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Great PWS, connects to WiFi easily IF you follow the instructions (& way better than a Tempest)
By Jim Hardin on Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022
This is our 3rd Acurite over the years, 1st to hook up to WiFi & Wunderground. Trick to connect: READ the instructions, specifically, you must connect to the ACURITE NETWORK ONLY using your iphone's WiFi setting (i.e. don't connect your iphone to your normal Internet connection - Eero, etc) for installation. Yes, leave your router & Eero, etc running (don't mess with them). Amazing: with a few inputs from Wunderground (station # & key ID) + your internet password = BINGO, a network connection signal on your PWS monitor. Then you can get off the Acurite Network on your iphone, the monitor will now be linked to your house network & you're in business. PS: I'm no rocket scientist. Also, if you aren't getting a connection, simply unplug & replug in the PWS monitor & start over. This should once again show the Acurite Network as an available network at your iphone's WiFi. Until you are solely on the Acurite Network, it will not hook up to WiFi. UPDATE: ...6 mos later...still working great, unlike a Tempest I installed at the same time. Way more accurate temps, wind speeds, & rain totals...no comparison...and I paid fully for both of these. We've had a very stormy spring & 1 just this AM: Accurite shows 65 degrees, 1.37 inches of rain, 21 wind gusts; Tempest shows -38, -0-, and 6.5 (i.e. it's a joke).
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Acurite seems to have taken a step backwards
By S. S. on Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2024
I had a previous model at our old house that we left there when we sold the house. Worked like a champ for years, updated Wunderground every minute or so. Saw this on Prime Day and jumped on it since it was an upgrade over our old one as this also had a lightning detector included. Installed everything outside, setup was just like our previous model. Went to connect the display to our Wi-Fi, and it would not stay connected. I do network security for a living, have a whole home mesh setup, but regardless if I had it connected to the mesh APs, a single AP, even at one point just three feet away, it was only online maybe less than 10% of the time. This was all on a network segment with no filtering going on, just an isolated wireless network for IoT devices. I reached out to Acurite to see what they could do. At first they were pretty responsive as they went through their troubleshooting script, responding to emails within 10 minutes. Now here's the kicker, their "summer hours" for customer support is Monday-Thursday 7:00 am to 4:30 pm CDT and Friday 8:00 am to 12:00 pm CDT. When I asked them shortly after 11 CDT on Friday if they could send me a new display, I didn't hear back until after 10 AM on Monday (I guess they started their long weekend early) authorizing a replacement display under warranty. In that time, I was able to order a comparable product from a competitor, install it, and have it work perfectly on my network. I just returned this product to Amazon. AcuRite used to make a great product, but they seem to have cheapened out on their newer models and cut back on Customer Support.
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