Customer Reviews

Honeywell TE109NL Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer with Alarm Clock

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The product worked very well for six months or so then the batteries went dead; after replacing the batteries it lasted about 3 weeks; now the out door temperature device dosen't work.

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, mine actually read the outdoor temperature transmitter for about a year, now it's dead. Fresh batteries, sitting right next to each other, no luck.

I think the transmitter actually still works, it's the base that has issues. The base still works as a thermometer, but it just got tired of looking for the signal from the outdoor transmitter. The only way I can get it to work is to remove the batteries from the base...wait, put them back in...it will look for the transmitter for a while and get a reading...then it gets tired of that and gives me dashed lines.

I've tried everything, the thing is just broken. The sad thing is, I just used mine within the house for zone heating purposes...it never had to deal with the elements or anything, never dropped, blocked signals...nothing...it just simply stopped working.

We have a similar unit by another manufacture at our vacation home. I wanted one for our primary residence but couldn't find the same model and brand. And that's a good thing, because this one out performs our original one. It's more reliable and the batteries have already lasted for a year (the other model required new batteries every few months). I may end up replacing the one in our vacation home with this model. The longer battery life alone could pay for the purchase.

Since I only had this product for a half hour before I returned it, I cannot comment on how well the thermometer function worked except to say that it seemed that it did set up properly. The temperature did register and the sensor and receiver did talk to each other within 2 minutes as stated in the product literature. Since they were talking with their faces pressed together as per the instructions, however, I don't think they enjoyed it much.

Putting batteries into the sensor is major pain since removing and replacing the 4 minuscule screws is something only a neurotic clockmaker would love. It took 8 minutes to perform this function. Also, the reset button for the sensor is - you guessed it - inside the battery compartment.

Be sure to read the instructions, because there is a very specific sequence for setting up this product. For example, you have to put the batteries in the sensor first, then the receiver, then set the time, etc.

As a alarm clock, this product left me cold. First of all, it does not have a true crescendo alarm. Rather, it chirps - slowly at first, then more rapidly. It also has no backlight function, so it is impossible to see the time at night. While the product is nicely designed, it seems easy to tip over while searching sleepily for the snooze, which is on the top of the product.

Overall, as disappointing as drinking a tepid latte, alone, at your cousin's bachelorette party.

The indoor temperature reading is good and the clock is good too. But the outdoor reading died in less than 6 months. Even new batteries didn't help. I expected a better product

This thing is a royal pain to set up, and even then if you are fussy enough to actually want the sensor "outdoors," you're in for trouble. I could not get it to transmit 25 feet through a line of sight window for more than a few hours.
It's a toy, and not a very good one at that. It reminded me of the "walkie talkies" kids used to have, that worked only while you and your friend were within 5 feet of each other!

I have had one of these units for about 3 years now, and find that it has a number of bad mannerisms. I use the clock and the temperature functions. Most of the time, it works fine. I never use the alarm. The unit is prone to throwing little electronic fits from time to time such as refusing to tell me the outside temperature. The fix is usually to put the two units adjacent to each other for a while. However, yesterday (06/20/08), the inside unit registered 112 deg F at 5 am. It had been 112 outside the day before, but was around 75 at 5 am. I opened the outside unit, replaced the batts (it prefers DuroCells), pressed reset and closed it up. It still showed 112 on the inside unit. I opened that one up, pulled the batts, let it stand for a while and put in 2 new DuroCells. Then I let them commiserate together for a while, and the system decided to work again. The system is working fine as I write this.

I bought this as a gift for my grandmother who is always keeping up with the temperature. She didn't have a good place to put the giant thermometer outside, so I got her this one. She carries it around the house with her from bedroom to living room and so on. She always knows what the temperature is now! And the large digits are easy for her eyes to read.

I purchased this item as a gift for my parents but I was not as impressed with this style of Indoor/Outdoor thermometer as I was with one I had purchsed for myself from L.L. Bean several years previous.

Very simple, the outdoor temperature gauge does not take accurate temps. It is now 32 degrees outside and the unit shows 51 degrees. Not worth the money, at any cost.