14-in-1 Famistar WiFi Weather Station with Automatic Alarm Feature

Tony Stevens: The display is very nice and easy to read. The weather station is compact and was easy to install on top of a fence post. Only problem is that the rain sensor and wind speed sensor both quit working after about six months. Been installed for a year and six months, the other sensors are still working ok. Did not report and not worth the bother to take it down and send it back. Keeping as is until I buy a different one.
Update: Since found out that unplugging and restarting gets all functions working again. But needs this every couple months so still a pain. Up one star.

United States on Nov 15, 2022

James: The setup is easy and the transmitter is easy to install. I still haven’t tried everything yet. The display can also be put in sleep mode to darken the screen. I like that it remains plugged in with a battery backup. One of these days I’ll consider connecting to my phone but I have not used that option yet. The temperature transmitter also has a small screen in case your outside and want to see how hot or humid it is. So far, worth the money. (We we’re in a dry spell for a bit so I wanted to make sure that the rain gauge was accurate before posting this.)

United States on Oct 29, 2021

Donna Norton: It reports the weather as it says, but I could not figure out how to get it online like the directions say and found that overall the instructions could be improved across the board. I also question the accuracy a bit because when it first came I tried it out inside before installing it outside. It reported measurable rain while indoors so I am not confident in the accuracy.

The physical installation was pretty simple, but they could tell you what pole diameter you need for the bracket if you are pole mounting (I did not). The main reason for my low score on installation is because the directions were not that clear and I couldn't get it to connect to the web like it says you can.

United States on Oct 13, 2021

pizzaboy192pizzaboy192: I picked this unit up after discovering that the brains of the unit are ESP8266 based so should I ever want, I can hack it and flash different firmware on it. I've been wanting a local weather station that I can view it's data from either online, or via a website. I'm a bit bummed that it doesn't run a local webserver showing all it's data, but I did get a copy of the firmware from the OEM when I reached out, and since it's an ESP based device, enabling a webserver for local data collection shouldn't be too difficult.

Setting up the unit physically took about 10 minutes, the hardest part was getting the unit mounted to the pole one handed, while making sure it was level so that the wind direction sensor would show properly (and then discovering I misread the instructions and mounted it pointing the wrong way)

The unit's external sensor is pretty straightforward, you can either screw it to something, or mount it to a post. If your house\garage isn't perfectly facing north\south I'd suggest doing pole mount. I'll be buying a proper yard stake to mount it completely today in the yard away from curious toddler fingers.

My initial complaint was that it doesn't show...

United States on Apr 23, 2021

Seltaeb112Seltaeb112: Followed the included instruction manual had this device setup and working in less than an hour. Device is configured to my wifi and transmitting weather data to wunderground and weathercloud. To check accuracy I compared my reading to other stations uploading to wunderground in my neighborhood and the readings match. The display is great (see photo).

United States on Apr 17, 2021