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Nice aesthetics, so-so functionality
I looked for a long time before selecting this unit because I wanted something that combined a lot of meaningful data in an appealing way. Many of these recently popular weather gadgets are junk and almost all are techie plastic eyesores. While this is not quite a professional instrument is appears to be very accurate as checked against local weather sources and other instruments I have. When I adjusted the altitude setting to our exact 245 feet, thank you online USGS, it nailed the barometric pressure.

The number of features is huge and of course while that may help sell product you won’t use them all — for example, although my kids found the voice commands feature hilarious while yelling words sort of like what the box wanted, I won’t we using it much (on the other hand, for some people if may be just great). The manual is not always very clear, voice commands and setting the clock in particular took some head-scratching. (The clock is controlled by the remote which senses atomic time broadcast signals and relays them to the base.)

The pictorial weather prediction feature appears to be only vaguely helpful (the time frame is short anyway) but is appealing. It can run off a battery for almost all features.

Complaints: The station supports five remote sensors, and annoyingly you have to step through even the channels you aren’t using to read the one — and only one — you probably have. There are a half dozen buttons on the unit and it is tricky to use them. Although the system can calculate many things such as sunset and moonrise, it is too cumbersome to use this way often.

Compared to the other low-price competition this is a very nice all-in-one unit, especially at a price about that I paid for a very nice analog Lufft thermo-hygrometer. I don’t expect it to last forever, but for now find it a very useful teaching tool and entertainment. And it met my primary criteria of a serious instrument that wasn’t horrible to look at. At the moment it is on loan to my son’s fourth grade class for their meterology segment — I wouldn’t have lent an expensive analog instrument!