Netatmo Wireless Anemometer with wind speed and direction sensor – Wind Gauge for Weather Station, NWA01-WW, black

After 1 month or less stopped to work

In the past twenty years I have had several different wireless weather systems and they all presented different problems with connectivity, battery life and durability. Netatmo products are very much like Apple products, they work straight out of the box and keep on working without any constant attention and without the need for extra interface hubs and routers.The wind gauge is such a device, fit the batteries, perform a simple setup procedure on your indoor module and iPhone or other device and its working, simple.Positioning and getting the direction to north correct takes a few seconds more than say the rain gauge but its all working in minutes.A true no brainer folks.You are now able to check all your weather readings wherever in the world you are, so you will know that your runner beans are being properly watered or not perhaps, but that is another automated system you could think about.

Got a Netatmo weather station last year for Xmas, excellent kit works well no problems. Added the Anemometer and Rain Gauge this year, big mistake. The cosmetic quality and feel was very good, these are expensive items but neither "add on" worked. The rain gauge just would not connect to the weather station no matter what I did so waste of time and money straight off there. The Anemometer connected to the base station and worked OK but constantly reported a flat battery (despite trying new batteries several times including the factory fitted ones) the sensor was not working. This means that the thing emails every half an hour demanding the battery is changed ASAP. So most of Xmas day was spent by me climbing ladders and faffing about with these items pointlessly, and my wife didn't get her Xmas present. Returning both to Amazon who "cannot replace them" and will refund the cash. Both of these items dead on arrival with critical faults looks suspicious to me, purporting to be quality "smart" devices the ones I got are bug ridden rubbish and wasted a lot of my time and patience. I won't be buying anything from this bunch of clowns again.

Not working correctly , keeps giving high false peak reading at four time slots , and shows no wind when it blowing force 2 to 3 MPH also very long delays in readings even if you take account of averaging . This unit is affected by the weather / sun / cold / hot . after talking to the customer service , they have informed me they know of the problem and it will be corrected on the next firmware update . I have asked them weeks ago , how this will be achieved .but since then a deadly silence . Watch this space , I hope to report that there is a firmware update and all is well .Update 09/04/17 I have spoken with a very good customer service at Netatmo , and they have promised that the unit will receive and firmware update to Version 130. at the end of the month , this will be carried automatically .28/05/17 New unit supplied I have installed this and every thing has been great so far , seems I had a faulty unit .

I think the Netatmo weather station is great. I've just added the long-awaited wind gauge to my existing set-up which includes the rain gauge and an additional indoor monitor. The wind gauge is smaller than I expected and it seems well made. As usual with Netatmo products, the instructions are minimal, but I had no problem pairing the new module with the existing base station. Positioning the wind gauge involves orienting it to the north and placing it as high up as possible. As Netatmo's own mounting adaptor isn't released yet, the wind gauge is currently positioned at the top of a sloping flower bed. That's not ideal, but I'll see how it goes. Positioning it at roof level (or above) is suggested but that makes changing batteries a hassle. There are no moving parts, of course, so weather station aficionados are bound to be sceptical. But no moving parts means no maintenance apart from changing batteries. I'm impressed so far.Update (4.1.16): The mounting hardware is on its way. Something that's happened twice since adding the wind gauge to the weather station is some anomalous wind speed reporting. Once, it spiked to 111 mph (it was 8 mph) and on another occasion, 4 mph. There are numerous reports of this on the Netatmo forum, but Netatmo haven't responded with any comment. The jury is out about the reliability of the device.

Overall awesome product, after reading reviews I had a few reservations but after actually purchasing and installing I learnt that it’s all about the installation and where to mount it, the lower you put it the less accurate of a wind speed you will get AS A GENERAL wind speed for your area BUT the more accurate the information is that comes back for extreme localised data. In summary if you want accurate data for your general area FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS NETATMO PROVIDE and you will be fine. If you don’t want to scale your roof but still wouldn’t mind knowing what speed your back door just got slammed shut by the data is there. if you install it lower down, there are options to calibrate for height but bare in mind your surrounding area and how built up it is, the more buildings the more the wind will be slowed at lower levels and you may want to install higher up!

Update to the below, I received a response from Irene in support after 17 days. Useless then as I wasn't at the house but now I have returned I have repositioned it again and it seems to be ok. She said to have a signal strength of at least three and where now is has four (but not such a good position for an accurate reading). She also said updated the firmware. I didn't see the message posted here but again it wouldn't help as wasn't where the wind gauge was until now. I have increased the stars as has worked for 18 hours now, hope it will continue to do so as leave today.I have three weather stations in various houses, I think they are a really good product. I wanted a wind gauge for one as if it is windy things get blown around so would be good to know. Installed it, and worked fine for a short while. Stopped working so reinstalled. Worked longer this time, a few hours, then also stopped. Emailed support and ten days later still no reply despite sending them a chaser explaining I was only there for another week. As I assume i'm a pretty good customer with three weather stations what hope is there if only have one? Don't waste your money; I wish I hadn't.

This wind gauge connected to my Netatmo weather station easily and has been performing reliable since installation. It seems very robust and is quite discrete when mounted. As there are no moving parts I expect it to be long lasting and durable. An excellent addition to my Netamo system.

環境モニタリングとして使用

Sehr genaue Messung der Windstärke und Windrichtung.Hinweis: um bei der Erstinstallation von der App erkannt zu werden, ist es nötig nach Aufforderung die Stromversorgung zur Wetterstation herzustellen, die Wetterstation vorher ca. 30 Sekunden vom Strom zu trennen. Nach dieser Prozedur wird der Koppelmodus gestartet.Die Batterien erst in den Windmesser einlegen wenn die App dazu auffordert.

This system is just excellent it allows you to monitor your home in a way that was not possible. It’s great just being able to see the temperature/humidity and air quality all over your home from anywhere in the world, including your bed😊. And before we got the rain gauge we had to guess how much rain our garden had had. Now we know and can adjust our watering to suit and adjust our water usage to suit. The wind gauge allows you to see just how much wind your house receives helping with garden and house impact. Information is everything and Netatmo gives you a lot. Great product guys.

Excellent produit, fiable dans le temps, pratique, bonnes mesures, une des meilleures stations connectées probablement.

I waited for several months for this to arrive. They have been in very short supply. It finally came and I soon found myself frustrated that I could not get it to link to my weather station after multiple attempts. I was about to give up when I found a "module manager" on Netatmo's website that would run on my Mac. Using this manager, I was able to link the two on my first attempt. Why is this information not included in the directions that come with the wind gauge? Shame on Netatmo for not including this info AND making it readily available on their website.Once linked, it seems to function flawlessly. I used a flexible mount that I found on Amazon to mount it to my roof, so that it sits above the roofline. This allows me to go around the edge of the roof ( Spanish tile) and still get the wind gauge above the roof and level. So far, it seems to be very accurate and sensitive to even the smallest breezes. With the exception of the problems I experienced with linking it to my main module, I am pleased with it.UPDATE: It's been up and running without issue for almost a year. I used lithium batteries so that I would not have to climb up and change batteries as often and I still have an estimated 1/2 power left.If anyone is looking for the link to the management module, you can find both the Windows and Mac versions here; https://www.netatmo.com/helpcenter/weather/1/installation-and-prerequisites/4/how-do-i-add-a-module-to-my-weather-station/32. You may need to sign in.