Ecowitt WS90 not decoded

[Blake-James]

I've got a 433MHz WS90, places in the same room a few m away from my RTL_SDR V4.
I've got a decent 433mhz antenna plugged into the sdr which I've confirmed as I can clearly see the WS90 transmitting on the SDR Sharp waterfall plot. Am running the latest firmware on the WS90, and latest version of rtl_433.
But for some reason the WS90 does not get automatically detected & decoded. Attached here is my log from
rtl_433 -vvv -R 244
where it seems to detect the WS90 but aborts the decoding. If I run with anything less verbose than -vvv then I don't see any activity in the terminal at all.
log_vvv.txt

Is anyone more experienced than this total sdr noob able to help me to get this WS90 automatically decoded please?
Note there's also a GW200 and several of their water timers ~50m away that might show up in the logs.

[Blake-James]

Here's a more verbose log
log_vvvv.txt

and another from rtl_433 -A -R 0
pulse_analyzer.txt

[zuckschwerdt]

It could be that the data is corrupted. Can you grab a sample and upload here as zip? https://triq.org/rtl_433/ANALYZE.html

[Blake-James]

Here's three samples recorded using the command below. I saw that all three of these samples were saved about 8sec apart, so they're almost certainly coming from my WS90. I switched off power to my GW2000 gateway at the time to eliminate that noise.

pi@raspberry:~ $ sudo rtl_433 -S all -Y minmax -Y autolevel
rtl_433 version 24.10-40-g5143625f branch master at 202501202241 inputs file rtl_tcp RTL-SDR with TLS
Found Rafael Micro R828D tuner
[SDR] Using device 0: RTLSDRBlog, Blog V4, SN: 00000001, "Generic RTL2832U OEM"
Exact sample rate is: 250000.000414 Hz
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
Allocating 15 zero-copy buffers
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -17.3 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -14.3 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -19.2 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -16.2 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -20.8 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -17.8 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -22.2 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -19.2 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -23.5 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -20.5 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -24.6 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -21.6 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -26.4 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -23.4 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -27.8 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -24.8 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -28.8 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -25.8 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -30.0 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -27.0 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -31.0 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -28.0 dB
[Auto Level] Estimated noise level is -32.0 dB, adjusting minimum detection level to -29.0 dB
*** Saving signal to file g001_433.92M_250k.cu8 (95899 samples, 262144 bytes)
*** Saving signal to file g002_433.92M_250k.cu8 (33199 samples, 131072 bytes)
*** Saving signal to file g003_433.92M_250k.cu8 (32863 samples, 131072 bytes)

analyzer_samples.zip

[AkaBoing]

cant see any bit.. just noise.
try agn.. with at least -Y autolevel
or try GQRX or similar to check at 433 Mhz.
is your antenna connector broken ?

[jpochmara]

Try adding:

-Y minmax -Y autolevel

To your rtl_433 command.