Netatmo Rain Gauge for Weather Station, NRG01-WW, Accessory

This is the second rain gauge I have bought; the first was destroyed by a Tesco delivery van. The previous unit has worked well for a couple of years and is an excellent addition to my weather station. I am not sure of the absolute accuracy, but it is a reliable indicator if the rain is very heavy or light. Simple and robust construction - but I recommend installation away from rogue delivery vehicles.

Works a treat! Make sure you secure it firmly though. I had simply placed it on top of a flat shed roof but high winds blew it straight off. It smashed on the concrete patio but I managed to put it back together and got it to work again. Lucky I guess so I've now fastened it to a house brick using two screws through the base. Placed that back on the shed roof and it has stayed there right through the winter. Seems to be quite accurate compared with my old fashioned mechanical rain gauge in the garden. You get alerts on your iPhone when the rainfall reaches a certain limit. Recommended.

I bought the rain gauge as a final addition to my Netatmo weather set-up. As with the other elements the device was perfectly packaged and very well constructed. Installing it took only minutes on an existing bracket and pole used for the wind monitor and connection to the wi-fi network was straightforward. Since then there hasn't been much rain ! What little there has been has registered apparently accurately so I'm entirely happy with the gauge and indeed the complete weather station.

Excellent addition to my weather station. Finding a place to mount the gauge was the most difficult part! It needs to be clear of anything that may cause a 'rain-shadow', trees, houses, fences etc and within range of the base unit. In the end I installed a post in the middle of the garden that positions the gauge in clear space and above all planting. Seems to work a treat. Make sure you install the gauge absolutely level as the tipper mechanism relies on this. Basically the funnel takes the water to a tipping bucket switch in the centre of the unit, when the little bucket is full, it tips to the side and the second bucket fills up, empties and then repeats itself. I think each "tip" of the bucket indicates 0.3mm of rainfall.

This is a really nice addition to the netatmo weather station. I found a place on the corner of the roof of my shed in the garden away from trees and above the fence. I made a simple wooden V shaped block and fixed it to the roof with felt glue. It sends signals every half an hour via the wifi network. The only strange thing about the high quality Apple style packaging was the lack of any instructions? Not really needed but a link to somewhere online would have been helpful. The website did not seem to have any extra info either. Utube had a video which did help.

Got a Netatmo weather station last year for xmas, excellent kit works well no problems. Added the Anenometer and Rain Guage this year, big mistake. The cosmetic quality and feel was very good, these are expensive items but neither "add on" worked. The rain guage just would not connect to the weather station no matter what I did so waste of time and money straight off there. The Anenometer connected to the base station and worked OK but constantly reported a flat battery (despite trying new batteries several times including the factory fitted ones) the sensor was not working. This means that the thing emails every half an hour demanding the battery is changed ASAP. So most of Xmas day was spent by me climbing ladders and faffing about with these items pointlessly, my wife didn't get her Xmas present, returning both to Amazon who "cannot replace them" and will refund the cash. Both of these items dead on arrival with critical faults looks suspicious to me, purporting to be quality "smart" devices the ones I got are bug ridden rubbish and wasted a lot of my time and patience. I won't be buying anything from this bunch of clowns again.

Quite impressed with its accuracy and simplicity but there are a few simple things Netatmo could do to help. Very easy to set up and then leave.There's mounting kit with it at all. I put it on a small portable camera tripod and used cable ties to mount that on to a post at about 4 feet. Don't put it in a hole I the ground as someone indicated as splashing will distort the results as will placing it too close to buildings.Netatmo should explain the standards required to make their network much more precise. For example it's obvious looking at their map that many people Moir temporary gauge in the sun - 40 C in U.K.in May anyone?If like me, your geeky enough to want a weather station I am sure you also want good comparability of results.

I was disappointed with this. It works as expected, but it's vital that you calibrate it. Even after calibrating, the results are a bit difficult to trust. Is 1mm/hour a lot or a little? Also - not Netatmo's fault - a lot of the accuracy relies on positioning. Ideally, you'd put it above ground with no trees or walls nearby, but not all of us are so lucky! I use it mainly to pick up the data from its API, but Netatmo could do a lot more with it (the rain alert is always delayed, and it only measures rainfall per hour, not immediately). It's also overpriced.