Product description
Ambient Weather’s WS-2902 personal weather station allows you to monitor your home and backyard weather conditions with the brilliant, easy-to-read LCD color display. Monitor indoor and outdoor conditions, including wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, UV, solar radiation, barometric pressure, indoor/outdoor temperature (F and C), indoor/outdoor humidity, and more. The weather station also calculates dew point, wind chill, and heat index.
Experience the convenience of having your personal weather information with you on the go using your computer, tablet, or mobile device. The enhanced Wi-Fi option connects to your router (2.4 GHz) and enables your station to transmit its data wirelessly to personal weather station networks and our exclusive AmbientWeather.net featuring the most user friendly design for monitoring your data across different platforms. Quickly view detailed information with our animated expandable modules.
Ambient Weather Network
Forge connections within the weather enthusiast community by seamlessly linking your Ambient Weather station to the Ambient Weather Network (AWN). Immerse yourself in an interactive weather community where your personalized online dashboard becomes a focal point for sharing your real-time weather data. This interactive platform empowers you to customize your dashboard according to your preferences and freely share your weather insights in the AWN community without additional cost. The Ambient Weather Network brings together like-minded individuals passionate about weather observation and analysis. Join the conversation, exchange valuable insights, and be a part of a community that shares your enthusiasm for understanding and appreciating the ever-changing weather patterns.
Responsive Design
Add your personal weather station to the map and create your own hyperlocal forecast for the community. Customize your personal weather dashboard, organize your tiles with the measurements you prioritize, and label your sensors. You can select the radar, wind, or temperature layers or drill down to view your neighborhood’s weather stations. Watch time-lapse videos of weather conditions from local weather cameras or add your own.
Weather on the Go
When you open the app, you will encounter an interactive map of weather stations, weather cameras, and map layers that provide an incredibly detailed and hyper-local view of current conditions. With this data, you can easily find information about localized temperature, “feels like” temperature, humidity, pressure, windspeed, and precipitation levels from actual points like the start line of a marathon or the north end of a beach.
Extensive Data & Alerts
Set up email or text alerts for high and low conditions for every parameter; send multiple alerts for the same parameter, and view all past alerts in a handy timeline. You can also visualize your data with daily, monthly and yearly graphs, or customize your graphing interval. The expandable tiles and handy charts and graphs allow you to analyze your data, or you can download csv files for a deeper dive.
Connect to AWN
Responsive Design
Weather on the Go
Extensive Data & Alerts
Virtual Assistants
The Ambient Weather skill for Alexa and Google Assistant provides Ambient Weather personal weather station owners with the ability to get real-time, and past weather information generated by the devices they have been linked to.
IFTTT Applets
The AmbientWeather server features a handy timeline for tracking IFTTT triggered web services, applets, and devices like blinds, rain gauges, and lights.
API & Third Party Apps
Developers, retrieve your own real-time and historical personal weather station JSON formatted data, or build 3rd party apps and get data from multiple devices.
Weather Networks
Connect to the world’s largest personal weather station network, Weather Underground, in addition to WeatherCloud and WeatherBug.
Weather Station Features & Specifications
The Osprey Sensor Array
The wireless sensor array connects to the console via RF (915 MHz) up to 330 feet line of sight in open air (100 feet under most conditions). The wireless signal will not pass through solid metal, earth, or ground. The sensor array’s primary power source is a solar panel which charges the super capacitor, with optional battery backup (batteries not included).
The sensor array mounts to any pole between 1.25 and 2″ diameter with adaptive mounting bracket and U-Bolt design that can be tightened to your mounting pole (not included).
Important Notes and Specifications:
Requires an iPhone, iPad, or Android device to program through the AmbientTool application (available in the Apple App Store or Google Play).
The new WS-2902D has all the same functionality as the WS-2902C but now with an easier setup.
Optional Sensors (sold separately)
The WS-2902 supports the following optional sensors:
(8) WH31E, WH31P, WH31PF, or WH51RF(1) PM25(1) PM25IN
The WH31E, WH31P, WH31PF, and WH51RF share the same 8 total channels and display on the console.
The additional sensor models do not display on the console, but pass-through to the Ambient Weather Network and can be viewed there.
Components & Sensors: Wind Vane Wind Speed Cups Solar / UV Light Thermo-Hygrometer w/ Radiation Shield Rain Gauge Bubble Level Solar Collector
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4.4 out of 5 stars 1,192
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Price
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Sensor Type
Thermo-hygrometer Thermo-hygrometer Thermo-hygrometer Floating Thermometer Air Quality & Particulates Air Quality & Particulates
Sensor Location
Indoor / Outdoor Indoor / Outdoor Refrigerator / Freezer Indoor / Outdoor Outdoor Indoor
Sensor Features & Notes
Includes RCC, and also supports NIST. 10 foot probe can measure many different mediums including air, water, soil, refrigerator, and freezer. Designed to operate in cold & humid conditions; includes base & hook for optimal positioning. Completely sealed, IPX6/IPX8 water resistant, floating sensor. Wireless sensor ideal for use anywhere in or around your home. Similar to the PM25, but intended for indoor use only.
