La Crosse View Reviews

by Confused On Correct Weather

I had the device for about three months. Almost every single time I opened my phone app, it displayed only dashes as it did not show any of the information? Several days would go by and none of the digits displayed on the device would change? Clearly as cold as it has been, The temperature would go way down at night and back up again later in the day but the device did not display this? I contacted the company a few times and one of the times they replied back saying that the device will only update once every six hours. So basically four times within a 24 hour. The device changes which means at that exact moment it is displaying possibly the correct digits, but for the next six hours it’s only displaying what it was six hours ago?? In our case the numbers were not even changing and on the phone app it almost always displayed nothing at all. The company never contacted us back the other times and the information they gave us initially did not help so we finally returned the weather station. We purchased one for a Christmas gift for somebody and they are having the same problem. The information displayed even if correct is on our phone app on a regular basis so it’s kind of useless because we were to the understanding it would show the information from right outside of our home. Walmart sells a device for under $10 that shows your inside and outside temperature on real time not only once every six hours.

by JonoVK-the Original

Loved this when we first bought it. Was looking for an additional sensor for another area. Then upgraded our network to a mesh system. Every other device in the house was able to connect without any problem. Not the La Crosse View app! Other devices require 2.4 Ghz channel and are able to find it easily. Not the La Crosse ViewApp.
Updates come out with “WiFi device connection improvements” I download in anticipation and try again. Still won’t connect.
Instructions say if you have a mesh device you should turn off your satellites and move further away so you connect via 2.4 ghz. Ok, try that. Turn off satellites, walk away from house to get to 2.4 ghz band. Then LaCrosseView loses the connection to the La Crosse base station. Walk back to house to reconnect to La Crosse base station. Phone still connected to 2.4 ghz but STILL won’t connect. Come on La Crosse, figure out WiFi! Every other smart device I own is able to do it, why can’t you?
Bought this specifically because of the “anywhere access” now I can only see it when I am in same room.

by Tarahook

I really wanted to like the projector alarm clock weather station that I got at Costco, but am so disappointed by LaCrosseView , that I might return it. I was excited by the prospect of allowing my kids to see the forecast as they woke up, to help them prepare for the day ahead, but the utter lack of design in the alarm’s program features render it almost useless. There needs to be a better way to program the alarm in LaCrosseView , for which days it should be on and off. Seems like it would be really easy to add this feature, so that you can program a M-F alarm and not worry about turning it off every weekend and back on again for weekdays. Can this be incorporated into an update?? I hope so or I’ll be returning them soon.
LaCrosseView also doesn’t allow you to delete any erroneous stations that are inadvertently created. Which would be another easy fix.
I like the display, and the projection features, but wish there was a radio option built in for the alarm.
And even though you can turn on and off the alarm with LaCrosseView , the change is not initiated right away, and so it’s hard to tell if the alarm is actually being set or not. And when I get frustrated and turn it on annually, if I forget to change LaCrosseView ’s “on” setting, the alarm will turn itself back off through LaCrosseView .
This could be a really great product if they make a few small changes, but as it is, I’m more frustrated than happy with it.

by Ru4tun81

Tell me which routers in the last 5 years would you ever buy, that ONLY broadcasts 2.4Ghz? I bought this LaCrosse a YEAR ago in early 2020. Yet it will ONLY connect to the WiFi in 2.4Ghz mode! What’s the matter with you people???
You START with OLD technology? I have this device in my living room, and I have an access point in my living room; which is broadcasting in 5Ghz FIRST and PRIMARILY. You want me to walk around outside and get my iPhone/iPad to notch back half a decade to connect to this thing? JUST PUT THE RIGHT CHIP IN THERE TO MAKE IT WORK!!! Guess what? 5G is coming too. What are you going to do about that? C’mon man!
Very disappointed! Give me my money back, or send me the next model that you FINALLY put the right chips in there to recognize 5Ghz, and let me access the data remotely without having to be logged into the network. I want to get alerts on my smartphone while I’m away from my home. If I’ve got water leaking while I’m a hundred miles away, I still want to know that! And be able to get someone there to fix it for me.

