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 ==Ecowitt, Misol, or  Froggit ==
-As often the case with devices manufactured by Fine Offset they are sold with a variety of brand names for essentially same device.  Ecowitt is a subsidiary of Fine Offset in China. Ecowitt (China and USA), Misol (China), and Froggit (Europe) are brand names for Fine Offset/Ecowitt's latest range of weather stations and sensors.
+This particular device is just a transmitting relay (also known as dongle), powered by USB (the USB does not have any data sent over it), containing temperature, pressure and humidity sensors, and able to interrogate a range of external sensors; and output to various external servers/destinations.
-This particular device is just a transmitting relay (also known as dongle), powered by USB (the USB does not have any data sent over it), containing temperature, pressure and humidity sensors, and able to interrogate a range of external sensors; and output to various external servers/destinations. These devices do not include a screen to show readings, nor do they provide any logger functionality to store readings. They support up to 8 sensors measuring temperature (MX calls these the user temperatures, because they might be soil probes, devices for measuring water or air temperature, MX does not care), plus up to 4 air quality sensors (again MX does not care how they detect the air quality number they report).
+As is often the case with devices manufactured by Fine Offset, they are sold with a variety of brand names for essentially same device.
-*Ecowitt GW1000 WiFi gateway  [http://www.ecowitt.com/wifi_weather/80.html ecowitt.com/wifi_weather]
+Ecowitt is a subsidiary of Fine Offset in China.  Ecowitt (China and USA), Misol (China), and Froggit (Central Europe) are brand names for Fine Offset/Ecowitt's latest range of weather stations and sensors.
+Please see [https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=40730.0 the wxforum.net forum] for full details about each of the models, and how they differ, as well as which sensors are compatible, and which external servers are standard.
+These devices, do not include a screen to show readings, nor do they provide any logger functionality to store readings.
+For MX purposes, they support up to 8 sensors measuring temperature (MX calls these the user temperatures, because they might be soil probes, devices for measuring water, or air temperature, MX does not care), plus up to 4 air quality sensors (again MX does not care how they detect the air quality number they report).
+At the time of updating this section:
+*Ecowitt GW1000 family WiFi gateway  [http://www.ecowitt.com/wifi_weather/80.html ecowitt.com/wifi_weather]
 **GW1000 (for 433 MHz sensors)
 **GW1000A (for 868 MHz sensors)
 **GW1000B (for 915 MHz sensors)
-*Misol GW1K gateway   [http://www.misolie.net/misol-smarthub
+*Misol GW1K gateway   [http://www.misolie.net/misol-smarthub-wifi-gateway-with-temperature-humidity-pressure-gw1000-p-608.html SmartHub WiFi Gateway]
--wifi-gateway-with-temperature-humidity-pressure-gw1000-p-608.html SmartHub WiFi Gateway]
 *Froggit DP1500 WiFi gateway   [https://www.froggit.de/product_info.php?language=en&info=p410_dp1500-wi-fi-wetterserver-usb-dongle.html product_info_dp1500-wi-fi-wetterserver-usb-dongle]
 *WH2650 is also equivalent [http://www.foshk.com/Wifi_Weather_Station/WH2650.html]
-It is possible that model names may vary.
+It is possible that model names may vary, which is why you should check at [https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=40730.0 the wxforum.net forum].
-Cumulus MX can intercept (via your existing network router) the wifi transmissions from the device and process those. Because there is no logger, MX must be left running all the time to pick up every transmission.  All of these MX can log in its extra sensor log file and output web tags so the readings can be incorporated on a web site.
+Cumulus MX can intercept (via your existing network router) the WiFi transmissions from the device and process those. Because there is no logger, MX must be left running all the time to pick up every transmission.  All of these can have sensors that MX can log in its extra sensor log file.  MX will then output web tags so all the sensor readings can be incorporated on a web site.
 ==La Crosse==