AcuRite 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.

Still working great after 3 years in the Florida sun.

This is my first weather station, and it has been educational. What I thought it would do, it somewhat does, but there are things it doesn't do without additional hardware. What you get - Display which is clear and easily readable, a 5 in 1 weather sensor, a USB cable and a power supply for the display. In the documentation it said to use the enclosed batteries - there were no batteries enclosed or included, so the manual is either outdated, or the batteries are missing. The unit was easy to set up using the manual, so far so good. I don't have a place where heat isn't reflected and it is out of the direct sunlight. I need to purchase a pole to mount it on, a block wall holds cold and heat, couldn't mount it there. I purchased a 10' section of 3/4 " electrical conduit, dug a hole and cemented it in. The unit does go online, but you need a computer to connect via USB, and it needs to be running 24/7 to upload data, and it only uploads it to Acurite's site. If you want to send it to Weather Underground, you need to buy another piece of hardware from Acurite. You need an AcuRite 09155M AcuRite Access for Remote Monitoring of AcuRite Weather Stations. I deducted 1 star because the description is also flawed, states you get a Pro 5 in 1, when you don't, and you need additional hardware if you don't have a computer you need to sit next to the monitor.

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.

Mounting wasn't all that bad, either. I already had a dis-used satellite dish mounted on the roof with a pole sticking up vertically, so I took the dish off and got a 4' long 3/4" diameter extension pole that fit in the sender unit and the old dish pole. Now I can stand on the roof and still look down in the rain dish to clean it... purists would want it even higher to measure the wind accurately, but in my yard full of trees accurate wind measurements aren't happening without at least 80' of elevation and that's not happening. So far, connection between the inside and outside units has seemed pretty solid, even with a metal roof and about 50' of distance between them. The inside unit is nice, but a little hard to read from the side where I have it mounted. I have it close to a PC where it sends data to the AcuView cloud app and Weather Underground - which was relatively painless to set up. Most of the time I look at my station on my cellphone, or sometimes relative to nearby stations on WunderMap. It's pretty amazing how much variation there is across a neighborhood, particularly as you get closer or farther from a nearby river. At first I thought there was an inaccuracy in the temp measurement, or maybe it was "roof effect" but, the temperatures track very close (+/- 1 F) with a digital thermometer I have mounted on a pole on the other side of the house, and there are usually a couple of other nearby stations reading like mine on the Wundermap, but not always the same ones.

This is the second one we purchased the first one lasted over five years.

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.

Somewhat difficult app set up. From what I can tell you have to have the device plugged into your PC via micro USB(outdated) 24/7 if you want it to report to the cloud and be able to connect on your phone. LAME! The display should be smart enough to do this but it isn't. Cheap quality across the board. All plastic everything. With that said, the data looks really good and I won't be returning this. I got it on sale and I suggest you do the same. I'm stoked to have an accurate weather station at the house. This would get 4 stars but if you PC turns off you lose the connection and can no longer use your phone. What's up with that???