AcuRite06045M Lightning Detector Sensor with Temperature and Humidity

Was painless to set up on Acurite Hub. Do not put in full sun. Find a shady place or temp will be off buy a lot. Very senseative to electric things. A cell phone or wifi will set it off. Even a cordless drill driving a screw made a strike. After a found a place out out the sun outside and away from anything that would cause any interference it works very well. I knew going in a would have to find a place it would work. I am pleased with it.

I live in Costa Rica and we've recently entered the rainy season which = many lightning storms. The device seems to work fine, signaling detection on strikes we don't see (detection up to 40 miles). It has registered 100s of strikes. During our dry season when it does not rain at all (Dec to April) the device did not register any strikes at all, so I'm assuming that means it's functioning correctly.

There were too many false alarms. There were so many, I figured I'd be better to use my own judgement to determine whether lightning was near or not.

Frequently triggers on sunny days when there is no lightning within hundreds of miles. Has been know to miss legitimate strikes, even when they are very close by.

It’s fine. There’s really no excuse for this thing to not come with batteries though