Ok, got everything working. I'm kinda confused though. I see my sensor on the acu-link site, but the names of what I'm seeing are confusing. I named the device, but I see the following in my Backyard Weather:
"Five In One"
"Bridge"
"Tower"
"AcuRite HQ"
The "Tower" readings have what appears to be a low-battery indicator, but the batteries are new and good.
The "Five In One" readings have 2 signal strength bars.
The "Tower" has 1 signal strength bar.
The indoor console unit looks great-- with all 4 bars good and strong. If I place the indoor console unit next to the Bridge, it still has 4 bars. So I think the Bridge should have good signal as well.
The Bridge and console are about 30' from the sensor.
I registered on Weather Underground, and it seems to be reporting everything except Wind Gust.
Initially, the "Nearby Weatherstations" on Weather Underground showed my station. But now it is gone from that map. But the data still appears to be coming in. So, I don't know what is going on with that.
This is my station: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KAZTUCSO235
I read that it takes 1 day for everything to show up. Could I just be getting some hit-and-miss info--- until my 1 day has passed?
You might just want to delete the Acurite HQ...that's just for demo purposes.
As for the difference in the number of bars between your LCD console and the website, that's due to a difference in the way the bridge and display calculate bars. They aren't directly comparable.
For example, the LCD displays start with full bars, then remove a bar each time an anticipated data packet isn't heard. The more bars you're missing, the more data packets you've missed.
The bridge actually calculates bars based on the characteristics of the radio signal. It works more like the bars on your cell phone than it does the bars on the LCD display. A one-bar signal can still be good enough to get all your data.
That said, the bridge does seem to have a hearing problem when it comes to the 5n1 for unknown reasons, even while the 5n1 signal is known to be good. What's interesting is that the bridge will usually still keep hearing a tower sensor while it can't hear a 5n1. I take this to mean there might be a bug in how the bridge interpret packets from the 5n1. Unfortunately there's no easy way to test that theory, and Acurite isn't talking.
Wind gust (and rain rate) aren't sent by Acurite to Wunderground. These are calculated values that Acurite would have to generate and forward to wunderground (the bridge knows nothing of wind gusts or rain rates). However, the calculations aren't very meaningful when you only report every 15 minutes, so for now Acurite does nothing.
If you capture the information from the bridge you can calculate wind gusts and rain rate as needed and forward them to wunderground more frequently. I currently do that with a Rasberry Pi, some custom code to read the bridge, and Weewx (
http://nincehelser.com/ipwx).