by Gordon7477

This system would be great if it worked, however since purchasing the system at Sam’s Club, the display module and the sensors worked great... However after about 45 days the system lost WiFi connection, contacted Lacrosse via email, since they have no customer service you can call and physically talk with a rep, no response... After @ 5-6 months, ran across something while surfing the web, was able to get a link that gave instructions on connecting troubles to WiFi and what to do... Went through the steps didn’t work, and the end of the tutorial, gave you another link to report a faulty display, Lacrosse notified me via email and said a new display would be sent, only display no power adapter... After a couple of weeks, yesterday I received my new display... Using the original power hooked up new display unit, was back up and running... That’s great right... Well today, wind gauge works, water sensors working and Display Unit working, can view all data on my smartphone... Great, not so great, well the outdoor temperature and humidity sensor stopped displaying, change the batteries brought it in, won’t sync... Watched another tutorial, need to reset your system to factory settings... Did that, now back in the same place I started... Display won’t connect to WiFi and Temperature & Humidity doesn’t work... Great... Just saying don’t waste your hard earned money on this system...

by Cosmiclemons

I really enjoy the concept of having a home weather station with access to raw data and being able to use an app that integrates everything. My frustration comes with the fact that without additional purchasing, you only have access to 7 days worth of data, or in some cases just 24 hours. It also doesn’t log the wind direction in the data, only on the view screen. The other frustrating part is that about a month ago my app is not getting access to the data at all. So when I open the screen to look at what the temperature was last night while I was sleeping, it shows nothing, no current data, no past data, nothing. Admittedly I could spend another couple hours on trial and error to see if I can’t figure that problem out (batteries and WiFi have been eliminated as the problem culprits). In any case, it’s great for looking at during a storm and keeping track of the data yourself, but not so much for archiving information or really gathering data at all. I’m giving it a 4/10.

by Johncmatthews

As a software developer I’m sad to see the lost opportunity that is LaCrosseView. The display that comes with the weather station is a one stop shop. Everything you need is nicely displayed on one screen, but LaCrosseView is far from that. There is no nice summary display of your weather station data. The information from the various sensors is disjoint, and LaCrosseView doesn’t even provide access to all of the sensor data that is available. One example, I can’t view the current barometric pressure from LaCrosseView , but it’s available on the display in my house. Why on earth would you go through the effort of building an app, and create a disaster like this? Nobody wants to browse to three separate sections of LaCrosseView to view summary data from three separate sensors. Also, the swipe up functionality on the home screen of LaCrosseView wastes a ridiculous amount of space with a pointless picture. I’m very disappointed. Please fix this mess!

by Spy Games

Strange things have been happening with my app that I cannot explain. LaCrosseView doesn’t update as frequently as the in home unit and often shows conflicting info.

For example: This morning around 0600 my app registered a wind speed at 0mph, one minute later the wind speed was 128mph, the next minute back to 0mph. I checked the in home unit and the data was completely different. The hours before and since the recorded 128mph gust were all below 10mph, leading me to believe there was a malfunction within LaCrosseView itself. I live in a cold and windy northern state, with high wind prone areas so I thought LaCrosseView would be nice to have. I use LaCrosseView for when I travel so I can check in and see the temperature inside and outside the house, as well as the wind speed. The few times I’ve been away and used LaCrosseView it has either completely failed to update or given me incredibly inaccurate information. I’ve had some issues but easily resolved issues with the units themselves. However, this new glitch, and yet another one with LaCrosseView is making me less confident in the remote data I receive from LaCrosseView .

by Looking_forward__

The software works fine with my main complaint being that it only displays relative humidity instead of the dew point temperature. It would be better if the gave an option to display a graph of dew point instead of the relative humidity. The display of relative humidity is not helpful since it is temperature dependent. For example if the morning low temperature falls to the dew point temperature of 68 degrees F the relative humidity is 100%. If you have a high temperature later in the day of 96 degrees F the relative humidity will be about 40%. If there is no change in the air mass such as with the approach of a cold front or storm system the dew point will be steady around 68 degrees F. A dew point of 68 degrees F will be uncomfortable for outdoor activities and lower dew point temperature in the 50s will feel much better. The display of relative humidity does not give meaningful information since it depends on what the temperature does. It would be a much nicer option to be able to display the dew point both on the screen of the device and the application.

