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Ambient Weather

About this app

Connect your WS-2902A and other Ambient Weather Stations to WiFi, your router and the Internet, allowing you to publish on AmbientWeather.net and Wundeground.com.

To see if your weather station supports this app, check your User Manual.

Ratings and reviews

The app does work but it's completely non-intuitive. I finally had success by doing the following: putting my phone in airplane mode, enabling wifi but disabling wifi calling and connecting to my router with the 5.0 GHz channel disabled (despite advice from the manufacturer that that isn't necessary with the new model, 2902A), and then running the app. Once you get to the screen with MAC address, you can re-enable your 5.0 GHz channel and turn your cellular antenna back on. Good luck.

I like having remote access to monitoring; I like the device. But, apparently there are two versions or two tools for setting up your Ambient Weather device. With this one I spent over an hour trying to get my simple temperature sensor to connect, and nothing worked. The interface didn't look the same as what's in the help/support tree and the instructions in this tool didn't work on my device. There is another app called Ambient Tool. Once I found the 2nd Ambient Tool, the interface matched the online instructions and it took a minute to get connected and for my account to get updated. Be sure to get the right tool.

After you put in your Wi-Fi network and password the book says press Next, but there is none. It has two other sites that you could register on, but not unless you've already gone there and set it up. It's confusing as to whether you need to do these or not and why. They need to separate the ambient site registration, which I think it's all you really need to do, then ask you if you want to do the other sites, or have separate apps for them. I would have done another if it weren't so confusing.