AcuRiteIris (5-in-1) Home Weather Station with Direct-to-Wi-Fi Wireless Display and Alerts for Remote Monitoring Indoor/Outdoor Temperature and Humidity with Wind Speed/Direction (01544M)

It appears a lot of people are having difficulty connecting the Display unit to their WiFi. Just follow these instructions and it should work for you.Setting up this weather station is not that difficult. Just READ THE DIRECTIONS!Connecting to the WiFi just requires a gathering some information before you start the WiFi setup. First go to Wunderground.com and either login or create a new account. Go to 'My Profile' you will see a Tab labeled 'MY DEVICES', click on that Tab. Then click on the 'Add New Device' Button. Select 'AcuRite 5-in-1 Weather Station with WiFi' from the drop-down list. Then click on the 'Next' button. The next screen will display your Station ID and Station Key. Copy down this information, you will need this information BEFORE you start your WiFi setupUse these two values for the Wunderground Station ID and Wunderground Key when you have connected to the AcuRite WiFi.WiFi SetupPress the Gear button on the display. This will turn on the AcuRite Wifi for a few minutes. The instructions state it will be on for 30 minutes, but actually it's a much shorter time. Connect to that WiFi, go to a browser and enter in the IP Address 192.168.4.1A webpage will display, enter in your WiFi name and password. Then below that enter in the Wunderground Station ID and Wunderground Key that was generated from Wunderground.comNow on the same page, near the bottom, click on the 'Save' button. The screen will change with a message stating to wait a few minutes. After a short time, the screen will change stating you have successfully connected to your WiFi.At any time you need to start the AcuRite WiFi, just press the 'Gear' button on the display.Don't forget to reconnect to your WiFi once you have completed the above.AcuRite AppFrom the menu go to Setting, Manage Devices. Click on the 'Add Device' button. Enter the name for this device (i.e. Home). Enter the Device ID. The Device ID is found on a white label in the battery compartment when you remove the battery cover on the Display unit. Select your Country and add your Zip Code.Now follow the 'Next' button a few more times to setup that device.Your done.************************************************************************************************************************Update:I've had this PWS for a month. It's performance has been flawless. The connection to my WiFi has been rock solid. The only time it was not sending data was when my internet provider performed service on our connection. We were without internet a few hours. As soon as the our internet connection was reestablished this unit reconnect to our WiFi and begin transmitting data again.Within a few days of installing this, Weather Underground attached a Gold Star to the account for consistent reporting and consistent data.We've already had high winds here. The unit has set me numerous high wind warnings to me. I have the high wind warning set to 25 mph. So far our highest recorded wind speed has been 32 mph.I'm very pleased with the performance of this unit.

So far ao good. Nice display and seems accurate. App is not the best but it's ok. Hopefully holds up in coastal conditions.

Great weather station. Only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is that the instructions for connecting to WiFi in the quick setup guide are useless and it was a little more complicated than just connecting to the IP address listed. Had to find the actual instructions on the AccuRite website.

OK came back to modify this review after 4 MONTHS! It quit communicating to the indoor unit. Thinking it was the batteries, we replaced them in the outdoor unit. (Indoor one is plugged in and the batteries don't keep it running when unplugged!) I get stuck with Online Chat support because they have no 800# and the instructions including online “articles” are almost as worthless and the one page instruction manual that has zero details. Chat person has me bring the outside unit inside, remove batteries change the channel on indoor and outdoor units. Doesn’t work but I do discover that the outdoor unit has SPIDERS in it! Back outside it goes. Long story short I now have to send this POS back for “testing and inspection by their QC team” 5-10 days from when they receive it before I hear anything…So since I got it, I have about 4 hours of screwing with it for under 4 months that it worked. Do yourself a favor and choose a different brand. Or at least if you do buy one of these and it doesn’t work right, don’t hesitate to send it back to amazon for a refund BEFORE the time to do so runs out. This unit is not worth the hassle it created and I am sorry I ever bought it.I love the display, and getting the unit operations itself is pretty straightforward. The only reason I gave it 3 star instead of 5 is the set up!The problem is they sell it as being wifi compatible so you can access your station from the ap on your mobile device. When you begin the set up process you are prompted into multiple very confusing set up pages across multiple devices with incomplete information. Like "enter device ID Number" with no explanation of which device or where to find the numbers. After about and hour of reading articles on their website with more of the same incomplete information, I tried to get support. (But hey, we have nothing better to do then google multiple steps left out of the instructions and articles right?) Chat support is available between certain hours.. yet there is no button to activate it and no 800 number! You have to submit a request and wait God knows how long for someone to get back to you...FOR LIVE CHAT? So I went to youtube to search it, and got yet another video from them showing how simple it is to set up but with absolutely ZERO detailed information on the steps. In 2021 there is not excuse for incomplete instructions and worse, no detailed videos to help.Yes I finally got it working after at least and hour+ of frustration and googling. If you are good at figuring out puzzles, you'll love this unit. It really does work great once you figure it all out. I just really don't think you should have to spend and hour scavenger hunting and piecing all the info together that should have came in the box with it to get it to work.

Somewhat disappointing and not the best value. My biggest complaint is the rain gauge. It measures rainfall over a midnight-midnight period, then automatically resets: if you're watching an extended storm it's hard to get a storm total. Worse, the total rain gauge doesn't reset. I now know total rainfall since I installed the station, a nearly-useless figure. The wind gauge only works accurately if the unit is well away from anything even slightly blocking or deflecting airflow. The remote battery pack (overpriced) lets you replace batteries at a convenient level, but a little wall adapter would be nice: most folks have an outdoor AC outlet they could use. A big omission is the manual: none was provided, in paper or online. All-in-all, I would not buy this product again--and, in fact, may put it up for sale in my community's annual yard sale. All I really need is a basic rain gauge and outdoor thermometer.