Thanks -- growing pains are normal. You'll get there.
* since the included poster for the bridge "seemed" complete and wasn't a bad match for a video I found on youTube, I didn't know quite everything. It would be good to include the meaning of the status lights and in particular that they'll keep blinking, perhaps on a sticker? FWIW, there will be people that don't like the always blinking lights--it's rather distracting unless you can hide the bridge. Maybe only blink one of them, and flicker when it's doing network traffic? I don't care because the bridge will be in a closet, but if my router was in my den and I had to have the bridge there too--the blinkage overload would be an irritant.
* the instructions for registering the bridge could be improved as well. I thought I registered it using the iPhone app but when I finally figured out how to get to myBackyardWeather on the web the bridge wasn't a registered device. The confusion (for me anyway) came from:
-- when you go to
www.acurite.com and set up an account, it's for shopping only and doesn't get your bridge registered. I "registered" my bridge using the registration on the product web page, but that's probably just registering my purchase and not the actual bridge. There's no way to rell BTW.
-- I finally located myBackyardWeather in the support tab, which isn't an intuitive place for it to reside. Especially since the actual dashboard link has the company name spelled with a hyphen. More work on getting me to the right place would be helpful.
The long and short of it is that my bridge may or may not be registered--it's back in its box for the move from the big city to its intended installation location at our cabin. I should know sometime tomorrow when I get things set back up!
Again, thanks for your help. Without playing about very much I already like the display console better than my Oregon Scientific (at the city residence) and am jazzed to have a "low muss" internet connected station for the cabin!