La Crosse View

Have had this station for over a year, and once I was told by support, the importance of the solar battery staying charged to function properly, it has really performed flawlessly. The app, however is a different story. For me it has functioned correctly about 75% of the time, and works great. The programmers seem to have issues keeping up with technical issues as reported across the top of the screen. This then leads to incomplete data, such as rainfall accumulations for a period of days. Still get 24 hr accumulations on the weather station display, but not rainfall per hour. I know it may not seem like much, but things like that are a disappointment to me. All in all I am quite happy with the device itself. Hopefully they realize that it really is an issue and are creating an app with a more solid platform!

I had the device for about three months. Almost every single time I opened my phone app, it displayed only dashes as it did not show any of the information? Several days would go by and none of the digits displayed on the device would change? Clearly as cold as it has been, The temperature would go way down at night and back up again later in the day but the device did not display this? I contacted the company a few times and one of the times they replied back saying that the device will only update once every six hours. So basically four times within a 24 hour. The device changes which means at that exact moment it is displaying possibly the correct digits, but for the next six hours it’s only displaying what it was six hours ago?? In our case the numbers were not even changing and on the phone app it almost always displayed nothing at all. The company never contacted us back the other times and the information they gave us initially did not help so we finally returned the weather station. We purchased one for a Christmas gift for somebody and they are having the same problem. The information displayed even if correct is on our phone app on a regular basis so it’s kind of useless because we were to the understanding it would show the information from right outside of our home. Walmart sells a device for under $10 that shows your inside and outside temperature on real time not only once every six hours.

I really wanted to like the projector alarm clock weather station that I got at Costco, but am so disappointed by the app, that I might return it. I was excited by the prospect of allowing my kids to see the forecast as they woke up, to help them prepare for the day ahead, but the utter lack of design in the alarm’s program features render it almost useless. There needs to be a better way to program the alarm in the app, for which days it should be on and off. Seems like it would be really easy to add this feature, so that you can program a M-F alarm and not worry about turning it off every weekend and back on again for weekdays. Can this be incorporated into an update?? I hope so or I’ll be returning them soon. The app also doesn’t allow you to delete any erroneous stations that are inadvertently created. Which would be another easy fix. I like the display, and the projection features, but wish there was a radio option built in for the alarm. And even though you can turn on and off the alarm with the app, the change is not initiated right away, and so it’s hard to tell if the alarm is actually being set or not. And when I get frustrated and turn it on annually, if I forget to change the app’s “on” setting, the alarm will turn itself back off through the app. This could be a really great product if they make a few small changes, but as it is, I’m more frustrated than happy with it.

Got this as a unexpected gift and had no idea the amount of detail it actually offers. The set up was good with one issue: No Wireless MAC Address label to be found. So I disabled my MAC filtering on the WiFi router, connected it, went into my router’s settings on the internet and saw the address that way, added it to my address list and re-enabled the filter. The app works seamlessly on an iPhone 7 Plus. I have experienced zero issues. You can also add other sensors that you buy for a cottage, barn, or dog house etc and use your personal pictures as a background for each location of the sensor you wish to see readings on. This set up with the app and device is working so far. I’ll update my review in 2 months but as of now it works perfectly. -Update- 4 months later and everything is going good sensor wise but display wise there’s issues. I just managed my data stream, deleted cloud cover which only reads a percentage and says auto/auto next to it in the ticker, deleted snow accumulation which read normal, added wind speed, and possibility of damaging thunderstorms, and for some reason it won’t update correctly and I get an error in the app. I took two stars away

This system would be great if it worked, however since purchasing the system at Sam’s Club, the display module and the sensors worked great... However after about 45 days the system lost WiFi connection, contacted Lacrosse via email, since they have no customer service you can call and physically talk with a rep, no response... After @ 5-6 months, ran across something while surfing the web, was able to get a link that gave instructions on connecting troubles to WiFi and what to do... Went through the steps didn’t work, and the end of the tutorial, gave you another link to report a faulty display, Lacrosse notified me via email and said a new display would be sent, only display no power adapter... After a couple of weeks, yesterday I received my new display... Using the original power hooked up new display unit, was back up and running... That’s great right... Well today, wind gauge works, water sensors working and Display Unit working, can view all data on my smartphone... Great, not so great, well the outdoor temperature and humidity sensor stopped displaying, change the batteries brought it in, won’t sync... Watched another tutorial, need to reset your system to factory settings... Did that, now back in the same place I started... Display won’t connect to WiFi and Temperature & Humidity doesn’t work... Great... Just saying don’t waste your hard earned money on this system...

