I'm thinking about getting my parents a weather station for Christmas. I'm looking at a budget <$100 so the AcuRite and Ambient stations are high on the list. The problem is, they live in a "pole barn" which basically is exactly like a new house on the inside, but the exterior has metal sheeting instead of vinyl siding or brick.
The metal exterior layer of the house totally destroys their cellular coverage and they have to walk out on the porch to use the phone. I am wondering if one of these weather stations would be able to communicate with the console through the walls??
The distance from the sensor array to the console would be probably 25 feet or so, but again there is a thin layer of metal to pass through. Anybody know if this would even work??