Ambient Weather WS-3000-X3 Thermo-Hygrometer Monitor w/ 5 Remote Sensors

So I just got this today, and my initial impression is that this was engineered very carefully. All the sensors connected easily, even after unplugging and moving the base unit. When I had the sensors all together after putting batteries in them, they all were very close in their readings. Despite the base unit's small size it is easy to read. Each zone/sensor shows temp, humidity, battery, and signal strength. The zones can be named, but the options are very limited (see other reviews). My opinion is that it does the important part very well: showing remote temps and humidity. I also like that the sensors themselves also display the temp and humidity. Okay, now the nit-picky part. The display could have some better layout options. Like only showing the graph only when I want to see it, and otherwise using the space for bigger display of the time. Or maybe showing the graph fullscreen when I want to see the history. Or having more labels for the zones. (Why have Wine Cellar and Cigar as options but not Shop or Garage?) So, one other note that I feel I should mention is that this has readable documentation written by native English speakers. I read a lot of documentation, and I've written it myself; this company really put in the effort to provide the end-user with good instructions. I will update this review in the future if the product doesn't live up to its initial promise, but as of today I am very impressed.

Edit: I bought this 4 years ago and it has been flawless ever since! Extra remotes are available with probes on a long cord that are very useful. After this many years the remotes sometimes loose their display, but the extremes of my greenhouse are pretty hard on them. They still send the data though. Love this unit. Ambient Weather WS-3000-X5 Thermo-Hygrometer Wireless Monitor w/ 5 Remote Sensors. This IS the unit with 5 remote sensors. Highly recommended. Worked perfectly, right out of the box. After programming, I tested the sending units on a shelf together and they were all within 1/10 of each other. The screen is easy to view and use. Programming is fairly simple after reading the directions. (Write a number on each sensor as you program it to avoid confusion) Each sensor also has a display! That's great! I love that different time lengths can be programmed to view on the screen. The range is great. My greenhouse is about 100 feet from the house, with no problem going through 2 sets of walls. I even have one buried in a compost pile ( in a ziplock) and it transmits just fine. The memory function is useful and fairly straight forward. The price is very reasonable for 5 sensors and a nice display. I've used it for about 2 months with no replaced batteries and no problems. This is a great unit.

I've looked everywhere for a weather station with multiple sensors *and* which allows you to save/download the data. I'm interested in understanding the difference in temperature in different rooms in our house versus the outside temperature over days as well as longer trends like over years, and the WS-3000 does exactly that. I love that I also get a real-time plot of the temperature history: I can't tell you how much better you understand both the inside and outside temperature/humidity when you can see the trend rather than just the instantaneous value. The accuracy of the 5 included sensors is amazing. I verified this by letting all 5 sit together for a few hours after which their temperatures all read within a 0.5 deg F of each other and humidity was within 2 percentage points. I've attached the picture showing this. Note: when I first powered the sensors up after adding batteries, they were not very accurate and initially I was concerned. But as the instructions clearly state, you have to wait quite a while (1-2 hours) for them to stabilize. And after doing that, they indeed are very accurate. There are two reasons I can't give this device 5 stars. First, the interface on the main station is poor. In this day and age of mobile phone apps where user interface is everything, looking at the screen of the station is the equivalent of looking at a website from the 1990s. it's just clunky and non-intuitive. Just look at my attached image and you can see how hard it is to figure out which temp is which on the graph. And the customization of the interface is poor. Why can't I set the colors of each graph? Or set the y-axis? You can at least choose to set the x-axis between 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours (I believe those are the options), but need the same for the y-axis. Each number should be color coded where the temp is listed so we don't need to read the tiny little legend to figure out which temp is which on the plot. And clicking through the settings menu is also painful. It's like using an old TV menu interface. Anyway, these guys should hire someone from a company like Uber or Lyft who have made the interface the top priority. It's really old school to spend so much time on the underlying functionality (which is great) but then fail to appreciate that this functionality is diminished without providing a good interface to fully realize that functionality. My second major complaint is how clunky interfacing with the weather station is via a laptop. First, you have to supply your own Micro SD card if you want the data archived. That's all fine, but what they don't make clear is that the card can't be bigger than 32 Gb or it doesn't work. These days, that restriction seems so unnecessary given that most of us are buying SD cards bigger than that. I bought a 64 Gb just for this device not knowing about the limit. Fortunately, you can partition your card so that one partition is 32 Gb, but it's such a pain. Also, the app that you can download to your laptop that allows you to interface with the SD card has an even worse user interface than the weather station itself. Of course, you can just grab the data (it's in a text file) and pull it up yourself in whatever software you want (like Excel), but it's nice to be able to quickly explore the datasets with the software and this is brutally clunky. A request: like my digital photoframe, Ambient Weather needs to add a motion sensor to the station that turns the screen off when it doesn't sense motion for, say, 5 minutes, and then turns it on when it does sense motion. This works really great for my digital photoframe and all digital devices these days because it's such a waste to have so much energy being burned and so much unnecessary light being produced. Conclusion: I've been using the WS-3000 for about 4 months now and the basic functionality is great. After doing research, this seems to be the best station in terms of allowing you to have multiple sensors and download the data. But Ambient Weather needs to make the user interface a priority rather than an afterthought.

