I have simply enjoy this weather station
925209
I have simply enjoy this weather station, the rolling banner at the bottom is great and shows high, low all time records. The wind measurement and rain gauge is really great as well. Love it....
4732430
This is a wonderful weather station. One of the features does take a couple weeks to acclimate itself, screen reads "Learning". We are very pleased with this device.
3379780
I have had this weather station installed for a little over 4 years now. Just today I had to climb my roof to change the batteries and was surprised to see just how well the unit has held up. I have really enjoyed this product and think it was well worth the money for all we have gotten out of it.
4281367
Boy, isn't it great when something works as promised? This is my experience with the Acurite 5 in 1 weather station. I had it out of the box and up and running perfectly in way less than an hour. The quick start instructions were all I needed and I don't know how anyone could become confused because it was easy to follow these step by step instructions for the outdoor unit.

The color display was also easy to get going with the simple instructions. Some may complain about having to be at the correct angle to see the data but I can easily adjust to that. For $180, I can be somewhat flexible. It is a beautiful display with accurate date and that is the main thing. When people see it sitting there on my table, they are drawn to it and are curious. I love it.

The bridge: how could it be any more simple? The quick start instructions had pictures and simple step by step instructions that had me up and running quickly. The aculink website recognized my unit quickly and even registering the unit was easy because the website recognized the MAC address partially and I only had to fill in a few missing numbers which I collected from the bridge.

Linking to weather underground was also easy because aculink had a link to help get it up and going. My smartphone app is cool looking with my current accurate weather data.

What a great time I had setting up my station at home. As a science teacher, I had set up weather stations at my school using Davis Instruments. Talk about confusing and frustrating! The software was a nightmare and the instruments unreliable after a while. I am sure they have improved their systems by now but back then, whew, what a mess. Only time will tell how long my Acurite unit will last but the set up and software stuff was such a joy compared to my earlier days at school. I wish I had had this unit back then.

A happy weather watcher camper!
1053526
I've used an Oregon Scientific Indoor / Outdoor weather station for about eight years. It's very basic. It has a remote sensor that tells me the outdoor temperature, an atomic clock, gives me a very simple weather picture (cloudy, rainy, sunshiny) and an arrow that points up or down, depending on where the barometric pressure has been trending. It also provides the high and low temps since I last reset it, along with the indoor temp. It has functioned flawlessly and, in the eight years that I've owned it, has probably required four sets of batteries. The outdoor sensor also lives a long time on the triple A batteries it uses.

But I wanted more information and I purchased this LaCrosse instrument right before Christmas. It looks nice, has a much more detailed display, and looked like a nice upgrade. The Oregon Scientific got demoted to another room and I plugged the LaCrosse device into my router to start it. You see, where the Oregon Scientific just relies on barometric pressure changes for its forecast, the LaCrosse gets a feed from some weather service and, connected to your home network router, transmits that data to the display. The setup was a little complicated, but not horrible. Registering the device with weatherdirect.com exposed me to a bunch of sales opportunities to purchase more weather city displays, but I ignored that stuff. The new device, within about ten minutes, was up to speed and was providing me with forecasts for today, tomorrow and the next couple of days beyond that with day, evening and night forecasts of weather and temperatures. It displays wind conditions, actual barometric readings, and precipitation levels. One annoyance is that to get the current temp from the included remote sensor, you either have to wait through four days of forecasts to scroll along the bottom of the display OR press a button to pause that display to get the current temperature at your home. Another minor complaint is that there is only a very basic instruction manual with the device. You can download a larger PDF file from LaCrosse, but they don't include that with the unit.

The unit worked fine for about three weeks, with fairly accurate weather predictions until one night, when I noticed that there was no display for the Day 4 weather. I cycled through all the functions, but nothing woke it up. I left it alone overnight, but Day 4 was still blank the next day. What does this mean?!? Will there not be a Day 4 in my future?!? Was that Aztec calendar theory correct?!?

I pulled the two C batteries from the display and EVERYTHING went south. No weather, no temperature, no nothing except an inaccurate clock setting at the top and "UPDATING" scrolling continuously along the bottom. I went online with LaCrosse and went through their troubleshooting guide, but their suggestions did not awaken my display. I emailed Support, as their website promises speedy responses to email requests, but they never responded to my request. I called their tech support number and left a voice message with the same lack of response. The unit looked fairly nice and worked fine for a few weeks, but the customer support failure means that I'm returning this to Amazon and will be looking at Oregon Scientific from now on.
3837405
I've had a few weather stations over the years, so I have experience with expectations. I have to say I really like this one. Is it my favorite? Maybe not, but it meets all of my needs and gets the job done.