Best low cost WIFI sensor App package for remotely sensing A homes indoor and outdoor environments. This includes settable hi and low alarm points of Temperate Humidity sensors and wet/dry floor. 1 app combines multiple sensors signals all sent to a single station. Setup as many sensors a home might need then set parameters in the app to Alarm as needed. This will even send emails of any alarm. You will always know if your home AC or furnace quit should temps go out of thermostat settings. That dehumidifiers stops working no problem. You get an alarm on your cell phone. This thing is great! You can look at a history chart of each sensor too on the app. Easy naming conventions for each sensor and you can take a picture of each room that shows where that sensor is. I have 5 boiler zones heating system at home and have 6 temp sensors. Last winter one day I got a low temp alarm in 1 zone. It was -10 F. outside. I called a repair guy from Florida who fixed the boiler before pipes froze back home in Vermont. My Lacrosse View pkg paid for itself right then. I love it. Easy to setup and change as needed. Easy to use and watch what is happening at home while not there. Pj Couillard

Strange things have been happening with my app that I cannot explain. The app doesn’t update as frequently as the in home unit and often shows conflicting info. For example: This morning around 0600 my app registered a wind speed at 0mph, one minute later the wind speed was 128mph, the next minute back to 0mph. I checked the in home unit and the data was completely different. The hours before and since the recorded 128mph gust were all below 10mph, leading me to believe there was a malfunction within the app itself. I live in a cold and windy northern state, with high wind prone areas so I thought the app would be nice to have. I use the app for when I travel so I can check in and see the temperature inside and outside the house, as well as the wind speed. The few times I’ve been away and used this app it has either completely failed to update or given me incredibly inaccurate information. I’ve had some issues but easily resolved issues with the units themselves. However, this new glitch, and yet another one with the app is making me less confident in the remote data I receive from the app.

Pairing devices is a pain, after a year the wind unit routinely doesn’t update for days sowing a low battery after changing out fresh ones twice. This would be fine we’re it not for mounting the unit high enough to catch reliable wind without obstructions. Similar issues with the rain gauge losing connection and not syncing. I received it as a gift so I’m happy with that, I’m only reluctant to replace failing units at the cost they are knowing they may again have issues or fail in due time. Beyond all that the fact that they do not hold onto historical data without a subscription (beyond 7 days) is pretty sad. The app itself is cumbersome to navigate and the data viewed in graphs forces portrait mode for 1-day and landscape for 7-days, making it difficult to review trends easily. If the rain, wind, outdoor, and base station cost $99 and a $5 monthly subscription with more reliable pairing of the units I’d see the value. Doubling that or more? Not so much, even for a weather geek like me. I’ll try another product first before coming back to this one and investing for a longer term, more reliable solution.

Got a replacement temp and humidity sensor from the nice folks at Lacrosse and finally have everything communicating nicely. Got station uploading to Weather Underground which allows me to use their advanced WunderStation app. This is a very nice option on the iPad for viewing my stations data. My wife likes the Lacrosse View app on her phone but we can’t figure out why, even though the station displays the outside temp as well as the “feels like” temp, when viewing the outdoor temp/humidity device screen, the lacrosse view app always shows outdoor temperature and exactly the same temp in a smaller font below it with the words “Heat Index”. This shows even when the temp is 20 degrees and the wind is gusting to 40 mph. Right now the station says “Outdoor 35 F” with a wind speed of 15 mph and “Feels Like 26”. The Lacrosse View App outdoor temp/humidity device page says 35 with Heat index 35. Any ideas about that one? The WunderStation App has it all right, up to the second. I’d like to get this Lacrosse View App working right for the sake of the phone. Thx for any help.

There are a number of personal weather stations on the market. Weather Underground has thousands they tap for neighborhood weather worldwide. At Costco it looked like this was an abridged feature set version of a full featured weather station. I could expect to get world wide access to the outdoor weather at my house. Cool. Only it's not so intuitively obvious. It will do both outdoor and indoor readings on the app, but only after you enter both the indoor console and any outdoor sensors separately. Setup is also dicey. You apparently need to not be just on the same Wi-Fi network, you also need to be on the same frequency band. That means going far away in your house where the 5 GHz signal is not predominant on your phone. The LaCrosse device is on the 2.4 GHz band only. Not spelled out in the instructions. Overall I guess it might be worth what I paid for it, but it's very poor marketing. Could it be fixed by better firmware and software? Of course. It's just we'll never see that on our devices.

The software works fine with my main complaint being that it only displays relative humidity instead of the dew point temperature. It would be better if the gave an option to display a graph of dew point instead of the relative humidity. The display of relative humidity is not helpful since it is temperature dependent. For example if the morning low temperature falls to the dew point temperature of 68 degrees F the relative humidity is 100%. If you have a high temperature later in the day of 96 degrees F the relative humidity will be about 40%. If there is no change in the air mass such as with the approach of a cold front or storm system the dew point will be steady around 68 degrees F. A dew point of 68 degrees F will be uncomfortable for outdoor activities and lower dew point temperature in the 50s will feel much better. The display of relative humidity does not give meaningful information since it depends on what the temperature does. It would be a much nicer option to be able to display the dew point both on the screen of the device and the application.

