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I loved the elegant design and that it worked for iPhone. All the data are sent to a server on the Internet and are plotted on a map. There is one indoor unit that measures the indoor temperature, air pressure, humidity, noise, and CO2. It is connected to the power and wifi. There is an outdoor unit as operates on battery and communicates wirelessly with the indoor unit. The outdoor unit measure outdoor temperature and humidity.
The anemometer is unusual in the sense it uses ultra sound to measure the wind direction and speed. The idea is create - no moving parts that breaks down. But I have seen reports that snow make them not measure correctly. I have not been looking into this.
The rain gauge is a tipping bucket style, and seem to work ok.
Netatmo has made an app for the phone. I don't like the app. The temperature and pressure is on one page, the wind on another page and the rain on a third. I don't get a good overview and I have to swipe back and forth. To see if the batteries need to be changed, you need to go to the settings - three clicks away and a swipe. The app has a widget as gives better overview, though.
I ended up buying four stations for different locations.
There have been several problems with them.
I would not recommend anyone to buy NetAtmo weather Station. Firstly because of the problem with faulty outdoor units. This has taught me it is risky to be dependent on batteries if I am several hours drive away from the unit. Just imagine to have Netatmo in the vacation house to make sure it is not freezing in side during winter. Secondly, it is frustrating to have three units at the same place that regularly needs to get fresh batteries but never at the same time. Why have three different devices to begin with and why not make it possible to attach power cable of some kind. Thirdly, it ought to have been easy to share the measurements on a web site. Fourthly, the app should give you an easy overview.
A complete Netatmo weather station cost about €300.
This was a Kickstarter project. It was Bloomskys second kickstarter, and they had been too optimistic about the production time, and got critiqued for that on the Internet. I experienced missing parts.
The bloomsky's measures the outdoor temperature, humidity, pressure, rain, windspeed and wind direction. They have one more unique feature - a camera that takes photo of the sky every five minutes. Just like Netamo they sends the weather information to a server on the Internet and there is an app as you can use to see the photo and measurements. The weather station is divided into to three units. Outdoor is two unites, Sky 2 and Storm. They are powered by solar panels and batteries. I loved the idea since draining batteries was a problem with Netatmo. The third unit is indoor - a puck is connected to both power and ethernet. They puck communicated wirelessly with the Storm. Sky 2 used wifi directly. I don't know why they opted for ethernet on the puck instead of wifi direct from Storm or wirelessly between the Sky 2 and Storm.
Everything looked great on the paper. Storm has a rain gauge and anemometer. The Sky 2 has the camera and measures the air pressure, temperature and humidity.
The Sky2 has several times stopped communicating with the wifi. Sometimes it worked after reboot, other times I had to reset the wifi settings and twice I had to open it up and take out the batteries. Again this is difficult to do if you are several hours by car away or airplane.
It is possible to put the weather information on a website, via Javascript - great.
The weather station that I have had in the Philippines looks harsly burnt by the Sun and had often stopped working after a month or two after I left. The one I had in Sweden died each December and January due to the cold weather and lack of sunlight. Sensor after sensor has died. First it was mechanical problem with the rain gauge, then the anemometer, the wifi on one unit stopped and then the temperature and humidity sensors stopped. The cameras are still working, so does the solar panels and the batteries, if it is not too hot or cold. Why the rain gauge doesn't work I can't find out. The anemometer has most likely problem with the bearings, so it is stuck. Why the wifi died on one unit I don't know, the same with the temperatur sensors.
I took down one of the stations and used it to repair the other one. But now it is just one camera and pressure sensor - nothing else - as is working.
As you might figured out I would not recommend Bloomsky 2. I cannot have a weather station as I regularly need to visit to troubleshoot to get it to work again.
One Bloomsky 2 with Storm costed about €200.