We had a horrible time with mold in parts of our home. Literally spent thousands of dollars on whole house in-line HVAC dehumidifier. Actually had to get back up free standing units during the worst of the summer. But there are several "zones" in our house (3,800 sf). How to know where to best to put the individual DH units for optimal efficiency? And how do we know the big HVAC DH is working as advertised? This system was the answer. First, the sensors come well-calibrated. We turned them all on and put them side by side. The temperature and humidity readings were almost exactly the same within 1 degree and RH % of each other. With 5 sensors, we covered all the suspect zones in the house. We were able to identify 2 areas the HVAC DH wasn't up to snuff. We put individual DH's in those sites and finally had total control of the house environment. The display panel is clear and well lit. Information displayed is easy to interpret and gives you a comprehensive detailed picture of your house. Set up wasn't rocket science. We understand greenhouse keepers and farmers use something like this system professionally to manage irrigation needs and such. We looked at those. But there weren't any other systems this elegant at near this price. So if you have a basement, crawl space, attic etc. you wish you could keep tabs on the humidity and temperature in to avoid the kind of massive mold problems like we had, this could be the tool you need to help decide if very expensive steps need to be taken to control the problem.

This is simply the coolest and best Thermal monitor I've had the pleasure to own. Let's break down why- 1). It's super easy to set up. Just put batteries in all of the remotes. Set the dip switches for what channel you want them to be. THEN plug in the base station. It set's itself up, including time, (although you have to set the std time) . Then you see 5 channels displayed within minutes. And for simple basic temperature display, you're done! Distribute them up to a football field away (line of sight), or ~100 ft thru walls etc. 2). Each sensor has a local display, so you can pick it up and gawk at it on site, instead of having to go back to the main unit. I like that. Temp and Rel Humidity. And you can read heat index at the main unit (if set up to do so). 3). It graphs a history of all 5 (up to 8) sensors at once, in color. Up to 72 hours. And it can store a history for years on a micro usb chip (just buy a small cheap one-not needed if you don't want this). ....now if you have the time and desire: 4). It has temp/rel hum/heat index alarms hi&lo for all 8 channels! 5). The display for all 5 on-screen channels (and 6-8) can be independently programmed to display temp/hum/Heat Ind for each channel (or all at once - it scrolls for that). So it's a super flexible display. It's all in the manual. I recommend grouping them all together a few feet away from the base unit, then you can calibrate them to each other (what I did - to the middle one), or to a liquid bulb thermometer. Most of mine did not need more than .2 degrees F of tweaking. Then scatter them about your environment and have fun watching the graphs. I use lithium AA batteries for their long life, but a requirement if any of your sensors expect to get much below freezing. So I've got 1 at the base in the kitchen, 2 Outside, 3 in the bedroom, 4 downstairs and 5 in the cave. Now the one subtle downside: after you hit the menu key, there's a + key that functions as 'Enter', which takes you to screens where often you can increase '+' or decrease '-'. So it's confusing at first because you'd think + is incremental, not 'enter'. They should have come up with an 'enter' icon different from +. Didn't take me long to figure that out, but that was odd at first. Just know that and you're good. This is a great unit for basic users that want 5 spots T monitored (up to 8), or for tweakerheads that want more control. Best Thermometer + more I've ever owned. (The last was an Ambient Weather one too).

