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I decided to get this Acurite Atlas weather station because it was bundled with the lightning sensor. I also like the ship, or fish-style housing which suits my installation location better than the drone-style housing from Ambient weather. I also like this screen's graphics better than the other options, especially the high-end / highly-rated Davis which only supports a LCD reminding me of something from the mid-80's.So far it's working well and the temperature and wind seem accurate. No rain to compare with the regional reports yet. I have it connected to the My Acurite servers and share my data with Weather Underground. I plan to enable the Alexa skill, too.What I don't like at all is the mounting screw on the sensor. If Acurite reads these reviews, please use U-brackets for future models. Everyone who makes devices that mount to poles outdoors uses them for a reason. They are easy to secure, very sturdy and very long lasting. I am curious how many of these get returned and need refurbishment due to stripped screw knobs?Anyway, I am settled now that I have a fancy weather monitoring device up and running. I can now get weather info. at a glance and can finally stop asking Alexa what the weather is 20 times a day. I will update this review perhaps in the long term once I've had a chance to use it for a while and after performing routine maintenance on the sensor while its still on the post.EDIT after using this for a week and raising the anemometer up to 17 ft., I am very pleased. The display and sensors look to be of good quality and Acurite has ironed out the bugs with this configuration. Everything has been reliable after letting it work for a couple of days. I recommend this product. The price is great for what you're getting. Other companies' products cost far more especially if you want to match the feats this unit provides.UPDATE July 11, 2022 (first two photos are my initial installation and second two are my current installation):I am coming up on my return window and thought I would provide an update after 3 weeks in service. What I like is the display for the most part. The layout could be better with bigger text and more information. The Act-Rite logo doesn't need to be part of the image. If they want to brand the display they could silkscreen it on the bezel somewhere and it would be there even when the screen is off.The temperature / humidity / pressure / wind are close if not exact with the regional weather for the most part. The temp is up by about 4 degrees in the heat of the day and we have been having hot weather right now. The humidity varies by up to 5% at times but it's always close and exact at various times throughout the day and night. The wind speed matches the reports and is getting great readings at 17ft AGL. Direction matches the reports too.What I am not sure about is the UV index. It seems low compared to the reports. The lightning detector likes to go into interference mode whenever it's stormy. I haven't seen any actual lightening yet but the detector will register a few strikes now and then even when interference is displayed.As far as Wi-Fi and wireless signal to the station is concerned, I did have to move my display from the kitchen to an outer wall above my alarm system panel. Luckily it has a USB port to power the display. It did not communicate reliably behind another wall and the appliances even though it's only a few feet away from the kitchen location. The signal needs to be full bars for the sensor and Wi-Fi in my experience so you will need to think carefully about locations if you go with this unit.I still do not like the screw mount. I had to adjust the level again today as the bubble moved slightly off center on my level post. Hopefully it will stay put.Summary is I plan on keeping this weather station. It does a lot for the price and is of good quality. Acu-Rite look to have addressed past issues and have a competitive product. I don't think I would have better overall experience with a station costing 2 to 5 times the amount.

There is no one to contact for help, the IP address in instructions is not a website IP address is used to help connect to wifi. How I do t know , I had ask talk to a computer geek to try and help. He was confused as well. In short termsindont know how I did nothing but it desided to want to connect. Great not touching anything lol. I was getting mad but in long run keep your cool it will connect to wifi just take some thinking and time. As for the weather station it's self, when your have it installed outside there will be a red blinking led it is suppose to be blinking slow like a signal blink... If it's fast blinking the wind direct arrow on it need to be pointed to north, hold it, and pressed the bottom in side it in battery spot. This will adjust to to north and led light will be slow thats when it's right. The batteries can freeze can stop the station. All batteries are like that. Just warm them up and put them back in and everything is good. Becareful of China products they can be shysters.

This machine eats the batteries once a month. When the temperature stops changing you need new batteries. So the machine is not broken you just have to change the batteries. Works well . There is update on the computer application.

I am a member of CoCoRaHS and I send in a WX report every midnight (local time) and like to give a fairly complete and accurate report. My old station is starting to show it's age and give some questionable info now and then. My first impression of this new device is 1. The update of data is 10 seconds for a couple and 30 seconds for the rest so I am taking a step back from constant update, 2. It is fairly heavy and is not balanced right for the mast insertion depression so that needs some compensation. 3. It does have a couple of features I didn't have, like UV, solar intensity (I don't think it will give sky quality at night), a lightning sensor was included in this package 4. I looked all around the edges for the power jack and after searching the battery compartment and searching the edges, front and back, I finally found it in a trench on a lower corner with a little arm to hold the wire down, and 5. I'm finding the 3 button control is cumbersome and awkward with confusing arrow marks on the screen. I had difficulty setting the time and it still shows pm after midnight and when I tried to go to the link given in the miniscule instructions, neither Firefox or Google could find the IP address to connect it to the internet. I'm still looking for a support number. Aside from the chicken panic scene, I think it will be a survivable unit, but not without frustration. I had to replace the mast on my old one with a shorter one for this unit because there is an access panel on both top and bottom and I didn't want to haul a second step ladder up on my roof to get to both while damaging my silicon (GECO) roof coating...it has been enough of a problem, but my roofer is a whole other horror story. To be continued another time...

Just what I needed