# Cell Service in my Tempest?

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** tempest\
**Created:** [November 18, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943 "2025-11-18T04:18:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![user293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/user293/32/13484_2.png) [@user293](https://community.tempest.earth/u/user293)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943/1 "2025-11-18T04:18:59Z")

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Does anyone else have this indicator in their Tempest sensor? I have two units on my house and one has it and one doesn’t.

 ![AISelect_20251117_231142_Tempest](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/3X/5/6/56c3c5be475294aa04a8f77b98805eea528e8b66.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943/2 "2025-11-18T04:59:01Z")

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If a Cellular Hub is connected to wifi, I’m pretty sure that it shuts down the cellular radio.

If neither of them are Cellular Hubs, I would ignore the error or open a ticket with support asking why this info is even being displayed…

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**Author:** ![user293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/user293/32/13484_2.png) [@user293](https://community.tempest.earth/u/user293)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943/3 "2025-11-18T13:46:51Z")

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Thanks. I never realized that Tempest had built in cell receivers. I know somewhere in the forum someone steampunked one together and attached it to buoy off shore.

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**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943/4 "2025-11-18T18:12:27Z")

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None of the home Tempest stations have cellular radios. It is only in one model of the TempestOne commercial Hub, with a premium price tag versus the regular TempestOne commercial Hub. That’s why I’m suggesting a ticket with tech support, because the odds are pretty high that you don’t have one and the info above shouldn’t be displayed.

If you **do** actually have one of these Hubs, it turns off the cellular radio when connected to wifi to save cellular data charges. Also worth noting is that the data upload interval is 5 minutes over the cellular link to conserve cellular data usage…

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**Author:** ![user293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/user293/32/13484_2.png) [@user293](https://community.tempest.earth/u/user293)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/cell-service-in-my-tempest/27943/5 "2025-11-18T18:14:39Z")

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Thanks. I’m not to worry about it. But thank you for the info.