by Alien2Me

When this unit (CR8300) has connectivity, it is fun and easy use. We travel a lot and live on the coast, so remote monitoring and our set up alerts are important. However, we are now on our third unit. The first one would not connect to our Linksys router so LaCrosse sent us a new one. This one did not connect either so we bought a different router. This worked great for six (6) months and then it too lost connectivity. LaCross is sending us another base station as it appears the WiFi within the unit is now broken. We can only hope this unit works and works longer than six (6) months. If it doesn’t, we’ll be out of warranty and LaCrosse support states “we’ll see then if there’s anything we can do”. If it were not for these connectivity issues, we would have given this unit five (5) stars. It should be noted that each time we’ve called support, the unit has had to be factory reset, consequently losing all: 1 hour, 24 hour, monthly and yearly totals. This, the connectivity issues and the warranty concern is why this unit only get a three (3) star rating.

by Prakz1

I’ve trying for an hour to get LaCrosseView to connect the device to my phone and it won’t. LaCrosseView just keeps telling me “device connection to the server unsuccessful” and to move further away from the router to get on the 2.4 ghz network. I am on it. I’ve googled this error and searched the website as well and no results. I’ve googled every combination of synchrony phone and device and can’t find anything. It’s astonishing that there’s no help or faq for something so basic.

Update a few days later: somehow, the device and the phone decided to synch up together on their own. I’m still not too thrilled about the original issue or complete lack of information on how to troubleshoot it. I do appreciate the developers advising to reach out to them on Facebook for help, but it seems to be an extremely arduous process for what I’m sure isn’t an uncommon occurrence. So bumping to 3 stars

by Mondan70

I received my unit as a Christmas gift. It is the big set with all the sensors; temperature, rain, wind, the large home base monitor, and the small remote monitor for another room. Set up was easy if you follow the instructions and don’t try to wing it yourself. The only issue I had was a few months after set up it wouldn’t stay connected to the WiFi and then the rain sensor went bad. I was worried that since I didn’t have the receipt or the box it came in that I would have issues with warranty. I called customer service and without hesitation the agent said they would send a whole new system. A week later it arrived, I set it up, and mailed all the old equipment back in the box provided. Everything has worked great since.

by Ctkjr

I’ve owned an AcuRite weather station for years so I was reluctant to change. But after having so many problems with readings and signal strength from my AcuRite weather station I thought now was the time. My first review of La Crosse technology weather station is impressive. The signal strength wherever I’ve placed it in my yard (and I have 1.5 acres) did not change. Strong signal everywhere. Secondly, the temperature/humidity readings are spot on accurate with the NWS readings. I was very impressed with this. Make sure that you follow La Crosse tips on where to place your sensors. This will give you the most accurate readings. Lastly, I like very much how you can place the sensors separately around the yard to get the most accurate readings and strength of signal. This was something I could never do with the AcuRite weather station. All the AcuRite sensors are built into one weather station. So far I am very pleased with my purchase of La Crosse Technologies Weather station.

by Firehill1

After reading some of the reviews, I was wondering if my issue would get fixed, but have to say, LaCrosse were spot on. I received my weather station in December and all was great till a few weeks ago. My app started showing all dashes with no data although my device id numbers were still showing up. Weather station was still showing most data, but not all the Accuweather forecast. I emailed support and the same day I received a response from Gary that gave me a couple of things to do to try and fix the issue and if they didn’t send them my device id number and mailing address, which I emailed back the info. Immediately I received an email that my issue had been turned over to warranty and I should receive a replacement weather station in 10-15 days. Well, my replacement arrived in 3 days and all is back up and running. Thank you Gary and LaCrosse for the awesome and quick response.

by Santiago The Weatherman

There are a number of personal weather stations on the market. Weather Underground has thousands they tap for neighborhood weather worldwide. At Costco it looked like this was an abridged feature set version of a full featured weather station. I could expect to get world wide access to the outdoor weather at my house. Cool. Only it's not so intuitively obvious. It will do both outdoor and indoor readings on LaCrosseView , but only after you enter both the indoor console and any outdoor sensors separately.

