FWIW, they had a video on their Indiegogo campaign page showing an incredibly long signal strength demo driving on what appeared to be Daytona Beach. My personal observations are that my temperature sensor can easily penetrate three exterior walls and 50+ feet to reach the indoor hub from my sensor on the far north wall of my detached garage. It will fit in the Acu-Rite tower sensor solar shield with a little bit of butchering on the inside, but I found that simply mounting it to the north wall of my detached garage was much better than the shield or direct exposure in the sun. It has actually tracks nicely against my fan-aspirated Acu-Rite 5-in-1 twenty feet up in the air. Remember that the temperature and wind sensors can be located in different places, so a solar shield may not be required if you can find a shady spot or north wall within radio range.
The campaign literature claimed that the wind readings will be broadcast via Bluetooth and UDP over the local network every second IIRC. I suspect that the real transmission interval will be slightly longer to save batteries, but whatever they do should be way more frequent than the Netatmo wind gauge's unacceptably long (IMO) update interval. I'm waiting patiently for the production wind/rain/solar sensors to ship, because my failing Acu-Rite most likely won't make it through the winter. Keeping my fingers crossed for February. So far, I like what I see in the temperature sensor they shipped.
The hub in the package connects to your network via wifi and not an ethernet port, and I don't see why it couldn't be located in a boat shed or other sheltered location with power available if your wifi will reach it and the dock is too long to pick up the sensor indoors.....