When this unit (CR8300) has connectivity, it is fun and easy use. We travel a lot and live on the coast, so remote monitoring and our set up alerts are important. However, we are now on our third unit. The first one would not connect to our Linksys router so LaCrosse sent us a new one. This one did not connect either so we bought a different router. This worked great for six (6) months and then it too lost connectivity. LaCross is sending us another base station as it appears the WiFi within the unit is now broken. We can only hope this unit works and works longer than six (6) months. If it doesn’t, we’ll be out of warranty and LaCrosse support states “we’ll see then if there’s anything we can do”. If it were not for these connectivity issues, we would have given this unit five (5) stars. It should be noted that each time we’ve called support, the unit has had to be factory reset, consequently losing all: 1 hour, 24 hour, monthly and yearly totals. This, the connectivity issues and the warranty concern is why this unit only get a three (3) star rating.

I’ve owned an AcuRite weather station for years so I was reluctant to change. But after having so many problems with readings and signal strength from my AcuRite weather station I thought now was the time. My first review of La Crosse technology weather station is impressive. The signal strength wherever I’ve placed it in my yard (and I have 1.5 acres) did not change. Strong signal everywhere. Secondly, the temperature/humidity readings are spot on accurate with the NWS readings. I was very impressed with this. Make sure that you follow La Crosse tips on where to place your sensors. This will give you the most accurate readings. Lastly, I like very much how you can place the sensors separately around the yard to get the most accurate readings and strength of signal. This was something I could never do with the AcuRite weather station. All the AcuRite sensors are built into one weather station. So far I am very pleased with my purchase of La Crosse Technologies Weather station.

This app is horrible! I just got the unit and so far it took forever to get it to link to the WiFi. This app wouldn’t get the unit to connect, I had to use their “softAP” version with my laptop to get it to finally work. Now that it did, it still hasn’t updated the time, even though instructions says it checks time every 6 hours. We’re on hour 12. App hasn’t updated in 12 hours either so it’s showing data from then. What is the point of that?!?! I should be able to open the app and see the data right now. I should also be able to “update data” to get current info any time I want. I should be able to pull down the screen on the main page and get it to refresh. Or at least a refresh or update button. Honestly, at least the device itself seems to work, but due the money I spent, full functionality would have been nice. For the experience I’ve had, I’d say the app is completely useless. And they want to charge you for a subscription to store more data when it’s not even syncing?!?! Get outta here! This app needs a total revamping!!

After reading some of the reviews, I was wondering if my issue would get fixed, but have to say, LaCrosse were spot on. I received my weather station in December and all was great till a few weeks ago. My app started showing all dashes with no data although my device id numbers were still showing up. Weather station was still showing most data, but not all the Accuweather forecast. I emailed support and the same day I received a response from Gary that gave me a couple of things to do to try and fix the issue and if they didn’t send them my device id number and mailing address, which I emailed back the info. Immediately I received an email that my issue had been turned over to warranty and I should receive a replacement weather station in 10-15 days. Well, my replacement arrived in 3 days and all is back up and running. Thank you Gary and LaCrosse for the awesome and quick response.

App general works but since I installed a rain gauge recently, I found the latest version does not support display hourly rain data in the daily view. However the this data is viewable in 7-day screen when choosing the “data” button. Please fix this bug. [Update] shortly after posting this review, I received hourly display in the daily review. It seems data transmission took some time but it does display hourly data now as expected. Two more suggestions on improvements: 1) hourly data in daily view is only shown in portrait mode, cannot change to landscape mode unlike the 7-day view. 2) The data table in daily view shows 1 line for roughly every 2 minutes but most values are zeros (when it rained in the hour) likely because rain amount in 2 minutes interval is too small (<0.01) to show. Suggest making the interval configurable or fixed at a larger interval (10 mins or more). Thanks for responding to customer reviews.

Have seven La Crosse Technology Wi-Fi Color Weather Forecast Weather Stations, Model: V15. Past eight months, nothing but constant connectivity issues with displays not updating all formation, dropping information on displays, incorrect forecast, constantly having to unplug power to affected V15 weather stations, replug power back to weather stations, having to push the “refresh” button numerous times to obtain current forecast information, and to repeat some of these steps several times. Despite La Crosse Technology updating the weather stations to the latest firmware, replaced AT&T Gateway, tweaking settings in Linksys Mesh tri-band router, eliminating some of the weather stations on-line at one time, nothing has corrected these issues. When purchased over one year ago, all weather stations functioned normally. No issues. Then eight months ago, all of the aforementioned issues transpired. Personally, believe the issue to be with the La Crosse server(s) and/or Accu-Weather where weather data is obtained by La Crosse Technology. Could also be a firmware issue due to first generation and age of V15 models.

