La Crosse Technology WS-2811OAK-IT Professional Weather Center with Solar Wind Sensor

Got this weather station to get into monitoring local weather. Didn't want to spend $600 for better ones to start. This weather station is good for the price. It shows what I wanted to show. After receiving the product I learned that La Crosse Technology refuses to make the protocols available to 3rd party developers for this model (unlike their other models). Hence there is no Mac software available for data display or uploading to a web site. (I ended up using Parallels on a Mac to run the La Crosse Windows program; not an ideal solution.) When (and if) this weather station fails, I will not buy a La Crosse model to replace it, but will get one from a company that supports Macintosh users.

Don’t touch this La Crosse WS-2811 with a 1000ft barge pole it’s a pile of rubbish and La Crosse don't offer any real support, their warranty isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Turned up with the wind sensor dead on arrival, it has never worked straight out of the box. Have been thru all the start-up, factory reset procedures etc etc many times, not a flicker from the wind sensor, La Crosse don’t want to know about it in spite of it being a fairly common theme (from my observations on the internet) Don’t buy a La Crosse product because it’s an expensive pile of rubbish that doesn’t work and has no support, La Crosse appear to continue to sell this rubbish in spite of problems with it, don’t get caught like me, get yourself a cheap and nasty Chinese weather station, it might work and if it doesn’t at least it’s cheap. NOT HAPPY.The following questions have been submitted to La CrossI note on you website that you still advertise and sell numerous weather stations equipped with your Solar Rechargeable Wind Sensors.Is it fair to say that La Crosse Technology’s Solar Recharge Sensors are at the very least problematic?, because in addition to my own experience, reviews by your customers on various internet sites suggest that they are.As you know my La Crosse Solar Wind Sensor was dead out of the box, not a flicker out of it, in spite of many resets, factory resets and plenty of exposure to bright lights and bright sunlight.Once again, reports on the internet suggest that this is a totally typical experience for La Crosse customers, and that even when your Solar Wind Sensors do work, they are unlikely to work for much more than a year.Surely La Crosse Technology is aware of this, yet you have not only not recalled these units, but continue to sell and market these Weather Stations, have La Crosse Technology come up with a fix, or could it reasonable to describe this as a scam?Is this considered reasonable behaviour of a reputable company? Isn’t it called off-loading a pile of dodgy crap? Or would another way of putting it be, La Crosse Technology, shaft their customers?La Crosse Technology state in numerous places in their manuals and troubleshooting that batteries are the number one problem. I find it interesting that the only component of my Weather Station that fails to work is also the only component that does not have user replicable batteries.The Wind Sensor has been designed in such a way that it is not possible to access the batteries without breaking components and rendering the Wind Sensor un-serviceable, is this a deliberate design feature on La Crosse Technology’s part?Is it a design feature designed to sell a lot of replacement sensors?The batteries in my Wind Sensor are marked ‘11-2012 11 2015,’What do these numbers represent? manufacture and use by date perhaps?Have La Crosse got Weather Stations out there in the marketplace fitted with batteries that are past their use by date and are not user replaceable? And if so does La Crosse technology consider that a reasonable situation? And do you think that is a reasonable way to treat your customers?La Crosse have basically told me by email, hard-luck their warranty is only valid in North America, well for me this is a hang of a lot more than a warranty issue, it’s about how La Crosse treat their customers. Is it fair to say La Crosse that you are selling product that you know or should know is a pile of defective crap?You have asked me by email if I have an address for service in the USA, well the answer is no, I would not consider paying the post on a replacement Sensor given that internet reports suggest that it would be more than likely that the replacement would not work on arrival and that if it did, I would be lucky if it still functioned a year later. Exactly how stupid does La Crosse think their customers are?I look forward to answers to these questions.Have a nice day.

My wife is a weather geek, so I wanted to get her a weather station. After reading the reviews on weather stations I was concerned. I decided to stay with the top two makers. I purchased the La Crosse ws-2811. The construction quality was 200% + better than one that I looked at four years ago. I had a little trouble connecting to the wind sensor. I left it outside for two day to insure that the batteries had been fully charged. On the second day I lost the outdoor temperature readings. I opened up the compartment for the batteries in the thermo-hygro sensor and the batteries had sort of buckled and not making connection. I put a strip of tape across the batteries to hold them in place and the outdoor temperature was instantly received but not the wind and rain. Tried resetting the display and wind sensor with no luck. Removed & reinstalled the batteries from the display unit and everything worked. This was the first time I became aware of all the reception icons. Everything is installed with 40 feet of each other and I have no problem with reception. Probably would have installed quicker if I had read installation step 4 and 5 more closely. Placed the thermo-hygro sensors next to the displayunit in the house and received exactly the same readings for indoor and outdoor. I have not tested out the pc software. I leaving that for my wife to do. I give this weather station 5 stars. They appear to have resolved the problems I saw in earlier model reviews.Cons: The unit did not come with manual or pc software. I was able to download the software and 36-page users manual for their web site.

Have to manually change rain to view hourly to daily to total, also dew point requires a manual change from the standard mode. And barometric pressure and clock had to be manually set to that in our location. Think our old one (bought 8-9 years ago) did that automatically. Otherwise, I really like it.

I really wanted this to work. I have had two of the same model previously, and although they both failed after a little over 2 years, the functionality is exactly what I am looking for. I read the recent reviews about poor customer support and poor quality, but decided to take a chance. Unfortunately, this one arrived DOA, with a defective screen on the base unit. I called La Crosse customer support, waited on hold for a while, and then was forced to leave a message. They did call me back within 30 minutes, and tried to troubleshoot the issue. They finally had me reset the unit and remove the batteries for two hours. They called back in two hours, and came to the same conclusion, that the unit was defective. They offered to send me a pre-paid shipping label, then they would ship me a replacement unit 10-15 days after they received my return. I asked them to cross-ship a replacement, and even offered to give them a credit card to ensure I returned the defective unit. They said their warranty policy didn’t allow this. I spoke to a supervisor, who also refused to do anything quicker.Between the poor La Crosse customer service policies (the agent was pretty good though), poor build quality, and the short life of the product, I decided to instead return it to Amazon and find a different product. Amazon is great on returns.

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家庭用で風向きや風量まで解るなんて。外に設置するセンサーは乾電池で無線式なので、設置は簡単。ちゃんとPCでも見れました。表示がごちゃごちゃしてるけど、木目のフレームが落ち着きがありデザインも良いです。

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