Kentfaith WiFi Home Weather Station with Non-Stop Solar Power & 10.2" Ultra Large Display, for Weather Forecast
SKU: GW40.0001AUA
I had this mount and connected and syncing with Wunderground and Weatherclou in less than an hour. Lots of good tips here in the reviews. Also YouTube. Thanks to those that contribute!
14/06/2023
Had trouble getting this weather station connected to weather underground, but after some good customer support from the company all is well. It's an excellent weather station with an easy to read display, good layout of data, and, which is hard to find, a readout of the dew point temperature across all ambient temperature ranges. Weather station appears to be quite accurate, and I have to say I'm quite happy with this purchase.
13/06/2023
Really simple and nice product. Has all the relevant weather and easy to upload to WeatherUnderground.
I mounted it on a pole in my backyard. I drove a 8ft galvanized fence post into the yard 4 ft deep. Then attached a galvanized fence top rail (10ft6in) with some brackets (ASIN B09VZZQYCB) and the weather station is about 12ft in the air, which i think seems to work well.
Works great. Highly recommended.
I mounted it on a pole in my backyard. I drove a 8ft galvanized fence post into the yard 4 ft deep. Then attached a galvanized fence top rail (10ft6in) with some brackets (ASIN B09VZZQYCB) and the weather station is about 12ft in the air, which i think seems to work well.
Works great. Highly recommended.
12/06/2023
Had a few questions and got them answered very quickly. Good customer service. Awesome unit.
Very impressed with how quickly they respond. Had a unit stop working and gave me great trouble shooting to do and replaced the unit when it still would not work.
Very impressed with how quickly they respond. Had a unit stop working and gave me great trouble shooting to do and replaced the unit when it still would not work.
12/06/2023
Really enjoy this weather station, Nice price point with many features. Had it up and running in less that an hour. Took a few attempts to connect to WIFI, but not complicated. I like the large monitor, the size makes it easy to read from across the room. Also like that it came with various hardware for different mounting options. Another point I like is the ability to connect it to the WU (weather underground) app, which gives me the opportunity to view weather at my barn, while traveling.
10/06/2023
This is my first weather station and I am enjoying it very much. It seems well made (the test will be high winds and freezing rain I think.) Mounting and connection of sensors to display was straight forward.
Connecting the wifi (shares your weather station with others and allows display of weather data from your station onto your smartphone) was a bit of a challenge. Instructions were not very helpful. The breakthrough came from a review by Alberto Solis Berni (thank you Alberto). Translated from Italian, his review includes:
"I've seen a lot of comments saying that setting up Wifi is difficult. The difficult thing is not to configure it, it is to find in the manual how it is done, since you think that you will be after the steps of assembling it but not, they are where the configuration of underground weather is. It's very simple, it's what in home automation is called AP mode (access point mode, the device becomes a “wifi antenna” to which you can connect to configure it.
1- Activate AP mode on the console of the indoor station (screen where all the weather data comes out), to activate it, just press the min/max button 3-5 seconds.
2- When the Wi-Fi symbol flashes, on your computer or mobile phone look for a Wi-Fi network called weather station or something like that and you connect.
3- Once connected (even if it says it doesn't have internet) you open the browser and enter 192.168.5.1 and put your Wi-Fi and underground weather data (you have to register for free on wundergound.com)
4- And that's it, you'll see that the wifi icon on the internal station appears fixed with the 'e' symbol of internet explorer. The latter made me very funny. "
Number 3 above was key to getting the wifi connected for me.
I wish there was a description of the weather forecast section of the display - meaning of the symbology is not obvious.
Connecting the wifi (shares your weather station with others and allows display of weather data from your station onto your smartphone) was a bit of a challenge. Instructions were not very helpful. The breakthrough came from a review by Alberto Solis Berni (thank you Alberto). Translated from Italian, his review includes:
"I've seen a lot of comments saying that setting up Wifi is difficult. The difficult thing is not to configure it, it is to find in the manual how it is done, since you think that you will be after the steps of assembling it but not, they are where the configuration of underground weather is. It's very simple, it's what in home automation is called AP mode (access point mode, the device becomes a “wifi antenna” to which you can connect to configure it.
