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I placed it just outside my backdoor on the door frame; where it's large face and numbers are clearly visible (even without reading glasses). It is well made and looks to be durable. I have had Taylor Thermometers over the years, and they have stayed the test of time and performed admirably. It's readings are right in line with the local weather report(s).

Great product for a cheap price...Except for it breaks when your kids hit it with a baseball.For those that are looking for inexpensive functionality.

Its is the best thermometer under $10 Ive ever had. Looks great. Seems to keep decent temps etc. Will it hold up to a hurricane? Doubt it. Does it state the same temp as the National Weather Center? Who cares. It is what it is. Mounted outside my workshop and its easy to read. Temps read the same as our thermostat for the house.

Yes it came out of adjustment. There's a brass slotted screw to adjust on back. Duh. Also the mount is made of really soft metal. But who cares it's $6 and it works great.

Replaced exactly the same one that was years old. We have a lot of sun and these deteriorate in the sunshine. Needed this as the other was knocked off by a bird and broke into a hundred pieces. Sun has a way of decomposing the plastic 'til it's so brittle it easy to break.

I recently ordered and received my Springfield Big and Bold Thermometer. The thermometer was received from shipper as promised. I purchased this thermometer for my shed, but after reading some of the reviews I placed it next to another thermometer,they stayed within a degree or two of each other all day Finally placed in shed..everything fine. The numbers are large and easy to read. If not exactly accurate ( a degree or two) so what..I'm not a meteorologist.This thermometer is an excellent value...thinking about getting another....

We use this to monitor temperatures in our lower level and next to our thermostat. We use our lower level as an AirBnB space so it's important to keep the temps at a comfortable level for our guests. We have only a single thermostat on the upper level -- so the temp difference between the lower and main level can be significant. This monitor allows us to see the temp in the lower level and make adjustments to the thermostat, if necessary. Very happy with the product and the price!

This works well for providing the temperature outside my travel trailer compared to inside. Of course you have to place the remote sensor out of the sun, and if possible away from pavement heating, and you have to remember to pick it up before you depart. Using this, you can tell at a glance whether to continue with the air-conditioner or open the window and use the fan. Another helpful usage is to place the remote in the trailer and the display in the house, to keep track of how cold the trailer interior gets during winter.

Great little thermostat! This is my second one, I "swept" my other one off of the 3rd story deck with snow. As it is white I didn't see it. Looked for it below, but couldn't find it. Anyway ordered another one and now the sender (the part that goes outside that I swept away) works for both of the indoor readers. Now I have one in the bedroom and the living room. Well worth the purchase.

LOVE THIS PRODUCT !! Works perfectly. I sit it beside me and I glance over to see what the temp is outside and inside. I use this a lot !!! I have to know the temp outside as if it's too hot I have to be careful in 80-90 degree heat, which is most of the time where I live. Right now in November we've got down to about 65% to lower at night which is perfect for me. Love it cold. I put the white monitor right ouside the door on a tiny table under an umbrella for protection. I must know the weather and these work great and are always precise in their readings. We've had a light rain and the white outside monitor is just fine. I've had this product for several months now and all is good. I would buy again.

In my seller review, I mentioned that the black part around the screen had very small scratches (not visible without very close inspection) and I got an email from the company expressing their concern and wanting to make things better. Very nice to deal with a company like this. And they have all good reviews as far as I can see.The thermometer itself works very well and is easy to use . I like this one because it's simple. I just want to know the temp indoor and out. Some people say it's too small but you can see it easily from across the room.

This is a simple, accurate, indoor outdoor thermometer. The outdoor sensor is neat and appear water tight.The indoor display (with integral sensor) is easy to read and small enough to be unobtrusive.Before rating, I checked accuracy with three regular thermometers and an extremely sensitive/accurate Casio Pathfinder. This device got A+ for both consistency and reliability.

Now I can look out the window and double check the temperature on my digital thermometer on my coffee table.

