diff --git a/mlair/configuration/path_config.py b/mlair/configuration/path_config.py
index 67c6bce4a3478443323b4ef49b5dc36258271ccd..e7418b984dab74b0527b8dca05a9f6c3636ac18f 100644
--- a/mlair/configuration/path_config.py
+++ b/mlair/configuration/path_config.py
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ import logging
 import os
 import re
 import socket
-from typing import Tuple
+from typing import Union
 
 # ROOT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", ".."))
 ROOT_PATH = os.getcwd()
 
 
-def prepare_host(create_new=True, data_path=None, sampling="daily") -> str:
+def prepare_host(create_new=True, data_path=None) -> str:
     """
     Set up host path.
 
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ def prepare_host(create_new=True, data_path=None, sampling="daily") -> str:
 
     :param create_new: Create new path if enabled
     :param data_path: Parse your custom path (and therefore ignore preset paths fitting to known hosts)
-    :param sampling: sampling rate to separate data physically by temporal resolution (deprecated)
 
     :return: full path to data
     """
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ def set_experiment_path(name: str, path: str = None) -> str:
     return experiment_path
 
 
-def set_experiment_name(name: str = None, sampling: str = None) -> str:
+def set_experiment_name(name: str = None, sampling: Union[str, tuple] = None) -> str:
     """
     Set name of experiment and its path.
 
@@ -90,6 +89,8 @@ def set_experiment_name(name: str = None, sampling: str = None) -> str:
     else:
         experiment_name = f"{name}_network"
     if sampling is not None:
+        if not isinstance(sampling, str):
+            sampling = sampling[-1]
         experiment_name += f"_{sampling}"
     return experiment_name
 
diff --git a/test/test_configuration/test_path_config.py b/test/test_configuration/test_path_config.py
index fb8a2b1950cd07909543fbe564230ab73661c126..996550bf98d736b468edfe99b648e91885907dfb 100644
--- a/test/test_configuration/test_path_config.py
+++ b/test/test_configuration/test_path_config.py
@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ class TestSetExperimentName:
         exp_name = set_experiment_name(sampling="daily")
         assert exp_name == "TestExperiment_daily"
 
+    def test_set_experiment_name_tuple_sampling(self):
+        exp_name = set_experiment_name(sampling=("hourly"))
+        assert exp_name == "TestExperiment_hourly"
+        exp_name = set_experiment_name(sampling=("hourly", "daily"))
+        assert exp_name == "TestExperiment_daily"
+        exp_name = set_experiment_name(sampling=("hourly", "dummy", "daily"))
+        assert exp_name == "TestExperiment_daily"
+
     def test_set_experiment_path(self):
         exp_path = set_experiment_path("TestExperiment")
         assert exp_path == os.path.abspath(os.path.join(ROOT_PATH, "TestExperiment"))