Pro Weather Station with PC Connect, Off White Sensor/Color Display

It works as advertised. There is a little set up and calibrating, but its worth the effort. What I didn't like is Amazon's shipping policy. It says you qualify for free shipping, but if you select it they sit on your order until they feel like sending it. Plan on a week or two, unless you pay for prime.

This is a really excellent weather station. Over the years I've had a number of different weather stations and find this AcuRite mode to be the best at this point for the money. Color display is very nice with a multitude of options for display information. The weather ticker on the bottom of the display is a nice added feature. The actual weather station is excellent in it's measurements of temp, wind, rain, pressure, humidity, wind direction etc. I have had no issue with connection between the station and the display unit. The connection between the display unit and your PC is via a USB provided cable. The display runs either on batteries or has a ac provide unit. If there is a weakness to this weather station it would be the necessity of keeping the display unit connected to a PC for streaming daily weather information and if you plan on streaming your station to the Weather Underground. I had not planned on doing this but now find that I like that feature. Keeping weather station connected to your PC also allows you to access all you weather information via an app on your smartphone. Another feature I've gotten hooked on. So if you are using a laptop like I am and want to take your laptop on a trip, vacation etc, you lose the above mentioned abilities because of having to unhook the display from your PC. There is a solution which I have on order and that is AcuRite's internet bridge with remote monitoring. This unit will allow you to stream all info without having to have a physical connection between your display and PC. This is a great unit and you can't go wrong with this.

Just ok, I would rate this as just a mass-market consumer grade station, not up to the task for weather enthusiasts. Pros: It's been running for 7 months with no major issues. It's easy to set up and get talking to the display. The battery life is good, I use eneloops (I can get away with it because I'm in a warm climate) and it always tells me the batteries are low, but it runs for months at a time without changing them. The display is nice looking, but... (see cons below) Writes to a CSV file if you connect to a PC via USB so you can play with the data, but (see cons below) Cons: Calibrating the rain gauge takes many hours, they should have figured out how to do this at the factory. The fan is in the sensor unit is noisy. Mine is mounted 30' above ground and I can hear it from another 40' away. As with most wireless stations, the wind speed and direction are SLOW to update - every 18 seconds. Hardly "real time" display. The display backlight can't be turned off and is *extremely* bright at night, even at the lowest setting. It has an "auto-dim" feature, but it just dims it slightly at 7pm, there's no ambient light sensor. It only writes to the CSV file very 12 minutes even though it gets data from the sensors every 18 seconds. Also, the driver that receives the data pops up on the screen whenever I plug in any other USB device, turn on my printer, connect my external drive, etc. As other reviews have mentioned, the indoor temperature is high by about 5 degrees. The worst thing, and what prompted me to write this review, is the barometric pressure sensor. The resolution is TERRIBLE. I went to their website to find the specification, but they don't publish it, and I'm not surprised in the least, they should be embarrassed. A graph (see pic) of yesterday's pressure shows a range of 29.3232 and 29.4412, with only 5 data points between high and low. So what should be a smooth graph showing pressure trends looks more like jagged steps and does not inspire confidence in it's accuracy and usefulness. Finally, while the all-in-one unit is convenient, that means the temperature and rain gauge are in the same enclosure, making it impossible to warm the rain gauge in climates where the temperature falls below freezing. Not a problem here, aloha, but I've persuaded friends and family on the mainland to avoid it because it won't work well in the winter. Conclusion: It's ok for now, but I intend to replace it in the near future and just give this away to somebody that isn't picky about the accuracy, or the lack thereof.

ES UN BUEN EQUIPO FUNCIONA MUY BIEN, RECOMENDABLE

After a very long courtship it became very temperamental, worked like a treat for a long time, then had dummy spit. it forgot whom the boss was and wouldn't record rain. we since have done counselling after three months separation. and agreed to work on channel B Fingers crossed it doesn't become land fill.