I love that it can switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius so easily. I'm really working to have a better feel for Celsius to, you know, catch up with the rest of the world, and this thing really helps. It's also programmable for many different languages, not that that affects much other than the day of the week. It's a really nice option for a more worldly person, displaying the date first and whatnot.

My biggest complaint is that you have to look at the screen head on. If you look at it from an angle, you can't make anything out like on those simpler digital clocks. It also doesn't have anything to make it back lit. That's not a huge deal though. I just liked the feature on my last weather station.

I do really like that the outdoor receiver has a small display. It makes it feel like it serves more purpose for everyone in the house and not just me.

I certainly give it 5 stars because it meets my needs and was pretty easy to set up. I didn't have to do anything frustrating with timing to sync the receiver. If you like the product as advertised, I don't think you'd be disappointed.
1309981
I love this weather station!  We really needed the ability to determine humidity in the house because we live in the mid-Atlantic where the summer gets hot & steamy.  In order to avoid mold problems, we need to monitor humidity.  I love that this unit allows me to have three remote sensors.  I can track the temp & humidity in 4 total locations.  We have one sensor outdoors, one in the attic and there is the central unit in the living room.  I can still add one more sensor in the future.  I have found this unit to be very accurate in reading temperature, humidity & the atomic clock is always correct.  It was simple to set up as well.  I am not very technical (hubby is in charge of setting up all gadgets like this plus tv, vcr, dvd, etc.) and I had no problems at all setting this unit up.  Instructions are very user friendly.  For the price, this is a great unit and I recommend it without hesitation.
3954672
Works great.
I previously owned a weather station that used a USB transmitter plugged into a computer port. The computer had to be online to receive updates and would often fail to synchronize when waking from sleep/standby.
The initial install took about ten minutes and does require a device that will display and allow interaction with a webpage (personal computer works fine). Since that time the Gateway (the part that connects to your internet router)  has updated the display every six hours with no synchronization failures.
I have used this unit for 14 days and it has worked well.
The only Con for this unit is that it does not continuously display the outside temperature, instead you wait for it to scroll through the location, sunrise time, sunset time, today, tomorrow, third day, fourth day and then the outside temperature. You can press the snooze key or + key to see the outside temperature immediately but this also changes other parts of the display.
I would recommend reviewing the description and manual from http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/3307/index.php before buying because this unit has many features that can only be understood by reviewing the manual.
The Amazon price of $33 is a real bargain compared to La Crosse website $119.99.
Overall I like the unit and enjoy the painless weather forecasts.
4725456
I received this a Christmas present.  I have been looking at these weather stations for a few years.  The set up was very easy - I mounted it on top of a 10ft. pipe - strapped to my fence.  It was easy to level and plumb up.  The only problem, that I have encountered so far is that I live in the snow belt, and the snow has piled up on the device 2 times where it buried the wind cups and I had to get up on a ladder to brush the snow away to free them up.

My wife even likes it (she has no interest in the weather-hates the cold - we live in Michigan).  She like the weather ticker and checking out the weather stats.
4894878
This station works pretty well. Like that it tells more than just temperature.
1447187
I gave this to my husband as a gift at Christmas and he loves it.  We both depend on it a lot and it is great to see how much rain we've had over a time period.  If you or someone you know would  like a simple to use and good weather station, this is it.
2857374
I live in a very windy area and have had other weather stations in the past.  This Davis weather station is the best one that I have ever had.  The quality of consgtruction and the wealth of available data is amazing.  Thie installation instructions could be updated to use the GPS functions of a smart phone to ease the installation.
3049883
Almost every other station that I found was either black or silver and thereby drew attention to itself.  This white weather station fades into the background, which is precisely what I wanted it to do!  On top of that, it is very useful and reliable.  I'm thinking of replacing a few more of the black/silver weather stations that I have.
3815248
This Lacrosse weather station is just the latest in a handful of these I have owned over the years.  And for the most part I am impressed with this one.  Although the directions with it were the large intimidating fold out kind, the actual menu commands were surprisingly easy.  The controls that aid with the set up are on the back of the unit that has one peaking back and forth to the read out as you go through the steps, but its not as bad as I first thought it would be.  As for getting the unit in sync with the remote sensor, it was a cinch.  You load the batteries into the readout first and then the sensor, while keeping them close to one another.  The signal was picked up immediately and all readouts were up and running within 10 minutes.  Once I found a suitable place outside away from the sun and wind for the sensor, it took about an hour for the readout to get organized with the cooler temps outside, and it has been running perfectly ever since.  The accuracy of the temp, humidity, etc, are in line of just a couple of degrees with my other weather equipment.  As for the readout itself, there really is a lot of info on this screen.  During the setup you select your city and state, (or as close to it as you can anyway, the list is generous), and it shows the sunrise and sunset, moon phases, barometric pressure, humidity, atomic clock reading, fisherman's icon as a forecast, just about everything that one of these type of things can provide.  One thing I particularly like on this unit is its rather large readout, and especially the back light that sits right on top.  So many of them surprisingly don't come with one and its a real pleasure in the dark, or in a shaded area.  You hit it and the readout illuminates for about 6 seconds or so. There is a lot to like about this model for sure..

