WeatherLink Reviews

I’ve tried the most popular weather system available today and I have to say that they all have fallen short or failed except for the Davis Instruments equipment which I have had for over 10 years. WeatherLink is very useful although it’s display seems dated and not as pretty as some of the others available. The best thing about WeatherLink and the weather station is that it updates automatically every 2.5 seconds. No other station that I have tried is that fast. Makes it easier to capture wind speed data.

The latest release (2/15) is really a nice improvement. More information in the graphs, displayed in a way that is very intuitive and easy to interpret. I’d love to see them expand the AQI graph to include the hourly range band like they did for temperature. Maybe in a later update.

This works so well with WeatherLinkLive. The whole setup and user interface is well documented and easy to set up. I’ve had my Davis weather station for almost 8 years now, I’ve never been disappointed by it.

Technology is great. Live weather through our own station. Connected via local device and housed in the cloud. If the internet goes down the local device caches the data for days.

Weather data is essentially live with very minimal second or so delay.

Interface is clean with summary at top and details as you scroll down with sections for each weather type categorized.

this app Live is an unreliable method of storing your weather data. The system lacks ability to edit weather data (such as an errant rain gauge tip). There is no simple method of backup and restore of data.

Retention policies are confusing. There are three levels, Standard, Pro, and Pro+. When removing a sensor suite as the primary this app station sensor suite, you will lose years of data immediately, without recovery, even at the cost incurring levels Pro and Pro+. You must frequently, manually download your data for safe keeping, which should not be necessary when paying for the service.

Since this is the only way to browse your Davis Weather Station honestly it would be nice if it felt like you cared about WeatherLink. I can't even get WeatherLink to turn landscape on iPad!!!?? That's crazy. We, the consumer have to pay money to view our station information iwhere is this $$ going? Definitely not WeatherLink .

Hopefully you will at least address the simple landscape issue on the iPad. Could be a GREAT app and resource on iPad for charts and viewing monthly climatology reports. Would love to see this available on MacOS App Store as well

• There’s no iOS widget which would be nice to see one’s AQI with a single swipe.
• There’s no way to have multiple people, each with their own iPhone, to have separate logins on their respective phones, for the same account. I.E., there should be the account owner login with admin privileges, and other users that can simply install WeatherLink and view data, but not have privileges to make any changes.

Seems like the ability to see location of stations on a map background was removed from the latest update of WeatherLink? Why?

I agree with the other reviewer’s. The iPad app needs to support landscape mode. It should also have better configurability, like others suggest being able to move the data points around on the screen. I really wanted to have a nice looking display that I could frame and hang on my wall. I have owned the vantage pro two for over 10 years with very high reliability. Davis has always fallen short on attractive ways to display the data.

WeatherLink works well with the Davis weather stations and provides up to the minute information about weather from various chosen reporting stations. Pretty basic stuff but can make charts and reports if desired by going on a monthly subscription. More customization is available but there is a small fee.

This dot update didn’t help at all. Now you have to scroll each chart to get to the latest data for the hour. The last update was fine. The one before was even better. Not sure why Davis are screwing up their app. Still have the old app on the iPad. Won’t be updating that. Making things more difficult and inconvenient with each update. Would like to go back to WeatherLink I had in sept of 2020 but can’t find it. Would be nice.

I’ve been using it for a few months now and it seems to be pretty reliable and updates reasonably quickly. The free level of service has a lot of functionality.

I find the summary page very useful. Each station you save has the basic information. Temp, wind direction, wind, speed and humidity. I have the stations arranged from north to south and I can see the progress of a cold front at a glance.

Very good app but imho there should be improvements that would allow for end users to rearrange tiles. And dark mode would be good.
To Davis: take a look at other weather apps and make this one a bit more “with the times”.
This version seems to be just breaking out of the DOS era.

Version 2.2.2 released March 18, 2022 will now not run on original iPhone SE. Selected App Support link on iPhone app store page and says page not found at Davis so having to write issue here. Please fix. Reason I got Weather Link Live was to was real-time weather on my iphone on home network. App does not even open. Just crashes as soon as selected. Worked on previous versions.

Where have you been all my life? I was tired of little pictograms, cartoons and kiddie weather. I like data. Simple data. Barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed etc. found it. It does that.

I have had a Davis station for about 10 years. Using a desktop or laptop to look at data has long been replaced by looking at current and “recent history” on your phone or tablet.

Removing the ability to look backwards at history on charts (temp, rain, wind, etc) was and REALLY unfortunate change to WeatherLink . It is our data, we pay for Premium subscriptions to accumulate this data. Removing the ability to see historical data is a terrible business decision.

Please pay attention to comments. Use our subscription dollars to service the customer.
Simplification is not data reduction it is a UI design.

While it is fast, no landscape view makes the iPad version much more useless. Also, when using the shortcut in the top right to jump to a section (wind, barometer etc) it usually jumps to the wrong section.

Time to update the software to support tablets. This is way past due.

The latest update will not load on my iPhone 8 with iOS 15.4. WeatherLink crashes as soon as it opens. It’s certainly not the newest iPhone, but it’s the phone I had when I bought the weather station, and I shouldn’t have to buy a new phone only to use WeatherLink.

App will crash now every time I attempt to use it. Was useful when it worked. Since it is no longer useful I will delete it. Would not recommend.

Much better than competitor’s apps. Installed, signed in, and had my weather info immediately available. No annoying ads, no app crashing, no push to purchase “premium” services (*ahem* Weather Channel/WU). Great app.

Even though I have a Davis Vantage Pro weather station WeatherLink will not recognize it. Even when I type in the Davis Assigned station name and use my location.
Trying hard to get something that will allow me to look up data from my station, like the old, early this app app use to before the Weather Channel got involved.

