First it seems important to mention that these stations transmit forecasts from Météo France (the commented dailleurs station here is stamped Météo France) that can not be surpassed. Jai rarely found inaccurate forecasts, at least if one does not exceed D + 2 or D + 3.
But the estimates provided by these devices are at the department level, not the city. For that extra degree of accuracy, it is best to consult the website of Météo France.
Forecast accuracy at the department level seems sufficient to me lowland regions such as Paris. By cons in a mountain Department forecasts are not relevant because the weather is not at all the same whether lon is in a low-altitude city or a ski resort. From this point of view, if we consult the site Starmeteo we see that mountain areas are not covered.
Personally I bought in 2007 or 2008 one of the first devices Starmeteo for my house in the Paris region (94). This station, which still works, satisfied me for the quality of the forecasts, but it has drawbacks (which I support, however, for several years) who led Mount to acquire this new model.
The downside of this most troublesome old model (WD9004F), which operates with LR14 batteries: it remains synchronized with the Starmeteo relay satellites rarely for more than 2 weeks. It is therefore reset frequently, which requires patience, as the lindique chemistry information sheet.
Then in 2010, I made offer for a mountain house, a model running on sector and an alarm clock providing lheure projection on the ceiling. But in fact this device is completely unusable in he fact that mountain can not receive or weather forecasts or lheure (there are no manual adjustment of the hour). Lai so I installed in my bedroom in Paris. This unit works perfectly for over 3 years. I lai ever seen get out of sync: it always indicates lheure accurate (albeit with a delay of about 20 seconds) and does not lose the forecast.
Jignore if improved operation is due to an improvement (compared to the old model) in the signal reception sensitivity or because the device is mains with backup batteries.
As I can not do without this device in my room (it gives lheure ceiling without turning on the light) for my stay I bought this WD40025 device to replace the old model.
This purchase was made with only a few days there I have not enough experience to estimate its resistance to de-synchronization, but it seems obvious to me that it should work as well as the projection model.
It is possible that the newer models of Starmeteo operating only with batteries do not pose the same problems of frequent synchronization that my old model, but the advantage of the model running on the sector is that it no longer requires adjustment to changing batteries.
Other advantages of this resort, in my taste, The display bright and colorful, and scrolling fashion ("scroll"), the speed of the display will scroll to move from morning to night.
However this station is limited to forecasts at D + 3, while others, operating only on batteries, can display forecasts at D + 4 or beyond. But in my case, I do not believe that it is useful to go beyond T + 3 due to lack of confidence (is not due to the unit but the current boundaries forecasts) forecast also "remote".
In addition, the models running on batteries only and slow moving days of quarters, we display text meaning forecast icons. It is regrettable that this function is not provided on this unit. But in truth, this is not really a bother because you quickly understand the meaning of the pictograms after consulting once demploi mode.