I really enjoy the concept of having a home weather station with access to raw data and being able to use an app that integrates everything. My frustration comes with the fact that without additional purchasing, you only have access to 7 days worth of data, or in some cases just 24 hours. It also doesn’t log the wind direction in the data, only on the view screen. The other frustrating part is that about a month ago my app is not getting access to the data at all. So when I open the screen to look at what the temperature was last night while I was sleeping, it shows nothing, no current data, no past data, nothing. Admittedly I could spend another couple hours on trial and error to see if I can’t figure that problem out (batteries and WiFi have been eliminated as the problem culprits). In any case, it’s great for looking at during a storm and keeping track of the data yourself, but not so much for archiving information or really gathering data at all. I’m giving it a 4/10.

This is an update after giving a scathing review a few days ago after extreme frustration with setting up WIFI. I have now discovered a pattern to the App’s problems. My La Crosse V22v2 hardware works great and the weather station can work as a stand-alone device without WIFI. You simply push different buttons to drill down for further weather data. The problem is that I paid more for this particular model specifically for the WIFI capability. I have strong WIFI with fiber optic service. And I know the weather station is connected because I can confirm the 2.4 connection on my EERO App. The weather station works well in the morning and at night, but is EXTREMELY slow during the day. I assume it is the server that hosts the weather station App. It doesn’t seem to be able to efficiently handle the daytime traffic. So, if you are considering buying the La Crosse weather station for its WIFI connectivity, I can only recommend that you seek out another brand where their App works properly.

This app has it all! I have struggled finding a weather station that works for me and is accurate. The weather station I got not only tells you the outdoor conditions, but it also lets me know how warm my shop and my house is. I am currently sitting 5 states away from my house & was able to simply log on to this app to check & make sure everything is working okay. La Crosse Technology never fails to amaze me with their amazing products, friendly staff, and very competitive pricing! This product is very newly released so there has been a few minor glitches, but with a quick call to the company they have always gone above and beyond to fix the issue and make it right. After testing out many different stations, I have finally found a system that I love and trust. I would recommend this product, app and brand to all!

Of all the different Customer Service organizations I deal with (I buy a lot on line) The La Crosse Customer Service is by far the best! Any time I’ve had a question or problem the people I’ve dealt with have been easy to talk to, very helpful, very responsive in sending me replacement sensors for my Professional weather stations and my projection alarm clock. And when you call La Crosse you don’t get a recording asking you to pick from several options but rather an actual person who speaks English like the rest of us rather than someone from a different country. With all the negative things China is doing to our country I want to stop buying from China. But when you buy on line most everything is made in China. I think La Crosse products are great but I wish they were made in the USA!

Loved this when we first bought it. Was looking for an additional sensor for another area. Then upgraded our network to a mesh system. Every other device in the house was able to connect without any problem. Not the La Crosse View app! Other devices require 2.4 Ghz channel and are able to find it easily. Not the La Crosse ViewApp. Updates come out with “WiFi device connection improvements” I download in anticipation and try again. Still won’t connect. Instructions say if you have a mesh device you should turn off your satellites and move further away so you connect via 2.4 ghz. Ok, try that. Turn off satellites, walk away from house to get to 2.4 ghz band. Then the app loses the connection to the La Crosse base station. Walk back to house to reconnect to La Crosse base station. Phone still connected to 2.4 ghz but STILL won’t connect. Come on La Crosse, figure out WiFi! Every other smart device I own is able to do it, why can’t you? Bought this specifically because of the “anywhere access” now I can only see it when I am in same room.

I bought this unit a few months ago from Costco. It's pretty easy to setup and connect to my wifi, the La Crosse View app was easy to setup and connect to the unit without any issue, which is it was showing the outside temp for 24 hours, the wifi indicator on the unit shown too. But then since last few days, the outside temperature disappeared. The unit appears like it is a standalone unit: no wifi! I tried reset to the manufacture setup and reinstalled the app then set it up from scratch, no help. Reported to La Crosse, only got an email telling me to reload the device. Even I disconnect the power source, removed the battery and put them back and tried to setup from very beginning. Same issue: no wifi indicator, no outside temperature, even from the app where it connects successfully to the server but the app not show the outside temp either. Must be a weather station problem??!

