Is Fine Offset WS69 weather station supported?

[mcmlxxvii]

I see that there's a registering protocol [213] already in place for "Fine Offset Electronics WS80 weather station" and [113] for "Ambient Weather WH31E Thermo-Hygrometer Sensor, EcoWitt WH40 rain gauge, WS68 weather station", so I'm wondering: Is Ecowitt WS69 also supported by rtl_433?

If yes, which rtl_433 protocol ID should I use?

If not, are there any plans to support it in the near future?

Thanks!

[zuckschwerdt]

Support for the WS69 was asked before but I don't know if anyone took a look at it. It should be very similar to others we already support.
https://groups.google.com/g/rtl_433/c/aFjgg-4kdJ8/m/OjCaIrg6AAAJ

[tomburke25]

Mine seems to identify as a WH65B (so -R 78)

I've only just starting messing with it, but sensor data seems to be correct

[neillbell]

I was looking at the WS69 today, so it's surprising to find that you posted about this just last week.
Were you able to make any progress?

[kbahey]

@tomburke25

So all the sensor values show up (rain, wind, solar, ...etc.)?

[sillyfrog]

I have a LILYGO® TTGO LoRa32 V2.1_1.6 board, running OpenMQTTGateway, I used the pre-built lilygo-rtl_433-fsk image - (note: After flashing, I had to set the frequency to 433.920 MHz in the web UI, as this didn't happen by default).

I have the Ecowitt WS80, and the Ecowitt WS69, and both "just work" with the above MQTT Gateway. I did not have to do anything to configure the weather station once MQTT was setup to get the data into Home Assistant, all the discovery MQTT events were sent and the data started coming in.

Sample MQTT event from the WS80:

.../RTL_433toMQTT/Fineoffset-WS80/31759	{"model":"Fineoffset-WS80","id":31759,"battery_ok":1.11,"battery_mV":3180,"temperature_C":19.7,"humidity":46,"wind_dir_deg":298,"wind_avg_m_s":3,"wind_max_m_s":3.4,"uvi":4,"light_lux":63680,"flags":162,"mic":"CRC","protocol":"Fine Offset Electronics WS80 weather station","rssi":-70,"duration":11001}

Sample MQTT event from the WS69:

.../Fineoffset-WH65B/211	{"model":"Fineoffset-WH65B","id":211,"battery_ok":1,"temperature_C":19.4,"humidity":47,"wind_dir_deg":249,"wind_avg_m_s":0,"wind_max_m_s":0,"rain_mm":326.136,"uv":2162,"uvi":5,"light_lux":74250,"mic":"CRC","protocol":"Fine Offset Electronics, WH25, WH32B, WH24, WH65B, HP1000, Misol WS2320 Temperature/Humidity/Pressure Sensor","rssi":-79,"duration":11000}

Sample data in Home Assistant (note the wind speed is zero because the spinny things are not currently connected as I'm about to mount it in it's real location, but it does work).

[neillbell]

Thanks for letting us know!

[kbahey]

Thanks indeed for a comprehensive reply ...

[sillyfrog]

I'm considering getting hardware to use this library as well, and have a WS69. I have a HP2560_C display, and it says the sensor is a WH65/69 - so I'm hoping that the WH65 that's already supported will just work as @tomburke25 suggests if even their own hardware treats them as the same thing.