AcuRite 01089M Rain Gauge with Thermometer & Humidity

I bought this as a replacement for a recently purchased (and returned) Oregon Scientific RGR126N rain gauge. The O/S unit had a very inaccurate thermometer and the manufacturer did not respond to my inquiries about it. Back it went to Amazon.This unit is the same price and it works. It also remembers the time and all it's settings when you change the batteries. The temperature can be calibrated so it matches reality, unlike the Oregon Scientific RGR126N. It also measures indoor and outdoor humidity which the O/S unit does not. The memory for cumulative rain, daily rain, weekly rain etc. are great. There's even an alarm to let you know when rain starts so you can close your windows or whatever else you need to do to prepare for rain.I did have a reason to contact their tech support by phone and their US based people answered the phone promptly and quickly gave me the answer I needed.This unit is a great value by itself and both the product and the company are heads above Oregon Scientific

The AccuRite replaced an Oregon Scientific rain gauge (which was the 3rd Oregon Scientific that lasted only a year). The AccuRite was much easier to install and sync components...they synced immediately. Hasn't lost signal like the Oregon Scientific often did. AccuRite has many more features, including a detailed history of rainfall totals by day, week, month, year and also has high temp and low temp for the year. Lots more too numerous to list here, but as a long-time owner of electronic rain gauges I highly recommend this unit. It is much better than the others.

My main motivation was the rain gauge and when finding this device that also had internal/external temperature and humidity for a fairly low price I thought I found my match. It didn’t matter too much that the display is a rather old-fashioned mono-chrome LCD without backlighting. Smartphone connectivity would have been a nice feature, but once again not mandatory for my use either.I’ve had the device for a month now and overall very happy with it. Currently sitting thru (now depression) Florence, the rain gauge got a decent workout and compares fairly well with the conventional glass tube meter I have set up nearby. In fact, even without calibration the first decimal place of the digital readout correlates fairly well with the glass tube.Setting up the three components is easy enough. Just add batteries, as long as you remembered to get some AA and AAA since the devices do not come with any. While the pairing is hard coded via dip switch and does not require any further settings other than making sure that the rain gauge and the receiver are set to the same letter. However, if you replace batteries in the rain gauge you automatically reconnect albeit with a high value (in my case 99.4 inches of rain) which would be reset the next day, if it wasn’t to remain in the historic data and render any past values useless. Removing the batteries from the receiver fixes the issue but also resets historical values.I have the display unit set up about 10 ft (3m) from the outside temperature/humidity sensor and about 13 ft (4m) from the rain gauge. Both signals have to travel thru an outer side wall (Masonite panels) and the rain gauge also travels thru the ceiling to the balcony above. Signal strength is typically between 3 and 4 bars (out of a max of 4).Overall accuracy seems reasonable for home applications and generally the parts I can verify are fairly good. The clock does not sync with an atomic clock nor the internet. Fans of metric or 24hr formats are not heard by the device as you cannot change the format of time, temperature or length. Not a big deal, but doesn’t feel timely either.

I am not a big review writer, but when something goes well, I don't mind letting everyone know. I purchased this gauge in May of 2020. It worked beautifully for 11 months, at which point the base unit was no longer receiving data from the rain collector. An email to Acurite Customer Service got a quick response. They gave me some troubleshooting tips to try, along with the statement that if the steps fail, to let them know and a replacement would be sent. When I couldn't get the original unit to work, I replied to their email and a new rain collector/transmitter was shipped immediately. I received it in two days. Problem solved, and thanks to Acurite for the prompt warrantee service!

Was excited to have a wireless rain gauge... easy set up but but it doesn't accurately record rainfall... so I will try adjusting. We have had so little rain since I bought this it's been hard to tell, though last week my regular rain gauge said we got .9 of an inch (so almost an inch), and the wireless one said .03 (not even a tenth of an inch), that's a HUGE difference! The gauge is displayed on our deck, on a picnic table, and has nothing to impede the rain...Yesterday we got a huge storm, with high winds and a little rain (reg. rain gauge said 1/2" and the wireless said .02, again, way off!). Outdoor temp sensor got very wet. It is no longer working. It was hung in our grape arbor, which has lots of covering from an over head tree and the grape leaves, but with the winds and driving rain it got wet. So I am trying to dry it out, and hope it works again, but if not I'll have to contact Customer Service. It should be able to survive a storm, esp the first one in the 2 months I have had gauges up and running.