Setup is also dicey. You apparently need to not be just on the same Wi-Fi network, you also need to be on the same frequency band. That means going far away in your house where the 5 GHz signal is not predominant on your phone. The LaCrosse device is on the 2.4 GHz band only. Not spelled out in the instructions. Overall I guess it might be worth what I paid for it, but it's very poor marketing. Could it be fixed by better firmware and software? Of course. It's just we'll never see that on our devices.

by PDF Monger

Got a replacement temp and humidity sensor from the nice folks at Lacrosse and finally have everything communicating nicely. Got station uploading to Weather Underground which allows me to use their advanced WunderStation app. This is a very nice option on the iPad for viewing my stations data.
My wife likes the Lacrosse View app on her phone but we can’t figure out why, even though the station displays the outside temp as well as the “feels like” temp, when viewing the outdoor temp/humidity device screen, the lacrosse view app always shows outdoor temperature and exactly the same temp in a smaller font below it with the words “Heat Index”. This shows even when the temp is 20 degrees and the wind is gusting to 40 mph. Right now the station says “Outdoor 35 F” with a wind speed of 15 mph and “Feels Like 26”. The Lacrosse View App outdoor temp/humidity device page says 35 with Heat index 35.
Any ideas about that one? The WunderStation App has it all right, up to the second. I’d like to get this Lacrosse View App working right for the sake of the phone.
Thx for any help.

by Run4lancers

LaCrosseView has it all! I have struggled finding a weather station that works for me and is accurate. The weather station I got not only tells you the outdoor conditions, but it also lets me know how warm my shop and my house is. I am currently sitting 5 states away from my house & was able to simply log on to LaCrosseView to check & make sure everything is working okay. La Crosse Technology never fails to amaze me with their amazing products, friendly staff, and very competitive pricing! This product is very newly released so there has been a few minor glitches, but with a quick call to the company they have always gone above and beyond to fix the issue and make it right. After testing out many different stations, I have finally found a system that I love and trust. I would recommend this product, app and brand to all!

by Mdkochan

Got this as a unexpected gift and had no idea the amount of detail it actually offers. The set up was good with one issue: No Wireless MAC Address label to be found. So I disabled my MAC filtering on the WiFi router, connected it, went into my router’s settings on the internet and saw the address that way, added it to my address list and re-enabled the filter. LaCrosseView works seamlessly on an iPhone 7 Plus. I have experienced zero issues. You can also add other sensors that you buy for a cottage, barn, or dog house etc and use your personal pictures as a background for each location of the sensor you wish to see readings on. This set up with LaCrosseView and device is working so far. I’ll update my review in 2 months but as of now it works perfectly.
-Update-
4 months later and everything is going good sensor wise but display wise there’s issues. I just managed my data stream, deleted cloud cover which only reads a percentage and says auto/auto next to it in the ticker, deleted snow accumulation which read normal, added wind speed, and possibility of damaging thunderstorms, and for some reason it won’t update correctly and I get an error in LaCrosseView .
I took two stars away

by Rollm254

Best low cost WIFI sensor App package for remotely sensing A homes indoor and outdoor environments. This includes settable hi and low alarm points of Temperate Humidity sensors and wet/dry floor. 1 app combines multiple sensors signals all sent to a single station. Setup as many sensors a home might need then set parameters in LaCrosseView to Alarm as needed. This will even send emails of any alarm. You will always know if your home AC or furnace quit should temps go out of thermostat settings. That dehumidifiers stops working no problem. You get an alarm on your cell phone. This thing is great! You can look at a history chart of each sensor too on LaCrosseView . Easy naming conventions for each sensor and you can take a picture of each room that shows where that sensor is.
I have 5 boiler zones heating system at home and have 6 temp sensors. Last winter one day I got a low temp alarm in 1 zone. It was -10 F. outside. I called a repair guy from Florida who fixed the boiler before pipes froze back home in Vermont.
My Lacrosse View pkg paid for itself right then. I love it. Easy to setup and change as needed. Easy to use and watch what is happening at home while not there.
Pj Couillard

by La Crossee User 53893

When I first bought weather station, it would not connect to router because the router was too old. I got a mesh router and it solved the problem. It was worrying great for more than a month. An update for the la crosse app was released around 2/8/19 and after a few days, WiFi stopped working on weather station. I’ve tried troubleshooting in so many ways and according to the recommended solutions but nothing works. I restart, master restart, power cycle, deleted app and reload, press + - for 3 secs and WiFi says lost connection. Can no longer use LaCrosseView . Also the WiFi setup in LaCrosseView doesn’t work well. It doesn’t let you choose other available SSIDs to try since our router transmits two signals. This is frustrating.

