AcuRite Iris (5-in-1) Home Weather Station with Wi-Fi Connection to Weather Underground with Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed/Direction, and Rainfall (01540M) , Black

For the price, it works fantastic. It was a little hard to hook up to Weather Underground. With a little patience and persistence finally accomplished. The instructions need to be a little more clearer. Need to be done in a step by step order.

Had this about a week. Very easy to setup and get everything connected. Using the Weather Station ID in WeatherUnderGround, allows you to view the current weather conditions at the site of your personal weather station (PWS). Based on what I'm seeing for data from other PWS, it seems to be accurate in terms of wind speed, temperature and precipitation. The only negative aspect is the viewing angle of the monitor. You don't need to be off center by much and the screen becomes difficult to decipher. The other odd thing is that when it's running on batteries, the Auto-Dim will work, but not when it's plugged into AC power. Odd.

This is a good product, seems to be well-made and mostly accurate. For purposes of keeping an eye on the weather, it works well for home use.What isn’t very good is the set-up and management of the unit. Setting up the device with Weather Underground was not terribly difficult, but WU can’t see the device and there is no way other than observing the Wi-Fi indicator to tell if the thing is online. Mine says it is, the WU site says it isn’t.The way that the user must progress through settings is also clumsy and a long process depending upon what you want to do. One must keep pressing the setup button until the desired screen is reached, there may be quite a few sections to go through first.I like the product, and maybe I can get the WU thing straightened out. The bottom line is that as an offline weather station it’s great. Online, it’s a failure.EDIT: I did get the WU thing straightened out. It was my fault (mostly). WU uses lower case “L” in their key codes. This can look like a 1 (one) or capital”I" in the fonts they use. Analyze the station name and key codes they give you by cutting and pasting into MS Word or Mac Pages. Change them to all caps or change the font to see what you really have. Mine also had a capital “O” in it, which can be confused for zero.Still gets docked a star for the clumsy user interface.

Easy to set up. Well-written instructions. Compared to other weather stations, it much more well made. One advantage over others: it draws air into the temperature sensor from the shaded underside, using a solar fan. Without this, temperature would be less accurate due to solar warming of the thermometer housing. With built-in wi-fi, it sends its data to Weather Underground, allowing you to monitor your home weather conditions from anywhere in the world. Great product.

Review of Acurite 5 in 1 wifi weather stationAfter writing this my weather station stopped sending updates to weather underground. So there is no updates on the app. WU blames acurite and acurite blames WU..Is there a ZERO rating?The Bad: The easy setup on the box is a joke…1) Connecting my laptop to the acurite display wifi took 3 tries. And my laptop was right next to the display unit. First try didn’t connect. Second try connected and timed out before I could enter everything. Third try worked. (FYI my router is only 2 feet away). NOTE this is a tricky setup. You first connect your PC to the wifi signal in the display unit, then when your pc is connected to the display WIFI, you go to 192.168.4.1 on the pc web browser to finish the setup by inputting your network sign on information.2) Getting a reading from the sensor also took way too much effort. After waiting several minutes after inserting new batteries in the sensor, nothing happened so I replaced batteries the new batteries with another set of new batteries.. No luck… Still nothing on the display. I Moved the abc switch in sensor from a to c and back to a, no luck… Did the same thing then in display and it connected…WHAT..3) There are no instructions at all about what app to use. I registered my unit with the weather underground site per instructions, then tried to use the acurite app to connect and view my sensors. Spent two hours getting failed to connect messages (even after completely redoing the entire startup procedure) so texted support. They responded quickly the day after thanks giving, so kudo’s for that. However support told me my model wouldn’t connect to the accurate app, I had to use the weather underground app…total of 3 hours lost for nothing.4) Downloaded the weather underground app, and there was nothing to select my unit on the app. I went to their website on my pc, and there it was, on line and showing data…After several hours trying to find my weather station I finally figured it out. When the app starts it wants a location. I entered my zip code and the local weather displayed. Then I tried not entering anything and a map of the US showed up. I zoomed in on my area, and little dots showed up of personal weather stations. I tapped on one near me, and presto I found my data…5) The Documentation includes a sensor manual and a display manual. Neither manual details what should happen first second third etc. in the setup process. A separate QUICK SETUP document is needed to show what order to setup the devices and what to expect with each step.6) Total time to get the unit working and the app working was 4 hours…Not easy setup…and the documentation could be much better with some pictures, and links to videos.7) By Far the dumbest design of this unit is the base. NO ADJUSTMENT AT ALL. Works great in one position and can’t see it another just slightly lower.8) Your inside temperature does not get transmitted to weather underground. This a big disappointment as we travel a lot and need to check inside temperature during the winter.9) There is no Day with the date. I NEED to know what day it is every morning. True I can use my phone but why when the first thing I look at is my weather station.10) There is no telephone support. I could find only 1 video on their web site and it was to show how to mount the sensor (the easiest part of the process). You must text or e-mail. Probably due to language barriers.11) Wind Speed displays; now, avg., and peak. The only problem is you have to push the up arrow button to cycle thru them (not covered in the manual). My lacross shows current and peak all the time. The apps do show current and peak so it’s not a total terrible.12) The size of the wind speed font is only readable up close. All the other fonts are like 10 and 12 but wind speed below 10mph are like 6. Above 9 MPH and it jumps to a readable 8..13) After a month I had to reset my wifi for a camera issue I was having, and the weather station lost connection with wunderground .com. Reset it, not go. Went through the entire start up process again, no go..The good and sorta good:1) The display is very well organized and the colors make it easy to find and separate the readings.2) The batteries in the display keep your settings saved for moving the display and power outages.3) There is a procedure (had to contact support to get it I will post it at the bottom) for adjusting all the temperature and humidity readings. My in house temperature was 4 degrees off from everything else in my house.4) As mentioned above, chat support was very quick to respond but would have preferred phone support.5) Having manual entry (one time) of date and times is much preferred to having it provided from wifi. My lacross station stopped communicating with wifi after only 2 years, so it stopped displaying a valid date and time.6) The apps: PWSmoniter was the easiest to setup and shows everything on a single page, both current and historical readings. Historical is displayed as charts.. After getting a device ID and KEY from weather underground, all you need to enter is the device ID. Nothing else…very simple. The weather underground app was more difficult to install and read. I Had to enter both values and finding my device after setup was quite difficult. myPWS app was impossible. You need a third entry; an API key, and getting it required me to use the PC on the weather underground site. Not a real obvious procedure either.. In the myPWS app, it’s a 32 digit entry, and even though I triple checked it, and could not get it to work.. PWSmoniter has it hand down over lacross view app. There is nothing good about their app7) The three levels of brightness and a fourth option of automatic change are really a good idea. Finding the adjustment button was a stroke of luck though.

have bought 4 of these so far, my first gave out after6 yrs. and the new works great. bought 2 as Christmas gifts for my son and brother-in-law who had fell in love with them. my wife who thought I was wasting money when I bought the first one made me buy the new one when the old gave out. Guess it's an outdoor thing.

Like everyone else has said the screen is not great and has to be viewed straight on or you can't see it. Connecting to Weather Underground in a total pain in the butt and I finally just gave up. I thought that would be super fun to have as an option but they don't make it easy and that's sad. So far basic setup is easy and mounting the sensor was easy. I'm sure everything will be just fine with the unit except the screen and WU.Update, this weather station does not have peak wind indicator. I live in an area with a lot of wind and it's really nice to see what the peak wind speed is. This station is current wind speed only and that is a bummer. I would not buy this station again.