I have a lot of fruit trees in my backyard plus a rose and lavender garden. Wanted to keep on top of local weather conditions so if needed I could protect my plantings from cold etc...I decided to go with Ambient Weather's WS-2902D. It includes a temperature module, anemometer, wind direction, wind speed and rain gauge. The most time consuming part of installation was the mount itself. The instruction for mounting the weather station to the top of a mast are well described and a simple job of attaching the U Bolts with screws and using the bubble level (built in to the top of the unit) to keep the device level. You must make sure that the arrow embedded on top of the hard plastic of the unit is pointed exactly to the north. Double check that. I used a compass app on my phone. Worked great. I chose to mount my station on 1.5" PVC pipe. Yes, they recommend steel but go out and try to price that! Ridiculous. The weather station accepts 1.25-2 inch pipe. My 5 foot section was installed on a deck support with the help of an antenna mounting kit purchased on Amazon. Hard steel and strong U Bolts. That thing is screwed in for life. The only drawback with PVC is the wind. This can cause movement of the station affecting readings. I am a ham radio operator and used identical 1/8" black rope (parachute like cord) that i have hanging a wire dipole between 2 trees on my property. For the weather station I made 3 guy rope supporting lengths that you can see in the picture. There are two in this picture. I put in the 3rd down at ground level a few days later. Now, there is no and i mean NO movement of the pole with high wind gusts. The height of the deck plus the pvc tubing puts the weather station at 18 feet above the ground. There are two caveats: Make your weather station accessible. You have to clean out the rain gauge apparatus every couple of months plus swap out batteries; so you do not want to kill yourself dangling off of a ladder. BTW, the unit is powered with a solar cell built into the top part of the station. Batteries are used when there is insufficient daylight. The weather station immediately connected with the base unit. I have the console sitting on my home office desk. Connecting the unit to wifi and weather underground, weather cloud and the Ambient site take time but well worth it in the end. I periodically check other units in my neck of the woods on the Ambient website. The console display is well laid out and easy to see all parameters. It is pretty intuitive trying to figure out what button does what but it is a good idea to read through all the instructions. The display also shows, UV light, light, phases of the moon, indoor temp and humidity, outdoor temp and humidity, rain amounts, wind speed and direction, date, time. There are signal strength connecting bars (mine have a solid 5) that show the quality of the connection between the station outside and your console. These are located about half way across the top. There is your typical wifi connection strength indicator at the top right of the display. I am quite satisfied with the entire system. It does it all. The only thing it doesn't do is pour me a nice glass of port at dinner time!