Connectability
Up to 8 thermometers: mix & match WH31E, WH31P, WH31PF, and WH51RF. Up to 8 thermometers: mix & match WH31E, WH31P, WH31PF, and WH51RF. Up to 8 thermometers: mix & match WH31E, WH31P, WH31PF, and WH51RF. Up to 8 thermometers: mix & match WH31E, WH31P, WH31PF, and WH51RF. Only 1 sensor. Only 1 sensor.
Temperature Range Indoor: 14 to 140 °F, Outdoor: -40 to 149 °F Humidity Range Indoor: 10 to 99%, Outdoor: 10 to 99% Barometric Pressure Range 8.85 to 32.50 inHg Solar Radiation (Light) Range 0 to 200000 Lux Rain Range 0 to 394 inches Wind Direction Range 0 to 360º Wind Speed Range 0 to 100 mph Display Console Dimensions Frame: 7.5 x 4.5 x 0.75 inches, LCD: 3 x 6.75 inches Sensor Array Dimensions 15 x 11 x 10 inches Display Console Power 5V DC adapter (included), Power consumption: .05 Watts (1.25 Watts during WiFi configuration mode), 3x AAA battery back-up (not included) Sensor Array Power Solar panel, 2 x AA battery back-up (not included)
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.75 x 4.5 inches; 3.9 Pounds
Item model number : WS-2902C
Batteries : 3 AAA batteries required.
Date First Available : January 26, 2017
Manufacturer : Ambient Weather
ASIN : B01N5TEHLI
Best Sellers Rank: #214 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden) #2 in Weather Stations
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COMPLETE WEATHER STATION: (1) Osprey Sensor Array with Rain Cup, and (1) Brilliant, Easy-to-Read LCD Color Display
AUTHENTIC HYPER-LOCAL DATA: Monitor your actual home and backyard weather conditions with our wireless and Wi-Fi-enabled sensor array measuring wind speed/direction, temperature, humidity, rainfall, UV intensity, and solar radiation
SMART HOME READY: Set up alerts, access your data remotely, and program your home based on weather conditions using IFTT, Google Home, Alexa, and more
ENHANCED WIFI: Enables your station to transmit its data wirelessly to the world’s largest personal weather station network (optional setting)
JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Connect to Ambient Weather Network to customize your dashboard tiles, share hyperlocal weather conditions via social feeds and create your own forecasts (coming soon)
Supports both imperial and metric units of measure, with calibration available
Pole Mount and 3 x AAA batteries not included
Bard –
Great weather station at a good price
I had been looking for a home weather station for years and finally decided to pull the trigger. Mainly because I had the perfect poll for it that had been sitting under out carport for years and my wife threated to get rid of it with the next bulk trash pickup. Use it or lose it, so I put it to use.If you are looking for a great weather station at great price this is the perfect unit. This station has all the basics you would want and more. Rain gage that measures not only the amount of rain but hourly rain fall as well as 24 hour rain fall, weekly, monthly and rain event totals. The unit has a wind vain and anemometer for wind direction and speed, of course. It also has temperature with heat index and wind chill. We have a pool so I love that the unit measures UV index and Solar Radiation.Assembly: Not too difficult. Everything goes together pretty easy if you have a basic knowledge of putting things together. If you don’t then call your kids or grandkids to come do it for you. Directions are rather long and wordy and at times seem out of order. It also has a few steps for optional equipment that does not some with this particular unit. Dug through the box looking for those things before realizing they were optional. The wind vain and anemometer cups slip on and you just need a small screw driver to tighten them down. Rain gauge twist into place and the wire filter pushes right in. The unit runs on solar power but uses two AA batteries as a backup. Took me a minute to figure out how to get the cover to slide off, I never want to push too hard and break something.The biggest issue you will have is how and where to mount the unit. I have a large yard and a garden framed with rail road ties out around 100 feet away from the house. I also had an old pipe with tripod feet that use to be on our roof with our internet dish that I was able to mount the unit too. I was able to bold the stand to the railroad ties so it is not going anywhere. The u-joints that came with the unit securely mounted the unit to the pole I had and was fairly simple. The thing to remember is mouth it facing north, which I was easily able to do using the compass on my iPhone and the arrow on top of the unit. And do not forget to check the level of the unit. It has a level dot on top. I thought I was done, but then noticed that and spend another 30 minutes trying to adjust the base and the u-joint and pole screws to try and get it perfect… then just got mad and bent the pole and BAM… unit level.It took the unit a few minutes to find the indoor unit. I had to then move it around to find the best spot for reception. I have tried moving it all over the house and the base has a tough time reading the station if you move it too far away or there are too many walls between the station and the base. I have it setting on one of my wife’s tables by a back window within eyesight of the weather station. It gets