Some reviews say this thermometer doesn't work but so far it's worked fine a check the temperature against another thermometer and it's pretty accurate so I gave it 4 stars thanks I like it a lot....

The thermometer appears to read correctly. It consistently matches the airport reading. It is what I expected and was a good value for the money.

Nice outside the window temperature. Not very accurate or little off but close enough.

It's working fine now. But when I received it, the pointer was not connected to the bimetallic spring. I had to figure out how to disassemble it so I could connect the two pieces. This was not difficult for me, but could stump somebody who's not accustomed to repairing things.Once assembled, it was easy to mount outside. Last night we had wind gusts that blew a step ladder around the corner of the house, but didn't affect this thermometer. That's a good thing!

I used it for my indoor shop, very light weight bracket. Checked it against my calibrated mercury color photo thermometer and was with 1 Deg. between 35- 80 degrees

This thermometer works great; however, when the batteries start losing charge, the indoor unit/display will not just fade away/stop showing temperature; no, for some reason it will lose the outdoor temperature, so I thought the outdoor sensor needed batteries, changed them, nothing happened, I assumed the thermometer stopped working and bought another one only to have to go through the same thing again, 10 months down the road. So, I think the manufacturer should mention this little quirk in their user manual.

I like knowing the outside temperature before leaving the house. Especially in Idaho during the winter. This weather station works well. The only complaint would be that the bases do not have a stand they need to be on the wall or leaning against something. Wish they had a base.

For the most part it works well, but temperature can flux a bit and isn't super accurate (I'd say +/- 3 degrees F). I used this mostly to tell the difference in temperature between inside and outside so that I knew when to open the windows to cool my room, so the absolute accuracy wasn't as important to me. But even between the main unit and receiver there is a bit of inaccuracy (+/- 1 degree F, from what I saw).But overall it works and it's cheap - and those were the main qualities I was looking for when I bought it.

Nice feature but I leave one in the car to see the outdoor temp but that can be tricky because of the green house effect inside the car. Winter time it works well. This is a great reference because I leave it next to my bed, wake up, see what the temperature is outside and I know for the day more than likely what the temp will likely be like for the day. This tells me long sleeve or short sleeve. Hot material or not. If over 70 at work with the wrong clothes and I am baking. If cold or below 20 then I really want to know so I don't have to break my back while driving so to speak. Anything under 20F seems cold to me. It is good to know when this occurs. However this year not too much of a problem but last was bad. 2015 (2014 was cold at times). I want to hand it outside but I don't want someone steeling it or someone thinking it is some security device and wanting to break it.

Easy to setup and use; outdoor readout is close to that of another nearby thermometer and to some of the Weather reports. Indoor readout sometimes close to another nearby thermometer, and when not, it isn't clear which one (if either) is more accurate. Bought the three-pack, and two of them agree exactly on the indoor temperature, while the third is about a degree higher.Basically, all I want to know is whether to put on a parka, jacket, sweater, or t-shirt before going outside, and this is more than sufficiently accurate for that. Don't need a memory (which it doesn't have).It definitely can display temperatures over 99.9 degrees: I ran a hair dryer on the probe until the readout got to 128 degrees.The units all have to be placed so that the receivers can detect the signals from the probe. Mine all are within 40 feet, with one outside wall (obviously) and a couple of inside walls and floors between them and the probe. One of them had a problem receiving the signal, so I moved it a couple feet and that took care of the situationWhy a rating of 4. Two reasons:1) the description here (for the 1-unit in white) says "install the thermometer outside or anywhere where temperature is critical", but the probe is not water-proof or even water-resistant, so you can't put it where it could get wet, so it has to go really close to the house, under an eve (very hard to reach to change the battery) or on the porch, if you have one. Either way, it'll be in a place that'll be warmer than the actual outdoors, because it's picking up the heat of the house and rising air.2) the outdoor sensor has to be hung on a nail, but the slot provided is too small for any nail or brad that has a head.Only have had these a week, so don't know anything about durability, longevity, or battery life.

