I believe I may have underestimated the hard barriers between the station and the sensor.
I have the base station currently sitting on a counter on the southwest corner of our kitchen. The sensor is 130 feet to the northwest. So the wall behind the sensor, then a gas furnace, a solid door (for muffling the furnace noise), an exterior wall, and another exterior wall (through my workshop) then through the garage and its exterior wall.
If you count the utility closet door as a wall and the furnace as one, that's 6 barriers.
Maybe I'm lucky to even get sporadic reception...
When I get there today I will move the base to the northeast window of the kitchen. It will add about 10 feet, but be close enough to zero barriers.
I can't put the sensor closer to the base/house as our home is very tall (28' at the west end) with a wooded area to the east (home is on a river and is built right up to the riparian zone). We have grazing land to the west (formerly a ranch) so that's where the sensor has to go, unless I mount it on the roof. Our prevailing wind comes out of the west and south, occasionally weather out of Canada can cause winds from the north to northeast. Anything out of the east is just going to be wildly inaccurate on the sensor, most of those trees by the river are in the 70-100 foot range.
Will report back.
Mark
PS Anyone have a comment on Alerts? I tried again to create one on the app, after setting condition and parameters I click create and nothing happens. Works fine on the web interface. Also hitting back to exit the app only works about 75% of the time. I sometimes have to hit the Home button or Recent and close the app there (Galaxy s7 Android 8.0.0).