WN34S (probe) sensor question

[Nossie]

Hi

I acquired a few new sensors today, one of them being the WN34S I've set it up and put it in the ground as a soil temperature sensor. I'm slightly confused with my options.... With CMX it has registered itself as a user temperature and not a soil temp. First - is the soil temp in extra sensors for something like Davis or is that used by Ecowitt too?

Secondly, if so would that have only been possible if the soil temp sensor was registering itself as T&H?

[Nossie]

Is it really as simple as this screenshot?> I just don't want to overwrite something I shouldnt

viewtopic.php?p=163364&hilit=soil+temperature#p163364

Usersensor temperature 1 is the soil temp one and then just allocate it to the first
WN34 channel 1?

[HansR]

Yes. I think it is (never done that though).

[Nossie]

Looks like I was confusing myself with all the different variations =) thanks!

[Gyvate]

the WN34 sensors are defined in the Ecowitt Gateway API (aka GW1000 API) as user temperature sensors, what in a way makes sense as they come in two variants - as WN34S (S=soil) for soil temperature and as WN34L (L=liquid) for water (or other liquids).
While assigning a WN34S to the Soil temperature sensors may make sense to you - if you like to see them in the CMX interface in that section, a WN34L wouldn't make much sense there, would it?
And the consoles cannot tell the difference between L and S.
Even though the Ecowitt Gateway API definition also knows 16 soil temperature sensors, they have not been populated yet with an existing sensor model. And the current console firmware doesn't know them (yet).
But you can of course map them to soil temperature in CMX the way you described.