Product Review: Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438)
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The Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station connects to your mobile or tablet via WIFI, allowing you to check the temperature and humidity of your home or office in real-time from any location.
Get a scientists review of the Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438)
Introducing the Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438)
The XC0438 smart WiFi weather station is brimming with practical features and functions. The unit includes a coloured display, easy to interpret indicators, and temperature and humidity internally and via an external thermo-hygro sensor. When paired with your home WiFi and the intuitive Smart Life application, you can set alerts and check out your station's conditions from anywhere.
Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438) Features & Benefits
- WIFI Enabled: Weather information is collected by the console and external sensor and transmitted to the Smart Life application via WIFI. View your real-time home or office weather data anywhere on any smart device.
- Real-time alerts: On the app, quickly set up alerts to instantly notify you when high or low temperature and humidity conditions are met.
- Intuitive application: The mobile application makes the connection, set up and ongoing use as effortless as possible.
- Long-range: The remote sensors have a wireless range of 150 metres so that you can place them almost anywhere in or around your home.
- Colour LCD: The console displays the current environmental information in large coloured digits. The coloured digits are against a black screen, making them readable from across a room.
- Mounting options: Wall mount or desk mount the indoor console. The console includes a keyhole hook for mounting to a wall or fold-out leg stands if you wish to place it on a desk.
- Synchronised local time: When the weather station is connected to WiFi, the console automatically synchronises to the local time.
- Alarm: Set time alarms on the console with ease. When the clock reaches the alarm time, the alarm sound will start.
- Weather trends: The console’s trend indicator shows the predicted temperature and humidity trend change in the next 15 minutes.
- Comfort indicator: The comfort indicator is a small emoji on the console that indicates the current comfort level of indoor temperature and humidity.
- MIN/MAX records: The console records maximum and minimum temperature and humidity readings daily and since the last reset.
- IoT: Works with Tuya Smart & Smart Life Apps to trigger other Tuya compatible IoT devices.
- Multiple sensors: Add up to seven external sensors to the console (1 sensor included).
Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438) Specifications
Console Specifications |
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Temperature unit |
°C and °F |
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Temperature accuracy |
<0°C or > 40°C ± 2°C |
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Temperature resolution |
0.1°C |
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Humidity unit |
% |
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Humidity accuracy |
1 to 20% RH ± 6.5% RH @ 25°C |
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Humidity resolution |
1% |
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WI-FI Communication Standard |
802.11 b/g/n |
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WiFi operating frequency |
2.4GHz |
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Supported router security type |
WPA/WPA2, OPEN, WEP (WEP only support Hexadecimal password) |
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Supported application |
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Supported platform |
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Dimensions (W x H x D) |
130 x 112 x 27.5mm |
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Weight |
220g (with batteries) |
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Power |
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Operating temperature range |
-5˚C to 50˚C |
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Operating Humidity range |
10 to 90% RH |
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Supported sensors |
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RF frequency |
917Mhz |
Thermo-Hygro Sensor Specifications |
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Temperature accuracy |
5.1 to 60°C ± 0.4°C |
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Temperature resolution |
0.1°C |
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Humidity accuracy |
1 to 20% RH ± 6.5% RH @ 25°C |
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Humidity resolution |
1% |
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Dimensions (W x H x D) |
60 x 113 x 39.5mm |
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Weight |
130g (with batteries) |
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Power |
2 x AA size 1.5V batteries ( Lithium batteries recommended) |
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Weather data |
Temperature and Humidity |
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RF range |
150m |
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RF frequency |
917Mhz |
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Transmission interval |
60 seconds for temperature and humidity |
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Operating temperature range |
-40 to 60°C (Lithium batteries required) |
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Operating Humidity range |
1 to 99% RH |
Smart Wifi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438) Videos
Unboxing the XC0438 Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station With Colour LCD Screen
How to Set Up and Connect the XC0438 Smart Weather Station to WiFi
Conclusion
What do our scientists conclude about the Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station (XC0438)?
“The Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station is the ideal choice for anyone wanting to accurately measure temperature and humidity around their home or office and have the option for alerts and remote monitoring”.
Need more information on the Smart WiFi Multi-Channel Weather Station? Speak with an Instrument Choice Scientist: Call 1300 737 871 or email [email protected].
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