Review: Netatmo Weather Station and your iOS device let you monitor the weather
The Netatmo Weather Station is described as “the first personal weather station for iPhone & iPad.” The Weather Station itself consists of two pieces of hardware, and the company provides a free iOS app for accessing weather data from these devices.
Like a standard weather station, the Netatmo Weather Station has an indoor module and an outdoor one. Each module is a sleek-looking aluminum and white-plastic cylinder; the indoor module is six inches tall, with its outdoor counterpart about four inches tall. The indoor module needs to be plugged into a power outlet, while the outdoor module uses four AAA batteries. Though the battery power means you can place it anywhere, you must position the outdoor module in a location that’s in range of your Wi-Fi network.
To set up the Weather Station, first you connect a USB cable from an iOS device (running the Netatmo app) to the indoor module; the app transfers your Wi-Fi-network settings and credentials from your iOS device to the indoor module so it can access your network. The outdoor module is pre-paired with the indoor module, so after tapping a few setup buttons and screens, the entire weather station is up and running.
The Weather Station gets your geographic location from your iPhone, so the system is able to determine your exact altitude for calibrating its barometric-pressure sensor. In addition to pressure, the Weather Station measures temperature, humidity, and, for the indoor module only, CO2 and ambient noise level.
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