Now for the couple of minor annoyances and what I call a big miss in its design.  The menu buttons that are located on the back near the top make it easy to grab the unit and accidentally hit one of them and  screw up your settings.  It's best to handle the unit from the sides.  Also, there are no rubber feet or strips on the bottom making it also easy to see it get shoved around when touching it or just hitting the back light.  Someone fishing for the alarm on the back for example could find themselves chasing it across a counter for a while.  As for the big miss on this model, ...It can't be mounted on a wall.  The base of it is wide and contoured for sitting on a desk or other flat surface.  There are no screw holes or anything else to aid in mounting it on a wall even if you didn't mind it being not flat.  Other stations like this that I own or have owned either have a bottom less wide, or one that is detachable for wall mounting.  I was very disappointed that this station could not be wall mounted.  I had the perfect place for it, and now it has to sit on a counter or desk somewhere that is less than ideal.  Although the unit is portable and can be put anywhere, if it's a weather station in a wall mount you have in mind for your home, you unfortunately will have to toss in the ball as to this model..

In conclusion, this is a very easy to set up, very clear station that looks nice and carries a slew of accurate weather info.  The back light on it is a real pleasure, and the cost of the unit is very reasonable.  But as stated before, the fact that its a table top unit by default is a major miss on its part as far as I am concerned. (I would take a half star off for it, but Amazon doesn't allow that. The description doesn't state or refer to it as a console style only display. Some of the others I have didn't mention it either but were set up for a wall mount if desired.)  I can't speak for its durability yet, but I will update this review should it fail or screw up in an unreasonably short amount of time. As for now, I recommended it as a clear, very fine looking counter top only weather station... : )
4679134
Bought this as a replacement for an older unit that was in our winter home when we bought it. I like the color display, very easy to read. We bought the black with silver trim. Set up was fast and easy. The only thing that is not correct on this is the weather in the bottom middle panel. Since this is in our Arizona winter home and humidity is low and temps are hotter, I think it may confuse the unit as to what it is really doing outside some days. I like the wind speed indicator. It shows wind speeds and gusts and records them for the last 30 minutes showing the strongest wind speed. We have this sitting on our end table with the included stand in the living room and the bright display is always just a peek away. Large easy to read numbers, which is great for us. High-precision 3-in-1 wireless weather sensor accurately measures the temperature, humidity and wind speed
Daily, monthly and all-time high and low records, History chart displays temperature, wind speed and barometric pressure trends over last 12 hours
Illuminated color display with adjustable dimmer; electric-powered with optional battery backup. Easy setup and mounting.
We are very pleased with the ease of set up, just wish the weather indicator was accurate all the time, hence the 4 star review.
4490450
I am very happy with this new weather station.
For the price it is very accurate in all it's reading.
The stations are about four hundred feet apart with no problems.

The only change I made was add a little square piece of plexiglass to the solar panel as we get some hail and I worried that part would be broken.

UPDATE: It has almost been a year since I bought and installed this weather station and it has preformed perfectly. I haven't changed batterys yet. The rain amounts have been "right on". A good buy for sure.
37946
Just received the weather station and got it set up and so far I'm very happy it.  The large, bright, multi colored display makes the information easy to see, even from across the room.  There may be other weather stations out there that have tons of other information, but if your looking for a device to give you indoor and outdoor temp and humidity, the date & time and the current weather trend, then I'd recommend this one.  One last item, just having received the weather station I haven't encountered the sensor battery problem yet, but I'm sure the lithium ion battery solution will solve that one deficiency if and when it occurs.  All and all this is a good piece of equipment I'd recommend, from merchant that lived up to expectations.