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(More customer reviews)If you don't like using a computer to get fancy up-to-the-minute personalized weather forecasts, then you may prefer this to the TV, newspaper, or radio.
But it is disappointing that the outdoor temperature from the wireless sensor that they give you (the most basic of information, that changes the most quickly) is the least convenient piece of data to get out of the system.
You know the old joke about the weatherman who predicts a warm sunny day and doesn't have the sense to look out the window and see the cold rain falling?
That's what I'm reminded of, after spending an hour trying to discover a convenient way to find out what the temperature is outside with my fancy new wireless, internet-connected "weather direct" device.
I finally read in the manual how to get it to show me the indoor temperature all the time on the display (use the "+" key...). But to see the outdoor temperature, I either have to wait up to 40 seconds for the right text to scroll by on the display, or I have to reach over and press a button on it and look quickly before it goes away. And you need to brace the unit to press the button since it doesn't come with any mounting screws. Sort of a pain if it is in an awkward place. That is still better than when I started on the slow scroll speed - it was 60 seconds then.
Next I thought, hey - they say this thing lets you find out your own outdoor temperature via the internet (e.g. if you're on vacation). So I should be able to write a program to do that and show it to me on a corner of my computer screen.
But sadly, the web site only shows it to you via a proprietary "flash" plugin. That means that you can't see it on even the fanciest of mobile phones like the iPhone, Blackberry or Android, or via a number of other common internet devices either. And you have to share your own temperature with [...] in order to see it yourself. Or so I' told - the Weather Direct tech support person couldn't log in himself and said it looked like the site was "being updated". And he confirmed that there wasn't an easier way to get the outdoor temperature.
I think I'll go get a simple wireless indoor outdoor thermometer, since the current temperature is what I look for dozens of times a day and there are so many ways to get the forecast.
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