I used to enjoy the weather station and this app and could check all of my sensors easily. I’m really getting to the point of irritation now with the app continually trying to convince me to purchase a subscription service or to buy more sensors… they now place an ad over the better part of the screen that you need to carefully click close to be able to view the sensor information. If this was on a trial basis or something, I could understand that, but making the purchase and then still being force fed ads to spend more money with them is not good marketing. I’m seriously considering dumping the system and looking for what I thought I had with this system, an add free experience. I would recommend you seriously consider how you will appreciate ads blocking your readings until you close them… Not every time, but way too frequently and completely out of line with a purchased system.

Tell me which routers in the last 5 years would you ever buy, that ONLY broadcasts 2.4Ghz? I bought this LaCrosse a YEAR ago in early 2020. Yet it will ONLY connect to the WiFi in 2.4Ghz mode! What’s the matter with you people??? You START with OLD technology? I have this device in my living room, and I have an access point in my living room; which is broadcasting in 5Ghz FIRST and PRIMARILY. You want me to walk around outside and get my iPhone/iPad to notch back half a decade to connect to this thing? JUST PUT THE RIGHT CHIP IN THERE TO MAKE IT WORK!!! Guess what? 5G is coming too. What are you going to do about that? C’mon man! Very disappointed! Give me my money back, or send me the next model that you FINALLY put the right chips in there to recognize 5Ghz, and let me access the data remotely without having to be logged into the network. I want to get alerts on my smartphone while I’m away from my home. If I’ve got water leaking while I’m a hundred miles away, I still want to know that! And be able to get someone there to fix it for me.

I bought this unit a couple months ago. It was fairly easy to set up and connect to my WiFi. Everything works great on the base unit. However when I set up The La Crosse View app the outside temperature has never displayed. I’m getting the inside temp and the wind & rain readings on the app. The outside temperature has never displayed. I have tried removing and reinstalling the app several times but I still get the same results. I have deleted and reinstalled the outside temp sensor as well but it still does not display. Every time I send La Crosse a note describing this problem I get the same response telling me how to load devices. I can get the temp sensor loaded on the app. The temperature just doesn’t display on the app. Other than the issue with the outside temp and the app.. I like the system.

I received my unit as a Christmas gift. It is the big set with all the sensors; temperature, rain, wind, the large home base monitor, and the small remote monitor for another room. Set up was easy if you follow the instructions and don’t try to wing it yourself. The only issue I had was a few months after set up it wouldn’t stay connected to the WiFi and then the rain sensor went bad. I was worried that since I didn’t have the receipt or the box it came in that I would have issues with warranty. I called customer service and without hesitation the agent said they would send a whole new system. A week later it arrived, I set it up, and mailed all the old equipment back in the box provided. Everything has worked great since.

As a software developer I’m sad to see the lost opportunity that is this app. The display that comes with the weather station is a one stop shop. Everything you need is nicely displayed on one screen, but this app is far from that. There is no nice summary display of your weather station data. The information from the various sensors is disjoint, and the app doesn’t even provide access to all of the sensor data that is available. One example, I can’t view the current barometric pressure from the app, but it’s available on the display in my house. Why on earth would you go through the effort of building an app, and create a disaster like this? Nobody wants to browse to three separate sections of the app to view summary data from three separate sensors. Also, the swipe up functionality on the home screen of the app wastes a ridiculous amount of space with a pointless picture. I’m very disappointed. Please fix this mess!

When I first bought weather station, it would not connect to router because the router was too old. I got a mesh router and it solved the problem. It was worrying great for more than a month. An update for the la crosse app was released around 2/8/19 and after a few days, WiFi stopped working on weather station. I’ve tried troubleshooting in so many ways and according to the recommended solutions but nothing works. I restart, master restart, power cycle, deleted app and reload, press + - for 3 secs and WiFi says lost connection. Can no longer use the app. Also the WiFi setup in the app doesn’t work well. It doesn’t let you choose other available SSIDs to try since our router transmits two signals. This is frustrating. I think something changed w this app update because it was working fine. What happened?

Have owned model v21-wth and used the app for a little over a year. Initially startup was difficult. Unit was previously owned and returned to Cabela’s. Previous owner had registered device with Lacrosse and I was unable to get the weather station to even connect with the app. Contacted lacrosse support and was able to get that issue solved. Once I was able to register the device connecting the outdoor sensors went pretty well. Wind and temperature/humidity connected quickly and the signal strength indicator is helpful. Another issue is WiFi connection. Tried doing it in my living room where the home station would be located but could never get it to connect. Finally had to go into the room where my WiFi router is located and finally got it to connect then moved it back to the living room. Nice unit but a little finicky 🙄

The equipment, ie weather station and remote thermostat are correct and do update to the display in my home. The phone app does not update on any discernible frequency. Example: The phone app might show the weather Sta updated anywhere from “just now” to several hours earlier. The remote thermometer time of update on the phone app never matches the time of update for the weather station, and the time of update can be anywhere from “just now up to 2 days and several hours. I fail to understand why this occurs and this phenomenon has rendered my phone app useless. The different pieces of the system need to be in sync when updating the phone app. I am a plant grower and I need to know when the temperature is exactly 32 degrees or lower in the winter months. Plants freeze below 32 and requires my attention to prevent freezing plants. I am hopeful that this situation improves. I have been unable to recommend your equipment to other growers for the above stated reasons. Thank you.