The first unit I got would not recognize the exterior sensor. Tried many different times removing batteries from both, waiting, replacing batteries in the external, waiting, then replacing in the internal... but it could not find it.I ended up having to return that, but exchange was quick and painless, and the replacement units, so far, appear to work great.Note that it does take several hours for them to normalize temp. Internal and External were off by 4 and 3 degrees initially, but after some time settling (longer than you'd expect) they read pretty close to the same as my benchmark thermometers. Within a degree. That is more than acceptable for this type of product, especially at the price point.Rubber gasket on the external unit goes flying when you put in the batteries, so you'll have to gingerly put it back into place as you install them. Again, a bit of a pain, but at this price point, I can't complain. (It was a clear gasket on the first faulty unit, and a black one on the replacement, so it appears to be a problem across multiple generations.)All in all, I can't speak for long-term durability, but for the price, I find it to definitely be a good product. If they continue to work at this level, I may end up buying additional units for other locations. Recommended.

This is the 3rd one of these I have purchased. It is really kind of hit and miss whether or not you will get a working/semi-accurate thermometer. I have had to replace each one because it was accidentally knocked out of the mount bracket (very easy to do) and it shattered. Out of the 3, 2 were pretty accurate most of the time, one was way off. In all fairness, where I have it mounted it does get heat from the concrete around it, I really feel that it is not worth more than $3 or $4.

It works and is inexpensive---amazingly poorly made---if I had this item in my hands at a low end discount store I would have put it back.

Kinda accurate, but don't place it the direct tune or it will read like the surface of the sun...

I swear this didn't work, for weeks...every time I looked out to see the temperature, it read the same thing--though I was sure the temps outside WERE fluctuating. Yesterday, we had an extra nice day, and I was pleased to see the red needle had finally moved, and this morning, we've dropped back down to freezing--it says 20 degrees which sounds about right, so I guess I was wrong. Still not sure what was going on the first few weeks.

Not highly accurate (compared to old-school mercury tube outdoor thermometer). Also, In my application, would be nice if it could be mounted turned 90 degrees as all vertical surfaces are too close to door/window escaping heat.

I ordered this model on January 4, 2014. When it came I was frankly disappointed by it's cheap construction. It's almost as flat as a music CD, and paper light. Clearly, this product was built toward a profit margin rather than toward a standard of quality or accuracy.If your familiar with bimetallic strips, I'll explain that the strip is in the form of a spiral coil about the size of an American nickel coin. Say, 20 millimeters. The back of the coil is anchored to a kind of rivet in back, and the front of the coil is attached directly to the pointer needle in front. You can just see it in some photos. The mounting bracket is a flimsy metal band, though adequate for this need. It comes with two nails, but in retrospect I wish I has screwed the bracket down since, once nailed, it cannot be removed without tearing it apart.I quickly noted that the accuracy was very poor. It read high by five or six degrees Fahrenheit. That's quite a lot of error. I have been cross-checking it's accuracy against two linear thermometers, the kind with colored alcohol in a narrow glass tube. Both of my conventional thermometers (one also made by Springfield), are always in close agreement, differing by perhaps one-half degree.One reviewer mentioned that you can turn the "rivet" in back and make a course adjustment. I had not known this, but sure enough one can easily turn the back rivet to make course corrections. This eliminated the major error at a given point, but as to whether or not accuracy will be consistent and linear over a broad range is still unclear.I intend to monitor the thermometer for a few days and update my review with more detail on this point.A final detail worth mentioning; the metal bracket holds the thermometer between two plastic pegs sticking out of the housing at the top and bottom positions. These pegs are six-sided or hexagonal. The punched holes in the mounting bracket are also hexagonal. Thus, you can rotate the thermometer housing to several spaced intervals and still have it hold that position in moderate winds.Lastly, when I bought this thermometer earlier this month it was about $7. It is now about $10. All things considered, I suspect I could have spent a few dollars more for a much better thermometer elsewhere.Update: It's now January 12th, 2014. The weather here has remained consistently in the 40's so I am unable to report on this thermometers consistency over a wider range. I can report that for the past few days it has been accurate to about one degree. Not bad. One issue though; a day or so back, the sun came out here. Just a bit of feeble sun. I couldn't even feel any warmth on my hand. Nevertheless, my thermometer shot past 70 degrees even though the real temp was still in the 40's. This means that this thermometer MUST be shielded from direct sunlight. Otherwise, readings will be utterly meaningless.

