AcuRiteIris (5-in-1) Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Weather Station with Remote Monitoring Alerts for Weather Conditions (01536M)

We have an older generation weather station that we love. Gave this one to our daughter for her new home and she loves it! She said it was fairly easy to install.

Great weather station

Picture is a bit misleading. Unit has to be connected to the internet to use the phone app.Only way to do that is to connect it to a PC through a short USB cable. Of course, the PCmust be on all the time for the phone app to work. The unit was calibrated to 1.02" outof the box. Checked using 8oz of water

After connecting to WiFi, all the information is immediately available. Very quick connection and hourly to weekly records and updates are available all the time. Pretty cool to be sitting somewhere and look at the weather where the station is located. Also quite helpful on the farm

Has stood the test of time. Easy to set up and fun to be my own weather person

Excellent

I'm updating my review because we just got snow in Maryland and apparently if you have snow with no wind the snow builds up on the unit and keeps the anemometer from turning. If you put the unit up high, where it belongs, you can't clear it and you won't get wind readings until it thaws.Okay, I've played with this thing for several days and been in touch with support. First off giving you the correct outdoor temperature is the very least you should expect from even a hobbyist device like this one. The fact is, during warm weather it will give you an elevated temperature reading if the unit is in direct sunlight. Using a reference thermometer I can tell by the difference in the readings when the Acurite 5 in 1 is in direct sunlight. If it's overcast the unit reads correctly. If it's in direct sunlight it reads anywhere from 2-7 degrees higher depending on the intensity of the light. Acurite knows this is wrong and make an accessory, "Solar Radiation Shield", part number 06054M, for their standalone outdoor temperature sensors with the following description. "Enhances the accuracy of daytime temperature readings by providing shade and allowing airflow". Yes, I bet it does. They know direct sunlight will cause their temperature sensors to read high. Of course they won't admit it. But they make and sell the proof.I started out giving the 5-in-1 3 stars, but the longer I have it, the less I appreciate it. Speaking from someone with more than 30 years IT experience I would give Acurite a D for the way they've set this up (Wireless). Convoluted, at best, in my judgement. I tired the App. Hard Pass. Not much info and with a font way too large for what you're trying to display. The MyAcurite web page isn't too bad and mine worked for about 12 hours before it refused to reload the information from my sensor. The sensor showed connected, full power. The sharing was turned on. The display showed up in my Windows Device Manager, but nada. I found the help articles a little lacking in details. Sometimes technical writers tend to forget the reader is new to the device and they just assume you know what they're talking about.The display itself isn't bad, but I found the auto brightness mislabeled. It's actually just a timer to cause one brightness setting for between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. and another for the remaining hours. I also wish the display would display tenths of a degree for temperature, but that may be nitpicking. The cheap ones do though. Putting the bubble level on the top of the sensor is pretty useless. The side of the unit would be a better placement. Hard to see it on top unless you can look directly down on it. If your sensor is 30' in the air...well. My feelings about feeding your results to WeatherUnderground; Kind of useless. Unless you do put your sensor 30 feet up in an unobstructed spot you're just sharing poor quality data. Not nice. It would also be nice if the battery door on the display would stay on. Enlarging the cable pass through may help with that.So the long and short of it is, at this moment, the WiFi models are useless at best and not worth the extra $$. Having to have it 'plugged in' to a PC is ridiculous. It should be set up to be a device on your network as should the display. Then everything would be available on your network without tethering it to a USB port on a PC or laptop. The guys using Raspberry pi's may have the best idea. I'm gonna try that next. Having a nice compact pi next to the display wouldn't be as goofy as having a laptop sitting there all the time.I have had the unit a month now so it's had time to create it's sophisticated forecasting logarithm. Laughable. Absolutely useless.One other mistake I've noticed. Supposedly the display has a battery level indicator when it's running on batteries. Nope. Not on mine. Kinda sucks not knowing how much juice is left in the batteries.Off to check out Weewx for the Raspebrry pi.

As a weather station it's great, the PC connection sucks, the software is terrible. It is not worth paying extra for the PC connect and the app is pretty useless.