Was unsure at first because of all the compensated reviews....but I decided to try it out anyways since it has all of the features I need and then some. I needed one that displayed 5 different sensors on screen at once at all times without switching between sensors and this particular unit fit the bill. I previously just had separate thermometers in every room that I would check every so often but I thought it would be nice to see the temps without having to go all the way to my cold basement or hot garage. I checked them against my old thermometers as well as my handheld thermometer and these are pretty accurate. So far after a week I haven't had a single issue with lost connections or anything of the sort. Very happy with my purchase and would do it again without hesitation even though it's over $100. The base station does seem a little bit light and made of low cost plastics which could be easily broken if your not careful, but since it will be stationary this shouldn't be a problem. The display is easy to see and always on, there is a function for it to automatically turn off and on to your preferences but I leave mine always on. I don't do reviews often but when it's an item I couldn't find much info on besides compensated ones I feel obligated to write a review so others have an unbiased opinion of the product. Sorry no fancy video or pictures in my review, but there's plenty of that as well as the specs from the other reviews.

5.5 years running and still strong. Sensors are still running on first battery and reception between sensors and base station works very well. The sensors connected to the base during setup within seconds and have been stable since. Highly recommend if you want to monitor temp and monitor in general and hard to get to get to places (e.g crawlspaces)

I have used the Ambient Weather WS-3000-X5 for a little over a month now and haven't experienced any of the negative issues I've read about in some of the comments submitted. The instructions were clear and the set up was simple, although I haven't used the pc connection extensively but the installation was straight forward and easy. The display was a little smaller than expected but no problems reading the info, and it doesn't take up much space on my desk. The sensors and receiver all appear well made both in form and function. When placing any sensor outside you should take care in positioning them so that the don't receive direct sunlight and are protected from rainfall or other water sources. Initially I set the units up in my study arranging them with at least a 5' distance from the others and set up to display the temperature and humidity, then left the room and waited. Around an hour later I returned and the temperature readings had settled out and were the same with the exception of two being 1/10th of a degree higher than the others and in agreement with the settings on my air conditioner thermostat. The humidity readings were displaying similar readings with each other, no more than 1/10th of a percent difference. After monitoring them for two days I relocated one to the attic, the garage, my home gym, and my gun safe, keeping the 5th in my study temporarily, where they've been for the past month. All have been operating well within my expectations. With the history graphing it is easy to visualize changes that have occurred as you would expect the differences in temperature and humidity to be in the respective locations throughout the day and night. I have not had any sensors drop connection with the receiver at this point. I am unsure what the battery life will be in the sensors but not really worried as the batteries are easy to replace. This morning I moved sensor (ch1) from my study to an outside shaded area of the backyard, The receiver indicated the correct outside temp within 15 minutes as you can see from the picture. Within an hour the humidity reading raised from 42% to 54%. While the attic (ch3) shows 57% humidity, the attic generally indicates 20% less humidity than weather sites report, probably because my ac and furnace units are located in the attic. I expect (ch1) humidity reading to continue to rise as it updates. Overall I am very satisfied with the devices and price point, I definitely recommend the product.

While it was expensive it was the only multichannel data logging thermometer I could find.

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