Keeps track of indoor and outdoor temperatures.Is it perfect? No.Is it worth 15 dollars? Yep.For the price I have no complaints. If it were perfect it would be slightly more accurate (seems to be about a 3 degree difference on the outdoor, when compared to the closest weatherstation). This could be on me, or simply because its below freezing outside. I haven't had a negative degree day so far so I'm not sure how it will handle that. Considering that, it tells me what jacket I want without me having to walk outside first. And also lets me keep somewhat track of my indoor temperature. Although I have no other thermometer to check it against indoors. Signal reaches roughly 20 feet through a brick wall. 4x AAA batteries are needed to run it, 2x in the sensor, 2x in the display. I went with lithium in the hopes that it will still work in the negatives.3/5 because its not "outstanding", does what I want it to and I'm happy with it. Probably better ones around if you look harder.

If I could give 2.5 stars I would. It's convenient and small. However, after only 30 days of use the outdoor temp is showing the dashes several times throughout the day. I don't know why. We've moved the outdoor sensor several times to try to find a place out of the sun and I think we finally managed that but right now it isn't reading and it is in the shade. :-/ frustrated... Our phones do not show the weather over a 100 so I don't think that is the reason. It is also at different times of the day, not just late in the day.

This thermometer is okay unless you're looking for 100% accuracy and reliability. It says it is accurate to +/- 2 degrees. You should expect it to be off by 2 degrees always. My biggest problem with it is that it doesn't work all the time. It just randomly stops working for extended periods of time. It has done it enough now that I've realized the commonality is rain or high humidity. Whenever it rains or their is 100% humidity such as heavy fog, it will stop working until several hours after the rain stops. I have checked the unit several times and it has never gotten wet. It is located outside in an area that, absent horizontal rain, it can't get wet. If you live in a rainy area of the country like I do, I'd recommend spending a little more money and getting something that will be more reliable under these conditions.Update: I purchased this same product again to see if there was a manufacturing problem causing the functionality issues when it rains or is very humid. I placed the new outside unit in exactly the same place as the old one and continued to use the original inside unit. After a couple of months of use including a two day spell of record rainfall (12 inches in 24 hours), it hasn't stopped working even once through it all. Since I am not the only one who has experienced this problem with this product, it is clearly a quality control issue. Unfortunately it cost me about $10 in shipping to return the faulty product to Amazon. Thus a $20 product ended up costing me $30 due to receiving a bad product initially. It's a really nice product now that it works, but I can't recommend taking a chance on it since you may be the next victim of poor product quality control.

I purchased this thermometer to see the exterior temperature in Wisconsin winters. I wrapped the remote in a plastic bag and hung it outside, under my roof, shielded by a gutter. It functions, most of the time; often enough the indoor display shows nothing from the remote. To be fair, I bought this because it was a cheap way to get the exterior temperature. If I wanted something that consistently worked and would last more than a year I would have to spend more money.One thing of note: The remote features a red light (perhaps to show you the batteries aren't dead?). Given the cost of batteries, it seems idiotic to waste battery life running a light on a sensor unit that you hide outside. In addition, why draw attention to an unsecured, easily stolen sensor unit at night?

