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hey I'm seemeth right Crist today we're taking a look at the netatmo weather station this is a two-part device you're going to get an indoor and the smaller outdoor module and both of them are going to keep track of the environment they're going to take the temperature monitor the humidity you're even going to measure things like co2 levels and sound and all that information is going to go straight to the netatmo app for Android and iOS devices as well as the netatmo website the indoor module plugs in by a micro USB while the outdoor module uses triple-a batteries two of them you'll unscrew it and unscrew these and put those batteries in this to me was kind of frustrating because you have to really unscrew these things and pull it out to get to the battery compartment and it isn't totally clear on which way the batteries go is a little confusing so if you do it wrong and try it out you'll have to unscrew everything all over again to get those back in not a huge deal but still not a perfect design that said in our test this kit did pretty well it was very accurate it was responsive and it told us what we wanted to know the app is very clean and fun to play with especially on iPads or other tablet or you get a little more real estate on the screen to play with it's easy to use and it's got a lot of functionality packed into it another cool thing about this device is that it has a really comprehensive if to channel so all that information that you're taking in temperature humidity co2 levels noise you'll be able to use those as triggers for your ifft recipes if you want to have the switch in your bedroom turn on whenever it gets too warm and turn a fan on you can do that with this system still this isn't the only product that offers that level of environmental triggering capabilities and at 179 dollars i'm not sure that it's the most cost-effective we've tested out the quirky and GE spotter that's a fifty-dollar device that can monitor sound and light and temperature humidity and trigger all of that on ifft and there's also the dedicated weather channel on if that uses the iOS weather app and so you can trigger things based on the relative outdoor temperature and factors like that without having to buy an expensive kit like this I'll confess I'm not much of a weather geek I've never really tracked the co2 levels in my home or worried about the UV index outside and if you're not that type of person either I don't know that the netatmo weather station will get you there it's not going to build sudden interest in those things and after a while it might actually become boring but if you do have an interest in whether if you find it fascinating or if you have a greenhouse or a wine cellar someplace that you need to keep tabs on I think the net at mo could work really well it's an easy to use product that worked well in our tests give accurate readings and I like the app the app is pretty and fun to play with I can't say that I would rush out to buy one but I'm not going to say that doesn't mean that you should we're seen it I'm right Chris