I’ve trying for an hour to get the app to connect the device to my phone and it won’t. The app just keeps telling me “device connection to the server unsuccessful” and to move further away from the router to get on the 2.4 ghz network. I am on it. I’ve googled this error and searched the website as well and no results. I’ve googled every combination of synchrony phone and device and can’t find anything. It’s astonishing that there’s no help or faq for something so basic. Update a few days later: somehow, the device and the phone decided to synch up together on their own. I’m still not too thrilled about the original issue or complete lack of information on how to troubleshoot it. I do appreciate the developers advising to reach out to them on Facebook for help, but it seems to be an extremely arduous process for what I’m sure isn’t an uncommon occurrence. So bumping to 3 stars

They have a problem to solve: how do you get the ssid and password to the device with no real user interface (a clock from Costco in my case). Most IOT devices do this by advertising as an AP for setup which you connect to and then app can talk to the device and transfer the real ssid and password. I’ve seen some that use Bluetooth or a microphone or even a light sensor (watching the app blink out data on the screen) to get the data from the app to the device. All of these are kind of clunky but serviceable. After an hour with wire shark I think I see what lacross is trying to do: they have the app send packets with specific timing and try to put the ssid and password into the timing variations rather than the packet data. They probably also try to filter out weaker signals. The unit can’t tell who’s traffic it’s seeing but can see a regular pattern of packets in the air and extract what it needs from that. The problem of course is if there is traffic on your network (or any of your neighbors) it disrupts the timing so this won’t work well. Their FAQ helpfully suggests “your WiFi may be too busy, try again in half an hour”. I’m guessing this may be like the horribly slow and flakey method they use to pair sensors. So given this background my review is one star because it doesn’t work well at all in real life scenarios. I’m returning the clock and will avoid anything that may have their WiFi solution in it in the future.

I purchased a unit way back in 2018 and it stopped connecting to my network a year or so ago. I reached out to support, well beyond an anticipated warranty, just to see if they had any troubleshooting steps to provide beyond the 2.4ghz network I’d setup specifically for the unit, in case my 5ghz was choking out the wider band signal. With absolutely no hoops to jump through, they stood by their product, informed me of a known issue with my model from that production period, and send me the new and improved model, hassle free and without charge, just like that. Customer service like this is where the market divides and where you earn loyalty - from this interaction, I’m a believer! Thank you, La Crosse, for the impressive service and for getting me back up and running.

Other reviewers have commented on the topics I’m highlighting here again. The app does not nearly allow enough flexibility in data display. Users should be able to scale the temperature graph. If I want to zoom in on last 6 hours or last 3 days instead of 7 that should be easy to do in this app. For temp or rain or pressure change or wind speed/direction. Just like the step-tracker health apps for example. The graphs should auto-scale to be viewable both landscape or portrait. Wind data needs to be displayed with wind direction. Currently the app has no tracking/graphing of wind direction changes, just real time current data. If someone is buying a weather station then they clearly care about more than just current conditions. We are here for the data, the patterns, the tracking. Please update the app to reflect customer needs.

First of all, this weather station was nearly impossible to set up and I nearly returned it because of this. The app itself is super bare bones and doesn’t track all the data from my weather station. For outdoors, tracking barometric pressure is a must-have -as the trend is important to monitor for rising or falling pressure systems. I get the reading on my home base, not sure why it’s not even displayed on the app at all! The overall design of the app is clunky and not very functional. When you click on your device, most of the screen is a picture you selected and you have to scroll the data up to access it, which seems useless. Also, sometimes you’ll get some false readings that throw off the chart proportions, making it difficult to see the actual trend. It should allow you to filter out the outlier readings. For example if the wind is trending at 3 MPH, there’s no way it spiked to 120 briefly and back down again. Same for temp. It should allow for chart settings, and for me to customize default view. Lastly, it should save lifetime records for the device - record high, low, wind, etc., which wouldn’t be difficult to track if your data is in the cloud. I don’t need the ENTIRE history but a record of those events only, as this makes it more useful/fun to have if you’re doing your own personal station. Lots of room for improvement!

