Weather station time

[Alan1]

I know some of you have weather stations and I got one a few weeks ago. It has a function for the DCF time whereby it picks up a signal from Frankfurt and sets itself to the correct time. It was going fine since I got it but last night it has somehow managed to lose exactly 4 hours and I was wondering if anyone else has had that happen or if my device is a maybe duffer. It was only £22 or something.

[CherryBrandy]

Alan , can you share what type you have? and your views.

I'm hoping santa may be kind to me this year as I am a bit humidity, weather obsessed, but he may just bring me a singing penguin again who knows nothing about weather apart from snow being a penguin but can sing ...Well the weather outside is frightful........CB

[vikki]

I just look out of the window - far more accurate

[Alan1]

CB it was this one from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...ilpage_o08_s00

It's working okay just that some nights depending on the weather it wasn't picking up the signal from Germany. It makes 4 attempts in all during the night over a 4 hour period. That is the signal used by radio stations etc so they are all getting the exact time. I only really got it to let me know what the temperature was in the torts' outdoor enclosure without having to go out and check. The sensor is out there and the display is in the house.

[Gordon]

Originally Posted by CherryBrandy

Alan , can you share what type you have? and your views.

I'm hoping santa may be kind to me this year as I am a bit humidity, weather obsessed, but he may just bring me a singing penguin again who knows nothing about weather apart from snow being a penguin but can sing ...Well the weather outside is frightful........CB

Clair your telling me you would love a weather station, how do you drop hints for something like that if my other half wants something in perticular she gets it herself.

[CherryBrandy]

Originally Posted by Alan1

CB it was this one from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...ilpage_o08_s00

It's working okay just that some nights depending on the weather it wasn't picking up the signal from Germany. It makes 4 attempts in all during the night over a 4 hour period. That is the signal used by radio stations etc so they are all getting the exact time. I only really got it to let me know what the temperature was in the torts' outdoor enclosure without having to go out and check. The sensor is out there and the display is in the house.

thanks Alan, I thought it would be bigger ! and yes I see - that is brilliant use of it ! I trapse over wet grass to get to peer through a shed window at the bottom of the garden, so sounds good.
Vikki - we should have a competition - you wet a figure and stick it in the air ! it never fails, but bet you cant guess the humidity and temp !

Originally Posted by Gordon

Clair your telling me you would love a weather station, how do you drop hints for something like that if my other half wants something in perticular she gets it herself.

ha - well clearly I don't drop the right hints as I got a colour coordinated oil filter one year! The stapler may have topped that! I need to work on my tactics somewhat I agree.

[CherryBrandy]

yah ! I got a weather station for Christmas !! If you can help ALan as im clearly useless....it has 3 channels ...does that mean I can register three different weather areas but it only has one sensor so I don't get it? or it records them? or are the 3 channels for when the weather is bad and it can't pick up one of the channels? Which I see the irony!!
Like you I only got it so I can view the climate in the shed at the bottom of the garden !! ha, its quite sad really, but I liken it to Skype for tortoises !!? CB

[Alan1]

Originally Posted by CherryBrandy

yah ! I got a weather station for Christmas !! If you can help ALan as im clearly useless....it has 3 channels ...does that mean I can register three different weather areas but it only has one sensor so I don't get it? or it records them? or are the 3 channels for when the weather is bad and it can't pick up one of the channels? Which I see the irony!!
Like you I only got it so I can view the climate in the shed at the bottom of the garden !! ha, its quite sad really, but I liken it to Skype for tortoises !!? CB

I don't know how many channels is on mine to be honest, I think just one maybe. I can't remember how I set mine but think it was fairly simple. It sounds like it might be different to mine. I know that my doorbell and some of my camera triggers have channels which you can change to if for example someone pressing a remote car key sets off your doorbell or camera trigger so it could just be that if you are not getting a good signal on one frequency you can try one of the other two.

[CherryBrandy]

Originally Posted by Alan1

I don't know how many channels is on mine to be honest, I think just one maybe. I can't remember how I set mine but think it was fairly simple. It sounds like it might be different to mine. I know that my doorbell and some of my camera triggers have channels which you can change to if for example someone pressing a remote car key sets off your doorbell or camera trigger so it could just be that if you are not getting a good signal on one frequency you can try one of the other two.

thanks Alan makes sense, you would be stuffed living near a pub !

I can tell you it is showing 3.2'c outside, brrrr!! lowest yet this year and probably most of end of last year.