Bushnell 7 Day Weather Fxi Station
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7-Day AccuWeather Forecasts, Internet-driven weather data updated 24/7Choose from over 20,000 cities worldwide, color changing backlightSave up to five favorite locations, Alarm and snooze, Indoor temperatureCurrent and Real Feel temperatures, A/C or battery poweredMorning, afternoon and evening forecasts for today and next three days
Product Description
A little something to help you picture next weekend. Keep your eye on the prize. With seven days of accurate, real-time weather information at the touch of the button, you can have a plan in place for next Saturday, and dress accordingly for all those occasions in between. Like all Bushnell forecasters, it requires no sensors, subscriptions or wires. Weather data is automatically updated throughout the day from AccuWeather.com using a wireless transmitter connected to your PC. Setup is quick and simple, and you can view the forecasts on your wireless transmitter or your PC. With a coverage area spanning more than 20,000 cities, live weather messaging for today's conditions, a color-changing backlight and more, it's more than enough to get you through the week.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Distributor problem
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The item is not the problem as we have given four of these as gifts. The last one we ordered was distributed by Ace Digital Photo. They are charging a restocking fee of 10% with a 14 day return policy. The problem with the tower in the Savannah area could not be 'fixed'. Bushnell thought the problem could be corrected but could not. On Friday they asked that the product be returned. Bushnell was great ~ the product is great ~ the distributor is not. It is disappointing that this product cannot be used in the Savannah area.
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Works fine, no fuss setting it up
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I tried a couple of other weather stations. They both required some type of outdoor sensor in addition to Internet connection. This Bushnell only requires connection to the Internet via your existing PC.
Good points:
Nice big easy to read screen with backlight.
Can run on batteries or included AC adapter.
Good range. I have it 60 feet from PC on totally opposite sides of the house.
Gives wind direction and "real feel"
Bad points:
Must have PC on to get current temp. (But all else displays with PC off)
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Unhappy with this product
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I am unhappy with this product. Setup was a breeze but does not update often. This product gets it's information from Accuweather, but fails to match what the web site is displaying. Currently it is showing partly sunny and it is 9pm. Also the wind speed has been at 7 mph for three days. Bushnell 7 Day Weather Fxi Station
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Summary:
A Truly Great Gadget
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Pro: many, many American locations and international cities, weather is frequently updated, very good-looking display, worked much better than other similar products
Con: Installation Software didn't come up automatically (but very easily remedied; rest of installation was very easy, and the software worked great after that)
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The Weather Fxi comes in shrink wrap packaging. You cut it out of the box. There's a receiver with the screen that you see in Amazon's listing, a transmitter that plugs into a USB port on your computer, and a CD. There are instructions, but you barely need to read them.
You put the CD in your computer's drive. This was the only weakness of the whole package -- my CD drive did not automatically load the program. I had to go to explorer and click on the startup program manually. It was very obvious, and it took me under 15 seconds, but some people might be a bit stalled by this. If you were expecting the program to just pop up on the screen (or if you didn't know how to start a program by using Window's explorer --that would be right click on the start button, and then scroll till you find your CD drive, and then double click on the startup program that you'll find on that drive), then I suppose you might not be able to get this to work. I do not consider this the least bit difficult; it takes 15 seconds, tops, and most everyone I know is familiar with finding programs on their disk drive, and double clicking on them.
Anyway, you then plug in the transmitter to a USB port on the computer. Finally, you pick five locales to monitor. There are a LOT of cities -- my Boston suburb is on there, with a population of 30,000, as was my mother's suburb of NYC, also about the same size. My mother in law and daughter, who live in their respective cities were also there; there wasn't a way (that I saw, anyway) to further define their location, but I think that should be suficient anyway. Finally, for my son, I selected Munich, Germany. The selection process takes about 3 or 4 minutes. You have to wait for 30 seconds or so after each selection for the software to think before you can move on to the next city.
That's it. We've had it for several days now, and it constantly updates, all by itself. The display screen is really good looking and detailed. There are at least 15 or 20 different symbols for the weather (clouds, rain, snow, sun, partial sun, etc.), a written statement (like "becoming cloudy and cold", the temperature, high and low, wind, precipitation, humidity, what temperature it "really" feels like, as well as the predictions or the next several days. You can press a button on one side and instead of three days forecasts, it will give you morning noon and night for today, or days four through six. You press a button on the other side, and it scrolls through complete data for the other 4 cities. If you plug it in, it stays back-lit (it runs on batteries, too, but we haven't tried that). It's extrememly easy to read. One last thing -- the screen changes colors depending on what band of 10 degrees the temperature is -- my wife loves that.
So, the bottom line is that it took less than 10 minutes to set up, it takes no maintenance whatsoever, it displays international locations (very few do), and it is very sharp looking.
VERY highly recommended.
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Simply great
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I love this weather station. I no longer have to go to my computer to see the day's forecast. The colored back lighting is corny, but effective (and you can turn it off). Bought it 2 weeks ago. Perfect so far.
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