La Crosse Technology Wireless Atomic Digital Color Forecast Station with Alerts, White (308-1414W)

It is nice to knew the inside temperature!

This weather station comes with an AC adapter, an outdoor remote sensor, and instruction booklet. Set-up is easy, but may be challenging to some without the instruction booklet. The weather station has a colorful, bright display that’s very easy to read. It shows time and temperature, date, weather forecasts, both indoor and outdoor humidity levels, and more. Alerts can be customized for temperatures that exceed or fall below your set limits. The casing feels a little on the cheap plastic side, but it looks good and the feel is irrelevant once it’s in position. The accuracy of the outdoor temperature readings depends largely on where you position the remote sensor. I originally installed it on the southeast side of my house, but the temperature showed about 10°F higher than the weather app on my phone. After moving it to the north side of my house, the temperature display was within 3 degrees with the weather app, which is acceptable for my needs. The variance probably is due to the differences between the weather station’s feeding my weather app and the exact location of the remote sensor.

It works just fine and seems to be accurate. I apparently misunderstood the product description as I was trying to replace a battery powered unit, but this one has a battery backup function only and requires its plug in power supply for full operation. The operating instructions could use a bit more detail too.

The La Crosse Technology 308-1414W looked great when received. Read the instructions, plugged in power supply, installed batteries, and waited, temps never changed, both displays read same temp 68.7 degrees with base unit sitting in house and remote transmitter outside (40 degrees) I waited two days to see if unit would correct itself, but it never changed. I did some online research and read more about the unit. The online instructions go into much more detail, I recommend reading them over the small printed instructions it come with. A lot of technical information is left out of the small printed version. I did a recommended factory reset, which takes almost two hours to complete start to finish. After following reset instructions to a tee, the unit now works perfectly. Now it’s just a matter of time (up to seven days or longer) for the barometric readout to stabilize and become accurate. I was expecting this weather station to work right out of the box, but it does take some time to get it set up properly. I really like the look of the main unit display, the screen is bright and can be read from across the room (35 ft) Setup of time, date, and year is straightforward. It can be programmed for high and low temp alarms and also as an alarm clock if you choose. Overall it’s a great looking, functional unit and well worth the cost. I’m already looking into replacing this unit with one that has the wind speed and direction along with a rain gauge. Just follow the instructions carefully and this unit will work great! The picture is the actual unit reading in real time when taken, it’s not an overlay or display shot.

We love this weather station because is it is a nice size but not too big. It is bright and colorful which makes it very easy to see and read. It has the day, date & time in the center of the screen. It gives indoor and outdoor temperatures and humidity levels. Living in FL makes this a very helpful feature. You can also set alarms for when temperatures and humidity reaches a certain level. We aren't using the feature. You can plug this in or use the battery feature. I highly recommend this weather station.

For about $40, its a great little unit with a nice display. I was a little reserve on ordering the product as I have read all the bad reviews. I seems to be fairly accurate, not going to say fully accurate but I have only have my phone to compare it to, and its always been within a couple degrees considering the airport to about 7 miles away which does the reporting. As far as the remote sensor, I was even more apprehensive because I wanted to use this in my shop which has steel walls and a cell phone signal even has a hard penetrating the walls. My remote sensor is about 40' away and never had a problem with it communicating with the base. I would assume the sensor is NOT fully water tight as per the instructions say to locate it where rain cannot directly get to it. I just used a zip tie under an eve of the house which seemed to work great. The atomic clock has not once lost its signal or lost time, which I've had other brands do. Some people seem to think that this has a picture on the display of the forecast, which is wrong. Its merely telling you the current barometric pressures. Sunny and flowers is high pressure, clouds and lightning is low pressure, its not a reflection of what the weather is doing outside. The display is bright, colorful, and easy to read... kind of.. I have this unit on a table and can read it fine either sitting or standing, harder to read the display from the side to side angles, or if you are down lower than the unit itself. Must be plugged in to see the display, but does have battery backup so you dont have to redo the setup. The setup itself was really easy as well. Ive had this unit for about 5 months.