I think something changed w LaCrosseView update because it was working fine. What happened?

by Bpnine

They have a problem to solve: how do you get the ssid and password to the device with no real user interface (a clock from Costco in my case). Most IOT devices do this by advertising as an AP for setup which you connect to and then app can talk to the device and transfer the real ssid and password. I’ve seen some that use Bluetooth or a microphone or even a light sensor (watching LaCrosseView blink out data on the screen) to get the data from LaCrosseView to the device. All of these are kind of clunky but serviceable.

After an hour with wire shark I think I see what lacross is trying to do: they have LaCrosseView send packets with specific timing and try to put the ssid and password into the timing variations rather than the packet data. They probably also try to filter out weaker signals. The unit can’t tell who’s traffic it’s seeing but can see a regular pattern of packets in the air and extract what it needs from that. The problem of course is if there is traffic on your network (or any of your neighbors) it disrupts the timing so this won’t work well. Their FAQ helpfully suggests “your WiFi may be too busy, try again in half an hour”.

I’m guessing this may be like the horribly slow and flakey method they use to pair sensors.

So given this background my review is one star because it doesn’t work well at all in real life scenarios. I’m returning the clock and will avoid anything that may have their WiFi solution in it in the future.

by Long Raleigh

I bought this unit a few months ago from Costco. It's pretty easy to setup and connect to my wifi, the La Crosse View app was easy to setup and connect to the unit without any issue, which is it was showing the outside temp for 24 hours, the wifi indicator on the unit shown too. But then since last few days, the outside temperature disappeared. The unit appears like it is a standalone unit: no wifi!
I tried reset to the manufacture setup and reinstalled LaCrosseView then set it up from scratch, no help. Reported to La Crosse, only got an email telling me to reload the device. Even I disconnect the power source, removed the battery and put them back and tried to setup from very beginning. Same issue: no wifi indicator, no outside temperature, even from LaCrosseView where it connects successfully to the server but LaCrosseView not show the outside temp either. Must be a weather station problem??!

by Nannykris

I was excited to buy the weather station. When I got it home, had it mounted and got it connected to LaCrosseView I was disappointed because LaCrosseView only showed dashes. I called Lacrosse and was left on hold for 2 hours. When they answered they took my information and said the issue would be looked into and I would receive a call inn24 hours. Well I never received a call. So I called back. This time a very helpful young lady answered. She said a trouble ticket had not been entered. At this point I was livid. 😡. She too the information once again and said there is a known issue with LaCrosseView but it will be fixed quickly. She told me to keep
Checking LaCrosseView . So 15 minutes later I checked LaCrosseView and it’s working great now! If I would not have this issue I would have rated this 5 stars. But customer service is golden!

by 3204ms

This thing actually connected to my phone with minimal difficulty (I was inputting the wrong network password; frustrating, but totally my fault). Many reviewers say it only shows the indoor temp and humidity. It will show the rain and wind speed on your mobile device if you follow directions and scan their barcode to add them to the network. The You Tube video made by Lacrosse was very helpful. Also, if you want all the info on one screen, tap the device name at the top center of the screen. It will display "quick view".

Now the bad: as another reviewer stated, it stayed connected for about a day. It was nice while it lasted, graphs of temperature, wind, and (probably) rain; outdoor temperature recorded and displayed every 3 minutes or so. Pretty cool, until it didn't do it anymore.
The base unit displays "no connect to app server", so I guess there's something I'm supposed to do to reconnect. This gets old, and most likely won't work when I'm away.
Other than that, as a weather station "on site", it's pretty good. The remote units have a good range and haven't lost connection with the base as my previous station did several times each day.

So, not bad, but not great. I probably won't be taking it back to Costco, but I also won't be running out to get another.

by Eastmw

I bought this unit a couple months ago. It was fairly easy to set up and connect to my WiFi. Everything works great on the base unit. However when I set up The La Crosse View app the outside temperature has never displayed. I’m getting the inside temp and the wind & rain readings on LaCrosseView . The outside temperature has never displayed. I have tried removing and reinstalling LaCrosseView several times but I still get the same results. I have deleted and reinstalled the outside temp sensor as well but it still does not display. Every time I send La Crosse a note describing this problem I get the same response telling me how to load devices. I can get the temp sensor loaded on LaCrosseView . The temperature just doesn’t display on LaCrosseView . Other than the issue with the outside temp and LaCrosseView .. I like the system.