I have had the LaCrosse weather station & rain gauge for just over 3 years. I’m on the second weather station and third or fourth rain gauge. Other than durability, I’ve been pleased with the weather station as far as temp and wind speed. The add-on rain gauge has disappointed from the beginning. Numerous calls and replacements haven’t improved performance. I think it’s just a very poor design. It routinely records considerably less than actual rain fall. A recent rain event of 3” was recorded as 1.18” and it wasn’t a heavy downpour. This is typical performance of this gauge from the beginning. Oftentimes, it doesn’t record any rain fall when my other, low tech devices do. So, overall, I’m very disappointed in performance and durability. I would not recommend buying this model or even from this manufacturer as the customer service has not worked to resolve the issues. I would pay more for a better unit from a different company.

I love this app. for monitoring conditions while I’m home - but even more so while I’m away. Being able to keep a close eye on temperature and humidity indoors helps both my health and my kitty’s health in the winter. I can even have my cat sitter make adjustments while I’m away because of using this monitoring equipment Also the outdoor weather gauges are very useful; temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation gives a very realistic estimate of what’s actually affecting us at home and not just in my area. We have had unusual local wind/rain events recently, where knowing what’s happening at a nearby public weather station is not accurate to our specific weather even a half mile away. Very helpful app and equipment for people who monitor weather closely......

From design to implantation: FAIL! Spend your time and money elsewhere. This is inferior weather data collection device and software. Compare temps with this sensor and known accurate device. Surprise! 10 degree differential. Rain sensor is total waste. Set up is major hassle. Full stop!Update: this company continues to lay an egg. A lame “get in contact with us on Facebook” about different products from different companies behaving differently makes no sense to me. All of the failing products have this company‘s name on them. But there is no disputing when a known reliable thermometer that has been in service for years gives us an accurate and verified temperature reading and Lacrosse’s temperature reading is off by over 10°. There is no argument after repeated attempts and failures for rain sensor to pair with the station. Leave this one on the shelf at Costco. If this is their idea of customer service it’s no wonder the engineering and design is so subpar.

So this is what happens when marketing has too much say in app development. Way too many offers to buy things, way too few ways to view data. I’m not a weatherman, I don’t need months and months of historical data and other stuff, but I sure would like to at least see a summary of totals by month or week or something. With this you get live data right out of the box, but that’s about it. Very limited rain and wind history (although not visible on the same devices) and absolutely zero history of anything else. On the other hand the process for adding instruments is easy easy easy. I did have a problem with one of my instruments initially, but customer service was very quick to troubleshoot and replace the defective component. All in all I like the product, but the app just seems a little lacking.

I was excited to buy the weather station. When I got it home, had it mounted and got it connected to the app I was disappointed because the app only showed dashes. I called Lacrosse and was left on hold for 2 hours. When they answered they took my information and said the issue would be looked into and I would receive a call inn24 hours. Well I never received a call. So I called back. This time a very helpful young lady answered. She said a trouble ticket had not been entered. At this point I was livid. 😡. She too the information once again and said there is a known issue with the app but it will be fixed quickly. She told me to keep Checking the app. So 15 minutes later I checked the app and it’s working great now! If I would not have this issue I would have rated this 5 stars. But customer service is golden!

This thing actually connected to my phone with minimal difficulty (I was inputting the wrong network password; frustrating, but totally my fault). Many reviewers say it only shows the indoor temp and humidity. It will show the rain and wind speed on your mobile device if you follow directions and scan their barcode to add them to the network. The You Tube video made by Lacrosse was very helpful. Also, if you want all the info on one screen, tap the device name at the top center of the screen. It will display "quick view". Now the bad: as another reviewer stated, it stayed connected for about a day. It was nice while it lasted, graphs of temperature, wind, and (probably) rain; outdoor temperature recorded and displayed every 3 minutes or so. Pretty cool, until it didn't do it anymore. The base unit displays "no connect to app server", so I guess there's something I'm supposed to do to reconnect. This gets old, and most likely won't work when I'm away. Other than that, as a weather station "on site", it's pretty good. The remote units have a good range and haven't lost connection with the base as my previous station did several times each day. So, not bad, but not great. I probably won't be taking it back to Costco, but I also won't be running out to get another.

The weather station works well and is easy to set up and view. A reliable connection with WIFI and ability to view on the app is not guaranteed. Any drop of WIFI or brief loss of power causes the app to become useless. If you can physically access the base station you can go through the reconfigure process to quickly bring it back on line... however, your phone and station must be within 10 feet of each other. Not helpful if you are away from home and want to monitor weather changes. This also seems to cause a deletion of data when restored. We were relying on this station to provide information about rain/snow fall. Disappointed, but at the price of the station we are not at a great loss. Will look for another more reliable station to provide this critical data.

