It changes by the hour. I have patio stones outside the patio door. Any other situation will not trigger the automation. Im doing in YAML because i think its cleaner. Btw: If the template is one-liner, it needs double quotes around it. Light flash triggered by weather forecast help request jocnnor (Jim O'Connor) November 26, 2020, 6:49am #2 Open up developer tools, and click the 'states' tab. What separates this card from the rest is the fact that it features a built-in UI for editing its layout. Previously the immersion came on in the evening only if the solar panels had not produced enough hot water during the day. Current conditions are generated from the wundergroundpws configured pws_id. - #14 by Tom7320. It can range from a simple minimalistic overview of todays weather, to a full blown weather station showing things like UV index, air quality data, pollen data, alerts and warnings and camera meteogram. That is why there prolly is no blueprint available. If there are better and cleaner solutions I am open to any advice. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Automation that sets heating and cooling depending on forecast, How to automate based on weather temperature forcast for current day? I also needed to create one more template sensor to work out the average cloud cover for the day, the automation to decide whether or not the immersion should switch on will run at midnight and takes an average of the cloud cover forecast of the hours +9 to +16 which will be day time. It is also quite complicated for some specific but simple tasks and so source of endless frustrations for me, usually due to a trivial stuff that takes ages to solve, despite brilliant documentation and active community. It is capable of showing important weather information in a very tiny space, making it very useful for mobile phones of wall mounted dashboards. If you format the list as shown above, like this: and so on, it will trigger when the state changes from anything in that list to anything. Required fields are marked *. Like that: Speaking for myself, that seems a very complex trigger when you could check it every minute with a single line that wont be susceptible to state term changes in the future and then you can handle the to states in the condition. For more information, see the action documentation. Ive done some template debugging in the Developer Tools and it all seems to work well there, but whatever I try I cant make it work as an automation condition. Zigbee My solution to this problem was to create an automation which can read the forecast and decide whether or not the immersion should switch on at all, based on the cloud forecast for the daytime hours of the following day. Snow continues to cover homes in Crestline (3/3/23) News Channel 3's Peter Daut spoke to him today while he waited in line for a helicopter funded by a nonprofit to deliver much-needed food after . That way we can have a forecast trigger but also allow frontend API to be more intelligent about what to fetch, like fetch forecast for next X period etc. Is it to have a more stable temperature inside? It minimizes the repetitive state values and has a logical trigger. Smart Home Enthusiasts and Home Assistant Gurus! Why exactly do you want a predictive system? Read the integration documentation for your particular weather provider to learn how to set it up. Got None The following YAML options are available when you use YAML mode or just prefer to use YAML in the Code Editor in the UI. An example of a notification for a weather event is in the following automations yaml. By default, Home Assistant is configured to populate the Lovelace GUI for you automatically, but at some point, you will want to take control and set it up just how you want it. The Meteoalarm Card is a powerful yet simple custom card to show meteorological warnings card in Home Assistant. The Automation Editor received many enhancements and is substantially better now than it ever was yet not without glitches and (still) some limitations. I have good insulation. Then using the following yaml config, replacing {my_latitude}={my_longitude}={MY_API_KEY} with your latitude, longitude and API key the forecast data will be read every hour. This means that the weather platforms don't need to support languages. For more information, see the action documentation. There are multiple ways to skin this cat, and whats been proposed is 100% legitimate. These cookies do not store any personal information. To add the Weather card to your user interface, click the menu (three dots at the top right of the screen) and then Edit Dashboard. A trending up/down near that threshold allows me to prematurely turn on heating/cooling if so desired. Im struggling here a bit with using automation condition that tests a state of a list item attribute based on Met.no weather forecast integration. It might sound silly for a seasoned HA user/developer. OpenWeatherMap is suggested by the dev for this card, as it provides todays weather which this card needs. Simple yet effective. Ex. I started to think about this too, glad I found this thread, but sad to see no solution. No reproduction without permission. I was trying to explain the the mistakes I was making, but maybe I didnt succeed very much Nothing