Outstanding. Actually I can't think of a single thing that's wrong with it. It performs just as expected. It was easy to mount and there have been no problems.Well the above statement was true at the time. Just having purchased the unit I had no way to evaluate it long-term. I have now lowered my rating from five stars down to three stars. The unit performed well for me for awhile. The temp readings in and out were always accurate. I know some others had problems with inaccurate temps but I did not. However, I have discovered as several other reviewers have noted, that the unit often stops working in cold, damp weather. This has happened a couple of times and so far it has always again become functional after the weather drys and warms but obviously during the winter you can't depend on it being dry and not cold. So because of the problem with dampness I have to downgrade my evaluation. But I will note that's the only problem I have experienced. I'll update this review again if needed.

You must use the Lithium batteries "suggested." Consider this a requirement, not a suggestion, and use in both indoor and outdoor components.Used for about 1 week in cold (20 - 40s) temps and the alkaline (fresh, current, duracel) batteries died in the outside unit, and were pretty drained in the inside unit (60-70 temps). The unit stopped reading the outdoor temps, and the numbers had become dim for the indoor temp. I replaced the batteries in the outdoor unit with new alkaline batteries, a small red light inside the unit was visible for a few seconds which I assume indicates battery power, and it still would not read. I decided to try the advanced lithium batteries ($10 for 4-pack AAA) that specifically say they perform in low temps. After replacing the batteries in the outdoor unit, the temp still did not read right away. I replaced the batteries in the indoor unit with the lithium batteries and the wi-fi signal indicator came on. I believe that if you lose signal due to battery failure, you must take out the batteries in the indoor unit and put them back in (reboot) to get the unit to search for the signal for the outdoor unit again. The indoor unit is now displaying nice bright numbers again. Since I just replaced the batteries today, I'm not sure how long to expect the lithium batteries to last. I am hoping they last 3 - 6 months, at least. For such a small unit, it does seem to use more battery power than I would have expected.This is pretty simple to use - just insert batteries, no programming. It is a very simple indoor/outdoor temp unit, nothing fancy. It is perfect for my young children and 95 year old grandfather who just want to know what the temperature is. It is not confusing, no extra information or numbers. It is a small unit, but the numbers are of adequate size to read easily. Unobtrusive, clean design.Signal is good. I had the outdoor unit on the north-east side of my house, and the indoor unit towards the south-east side of the house in the kitchen, and the signal was fine - it was about 60'. I have now placed the outdoor unit only about 3 feet away right outside on the east side of the house to try to conserve battery life. I'm not sure if having the signal travel farther requires it to boost the reception and using more battery power. I keep the outdoor unit between the screen and the glass of my window so it is easy to reach and change batteries, plus giving it some protection from weather and to avoid direct sun. So far the temp readings have been pretty accurate. My choice of location may boost it a degree or so, but I'm not noticing a discrepancy.

Very inaccurate temperature readings. It is 10-20º off. I called my neighbor who has an outside thermometer, checked the Weather channel, and dug the old thermometer out of the trash (which was accurate, but got broken) and compared all. Right now it is saying it is 12º above the actual temperature. I see other reviews that say it is accurate, but I would not recommend it.

Broke after one day and I would argue big and bold is a misnomer. More like small and flimsy.

I like the readability, but not its inability to give an accurate reading of the temperature. I thought the old one at my parents house was innacurate due to age, so ordered a new one. New one is just plain inaccurate. It currently reads 75, and it's a rainy, cloudy day. Accuweather and weather.com both have temp at 69.

This product and the cheesy aluminum holder are about as cheap and low quality imaginable. Don't expect this to last long. First windy day or heavy rain will dash it to smitherines. Garbage!

It's fine for the $5 price I paid (but not worth more) however you don't want to mount it directly in the sun because when the sunshine hits it then the readings go way too high, otherwise if it's in the shade or morning time before sunshine it's accurate, it works fine and I like it and the shape is nostalgic, but it's really cheaply made thermometer, and because of that not worth more than the $5.99 I paid for it with free s&h.edit:2 years later, the needle is already sticking in certain spots, I had to spay silicone into the back coil to free it up, hopefully it will work another year... we'll see. Next time I will buy one that is made of better longer lasting quality.

