App Profile: WS View

Dch53

Rating: 2/5

This seems stupid, you are given the option to use 4 different weather services but the only view on the initial landing screen is the weather underground one. It appears to view any others you have to use the menu. It is a stupid design. When I open the app I want to see my weather without having to navigate to it. Other then this it all appears to work ok. Whatever weather service you pick is the data you see when you first open the app. So if you don’t want to use the weather underground, which I don’t, then the app opens with a no data blank screen and you have to navigate to live data. You have a choice of 4 different weather service, which is good, but the only one which they support on the landing page is WU. this is bad programming. My guess they are being paid by WU for this at the inconvenience of their customers. Again I think this is bad.

Sussuout

Rating: 3/5

I don’t like that the app’s default doesn’t show your station unless you have configured Weather Underground. I do not use WU and I find it annoying to have to navigate several clicks to see my own weather. I just use the Ecowitt weather web site, and for my purposes I’m very happy overall, although the website could also use some improvements. The GW hardware and sensors seem solid. I hope this company continues to improve these products.

ToddySM

Rating: 1/5

This is such a poorly designed app! I wanted to use with the soil moisture sensor. Read all the manuals. Configured the gateway in the app, added the sensor. I see that the lights on the GW show that is is connected to the WiFi and that the RF is also connected but the sensor never appeared in the app. How do I see the moisture? No clue. I cannot add new sensor as device because there is no such option. I cannot go to the setting and change things there - have to start from the beginning. This is a second moisture sensor that I buy and the software is just ridiculously bad. It doesn’t seem that any thought is put in the design and the usability of the apps. Returning all this waste and deleting the app.