This app looks like one of those rush jobs where the product owner ignored the foundation of the app in which is being sunset “My AcuRite”. While I’d never call the old app amazing, it was good. It was useful for monitoring multiple sensors. That’s why I invested in numerous sensors and the hubs. Yes, hubs because AcuRite sunset a previous version not long after I bought it. The fact adding sensors takes days for them to show up is asinine. The fact you can’t rename sensors is simply a justification that the PO of this app shouldn’t be in that role. Then the fact you have to click more than the old app to see data is more of a step backwards. Perhaps the goal is to lose customers and if that’s the case, give the PO a raise. Mission accomplished. All renaming of sensors. Fix the delayed sensor adding issue. Allow a favorite dashboard. Then maybe you can salvage your weather enthusiast customers. I can’t believe I just spent more money on your products. You have failed. Listen to your customers and fix it. A 1.9 rating on here isn’t winning or success.

My 8 year old Iris station stopped sending - probably needed batteries - and since it is difficult to get to, I decided to go ahead and replace the system with the new Optimus. I appreciate the availability of the remote battery pack, will make things much easier in the future. The station seems fine, the display is much nicer, but the app isn’t ready for prime time. I agree with an earlier review that it doesn’t seem designed for the weather station enthusiast. To start off, with installation I ended up with 0.05 inches on the rain gauge; I was able to clear this on the display, but AcuRite tells me there is no way to reset the total in the app, so now my app and display don’t match. A small thing, but annoying if you follow the yearly totals. Probably could have avoided this by doing a reset of the display before setting up the app, but who knew? Since my interest is the weather station, I only have the one sensor, but every time I open the app, I have to select that sensor - extra step. Can’t the view default to the previous state? And things like highs and lows, tracked in the ole myAcurite, don’t seem available. And what is going on with the graphs? 48 hours seems to just show the previous 24. What is being graphed for temperature and humidity, the daily average? Not helpful. If not showing you separate curves for the highs and lows but just some average, don’t display the data as a continuous line. I could go on but you get the idea…. I think the hardware of the new system looks good, but they need to realize who their core market is and engineer the app toward those wants. I am sure it will improve with time.

The AcuRite Optimus is an amazing weather station. It works exactly as it’s supposed to, gives great data, updates fairly frequently, and is pretty accurate! However, the AcuRite NOW app is not as perfect as the station. One bonus is that the setup was very easy, but there are quite a few bugs. When trying to see rainfall totals, I saw that it doubled what I saw on the display for a year, and seemed to have just randomly added 0.10 inches for the 48-hours counter. (It said 0.78 when it was actually 0.68) I agree with another review which said that this app seems to not be meant for the weather enthusiast, and maybe more meant for a smart home user or someone who likes a simple app. I think people would really enjoy the Optimus finally supporting Weather Underground, so I’m hoping that when that comes, most of these problems will be solved! But overall, great product.

Have been using AcuRite weather station for over 10years with publishing to weather underground. App is not customizable. I can’t rearrange my multiple sensors and of course the main one is on the bottom of the list. I tried to link to my weather underground account but now I have to subscribe to NOW+ before I can get a passkey. Hoping everything will continue to work but I’m assuming my data will cease publishing to WU when they shut down the server next month. I have always been pleased with Acurite’s products and software/app in the past. Incredibly sad that they are rendering so much of it unusable now. I’m not even sure my family will be able to get sensor data. We have relied on this service for local weather data and forecasting for years. Thanks for just shutting it down with 2 weeks warning. Bad move AcuRite forcing your loyal customers to buy a subscription and forcing them to use an inferior app.