I tested this thermometer against a known-accurate thermometer and this was way off. If I adjusted it for, say, 50 degrees, then it would be a few degrees off at 70. Adjust at 70, and now 50 is off. The display is nice and big and easy to read. The bracket is almost worthless since the tabs on the thermometer are held by tension, and a slight bump knocks it off. The whole thing is so cheap feeling that I didn't even bother putting it up. I'll probably just end up throwing it away.

This product works great when it actually works. The first one I purchased worked for about 2 years and then just stopped transmitting. The inside consoles continue to work displaying the inside temp, but outside temp is blank. I purchased another remote and console and just about 2 years later it stopped functioning again. Time to move on to a better quality brand.

Disappointed. Only 2 of the 3 receivers are displaying outside temperature. I have brand new batteries but one will just not pick up the signal. I have moved it close to the transmitter and set it right next to the other two in the other rooms & it just refuses to receive the outside temp. Too bad because they are a nice size, easy to read and match the temp reading on other thermometers. Returning the product.

It measures the temperature fairly accurately, but it's very slow to respond to changes in temperature. If the temperature changes, you might not know it for an hour or more.

I bought the three receivers and the transmitter. We live in Boston so it gets pretty cold and is useful to know how cold when we are getting up. They worked OKAY for almost 1 1/2 years. The transmitter died and wouldn't give off a signal. The range was pretty limited. We had the transmitter outside next to the front door but under a large closed porch, so no rain really. The bedroom above the porch had a limited signal but was just within range, any farther and it didn't work. The other two were downstairs in different rooms and seemed to work fine, although they didn't read the same temperature when sitting side by side. Inexpensive enough, but now I have to buy another type.

I was taking 3 months worth of Arthritis medication with me to Australia, and I needed to make sure they were staying cold on the plane. I bought this to help make sure they were at the right temperature. Well, it sort of didn't work as well as I'd hoped. I was checking constantly for the temperature and I would see that the temperature was decreasing slowly and I thought, ok, it's working well. Then, it stopped at a certain temperature and stayed for a long time and I started to get suspicious and after waiting for another long while, I was sure that it just stopped working completely. For the rest of my flight, I took out the receiver and had to just keep switching the batteries from the receiver to the display monitor. They were the same batteries but somehow they just started working again after moving the batteries around. I'm not sure if it's because the receiver was starting to become frozen because of the ice pack but even if you just put it outside of your house, it should still work if it's hit with snow. So every time I had to take the receiver out I was letting the cold out of my cooler bag and I just got even more stressed about my medication. Needless to say, I did not get much rest on the flight because I was worried about the medication and who knows if they actually stayed below the required temperature. Point is, this is definitely not the best device to give you an accurate temperature if you're going to use it for traveling with medication, etc. Hopefully I never have to travel with that much medication again and have to rely on this thing.

I was very happy with the two pairs of Ambient Weather WS-04-WHITE Wireless Thermometer with Indoor and Outdoor Temperature for a day or so until I found out that they appear to use the same frequency. I had one pair to tell the temp in my small greenhouse and the other in a different part of the house for the temp on a porch. Then the unheated porch unit started giving me the greenhouse reading so I "rebooted" it and all was well for a day or so then, well then the greenhouse unit would give me the unheated porch temperature followed by a few moments of panic. After a lot of frustrations and movements of the receiving units they seemed to behave and not switch. That is, until today when the porch sending unit decided to not work at all despite new batteries and despite the receiver being two feet away. Six weeks old and failure and too late for an Amazon return! With extreme cold coming in two days I went to the local Wally World and purchased an Acurtite indootr/outdoor unit for about two dollars more. It failed completely in five minutes. A second trip to WallyWorld and that replacement works great.

