I am contemplating to purchase the Iro in the US during my next trip and use it in Germany. I have downloaded the Android App and simulated a set-up. My question is how can I ensure that German weather data are used? How does the system know that the zip-code I am entering during the set-up is a German zip-code and not a US one? I want to make sure that I am not buying the Iro and then are unable to use it in Germany because I cannot set it up. Are there already any users in Germany?I fully understood that I will have to source my own power adaptor. This is not a problem as I have done this before for other devices bought in the US.
Hi,
The answer is yes, it will work perfectly well. You can either use a public or private weather station if you have one. I am using a Netatmo solution. I believe that with v2.0, which is about to be officially realised, the things will even be better.
Hello from Colorado! Thanks for your interest in our product.
As @dszymkun mentioned you should be good to go in regards to weather. If you want you could provide your address and I could do some digging on our end to pull the stations that we would be pulling from. Adding to @plainsane, our 2.0 software will allow for your to choose which station you want to use, whether that be an official weather station or a personal weather station. Right at the start of this video gives you a little snippet of the new weather feature.
i have now installed my Rachio Iro First generation in Germany. In the setup i insert my German zip Code. However this gives me a city in US. If i want to change the weather station the app shows me only station in the near of the US City. There is no opportunity to select a german weather station. can anybody help me???
now i have already the right location. Unfortunately the next weather station is more tahn 50 km away. I have checked und wunderground for personal weather station near my town and found two. Hence i insert this stations in pwsweathe.com. Will my rachio find this pws?
If the stations are in pwsweather.com they will be available on our weather station map. It might take a day or two for them to show up, but they should be accessible. If they don’t show up when choosing a weather station, let me know what station you are looking for.
This article will help explain how to choose a PWS (if you were unaware how to choose one).
Ups, now it becoming more clear. On pwsweather all stations have a red icon (with old data) Seems that i didn’t go the step via the bridge. Hence there are no data. But how does it work to use this bridge?
Or if you have a linux machine (Like a NAS), you can use the tool that johnny2678 built here: github - wupws. That’s what I did and I have it pulling data every 3 minutes and uploading to a cloned PWS on pwsweather.com
So i have checked all the ways you present here. However, all the ways are not successful due to the fact i using windows or android. Hence for me the last option seems to be buying a netatmo weather station and integerate it as desribed here
