Review on ESP8266 Weather Station Kit with Multiple Sensors & OLED Display for Arduino IDE IoT Starter (Guidance Document Included) by Byron Elliott

Received an invoice for keys - PITA. As soon as I got the keys I assembled the circuit but found that no wire was included, I went through all my wires and found one. In the absence of proper documentation, setting up the program was also a PITA. There are many settings that you should examine carefully in the program to find and set them for your specific configuration. Started the weather station just to make sure it wasn't working. Did multiple flushes and repeated when connecting the circuit, finally convinced myself that one of the parts was faulty. So I took my trusty Arduino Uno and wrote code to test each part and found that DHT11 was DOA. So I got the new parts and tested them, and they checked, wired, configured and uploaded the software to the ESP. The program woke up and showed the time, made a mistake, missed the configuration. Time offset corrected and reprogrammed. The time was showing correctly, the display switched to temperature and whether it was F or C it showed 0.0 when the display switched to the 3 day forecast it showed "Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday” all the way not to mention Saturday. The weather station has never shown BMP180 pressure or GY-30 light intensity readings or DHT11 temperature or humidity locally, so why are they there? Anyway, the only thing that went well was that the ESP8266 booted up smoothly and uploaded to websites. It was easy to connect to the network. In short, what was advertised is not what you get, but a set of inexpensive knockoffs for someone else's components and fragmented code. If you like to learn a lot then this kit is for you, I just wanted to put it together and turn it on. I won't do it again. On the back, I had to make the code myself and buy higher quality parts, I'd be a lot happier! My level of experience is quite high having built my own programmable PID controller including making my own PCB for it.