Youshiko Wireless Colour Weather Station (Premium Quality HD Display) with Radio Controlled Clock (UK Version) Indoor Outdoor Temperature Humidity Max Min with 24 Hour Auto Reset

Amazon keep clumping reviews together for different items and then not always saying which review applies to which product. This review applies to the Youshiko colour weather station with HD display (see photos). This looks and feels like a top quality product. The display is bright, vibrant and so much better than a normal LCD display. After unpacking, I put batteries in the outdoor sensor, plugged in the main unit and everything but the clock started working straight away. I don't know if its because I live in Norfolk or if its because we have solar panels but I have 3 other radio controlled clocks in the house and they all struggle to get the time signal particularly during the day, however this Youshiko unit did a good job and picked up the signal after a few attempts.I was surprised but pleased to see the clock displaying seconds instead of the day, it seems seconds are the default and it changes to day when the alarm is set.I really like this weather station it is good looking and accurate. Even my children looked at it and said 'wow'!

Youshiko Wireless Colour Weather StationI tried a number of different weather stations before I bought this one. This was the most expensive which probably explains why it was the last!My problem with the other products was display. Lovely and bright and colourful, but unfortunately terrible viewing angles and or annoying flashing displays.Viewing angle definitely is an issue with the colour displays used for all the products I tried. Some are better for viewing when they are above your eye level, some are better when they are below your eye levels, none of them are perfect and you have to choose which you need. If you are more than a foot beyond the viewing angle the display fades and you just can’t read it. The Youshiko Wireless Colour Weather Station has a display that you need to to place on or BELOW your eye level. So it’s ideally suited to a sideboard or bedside table. Not suitable for a high position on a bookcase or similar, the display fades very fast once your eyes get below the screen.The display is nice and bright. Not as big as some of the competition. The only comparison I can think of is that the screen area is about the same width and twice the height of the new Smart Meter displays and the numbers are about the same size. It’s readable at the same sort of distances too, so up to about three meters or so you can clearly read all of the information and the larger numbers like temperatures and time you can read at up to about than six meters with a bit of squinting. While being a different size and different viewing angles there is no particular quality difference between the Youshiko and any other product I tried.The measurements seem pretty accurate. Certainly the temperature was accurate to within about 0.1~0.2 degrees C. Everything feels good quality.The instructions are concise and clear. The only thing you have to do is set the current weather conditions, then after that it looks after itself. The remote sensor needs to be positioned outside, but is weather resistant so as long at its out the sun and direct rain you are fine.The weather prediction is of course pretty inaccurate.Setting up the sensor wasn't always easy. I used a half dead set of batteries at first and when they ran out a few days later, it proved quite difficult to get it to connect to the sensor again. I used the search button and so on but in the end had to power the main unit on and off several times to get it to work. One thing the unit really needs is an indicator to show when it hasn't received a signal from the outside sensor in say five minutes. It could really do with that.It’s a nice product. A little expensive, but given the failings of the other products I tried, it's worth it.

I've got a couple of weather stations dotted around the house and I've never had any trouble with them reaching radio clocks to keep the time accurate. This unit was to replace an old LCD station I had in my living room but from the outset, it had problems maintaining a connection to the RC. Support said that I 'shouldn't worry' and that so long as it connected now and again then the time would be OK. Maybe so but I've never had a station that took this approach before.Not long after putting it in place, it started to lose connection with the outdoor sensor and wouldn't reconnect. I was using brand new Duracells but I swapped everything out even so and reset everything. RC connection was still sporadic but the connection to the outdoor sensor came back - then dropped out again. If anything, the positioning of the unit and sensor is probably the easiest configuration I have. The sensor is only about 30 feet away from the unit and only has to communicate through a patio door. It's not as if I'm in Finland and the sensor is in a nuclear bunker somewhere so I would expect a reasonable steady link.On the plus side, the display is very nice. Despite being fairly small, the colours stand out nicely on the deep black background. However, due to the hit-and-miss connectivity, this unit will be returned. Disappointing for the price as the cheapo out-going unit has no such problems when it's in situ. Not all progress is forwards I guess.

This is a very attractive unit with nice smooth curves and of a good size to put on a home office desk or on top of a dresser.It has a good readout which is easy to read and has a beautiful display.However the screen flickers very noticeably and if you look at it for some time, it gets very annoying.The weather prediction is wildly inaccurate and you should just look out the window for more accurate results. Temperature reading is a bit more accurate but my wall tube thermometer often disagrees with it by 2-3 degrees C.The external sensor has a tiny limited range and also suffers from the same accuracy problem. In fact you can put the external sensor next to the clock unit and you will find both giving you a different temperature despite it being placed beside each other.The clock unit also suffers from poor reception and you could find it a real hassle trying to get it to sync up with the radio clock signal.It is such a pity that this is a really attractively designed clock which unfortunately underperforms.