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Can anyone recommend me a brand to look out for? One of those sensors that sits outside and transmits the temp back indoors. Prefer one that shows indoor temps to 0.1 degrees too.
Radio Shack makes a nice affordable unit that measures in tenths, Cat #63-1032, for $20. It has a large readout and measures local temp and humidity and remote temp. I have one on my desk right now measuring the temp in the crawlspace.
We have the Davis Vantage Pro weather station. It must be at least 5 years old now and it has worked great...Customer service has been excellent..It does the whole weather deal wind, temp, humidity barometer etc..., ..Install was fast and easy.
We have the Davis Vantage Pro weather station. It must be at least 5 years old now and it has worked great...Customer service has been excellent..It does the whole weather deal wind, temp, humidity barometer etc..., ..Install was fast and easy.
We have the Davis Vantage Pro weather station. It must be at least 5 years old now and it has worked great...Customer service has been excellent..It does the whole weather deal wind, temp, humidity barometer etc..., ..Install was fast and easy.
We have an Oregon Scientific. it works pretty good and the model that we have came with 2 remote sensors as well. so we keep the temp in the living room, outside and the kid's room. it also keeps track of the barametric pressure, the time via the atomic clock in CO and give a general 24hour weather prediction.
We have a unit from Oregon Scientific that does indoor temp, outdoor temp via transmitter, crude barometric weather forecasting, and self sets it's time via the US Gov't time signal radio. It is a nice unit.
I'm not sure how waterproof the sensor is, so I keep it on the back porch. If I really needed it to be outside I'd probably just put it in a plastic food container like a 1 qt. yogurt cup.
The barometric forecast is not always accurate, but isn't too bad. Also it doesn't give the number for the pressure, just icons.
The time is dead on accurate, and can be set to display several different versions.
The base has a laser thingy on the top that is supposed to let it project the time and temps onto a wall or ceiling. We haven't found that it works very well, but that is possibly just because our room isn't suitable for it.
We got the unit as a gift, so I don't have a source, but Oregon Scientific is a very common brand there are lots of places all over the web that sell their stuff, and they have lots of different models with a wide range of capabilities.