We saw this at Costco and purchased it because it looked really cool. Came home and opened the box. It’s pretty small but the lights look great. The projected clock and weather on the wall was really neat. We have a small apartment. 900 sq 1 bedroom apartment. The set up was quick. Download app and scan clock. Simple and easy. Even tested out the alarm. Placed the clock on husbands nightstand. We even aimed the projected likes to aim right in front of him so he will see the clock. An hour goes by and we are heading to bed No lights. Everything is gone. The alarm had a different time. There is no weather. Future forecast is IN and OK. I tried to reconnect NOTHING. I read the instructions nothing. I took the clock and my phone (IPhone 7Plus) to the modem and router. Arris modem and Linksys router. NOTHING. The alarm changed again, the clock was actually right but everything else is gone. Tried to connect again... Nothing. We will return it tomorrow. Not worth the frustration.

What a disappointment. Difficult to set up because of the unit’s inability to connect to WiFi despite me following the instructions to the letter. Yet inexplicably, the unit did finally manage to connect after about a dozen try’s. It then has worked ok, but over time has great difficulty in refreshing data to the app. There is no way that I have found to ‘refresh’ the data on demand. I must wait for the main unit to decide when to update the app, and there’s no rhyme or reason to when it does. Secondly, the main unit has great difficulty in communicating with my WiFi hub despite moving the unit within a couple of feet of the hub. Thirdly, the main unit struggles with communicating with the outdoor modules. I’ve got this unit in my workshop which is a metal building. Perhaps this is the issue with the outdoor modules? Regardless, what was a lovely holiday present, has no practical use except as landfill rubbish.

I paid $75 for this until at Sams club. Can’t remember how long ago. 5 years or 8years Ago? Works great in North East Massachusetts. Always interesting to see the wind and rain readings Change the batteries about once a year. Occasionally spruce needles need to be cleaned out of rain gage (would be nice to have easier access to the inner part of rain gage) Wi-Fi connection is great. See current forecast as a visual display. The app allows you to access readings on your phone. At a trade show in Italy I could tell if my son turned the heat down during the day by checking inside temperature reading. Well worth the money for the information it continually provides.

Update: needs ability to calibrate sensors. Baro pressure consistently 5inHg low. Home screen for sensor is a picture (useless) and a couple parameters. Takes multiple steps to yield wind trend information where a customizable Home Screen could yield at a glance. Update: a. winds are only able to be set to mph and kph on unit. I.e. knots not available. Need to be able to set for knots on unit and app. b. WiFi setup method pretty lengthy resulting in mobile device switching away from display unit causing user to repeat physical scan process of display unit SN (despite the app still showing the unit SN info). Note: app does offer tip to disable LTE but omits disabling auto join of other WiFi networks. If device just connected to WiFi and did the long config steps none of this would be a factor. c. Should have ability to set/calibrate baro reading without waiting for the manuals described 10day auto cal of baro.

They’ve been saying for weeks that they are upgrading their equipment to handle the amount of users, but I’m losing patience. I don’t think they were ready for the Costco bump. The app works sometimes, even the most recent stripped down version. It doesn’t save any historical data, so you’re better off just looking at the weather center. Rain gauge hasn’t worked in the app for a long time, even though it works at the main base. How long will it take to perform as was promised when I bought this? Aside from that, the user interface is wonky. Why they feel the need for a picture that takes up almost the entire screen is unknown, it’s unnecessary. Also when it starts up it only gives one sensor, there should be a home screen that has them all on. You can get there by clicking the top of the screen, but you have to do that every time. Why don’t they make the app look like the base station?

I received a weather station that works with this app as a gift and almost returned it because the app is so bad. I still may... It’s so unintuitive. Oh, and the network setup through the app is broken. I don’t need a passive aggressive message that I’m not connected to the station when I can clearly see that I’m connected to the console. Ended up just doing that manually by connecting to the console with my computer. Anyway, this is an interface designed by computer programmers with not a single end user consulted in the process. Still haven’t figured out how to display barometer data on the app. I don’t think it can. Guess that’s because it’s an “extra” sensor even though it’s literally part of my main station. There’s those programmers again. It’s getting two stars because it’s better than nothing. That’s not saying a lot.

After reading all the reviews, I couldn’t believe this app would only show the indoor temp & humidity. I figured everybody was missing a selection in the settings or something but nope, I just went thru the setup and linking process and just like many other reviewers complained....THIS APP WILL ONLY SHOW THE INDOOR TEMP AND HUMIDITY!!! Somebody really dropped the ball or, La Crosse thought they could fly this by and nobody would notice. None of the developer comments have addressed this issue....perhaps because this can’t be addressed without a rework of the hardware in the station itself. I purchased 3 of these stations at Costco and am happy with the price but, this almost defeats the benefit and need for having WiFi and an app. Maybe that’s why Costco is selling them 30% off. I’m leaning towards returning all three. I’ll wait a few weeks to see if La Crosse offers any assurance here of this being fixed in the future. La Crosse........CAN THIS BE FIXED THRU THE APP?