I am quite pleased with this weather station. The set-up was reasonably easy though there are no paper instructions (I couldn't find any.) This was a replacement for a some what cheaper La Crosse color model that did not have the atomic clock feature. The LEDs went bad after a week or so.) This station does have the atomic clock feature. I just set the time as accurately as I could manually. Then, I had the station search for the WW signal turned on. It found the signal after one night. Please note I have only had this station about a week. But, so far, so good. Here are the good and bad points. Strengths: 1. Large, bright numbers and time settings. (There are three settings available, full brightness, dim and off.) Users will most likely find the dim setting is still too bright at night. (My wife said it looked like a "spaceship" bridge.") I actually turn it off at night. 2. The station shows relative humidity both inside and out. That's a good feature. 3. It runs on both A/C 110V with a 5DC Volt transformer or 3 AAA batteries. The 5V transformer is included. I put in LI batteries in both the station (as a backup) and transmitter. The batteries should last well over a year. On my old La Crosse, I had to change batteries every 6 months and then would have to reset everything. That was a pain. 4. Set-up was easy. 5. The readings are quite accurate. I compare them to a Weather Underground location about a mile away. My station is usually within a degree of their temperature, and 2% of their relative humidity. Weaknesses: 1. No written instructions.(Other reviewers said their did come with some, but I could not find them 2. "Dim setting" too bright to keep the station at your bedside at night. 3. No barometric pressure numerical reading. I haven't noticed any other weakness so far. I will update this review if something significant warrants it. Update January 12, 2015 (After about 6 weeks of use.) 1. The Barometric function is basically worthless. It showed snow when the sky was clear and the temp below freezing. T-storms showed another day when there were none within several 100 miles. (I know because I can go to my Weather Underground online and double-check.) 2. The temperature readings both inside and out are very accurate. Tonight the outside temp was exactly the same as a weather station one mile away. The inside readings are within one degree of the house digital thermostat. 3. Humidity readings also are very accurate. I double-check them, too. A caveat - it can't read less than 19% humidity. Why, I don't know. In the desert southwest, we often get readings in the single digits, so this is a fault, albeit minor. 4. The unit is still going strong. I hope it lasts several years. I guess the quality control is iffy based on other reviewers' comments. Update on July, 2016. I had this unit for about 1 1/2 years. I am now downgrading to only 3 stars. Why - Several reasons. 1. The button that controlled the function to show the high for the day quit after a year. I never could get it to work again. 2. The time reading were constantly off by 2-3 hours (too fast). I could never figure why it wouldn't hold the proper time no matter how many times I reset it. 3. Finally, the LED screen recently cracked (no, I didn't drop it.), rendering the unit almost unusable. I threw the whole unit away. Save your money and buy another brand.

Love it. EZ to set up, worked the first time, unlike the Newentor I had to return. The display is bright and easy to read, including the day and date, which were too small and dim on the Newentor Q3. The only con is the loud annoying beep that accompanied any button press. I asked them how to turn it off. They said, "Sorry."

Only comes with a US plug. Buyers beware

Absolutely fantastic weather station. Easy to set up, including the outdoor sensor but make sure you also buy an outdoor housing for it to keep it weather proofed. Only one drawback currently is that it has what under investigation seems to be a US mains pinned plug to connect to the mains with. Afterallthistime were great with a much speedier delivery than even that estimated at ordering. They were also very prompt at answering my mains power query but in the end suggested just 2 adapter plugs, one was a standard UK adapter for plugging extra things in and the other was a EU adapter plug, which as it seems to be a US plus as per photo I sent them, wasn't a lot of help. After a final try at getting some help from them following which they stopped replying, so I purchased a US to UK power adapter, which hasn't done the trick. La Crosse is a Michigan company which I have contacted to hopefully help me as Afterallthistime don't seem to know what they are selling in detail. Lastly if La Crosse can't give me a solution I will continue to just run on batteries as it is still a great machine. Seem from the start to be very accurate, even though La Crosse says it takes a few weeks to get forecasts fully running

- add 2 batteries for the wireless outside sensor - add 3 batteries for the main unit - plug in the AC power adapter, 5V If you only use the batteries, the unit powers down its brightness after 10 seconds and you can hardly see anything. You must plug it in and also add 3 batteries as backup and then you can adjust the brightness. I love this unit. Accurate temperature and humidity readings. Love you can set it your time zone, day light savings and its an atomic based clock. I wanted something new and colorful and not cheap. This delivers. Update: I've had this weather station for 8.5 years and it finally started failing. It was the last year or two having remote sensor issues, changing the batteries multiple times a year, re syncing multiple times and the battery display is always low now. So I bought a new remote sensor. I shopped around and new weather stations haven't changed much in 8.5 years. FINAL UPDATE: It wasn't the new outdoor sensor or new batteries. The base unit receiving the outdoor sensor signal stopped working properly and now has died. I will be buying another station because it lasted me about 7 years with no issues. The last 1.5 years the base unit wasn't receiving the outdoor sensor signal properly, syncing didn't help and new batteries didn't help. I could be 10 feet from the base unit with the sensor and it went from 5 full bars down to 0 bars. If I did a sync scan, it came back at 12'C and the temp wouldn't change with low battery. The wireless receiver on the base unit started to fail after 7 years and is done after 8.5 years. Not too shappy and I will buy again.

Nice item. Always remember to send a adapter suitable for 240V else a with a converter.

別モデルのLa Crosse Technologyの温湿度計を以前（５年前）より使用しており、気に入っているので追加でこのモデルを購入しました。単三電池３本でも付属のACアダプターでも電源取れます。海外製なので電波時計の受信はできませんが、たまに時刻合わせすればいいので。類似の廉価品は液晶の透けやセンサー感度がいまいちのものが多いですが、La Crosse Technologyのものは値段は少々しますが表示の美しさ、正確さ、センサーの耐久性はピカイチかと。実際、５年使用していますが、センサーが読み取れなかったことは一度もありませんし、センサーの電池は一度しか交換していません。買えばきっと満足されるのではないかと思いますよ。