If I could leave negative stars, I would.They are crap, cheap plastic...and, oh yeah, they're broken.They've been reading 120+ degrees since I took them out of the box & unpackaged them 5 days ago.I'm not even wasting any more time to go through the hassle of returning them; just dumped them in the garbage.

The first one I got I opened the package and found the dial had fallen off the thermometer. Now 7 months later with the replacement the spring that moves the dial sticks in warm weather, so I have to tap the unit to see the correct temperature. I definitely do not recommend this item due to poor construction. Lesson learned--I should pay more for decent quality to begin with.....Caveat Emptor......

This is the biggest piece of you know what that you can buy. I have adjusted the temp setting 20 times and it still will not work! I do not normally complain but DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Are you kidding me. Came in the mail reading 80 degrees. Put it up on the patio per instructions and it read 125 degrees. It has been for 12 hours and still reads 125 degrees. Its only 101 degrees. Delicate thermometer coil? Last a lifetime? Really? What is a lifetime? My thermometers lifetime as if you had immune deficiency and got a superbug and lasted 5 minutes. Buyer beware.

I purchased this Springfield thermometer to monitor the temperature in my newly insulated garage. I wanted to know if the temperature in my garage got below freezing because of some things I store in the garage. I became suspicious that the Springfield thermometer was inaccurate when the reading didn't change much when the daily temperatures changed quite a lot. So I put my refrigerator thermometer in the garage next to this Springfield thermometer. The readings were anywhere from 8 to 15 degrees different, with the Springfield thermometer remaining mostly unchanged while the refrigerator thermometer varied with the weather. I should have returned the Springfield thermometer, but in frustration I threw it into the garbage. Save your money and do not purchase this Springfield thermometer.

Unit looks nice and is easy to mount, however the unit was consistently more than 20 degrees off actual temperature .

Doesn't work at all. The remote doesn't work. I was able to get two readouts when you change all four batteries, but there was no further readout and the remote just goes blank or remains on the one readout forever.Sending it back to Amazon. Going to try dropping at Amazon locker as my return option - first time, will see how that process works.

I bought this and it worked fine until the display started to fade and fade somewhere around 10-12 months. I finally could barely read it so I called them after 14 months of owning it. They told me to submit a return claim, I did and they turned it down saying their warranty is good for 12 months. It probably started fading at 10 months but being busy, I did not call them. It's cheap so buy a different brand but if you buy one, make sure your return it for a new one before 12 months. Cheapo.

A couple weeks after receipt the outside temperature display would intermittently go blank. Lately it is blank all the time and battery replacement has done no good. While this is a rather inexpensive device, it becomes quite expensive when you only get a couple months of reasonable use out of it!

Worked as expected for 3 months, after which the indoor temperature only displays a single whole number and the decimal place (see picture). Very disappointed in this product!

Update March 2017: Outdoor unit just couldn't transmit more than 10 feet, even with lithium batteries. Finally replaced with a newLaCrosse unit that is bigger and transmits farther.I've given up on this. It's accurate when it works, but it drops the outdoor temp signal too often. Yes, I've changed the batteries in both units more than once.Also, if you do try to access the batteries in the outdoor unit, the very thin gasket will likely be dislodged. Be careful not to lose or break it.Shopping for a more reliable device soon.

I followed the directions to set up this unit allowing the two display temperatures to get close to each other. They were off by 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit when I put the remote sensor outside. I put it on a north facing well out of direct sunlight, close to the eave of the house but not where heat may gather. I knew there was a problem the first day when the local airport was showing 84F and my gauge was showing over 90F.I thought that I needed to give it time. At points it was showing over 20F difference to what the local airport gauge was showing.After a week, the gauge started to show three dashes --- so I brought it inside. I then tested to see it would deal with telling the temperature inside. It is still off from the inside unit though it functions better in 70-80 degree weather than it does with over 80 degree weather.Unfortunately I waited over a month to take it out of the box and I cannot return or get a refund. It's not really expensive enough to spend any more time on it. I would not recommend it.