AcuRite Atlas Professional Weather Station with Direct-to-Wi-Fi HD Display, Lightning Detection, Built-In Barometer, and Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed/Direction and Rainfall Measurements (01001M)

We’ve had a Logia station for years and love having it for our local weather because in our area the conditions can swing so drastically in a small area so just looking at the conditions in the nearest town a few miles away can be very different due to wind and such.Unfortunately the Logia was so old it would work with the newer WPA2/WPA3 settings on our new router. This had no problems connecting to the WPA2-PSK side on my TP Link routers on the 2.4 GHz network.It was extremely easy to setup with the app. One lesson was to use the app only for the Weather Underground connection and don’t enter that in the initial settings web page. It basically tells you that, but my initial setup was through that page, and I wasn’t sure if I would use the app at all but once I cleared the info from the page and just used the app it started reporting to WU immediately.This was a perfect upgrade to our old Logia system and I couldn’t be happier with it so far.

As others have noted, the WiFi display unit has poor connectivity. For me, it has dropped signal about five times in the last three months. When it drops signal, it does not automatically reconnect. You have to manually restart the unit, then it will reconnect. There is no explanation for why it drops the signal. I have not noticed any pattern to it, and my WiFi itself has not had any issues during these periods. When it drops signal, it stops reporting to Weather Underground.The odd thing is that I will get an email that says the display unit lost signal from the sensor. But that's not the signal that dropped. I have never lost signal from the sensor to the display unit, only from the display unit to WiFi. So, their error reporting is not even accurate.The display unit is using ancient technology all over. Almost all the components are dated from 15+ years ago. It uses a micro-USB power adapter when virtually all similar electronics these days are powered with USB-C (even cheap little imported electronics). The screen is using an ancient LED panel that has low resolution, low brightness, poor viewing angles, and uses TFT technology instead of IPS. I've had tablets from ten years ago with vastly better screens. It is not a touchscreen, but uses three capacitive buttons below the screen for selection. These buttons are finicky and don't always register touches. This is supposed to be Acurite's top of the line product. Pathetic.The process to set up WiFi requires you to use another computer to connect to its own network, then log into the IP address of the display unit and input the WiFi credentials of the network you want to connect it to. It uses only 2.4 GHz, so you cannot connect it to any modern router that intelligently uses both 2.4 and 5.0 GHz. This is technology straight out of the 2000s. Nest thermostats have been around for 14 years and used more modern WiFi connectivity than this piece of junk. The downside to using this ancient technology is that it doesn't play nice with newer routers and it isn't nearly as reliable. I did set up a dedicated 2.4 GHz network on my router to connect to the display unit, but most people have no idea how to do that.Acurite sourced these units at a STEEP discount. The entire display unit probably cost $5-10 to make, and they charge $100 retail. Just maintaining support for buyers who have trouble with the WiFi connectivity costs way more than what they're saving on upgrading the units to use modern technology. I reported to them that my display unit had connectivity troubles and they replaced it under warranty. However, it's been replaced with the same unit. I'm counting down the days to the next WiFi signal issue.Update: having the same exact troubles with the replacement display unit as well. It doesn't even broadcast a network to connect to half the time when trying to set it up, and it drops the network just as you're trying to save the settings. I have yet to get it to connect to my Weather Underground account. Of course, I am well past the Amazon return date, so I'm probably out of luck with any recourse. I wish I had never purchased this.

I came so close to not purchasing because of all the bad reviews for the product. On top of this the acurite app has like 1.5 stars horible reviews. First off this is only the first day I have had this set up I will update if anything breaks ect. For the price point I am very happy I honestly belive this is the best you can do under 300 to 400$ range. First off from what I can tell online there is an older model display unit that was touch screen looks like that one had some issues. I set this up extremely easy and I use the weather underground app only I did not even try acurite per horrible reviews. Just create a weather underground profile get your username and log in info for your weather underground and input that info in the wifi setting when setting up the display very easy. Then add your weather station on my weather under ground. I use weather underground app go to setting top right scroll down to bottom click on our data tab. Then once that page loads click on the top right drop down tab with the lines. Click on my weather station it will load shows offline but just click the name of your weather and next page loads shows your weather station online with all data you will ever need. That's it I have a working app ,working display unit ,working weather station, lightning strike sensor no issues yet . A few minor complaints the display seems to only store 2 days data but again I can acess as much data as I want on the weather underground app so not big problem. Also i had to purchase the battery pack you see in the photo a little gray box towards the bottom. that is to make it easier to change the batteries so you dont have to bust out a ladder everytime. so now you can change the batteries where ever you mount the pack. I think this should just be included the company should just add 10$ to the price and that's that. Any way for about 250-260 I cant complain yet. time will tell how well it's made the weather is pretty extreme where I am. Its always windy, very intense sun, lightning strikes near my house not uncommon a few times a year, and to top it off pretty extreme temp swings from high to low. I really hope it lasts at least 3 years before I have to replace something. I will update if it starts to have issues.