Technoline WS 7005 Thermometer Hygrometer

I chose this weather station to replace one which had stopped working. It arrived very quickly and is very compact and neat, but easy to read. The external unit is small and very easy to mount and shows the outdoor temperature and humity, which is useful when you are outside.

This review is for the Technoline WS 6760 Weather Station and Radio Controlled Clock. The weather station offers a comprehensive range of information from indoor/outdoot temperatures, your local sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset times, along with a barometer and weather prediction. It also has a useful backlight that remains on for five seconds; just keep tapping the light button to sustain the brightness. Having a radio controlled clock is very useful as it can be used as an accurate gauge to set all your house clocks to. Good device for the price.

I won't repeat what other reviewers have said, only to confirm that it is an excellent little weather station. I had a very old Oregon one which died and wanted to replace it. This screen is small but actually bigger than the Oregon. I attach photos to give you an idea of the scale. And also, yes, it is designed to be viewed from above . That's just how they've arranged the polarising sheets. With LCD screens there's always an optimal angle, so don't buy this if you plan to view it at the same level or from below! It is unreadable at these angles, see photo. The operation is very easy and do read the instructions first as you have to set your altitude on first powering up. This just gives you a more accurate pressure reading. The external sensor is good and connects easily. To get the sun and moon settings it needs a rough location, there's a list of theses at the back of the manual. Reception of the radio time signal is a bit iffy in the UK (why did they do away with Rugby? We are 5 miles from the old radio station! ) but it's easy to set the time yourself. This is the first day, so I'll come back and review it further. I used to run one of the bigger "proper" weather stations, the ones with an upload to the web but now I'm living on a boat it was a bit impractical. The photos show how small the whole thing is plus how shiny and also unreadable at any other angle than directly in front and above. Personally none of this bothers me, it's great!

Because of previous reviews I decided to spend a little more than originally intended on this weather station - which also has a lot more features than I really need. The item arrived promptly and was well packed. It was easy to set up, the english instructions being very clear. Quality seems good. It took a while to settle down but after an half hour or so the indoor and outdoor sensors when placed together give the same reading - and also the same as another thermometer so I'm happy with accuracy. The clock did automatically pick up the time and Date from the transmitter in Frankfurt however this did prove unreliable (incorrect times shown some mornings) and I think that to be fair Frankfurt is a long way from here. I've set the clock manually instead and all is well. All in all I'm very pleased with my purchase and would recommend it to others

This product started off excellent and did all that I expected it to do. 15 months later the transmitter failed so I purchased another one (outside of 12 month warranty). Unfortunately 4 weeks ago this went the same way. It would give me temp but no outside humidity then all reception would be lost. I have this set up at 6m clear view from the receiver but all is lost again. Lost count how many times I have changed the batteries and reset the system onlt to see it fail again. On my experience I would not recommend this unit because of the reliability issue.

An update to my review: The display contrast has become worse over time, so it is now difficult to see. Replacing the batteries help for a short time but it's only slight improvement. On two occasions the time has been completely wrong (by a random amount of hours) before correctly itself over night. I've adjusted my rating down to three because of these issues. Note there is a new version with the UK atomic clock, this might have these issues fixed, this is a different listing on Amazon. --- Original review --- This weather station was bought to replace an Oregon weather station which after many years of good service stopped working. What I like about this one over it's replacement: Provides the actual pressure and a chart of pressure history so I can make my own judgement on likely weather. Sunrise and sunset times Outdoor sensor has a small LCD display showing temperature and humidity, so when I'm outside in the garden it doubles as an outside thermometer whilst also broadcasting back to the base station. I was concerned about some of the negative comments before purchase: One complaint seems to be the glossy screen, however it's just a standard plastic display that is typical on these sorts of devices, and is no better or worse than any other type of display of this type. Another complaint is size: Yep, it isn't as big as the mock up of it on the coffee table, however I don't think there is any attempt to mislead anyone, it's just a mock up. The actual display screen size is 120mm x 75mm, so if you draw that out on a piece of paper that will give you a good impression of the actual display real estate, it's quite a decent size and compares well to other weather stations of this type. Legibility: As is common with these types of LCD screens they don't have a great viewing angle, and the manufacturer has set the screen to be at it's clearest looking slightly down at it, it will not be very clear if sat somewhere higher than eye level. Again it's not very different to how the Oregon was before it's demise, that was exactly the same, it favoured looking down at it. There is a lot of information packed on to the screen, so the font isn't large enough for it to be easily read from across the room in anything other than good light. Accuracy, the indoor temperature is exactly the same as the Oregon it replaced or within a few points of a degree (the Oregon still works for showing the temperature indoors so I could compare side by side), I can't compare the outside sensors as the Oregon refuses to display those now, but my car was showing 12 degrees and the Technoline was showing 11.9 degrees so it seems pretty much spot on. Setting up, before putting in the batteries: First of all find your altitude, this will be needed as you set up the Technoline and is used to set the barometer correctly, the easiest way to get this is to put your postcode into this site (Amazon not allowing links but if you search on Google for "daftlogic altitude" you will find the site) which uses Google Maps data. Round up or down to the nearest 10 meters. Now using the table in the back of the instruction book, find your nearest city and make a note of the 3 digit code to enter later. Insert the batteries and follow the 'Initial Operation' instructions on page 21 and enter the altitude. Now leave the Technoline for 5 or 10 minutes for it to pick up the time, it will likely fail to get the time if it is near a computer or TV or similar electrical equipment due to interference, so keep it away from those sorts of things. Once the time is set, if you are reading this in the UK, then it will be an hour ahead. Follow the instructions on page 22 for Manual time setup, however the only things to change (assuming the time was received correctly) is when it gets to flashing 00 set this to -01, this puts it on UK time, then when day flashes GE, change this to EN so the days are English abbreviations. Keep skipping through with the Mode button until the country/city is flashing, now cycle through this with the plus or minus key until you find the city code from above, can take a good few clicks. This will setup the sunset and sunrise times, these are approximate based on the nearest city, the moon rise/set times will also be set. The rise/set times may take several minutes before they update, and it isn't unusual to see the moon rise or set time as ----, this just means it is the following day and it will show the time tomorrow.

The base station is fine , once you've navigated the not very clear installation instructions. The remote sensor however is hopeless. Mine failed after just a few weeks, first giving incorrect temp and humidity readings , then failing completely. I've written to the company twice asking for a replacement but have only had auto replies saying nothing. Not good at all.

Very easy to setup, batteries in both units, detected the remote sensor on ch1, used mode button to setup date/time manually (atomic time signal is at night), the 00 mode is the utc offset, so I used the - key to put this at -1, the city codes are at the back of the manual, ordered by country, so I used the + key held down to whizz to BRI (Uk, Bristol nearest city to me). Held the history button down to put in my altitude above sea level (80 metres), default is 200. Wall mounted it looks great as the bottom stand makes it angle up so you can see it easily. Like the external temp and humidity reading, very useful as I put the sensor in the garage to keep an eye on the humidity level. The pressure history is very useful to gauge rising or falling air pressure. The display is clean and tidy, good looking unit. The wireless frequency is 433MHZ.