five bars there and is working great, however my wife thinks it clashes with the aesthetic of the table… can’t win them all.Pros: Within a few hours of setting the unit up we had a big rain event. Unit worked great. We got over 3 inches of rain over night. With wind and rain unit held firmly in place. Display is easy to read. Also easy to setup and create accounts on Ambientweather.net and other weather apps that let me check out the weather conditions at my home wherever I am.Cons: Not many major ones. Set unit DST (Daylight savings time) thinking it would automatically spring forward and fall back with time change, but instead it would randomly spring forward an hour. Once I turned DST off the clock has kept the correct time.I could see if you have a small yard, or are in an area where the house are close together, or have a lot of trees, you may have a hard time finding a clear, unobstructed, spot to mount the unit. Also, if you do not have an existing pole to mount the unit to you could spend as much on the poll and hardware as you spend on the station itself.As for the unit itself the wind gauge does not look to read over 99.9 mph. I live on the Texas coast, took a direct hit from Hurricane Harvey in 2017, so that is a possibility where I live. While the unit might not display wind speed that high it may still read that and post it on the Ambientweather.net site.Lastly, If you are not computer or tech savvy then have your kids, grandkids, or someone under the age of 25 come over and help you with that part of the set up. I had an issue connecting it to our WiFi trying to follow the directions, and my son took it and without even looking at the directions had it connected in about 30 seconds.Overall great weather station for a great price.
Dennis Mabrey –
Easy setup. Works with my Alexa. Data looks good. What more need I say?
I have had a weather station (Davis Vantage Pro) for years which is an awesome weather station but is a bit dated (it also recently stopped transmitting). So in need of a new weather station I purchased the WS-2902 after looking at reviews and prices.Hardware setup is easy as it can mount to any pole between 1-2 inches in diameter. The installation is just two u-bolts and took me about 5 minutes. Plugging in the base station it instantly connected and started to read data from the weather station. It really could not have been easier.Software setup had two problems but neither of them were directly the fault of the base station. First, the setup of the base station requires a WIFI network with AP isolation turned OFF. AP isolation just means that no device/computer using wifi on the network can see any other device/computer on the network. So AP isolation turned on will not allow your cell phone to see or talk to your base station once it is connected. My router from Xfinity is terrible and for some reason doesn’t allow you to turn AP Isolation off. Luckily… I have an extender upstairs I connect to that does… problem solved.Next software problem was uploading data. It is supposed to upload to 3 different websites (Ambient Weather, WeatherCloud, and Weather Underground). I set them all up (easy) but the data going to Weather Underground was a mess. Even worse… the data would not upload to Ambient Weather or WeatherCloud for about 20 minutes. This left huge gaps in the data charts.The problem was Weather Underground. It seems that according to the Ambient Weather FB group, Weather Underground has had huge technical problems for the past week. People can’t connect and problems of bad data persist. I went back to the phone app and removed the Weather Underground from the list of sites to upload to.Suddenly… everything worked PERFECTLY. The data going up to Ambient Weather updated every minute. The data going to WeatherCloud updated at the right intervals (I think it is every 10 minutes) and the charts looked great.So if you purchase this weather station I suggest setting it up so that the data uploads just to Ambient Weather’s website first and hold off setting up the other two for a day or so. This way you have some level of confidence that the whole system is working properly. When WU gets itself back up and running right I will probably reconnect and upload to it.So far the data has been very accurate. I’ve compared it with the local airport and surrounding stations and it appears there are little changes in calibration needed.Oh… and I can also query my Alexa about the outside/inside conditions. It works very well also.My only complaint is that it appears the Ambient Weather website doesn’t allow you to share your weather information. You need to log in to see it as there is no way to make it public. WeatherCloud, however, is open and doesn’t have that restriction but Ambient Weather ‘looks’ much nicer. Oh well, it still gets 5 stars.
Srinivas parvatini –
nice product. working perfectly
Ricardo Arteaga –
Es un producto muy frágil y El vendedor externo Amazon no da garantía ni factura
Doug –
Great bit of kit. Easy to setup and just ticks away. Gives all the data I want. Connects only on 2.4Ghz.
Bill N –
We bought it for the son in law, he loves it! Easy to set up, easy to operate & read, and a good price. Much better than our own!
Andrew B. –
Great product up and running all working well.