I have a chart of rainfall that is totally inconsistent from the table next to it on basics like daily rainful.

Then there’s the time axis that varies between charts. Some are up to date, some stuck, yet the instantaneous results are being updated while the chart is stuck. It’s bizarrely contradictory on the same page.

From a software programming perspective that almost makes me think of deliberate sabotage. Its hard to figure how someone could accidentally do such a bad job.

I have bizarre negative temperatures shown yet my consol and real time measurements are correct.

I just can’t trust the data.

I have to turn my iPad on its side to view the data. Poor programming.

A poor successor to the original 1.0 version. The user interface is just plain awful.

Version 2.0 is a big let down for me as a backyard Vantage Pro2 owner from a weather geek perspective. It lacks the chemistry of tying all of the current, daily, monthly, and annual stats together. I liked the WL 1 views of data because I could easily compare my weather station to other regional stations w/o jumping around a bunch of different screens. I doubt “regular” consumers normally buy the excellent Vantage Pro2 or some of the other nice Davis weather instruments, so why did we have to lose the ease of the prior data-centric/scientific views of our weather stations? I know Davis can do better than the consumer eye candy they offer in WL2. Sad, I hope the Davis marketing and Web/IOS teams are given new directions to better support the weather geeks who really get into backyard forecasting and data analysis of their Davis stations and others listed in the Davis network/cloud. I am hopeful we will see a course correction from Davis in the future.

Never before has so much information been rendered more opaque. Ignoring principles of color and design, Davis has taken a simple, well-liked app that displayed data and trends and attempted to give it that cutesie iOS sheen without regard for functionality or the essence of its customer. Trends over time? Customizable time periods? OUTSIDE TEMP has four columns. INSIDE TEMP has two columns. FEELS LIKE has three columns, all center justified, rendering them so much nonsense. Davis should listen to its heartbroken clientele and restore what was lost. Oh, and lose the ridiculous and inaccurate animation of what is happening at that weather station on home list. Mine always says it’s raining. Perhaps that’s just reflecting my mood since I updated WeatherLink.

Despite the glitzy interface, this app 2.0 is slow to refresh the weather station data, does not properly record rainfall intensity (always reads zero), and does not properly transmit current windspeed. The program has potential, but it is not yet ready for prime time. Other reviewers’ comments related to the need to refresh data by going back to the home page, and the elegance of the original this app 1.0 program compared to this one are spot on. I personally called the company and spoke to a responsive gentleman who went on-line to verify my complaints. Hopefully the program will be fixed, because I was told that this app 1.0 will soon not be operational.

The individual station pages show a lot more information than the old app, but it's missing an important sensor to me (and I would think to some others)...the indoor temperature and it's lows. I use it for checking if a building is freezing or not. Also, the home page needs to keep up to date with the individual station reading, it's always behind and never as current as going into the station page. Restarting WeatherLink doesn't help, either. Along with that, please add a pull down to refresh and swipe right to go back to the main screen. All other app use those gestures easily. Other than that, WeatherLink is pretty good.

This version is a real step backward to this app users that were pleased by the simplicity of the previous 1.0-1.3 version. So many folks want access to the old version, which has been disabled in favor (by who?, not *real* users!) of this version. Here’s an idea that would make everyone happy... add a “1.3” page to this new version. Folks (like me) that want the simple version can access that. And also, please enable automatic update of the data to ten minutes. Folks that want to monitor their own Davis station using WeatherLink appreciate the ability to monitor “real time” data, and going back to “on-demand” with 10 minute auto-updates (like it was with previous version) would be favorable. Thank you!

I pay to be a “pro user” and WeatherLink gives you no ability to view any data from your station other than the current data. Oddly, you can scroll through historical barometric pressure & rainfall data only...but you can’t see historic temp, humidity, etc. I think all the reviews are accurate that this is pretty disappointing for a company that specializes in collecting detailed weather data. Also, my station time is set correctly, but the time WeatherLink shows for my barometric history data appears to be off +9 hours.

Ah, Davis. What can I say? Did you hire elementary schoolers to design and write this “upgrade”? Sad for a company located so close to Silicon Valley. You managed to totally break the functionality of the reasonably suitable 1.0. No longer can you see the full weather station details “at a glance”. And the data updates slowly now, and many times is blank or spits a “server error”. All this in an attempt to go to a subscription model. I like my Davis hw. Sw has always been a weakness. Now they managed to bungle it further. Very disappointed.

Recommendation: if you haven’t purchased a weather station yet, consider other hw/sw options. Davis clearly doesn’t invest in high tech or connectivity features.

Why did you reset ratings, most bad, instead of listening to what your long time people are saying. I have been using my this app station for almost 10 years to monitor my beach house. I also added one to my current home so I can see all my actual weather data (rain,wind and temperatures in and outside) at both locations. We don’t use WeatherLink for weather forecast. That was never its purpose. Every smart phone has the weather channel app on it for getting the weather forecast.
Maybe you could offer a “lite” version that was like the old this app 1 and still be able to keep your subscription customers on this app 2. Just a dream.

Data doesn’t update automatically and it’s not obvious that you are looking at temps from much earlier. (Please time stamp last update on app and website!) Forced updates are cumbersome and very slow. I much prefer the clear widget based presentation on the web page. The webpage tabular presentation is also fine. Couldn’t WeatherLink look more like this? Or even just like the vantage pro2 console would be an improvement. I just want a simple clear app to view my own weather station without all the clutter and imputed, mystery sourced data that wunderground has now. Loved weather display live until flash support was dropped. Davis should be in a good position to fill this need.