1- Activate AP mode on the console of the indoor station (screen where all the weather data comes out), to activate it, just press the min/max button 3-5 seconds.
2- When the Wi-Fi symbol flashes, on your computer or mobile phone look for a Wi-Fi network called weather station or something like that and you connect.
3- Once connected (even if it says it doesn't have internet) you open the browser and enter 192.168.5.1 and put your Wi-Fi and underground weather data (you have to register for free on wundergound.com)
4- And that's it, you'll see that the wifi icon on the internal station appears fixed with the 'e' symbol of internet explorer. The latter made me very funny. "
Number 3 above was key to getting the wifi connected for me.
I wish there was a description of the weather forecast section of the display - meaning of the symbology is not obvious.
09/06/2023
Like some other reviewers, I had Davis Instruments stations previously, but they'd become too expensive. I bought my first WS-0310 in Jan 2021 and really liked the colorful, easy-to-read display. I didn't have any trouble setting up the Wi-Fi (I used my laptop's browser, not the App), and other than the batteries being a little loose when the cover was closed, I was happy with the system. (I wadded up some plastic before closing the battery cover to firmly hold the batteries in place now).
In Jan 2023 I bought another system, mainly to get a 2nd console for the bedroom, and I used the new outdoor sensor unit. Even though the display unit is now at V2, both the new and the older one receive and display the data perfectly. I only upload to Weathercloud.net from the newer console.
Last week I noticed that the Sunlight reading was way off. On a late Spring day with no clouds in the sky, it was reading between 25 and 80 W/m² when the actual value should have been around 1200. The UV reading was still 7 or 8, so it wasn't affected.
I eventually saw that the Sunlight reading would jump back and forth between 1200 and some ridiculously low value every time the display updated (every 16 seconds). When I contacted tech support and showed them a video of the extreme fluctuation, they sent me a new sensor unit right away.
I'm happy to say that everything's working again, and they reached out to me today to make sure the replacement unit solved the problem. I thought that was worth writing about here :)
In Jan 2023 I bought another system, mainly to get a 2nd console for the bedroom, and I used the new outdoor sensor unit. Even though the display unit is now at V2, both the new and the older one receive and display the data perfectly. I only upload to Weathercloud.net from the newer console.
Last week I noticed that the Sunlight reading was way off. On a late Spring day with no clouds in the sky, it was reading between 25 and 80 W/m² when the actual value should have been around 1200. The UV reading was still 7 or 8, so it wasn't affected.
I eventually saw that the Sunlight reading would jump back and forth between 1200 and some ridiculously low value every time the display updated (every 16 seconds). When I contacted tech support and showed them a video of the extreme fluctuation, they sent me a new sensor unit right away.
I'm happy to say that everything's working again, and they reached out to me today to make sure the replacement unit solved the problem. I thought that was worth writing about here :)
08/06/2023
Was using Oregon Scientific weather station for 15-20 years which finally gave up the ghost. Did my homework and chose the kentfaith equipment. The sensor array is compact and easily installed. In my case, our neighborhood has a pretty strict Home owners association which does not like flag poles, unusual colors, etc. This unit is was easily installed in an unobtrusive location and manor (see video). The information provided by the system is as much as any armature could hope for. Setup is not difficult, but if you do have an issue, the customer service from these folks is very helpful.
07/06/2023
My 6 years old AcuRite 5-1 died so I purchased this weather station. It has very nice colored display with all the needed weather information. The outside sensor feels solid and is much better build compared to the AcuRite sensor. The WiFi and web connectivity is a bonus that allow you to track this station from the internet by using services like Weather Underground and/or Weathercloud.
07/06/2023