AcuRite 01022M Pro Weather Station with Lightning

So... I bought the FIRST one early in 2017. It died less than 12 months later. Acurite replaced it as they should have. The second one lasted less than 12 months also. Acurite replaced that one as they should have. The third one lasted less than 12 months too. I didn't bother getting it replaced. The first one: After about 9 or 10 months, it stopped reporting data. The second one: After about 8-9 months, it stopped reporting wind information. The third one: After 10-11 months, it stopped reporting all data. The display unit: Everything about it is horrible. It's less responsive than a hotel remote control. Navigating the 'buttons' is difficult at best. It's a touch screen that responds poorly. The interface is horrible and difficult to wade through. There are no menus like you would hope to see. It makes you wade through every item to get to any one of them. One of my biggest pet peeves was that it didn't always display the dew point. Below a certain temperature, it displayed the wind chill. Above a certain temperature, it displayed the heat index. Dammit, I always want to see the dew point regardless of what the ambient temperature is. It was also difficult to read if you weren't staring directly at it. If you were off to the side by any amount, it was invisible. If it was even a little bit above or below you, it was invisible. The sensor unit: It is comprised of about $3.59 of plastic, a handful of small metal pieces and a couple small printed circuit boards. It weighs about two pounds and you wonder how it doesn't blow away. The wind speed sensor vanes on mine actually MELTED and warped during a typical Texas summer. The main housing has many vent holes in it that tend to double as spider access holes. So I had to take the main cover off once a year to clear out all the spider webs because the webs would foul the rain gauge and prevent the cup from emptying. They would also make webs/nests in other places including on the circuit boards. On one of them, the anemometer seized up. Fortunately, I still had the previous unit(s) and was able to yank the anemometer off one of the dead ones and swap out the bad anemometer on the 'working' unit. Lastly, it seems like the solar-powered fan was an afterthought. It didn't work well and the spiders always clogged it with their webs when it wasn't spinning. WiFi: You can't simply throw it onto your WiFi network. You MUST have the intermediate Acurite hub/switch. Overall: I found it difficult, tedious, tiresome and annoying, in addition to the low quality components that never lasted very long. I am now the proud owner of an Ambient Weather WS-2000.