SwitchBot’s E Ink Weather Station smart display, announced at CES 2026, is now available to buy for $110. The display combines weather information with “indoor and outdoor environmental monitoring,” and is Matter-compatible, if you have something like the SwitchBot Hub 3, which can bridge devices to other smart homes using the universal protocol.
I love E Ink for things like this. The limitations of the low-refresh, black-and-white (unless we’re talking color E Ink, which we’re not) display tech forces companies to keep information simple, so it’s not all junked up by someone’s overwrought ideas about graphic design. And it’s usually easy to see, even in fairly low lighting. When that’s not the case, the Weather Station’s 7.5-inch display is also front-lit. In the image below, the display features a card-based interface with the time and current weather conditions prominently displayed, and more detailed information on things like wind speed, UV index, and the forecast for the coming days in smaller text for when you get closer. It also features six different display themes if you don’t like the one pictured below.
The device has built-in temperature and humidity sensors, and four configurable, tappable buttons on the front—two for switching between the weather and calendar views (it can sync with up to five calendars from multiple different services and show up to 30 events per account) and two that work like any smart home button, including within platforms outside of the SwitchBot ecosystem. That means they can do anything from toggle lights to set multi-device scenes throughout your home. It’s annoying that you need a SwitchBot hub for Matter support, which is what actually lets the Weather Station work with platforms like Apple Home or Google Home. At least the $39 SwitchBot Hub Mini comes cheap and works well, in my experience.
The Weather Station is battery-powered and can run for up to a year on a charge, and has a USB-C port for recharging. That’s handy if you, like me, don’t like being limited to sticking a smart display wherever there’s a plug nearby. It also has a built-in speaker and can be used as an alarm clock, with space for three separate alarms and the ability to snooze them.
Finally, as with every damn thing ever these days, there’s an AI component. Specifically, it works with the open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw; SwitchBot says owners can use a “Custom Text view” to display information like public transit timetables they’ve had the agent look up for them. Sounds useful, at least until you miss the bus because you didn’t double-check that it didn’t hallucinate the info.
You can pick up the SwitchBot Weather Station on SwitchBot’s website and Amazon.
