WH2650 clone problems

[Auchtermuchty Weather]

So my WH2650 clone eventually arrived and is installed in the garden.  However  can't get the base station to connect to my router.  I've plugged it in, it's connected to indoor & outdoor sensors but the WiFi light continues to flash rapidly.  I've turned off the 5GHz Wifi, I've got the WS Tool app.  And the App won't let me put the SSID in either.  If just has '<Unknown SSID>'.  

However I see what is meant by better sensors etc.

Should have done this bit before I turned off the old one.

[steeple ian]

Do you have a gateway device GW1000 or a console?

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[Auchtermuchty Weather]

GW1000 - the tiny little thing with blue LEDs.  Certainly not a console.

[Auchtermuchty Weather]

PS I've tried a reset just now, no idea at what point in the flashing I should let the button go but again I have both sensors connected but it's not connecting to the WiFi

[Rainer Lang]

You can go through the instructions/suggestions posted at

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=41575.0

this works in 99.5% of all cases so far. 😁

From what I read, your main issue might be

that you probably use the wrong app (probably wrongly stated in the reseller manual) - you have to use the WSView app - WS Tools won't work for that purpose

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[Auchtermuchty Weather]

Thanks,  I knew I'd seen something about this but forgot about the other forum. 

That worked, but what a horrible method!  A better way (in my view) would be it picks up the network itself and has an inbuilt HTTP server for any further configuration.  I guess the prevalence of mobile devices is affecting things, adversely IMHO - a mobile device is perfectly capable of picking up data from an IP address...

I've given it a static IP, cycled the power and it's back on the network with the right static IP.  The new IP also shows in WS View and on looking though the screens in WS View it looks like I have some new data to play with, plus humidity looks about right so I imagine the dew point will be.

Now to implement connecting to it from WeeWx...

[Rainer Lang]

Congratulations !

It is how it is .... - and, unless you do a factory reset, you won't have to do this again.

For "general" FineOffset clone issues etc., WXforum is afaik the main (in the sense most substantial) forum - for weewx there are some helpful posts, too - but here is the main weewx user forum.

With the GW1000/WH2650

in weewx.conf you will have to add the line

------------------ start weewx.conf excerpt ------------------

[StdCalibrate]

    [[Corrections]]
        # For each type, an arbitrary calibration expression can be given.
        # It should be in the units defined in the StdConvert section.
        # Example:
        foo = foo + 0.2
       
        radiation = luminosity/126.7 if luminosity is not None else None

---------------- end weewx.conf excerpt

otherwise you won't get data from a solar sensor displayed

Good luck - and have fun !

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[Auchtermuchty Weather]

I'm not planning any factory resets!

Thanks for the extra info.  Hopefully however it will be long enough that by the time I need to setup another Fine Offset I've forgotten about that forum.  :)