Morning Rain

Hey, v1.8.0 is the version i have on mine.

Excellent, had a feeling it may be the sd card.

Hmm strange, can't see why it wouldn't work.

You are unzipping the dowloaded zip file yes? Not renaming it user.bin

What type of SD card are you using? Think only SDHC will work. SDXC won't work. Also make sure to format the card to FAT32.

Hi Are you definitely using the correct firmware? Should be this one https://osswww.ecowitt.net/uploads/20211231/HP2550V1.7.7.zip

That model is older than the ws8686. The ws8686 definitely does dew point

Yes the ecowitt lightning sensor works with Watson ws8686, i have one transmitting to the console

Enjoy, it is an excellent station for the price

It can send data to WU, Weathercloud and WOW

Hi, i can confirm the station does give dew point readings including humidity and feels like readings.

Yes it is the same, the Watson is the UK branded version. It is a clone of Ecowitt. Think Weatherspares sell additional sensors that work with it too such as lightning detector, soil sensor ect. I have the lightning sensor connected to the Watson base unit.

I have this station: Watson W8686. Includes solar and UV sensors and wifi connectivity for uploading to weather underground ect. Very good weather station for the price £189.95 from here: Watson W8686 – NEW! – Nevada Radio WWW.NEVADARADIO.CO.UK

June 2021: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 28.5c (2nd) Min Temp: 7.5c (23rd) Highest Min: 16.1c (10th) Lowest Max: 15.1c (28th) Mean Max: 21.7c Mean Min: 11.7c Mean: 16.5c Rainfall Total: 44.8mm Wettest Day: 17.1mm (18th) Rain Days: 10 Other Stats Thunder Days: 1 Wind Gust Max: 25mph (15th)

May 2021: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 24.4c (31st) Min Temp: 0.7c (2nd) Highest Min: 13.2c (29th) Lowest Max: 9.5c (3rd) Mean Max: 15.6c Mean Min: 6.6c Mean: 10.6c Rainfall Total: 90.9mm Wettest Day: 19.1mm (8th) Rain Days: 24 Other Stats Frosts: 0 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 0 Snow Lying: 0 Max Snow Depth: 0 Thunder Days: 3 Wind Gust Max: 52mph (3rd)

April 2021: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 19.5c (23rd) Min Temp: -1.0c (13th) Highest Min: 5.9c (27th) Lowest Max: 6.5c (7th) Mean Max: 13.2c Mean Min: 1.8c Mean: 7.2c Rainfall Total: 5.8mm Wettest Day: 2.0mm (27th) Rain Days: 6 Other Stats Frosts: 8 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 2 Snow Lying: 0 Max Snow Depth: N/A Thunder Days: 0 Wind Gust Max: 36mph (5th)

March 2021: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 24.0c (31st) Min Temp: -0.7c (7th) Highest Min: 10.3c (31st) Lowest Max: 4.6c (1st) Mean Max: 11.5c Mean Min: 4.0c Mean: 7.5c Rainfall Total: 19.8mm Wettest Day: 4.0mm (12th) Rain Days: 11 Other Stats Frosts: 2 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 0 Snow Lying: 0 Max Snow Depth: N/A Thunder Days: 0 Wind Gust Max: 58mph (10th)

February 2021: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 15.6c (24th) Min Temp: -5.5c (11th) Highest Min: 11.8c (24th) Lowest Max: 0.9c (13th) Mean Max: 8.7c Mean Min: 2.3c Mean: 5.3c Rainfall Total: 58.2mm Wettest Day: 17.5mm (2nd) Rain Days: 18 Other Stats Frosts: 8 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 4 Snow Lying: 6 Max Snow Depth: 2.6cm (9th) Thunder Days: 0 Wind Gust Max: 36mph (20th)

January 2021: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 12.6c (28th) Min Temp: -4.6c (7th) Highest Min: 9.0c (19th) Lowest Max: 0.2c (24th) Mean Max: 5.8c Mean Min: 0.7c Mean: 3.3c Rainfall Total: 126.0mm Wettest Day: 18.3mm (28th) Rain Days: 25 Other Stats Frosts: 14 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 11 Snow Lying: 9 Max Snow Depth: 7cm (24th) Thunder Days: 0 Wind Gust Max: 36mph (21st)

Temp starting to drop slowly here in Tamworth, was 4c an hour ago and now 3.3c. Seems snowline should be reaching Leicestershire soon. Not sure what will happen this afternoon here, think it will be a wintry mix at most.

Yes just basic shared hosting i use for the websites, about £4 a month. I have been very pleased with the Watson station, had no issues since it was installed. Nice to have the option of adding additional sensors too.

Internal memory is 16mb, just checked the console. To give you an idea, my station has been in operation since June 1st last year logging data at 5min intervals. Console says it still has 6mb free, so can easily store 6 months data on the internal storage.

I have this station, you can backup data manually to sd in the settings of the console. I think its recommended not to have a sd card larger than 4gb, this can then be used to update firmware. If you want more control of the data, i added the GW1000 to my station which then gives you more options and allows you to connect your station to weather software like weather display or cumulus. I use weather display and have that send and archive all the data to my website (see sig) using saratoga weather template. The station is 868mhz, and i got the froggit version of the GW1000 from them which is the DP1500 Wi-Fi Weather Server USB Dongle. DP1500,

December 2020: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 13.2c (18th) Min Temp: -2.4c (31st) Highest Min: 10.4c (18th) Lowest Max: 1.9c (28th) Mean Max: 7.9c Mean Min: 2.9c Mean: 5.2c Rainfall Total: 109.2mm Wettest Day: 11.2mm (3rd) Rain Days: 22 Other Stats Frosts: 6 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 2 Snow Lying: 2 Thunder Days: 0 Wind Gust Max: 44mph (27th)

November 2020: Tamworth, Staffordshire Temperature Max Temp: 17.2c (1st) Min Temp: -0.6c (26th) Highest Min: 11.6c (17th) Lowest Max: 7.2c (27th) Mean Max: 11.9c Mean Min: 5.4c Mean: 8.7c Rainfall Total: 31.4mm Wettest Day: 4.8mm (14th) Rain Days: 18 Other Stats Frosts: 1 Ice Days: 0 Snow Falling: 0 Snow Lying: 0 Thunder Days: 0 Wind Gust Max: 43mph (1st)