Iris (5-in-1) Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Weather Station with Color Display for Hyperlocal Weather Conditions (01536MCBA1)

Weather station works exactly as advertised. Interface to network requires computer, or... Acurite 09150 smarthub. (or other Bluetooth network interface) I purchased Acurite 09150 smarthub because it is advertised and designed to interface. Great System. I mounted my weather station on a mast about 14 foot tall extending about 4 feet above a tool shed roof using 3/4" galvanized pipe concreted into the ground and attached to the eave of the building at a remote location with internet access The desktop display is wirelessly connected and easy to read inside the building with all the information clear to see.. This is fine when I am near my weather station. I most often monitor this weather station at a remote location approximately 90 miles away through the network interface. Instant weather conditions available through my smartphone or computer with 3 minute interval reports. I see conditions such as wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, precipitation, dew point, temperature by phone or computer. I see graphing trends in the same manner for Today, 24 hour, 31 day, Year, All Time recorded, or Custom. To see conditions through my phone and computer, I purchased the AcuRite 09150 smarthub and interfaced it directly to my router using standard network CAT5 cabling. This weather station when purchased with smarthub is a great tool for monitoring current or trending conditions at home or remotely. I am very pleased. No knowledge of other systems, I would recommend this system because it works perfectly for my needs. Lower cost equipment might be available, it may work as well, but this is a quality weather station that works.

I had one previous to the one I just purchased for about seven years. The outdoor unit quit transmitting so I bought a new one into my surprise. Both displays work off of one outdoor unit. I also hooked it up to my computer and now have real time conditions at home from my smart phone. Plus, I’ve added my WeatherStation to Weather Underground. Very good unit easy to set up. I’d recommend it for the price. It’s really a great weather station.

These are great weather stations. From my experience the sensors only last about 3-4 years before the weather takes it's toll and either the cups break off or the sensor starts to fail. This time when my old one started loosing connection to the display, so I decided to just order a used/return unit since I was mainly just needing the sensor portion. This was my first time ordering used, and likely be my last. They just threw the whole thing in a big box with one little section of paper for padding. The sensor arrived with the weather vane and shaft bent making the sensor unusable. I guess I'll just have to spend a little more for a new one, or maybe I'll shop around and see if there is another option that will last longer....

Works great. I had an early model that finally gave out. The new one has a few new features that are nice. Found out the old display works with the new outside unit.

This unit way outlasted the Lacrosse I previously had (Lacrosse lasted less than a year). Rain gauge has to be calibrated to be accurate. Internal fan fed by solar power still works after all this time. Don't buy the remote battery holder as mine failed after a couple of years. It was annoying to have to purchase another unit to connect to the internet after they quit supporting my original unit but a phone call but me a lower price. Have been hooked up to Weather Underground for all of the five years I've had it. Occasionally loses connection to the display but comes back again without doing anything. I suspect RFI as I live very close to a shipyard that has some very powerful transmitting equipment.

I got this to replace a very old fine offset weather station that would no longer output data to my logging software. This unit was listed as compatible with the software (weewx running on raspberry pi), so I took a chance and bought it. It was an easy install and one change to the software configuration allowed it to work fine with my setup. Seems accurate and the display unit has a lot more information than my old one.

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.

We've had this for a few months now and it seems to be pretty accurate. Though, it has a little too much information on the display that we don't need or want. It's hung in our living room for everyone to see. Our computer is in another room. I recently decided to set it up with their website so, we could be a local station for the Weather Underground. That is where the problem began. I thought this was a wireless device. It is between the unit and the display. However, if you want to connect to their app and website you have to connect it to your computer with their 4-foot cord! AND, of course, it has a special connection to the display. So, you can't buy a longer one. I wrote to tech support and this is their response: "We suggest having Microsoft Windows 8, 8.1, or 10. PC Connect is a legacy product. If you are unable to run the PC Connect software on a Windows 11 computer, we suggest connecting the display to a computer with a compatible operating system. The computer is not allowed to be shut off or in sleep mode/screen saver or it will not be able to send the data to the My Acurite app/website. You will also need to leave the PC Connect software running in the background of your computer at all times as well. The display has to remain plugged into the computer in order to download the data or connect online." You have to leave the software running at all times, the computer is not allowed to go into sleep mode, and no screen saver! That kind of ruined half of what I wanted to do with this weather station. Nice weather station so long as you don't want to participate in any of the weather station networks.