![]() Who’s it for: Weather watchers who need accuracy and long-term reliabilityĭavis Instruments dominates the personal weather station market because of its staying power: the company’s first digital personal weather stations were sold in the 1990s. Why should you buy this: The granddaddy of weather station manufacturers has a version of its top-of-the-line weather station that, while pricey, is super-accurate. However at its price point we’d expect this, and it’s a great deal even with the lack of expandability. While you can’t expand the number of weather sensors – perhaps to monitor temperatures in other rooms of your house or the water temperature of your hot tub or pool, does allow you to add additional devices on your account to do that. Ambient Weather also provides its own service called, which will give you a graphical look at all of your weather data from one central place. With IFTTT, you can use your WS-2902 to intelligently control your smart devices, for example turning your Rachio sprinklers off when it’s raining or turning on the lights in your house on a cloudy day using measurements from its solar radiation sensor.īut that’s not all: you can also connect it to Weather Underground or Weathercloud, or make use of Ambient Weather’s API to make applications of your own. Normally an issue like that would have been enough to continue to give the top spot to Davis’ Vantage Vue, however Ambient Weather blew us away with its connectivity options.Īlthough the Osprey does not have its own app – something we hope Ambient Weather addresses in the future – it can connect to your Amazon Echo, Google Assistant, and even IFTTT. In our tests, the WS-2902’s instrumentation performed generally well, save for the barometric pressure sensor – which did require recalibration regularly. We’ll admit that we were super skeptical of Ambient Weather’s claims of accuracy rivaling that of Davis Instruments’ Vantage series, even though it’s long list of connectivity options bests any station on the market by a wide margin.įor the most part, those claims held up. Why we picked the Ambient Weather WS-2902 Osprey: ![]() Who’s it for: Smart home owners and those looking for functionality and value Why should you buy this: Ambient Weather has knocked it out of the park with this hyper-connected weather station. Fitbit Versa 3īest weather station for the budget conscious
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