: WH31 and WN31 temperature and humidity, WH51 soil moisture, WN34 temperature probes, WN35 leaf wetness, WH41 and WH43 PM2.5, WH45 air quality and CO2, WH55 water leak, WH57 lightning, WH40 and WN40 rain gauges, WS80, WS85 and WS90 Wittboy sensor arrays, WH65 and WS69 arrays, WN36 black globe, LDS01 water level and distance, and the indoor sensors in the gateway or console. Rename and reorder them as you like. ALERTS Freeze, frost tonight, high and low temperature, rapid drop, rain starting and stopping, heavy rain, rain totals, wind and gusts, pressure falling or rising fast, lightning nearby, a storm building, humidity, air quality, sensor limits you set, low batteries, a sensor gone quiet, a station offline, firmware updates. Weather warnings from the National Weather Service and Europe's national services. Water-leak alarm that repeats until seen. Daily summary, moon alert at sunset, quiet hours. HISTORY AND RECORDS Charts for every reading from one hour to a month, and up to three years on Ecowitt Cloud. Tap a chart for the exact value and time. Highs, lows and totals from today back to all time. Monthly report, CSV export. FORECAST 5-day forecast for your station's location with the chance of rain. National Weather Service written forecasts (US). Live radar (US and Europe). APPLE WATCH Any of your stations on your wrist, with complications for your watch face. With Ecowitt Cloud the watch reads your station itself, without your iPhone. WIDGETS, LIVE ACTIVITY, SIRI Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while it rains or lightning is near. Siri and Shortcuts for conditions, temperature and rain. Share a picture of current conditions. STATIONS As many stations as you have, local or cloud. Reorder, show or hide any card, tile or chart. Two-column iPad layout. Choice of main rain gauge on two-gauge stations. Firmware status for every device. SETTINGS Fahrenheit or Celsius; pressure, wind, rain, solar and distance units; 12-hour or 24-hour time; midnight or 9 am weather day; update interval; light or dark appearance. Demo mode to try it without a station. Keys stay in your Keychain. HARDWARE Gateways GW1100, GW1200, GW2000, GW3000, WS6210 and WS6006 (GW1000 through Ecowitt Cloud); consoles HP25xx, HP3500, WS2320, WS2910, WS38xx, WS39xx, WN18xx and WN19xx; and any station built on these, including Wittboy and Essense3. Newer models usually work too. Readings depend on your gateway, firmware and sensors. Weathervane is independently developed and not affiliated with Ecowitt. Ecowitt and product names are trademarks of their owners.