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I also purchased this unit on line & followed the directions to the letter. It works perfectly!!!! This is the fourth projection weather clock I bought & the only one I am keeping.If you follow the directions, the outside weather comes on & then the inside. I manually set the clock, & the next day the atomic time set itself & works perfectly. The Back light works either continuously or put it on auto & it comes on as the room darkens. I was a little skeptical when I bought it, but couldn't be happier now.

As a clock projector, this works well. Plenty of focus and adjustment options. I can see the time and temp clearly on my ceiling. That's about where the good things end.

The goofy cloud/sun indicator is a projection, but you have no adjustment over it. Why not??

The alarm is a joke. It was obviously intended for light sleepers. It has no volume adjustment, and is just a soft beeping.

If you make the mistake of brushing over the TOUCH SENSITIVE ALARM SWITCH (WTF???) you won't be hearing back from your alarm after you hit snooze. Hope you weren't planning to get up on time.

The light sensor doesn't work. When set on Auto, you would think the LCD backlight would turn on when dark. Nope, you have to press a button for things to light up. Real smart.

The projector has no sensor option at all, so it either always on (a waste of energy and bulb life during the day) or off totally (again, requiring you to press the snooze button if you want to see the time on your ceiling...why??)

The weather transmitter unit thing worked one night and I never heard from it again. I brought it back inside thinking it was just too cold for it, but alas, still nothing.

I'm going to read through the (not so great) instructions once more to get the thing to re-acquire (if I remember correctly, having to remove the tiny screws to access the buttons inside on the transmitter), but I suspect reliability is going to continue to be lame.

Overall, I am getting my old alarm clock back out. My whole reason for buying this one was to have the projector feature. I didn't want to have to have seperate devices, but here I am. I should have known better than to assume an all-in-one device might actually work like it should.

**UPDATE** - the projection portion of this unit has now started to fail, resulting in impossible times of 10:76, etc. This is now a glorious paperweight.

Luckily, I kept the box and I am underneath a year warranty, so we'll see what Honeyfail does for me.

This is the third Honeywell projector clock I have bought, one as a gift. My first went out, apparently due to a power surge in an electrical storm. The gift had a longer life but has also ceased to function corectly after about 30 months. This new model is cheaper, and adds the weather icon to the projected information. Both versions are tricky to set, and unless you live in the Pacific time zone, must be re-set if the power is interrupted-which isn't too easy.

Apart from the relatively short product lives of my previous version and the same model given as a gift, and some muttering with setting and resetting. I've found the information provided a delight. The new verision presents more information on the screen more visably than the previous model. If reliability and set-up could be made easier, I would pay more and give the item 5 stars.

The main issue we have with this is getting a valid outdoor temperature. This is a replacement for The Weather Channel clock/weather forecaster. I love the projected display but can't seem to get the outdoor sensor in a good spot to give an accurate temperature. It seems to be much more limited in the distance it can be away from the base than our prior device, thus it must be too close to the house and gets too much house heat.

This product is a piece of trash. The atomic clock would not work, the temperature sensor had a extremely limited range, the function "buttons" were not operational and the instructions were very poorly written. All in all a very disappointing product. Luckily, Amazon gave a refund with no issue.