Customer Reviews

Honeywell TN924W Weather Information Station, Black

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I wanted to write my own review of the Honeywell TN924W after reading the reviews here. I agree with almost all of the statements here, both pro and con. But most of the complaints are subjective, and what kills the unit for some might be acceptable for others.

Although the unit can display lots of information, it can only display a few pieces of data at a time. The buttons to cycle through the different types of data are inconveniently located on the back of the unit. While not ideal, you will get used to the "touch and feel" system after awhile. However, this precludes mounting the unit on a wall using the included bracket. This is a rather bad oversight, in my opinion.

The station will drop the signal from the remote sensors, too. This is an annoyance, but an easy fix once you learn how to force the unit to search for signals (Just hold down the "down" button on the back for a few seconds). Unfortunately, the included manual is pretty bad and not much help in finding solutions for the quirks of the Honeywell. I downloaded an updated PDF version from the Honeywell website that is much better.

One reviewer stated that the backlight is too bright. The backlight can be turned on, off, or set on automatic. If you find it to be too bright, you can always turn it off.

The Honeywell TN924W is the only weather station I have ever owned or am familiar with, so I cannot compare it to anything else. While not perfect, I am very happy with mine. I recently received the Weather View 32 software for uploading my weather data to my personal website, Weather Underground, and CWOP. It took some figuring out, but everything is up and running wonderfully.

The Honeywell TN924W is an impressive little unit, with lots of features and tons of potential. But it is not without its quirks. Remember that it is a piece of technical scientific equipment. If you don't have the patience to learn the unit and work through a few minor issues, you could very well become frustrated. Don't expect it to work perfectly right out of the box. You need to go through a somewhat lengthy setup process, and you need to do some research (find your latitude, longitude, and elevation) to complete the setup.

This is the first complete weather station that offers the s.a.m.e noaa weather radio reports. This feature sounds fine and works once you set it up, but has some design flaws. You can not make the alarm part of the radio any softer although you can turn the alarm and voice off entirely if you wish to. However, they included a volume for the voice. The problem is that even the voice being set to the lowest level in my case is still too loud. The alarm also goes off whether you set it to voice mode or not so you either have to turn it off or keep them both on.
As far as th weather station goes it gives all the features of other weather stations minus the UV light. One other note is that they removed the remote that the previous version had and I am not sure what made them do this as all the buttons are in the back of the base unit so the remote would have made it easier to operate all the functions the weather station has to offer.
It took an hour or so to mount the outdoor instruments and they immeadiatly started communicating with the base unit and all seem accurate enough. I am however still wondering about the built in barometer as I have seen the barometer change too rapidly so I am not sure if this flaw exists in all the base units. Honeywell said that they are shipping another base unit so I will have to see if the same problem exists.
There are some other features like a sensor light that works well and the included simplistic software package for a USB connection to a computer so you can monitor the weather records.
It is still nice to see that the main selling point of this weather station being the weather radio in this case works if you can live with its flaws. Honeywell would have the perfect weather tool if they would redesign some things and fix other things with the weather station.

sorry to report that this product needs help...the buttons on the back are very inconvenient because they do not allow you to see the information on the front as you meander trying to reach the correct program...one mistake and you start all over and there are times you are attempting to receive information and before you realize it you have touched a button that has put you into a different setting. also the anometer range is only 100 feet at best while the site states 300 feet...regretfully it was returned...amazon is really great in this respect.

UPDATED REVIEW:
Unit stopped receiving signals from both the ANEMOMETER and outdoor TEMP/HUMIDITY; I would reset them and they would drop off again in a few days. As well weather radio stop functioning today. I no longer recommend this product to anyone. The unit worked OK for about 5 months then it just started flaking out. Sensors drop outs, screen glitches, and finally the weather radio just stopped working. It's obvious from all of the reviews this isn't a quality unit.

Don't waste your money on this piece of junk. The base station will not stay connected with the sensors even though the thermo-hygrometer sensor is less than 5 feet away. Technical support is worthless. Their support consists of asking if you have changed the batteries. They finally sent a new base unit which worked for about 5 days before losing contact. The back light on the display is too bright to have in a room where you might want to sleep. The buttons for programing and changing the display screen are on the back and very hard to use since you can't see them and the display at the same time.

Sensors and display work as expected. Setup is somewhat fool proof. The USB link software doesn't seem to work. There doesn't seem to be an update to fix this on the Hideki Electronics web site. Some 3rd party weatherstation seems to work better, but it looks like a hackers project. Definitely don't pay list price since the USB needs work.

I have tried a couple weather stations but not one with the Public Alert option. I would consider the weather station functions to superior to what I had tried from Oregon Scientific and was very pleased. The time set automatically and worked as expected. I was very impressed with the sun and moon clock functions. I would recommend to someone in the market for this type of item.

The Honeywell TN924W is a very good low cost weather station. It has a built-in NOAA public alert radio receiver. The computer interface is via USB cable. The capture software is very good. The only problem with the station is that the outdoor temp sensor and the wind meter signals get dropped and have to be restarted. I do not know how to correct this situation. Other signals have been perpetually transmitted and received.

Somewhat surprised that a product costing $ 250 would require that the buyer supply the batteries (12 AA's) to make it operational.

Physical set up was not that difficult but, programming was certainly not easy.

Manual statements on the ranges of the remote devices were quite exagerated. Hygrometer (300 ft) and Anemometer and Rain Gauge (100 ft)will not maintain signal at half those distances. Had to relocate twice for good contact.

Had one issue with the device that was not covered in the manual. Tried resolving through customer support. Inital contact was "clueless" and referred me to Tech Support "voicemail".

After two more calls they finally called me back....30 hours later and were not much more enlightened than my first contact.

Honeywell TN924W Weather is working great. I purchased a Lacross station 3 years ago and this honeywell I have owned for three months is much better.