The Acurite 5-in-1 is a great little unit. You can see mine in my forum avatar.
You say this is for your wife, hmm ok sure it is...
Is this like that Simpson's episode where Homer buys Marge a bowling ball with his name engraved on it for her birthday?
I'm just kidding ya, "your wife" will love this unit.
One note about the console though, unless they've improved the color one since I got it is it has good horizontal but limited vertical viewing angles. If you view it from certain vertical angles the numbers start disappearing, especially if your viewing angle is below the display and you are looking up at it.
It seems best viewed with you looking down at the display, like on a desktop or recliner side table. Minor detail, great unit.
Also, it has a great web page display,
https://acu-link.com/dashboard that will display your stations data once you get your unit hooked up. It's very nice and customize-able too.
The bridge is the way to go IMHO if you want to report to Weatherbug/Wunderground via MBY and if you don't want a 24hr on computer to do it. One other thing is when you mount the unit you'll want to get the bridge fairly close to it, that 300'ft connection range is a bit generous in my experience. Others experiences may vary but that's mine.
You get more like 100' ft maybe, your distance may vary by housing construction etc, metal structures etc, line of sight within 75-100ft seems best and of course the closer the better.
The other cool thing about the bridge is you can over time purchase and add additional sensors to the bridge and see those too on the web page display. I even see recently the have a place for a new sensor I'm going to have to get for my pool, a water temp sensor.
I already have a second rain and temp/hum gauge hooked up and now I need to get the water temp sensor, very cool to have that on the web page before I jump in
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Good luck and enjoy and take it from me, keep asking for advice on here, the members are awesome and will help you immensely as they have me. I just got started in this last July and now I have three weather stations, three weather cams and a website based on a template found here. Great community here.
Love the cat pic avatar btw.