Netatmo Comfort 4+

Comfort has been getting better but I have encountered an issue that doesn't seem fixable at the moment and that is the watch complication reads out in metric and not imperial even though it used to. Hopefully this will be corrected in an update.

Download this app to get Apple Watch support for my Netatmo WX station. BIG MISTAKE! The day I downloaded this app, noticed I was getting “new measurement on demand” notifications on my iPhone when I never pressed the button on my Netatmo base station. I’ve owned this weather station since Jan 2013 and that’s NEVER happened once! Started to monitor my network traffic to my Netatmo WX station, seeing dozens of foreign IP addresses accessing it now. What’s most concerning is the amount of network data that these foreign IP’s are downloading. At certain times, the data is continuous like streaming data. What could they be streaming? Remember our Netatmo WX station have a microphone to measure ambient noise. From the data I’m seeing, it’s activating the microphone and streaming from the microphone audio to someone! Read the privacy statement (TOS/EULA), then try to click on the links. The 2 links are fake and go nowhere. There is a reason this app is free, it’s invading our privacy like I’ve not seen in any iOS app before. To add insult to injury, this app developer is selling our email address to spammers.

What to do? DELETE this app for first, then using your PC, log on to your Netatmo account and change your password. By doing this, this APP/spyware can’t spy on you and access the microphone or other data from your Netatmo WX Station.

I’ve been using this app for several years. The official Netatmo app is poorly designed and they’ve added almost no features over the many years since the product first came out. There’s still no Apple Watch complications - for a weather device!

With Comfort, you see your data from multiple sensors and stations all in one place, without awkwardly switching between them one at a time. One click shows you historic data in multiple time periods.

Netatmo could learn a lot from this app, if the company cared about improving their user experience. Unfortunately they seem to be just riding on the near-monopoly of their product.