Ambient Weather Network 4+

This is an excellent weather station app even if you don’t own a weather station. One of the best things for me is that once you lock into your selected station, the app gives you the data for that station regardless of what is going on with other stations in the area. Other apps will begin eliminating access to a station because its data doesn’t conform to what their software algorithm says is reasonable.

I have one gripe though…

The rainfall accumulation is automatically reset for event, day, week, and month but not for the year. After month is “total” which is the accumulated rain since the weather station came on line. What kind of continuing metric is that? It would be nice if the app had the option to reset the total manually so that if someone wanted a “from the beginning of time” reading they could have it but the rest of us could see what has happened this year.

I was given this weather station for my birthday. I have been wanting one for a long time and was extremely excited to finally call myself an owner. Unfortunately the set up was extremely difficult. It took two days for me and my partner to figure out how to connect the device to WiFi. There were no support videos for the model I received. Called the support line and got no answer. Fortunately I figured out the WiFi and finally have the station ready to mount, but it doesn't fit on my fence post.... there is no other way to mount the station, and it won't fit on the fence posts on my particular fence. Now I am forced to either, drive a new fence post into the ground or make some make shift smaller post. I don't understand why they wouldn't make this universal to all fence posts. If the hardware to connect to fence post was a little bigger, my weather station would be mounted. Because the company didn't do enough product research and development I am left with yet another road bump in setting up this system. I have invested far to much time and energy and still don't have a working weather station. I am ready to return this product and try another company with better customer service and product development. I am extremely disappointed with my experience and will never buy another Weather Ambient product. Hope this helps someone not make the same mistakes I did. Good luck!

The app stopped working after the update one week ago. I notified Ambient Weather about the problem, app will initiate the logo pops up then it goes to white screen and stays there. But no one has responded. I’ve read that others have had this issue as well. The station works and the app works on my iPad but it’s really more convenient to use the app on my iPhone. My iPhone has plenty of memory and a strong internet connection. The company should have responded by now. A week is just unacceptable given the price of the weather station. Also, the lighting detector is almost useless at all settings. I’ve tried multiple settings on the Reddit page but none works for me. The best setting I found is hit or miss. I got 67 strikes when a major storm hit then the next day two large strikes hit directly over my house but the detector didn’t catch them. That’s an expensive device that I really regret buying. There’s also a bit of deception from the company involving being able to use the desktop to track the information from the station. In the pictures on the site it shows all three devices, phone, tablet and computer as usable for tracking but you’ll need to pay extra to use it on your computer. In hindsight I think I would have gone with a different system.