happens. Not a bug; the behavior is known and documented. The Weather entity was introduced in Home Assistant 0.32, and it's used by. So your trigger could be when any of those states change and the conditions would be ORs: And like @pedolsky mentioned, use the dev tools to determine what state values are since you need to be literal when testing for them. Legal Information Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is not affiliated in any way with this project. Im going to set a helper to chose the temp at which to change at. Other sensors can be created in the same way. Contact EDIT: When the Automation gets triggered rather than simply run, it actually tests the Conditions section as it should and the template works, despite the error during test. We are compensated for referring traffic and business to these websites, incurring no additional cost to you as a consumer.SmartHomeScene 2023 All rights reservedPrivacy Policy | Contact Us | Support, SITE LINKS Which attribute to display under the temperature. Home Assistant can track and control and automate all your devices at home. I appreciate you replying to my post but I still think youre overcomplicating it. At (time), check the weather forecast. I would recommend this card for actual meteorologists or data obsessed people, as its quite a lot of work to set it up properly. The name of the location where the weather platform is located. Ive already fixed it. The more granular one wants to get, the more aspects must be taken into account. The fix didnt work, same error. Create a simple automation in the GUI to use the data and switch devices on/off. The only hint of the Automation Editors Test function is this brief mention in the first paragraph: If I use this template as Automation / Conditions it doesnt test when created. In the code examples below Ive created 24 hourly cloud forecast sensors, hourly)[0].clouds is the current hour hourly)[0].clouds is the forecast for 1 hours time and so on. It supports most of the core weather integrations as well as custom integrations like MeteoAlarm (EU), Mto-France (France), DWD (Germany), WeatherAlerts (USA) and more. So a change from windy to sunny will trigger it, which is not what you want. Your email address will not be published. With or without double quotes, Ive tried various brackets at various places, it never works. I tried like this, but it sent to me a notification every minute: Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Help with automated lights depending on weather, Simple automation based on the current weather, put all the conditions only on the FROM, will cause that trigger every change, put all the conditions only on the TO, will cause that never trigger. Built with Docusaurus. Thats an attempt to reference a key within the dictionary in the forecast attribute. If you want to test your automation by manually triggering it and have its condition evaluated, use Developer Tools Services. To add the Weather card to your user interface, click the menu (three dots at the top right of the screen) and then Edit Dashboard. If I use this template as Automation / Actions / Condition I cant test it (no test button), but when I trigger the automation, it tests the template condition correctly first and only performs Action if it returns true. Rule 1 is then enabled. By the time the condition is evaluated, the trigger state has already changed. For more information, see the action documentation. Privacy Policy, HOME ASSISTANT First, go into your IFTTT account and click "Trigger", and type "weather" into the search bar. Step 2. If anyone has any experience or links to share Id be super grateful. It takes a while for outside changes to affect indoor air anyway, so heating simply based on current temperature is proactive enough. Recommended values for state and condition. template value should be a string for dictionary value @ data[value_template]. Yet when defined, the condition is not tested (manual test produces an error), result is ignored and the automation runs anyway. its a little bit to much for only one to: You can use various triggers but have to arrange them separately. I appreciate the pointers to the right places as I always learn a lot of new stuff. Required if native_wind_speed is set. The trigger will work if the state changes from any of the states listed under from: to any of the states listed under to:. If you want to check if its going from sunny or cloudy to rainy or snowy, add. On hacs, have a look at PirateWeather. Home Assistant Free software 15 comments Best [deleted] 5 yr. ago Presuming you already have a tts platform working and the darksky weather sensor. It needs the specific location (defined by latitude and longitude ), which by default is taken from your Home Assistant configured "home" location. This custom component for Home Assistant will add crucial features to your climate-controlling TRV (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) to save you the work of creating automations to make it smart. I have rarely in my life experienced a case where the weather forecast in the morning was not pretty close to accurate for the day. SmartHomeScene.comis a participant in theAmazon Services LLC Associates Program, AliExpress Portals Affiliate Program and Banggood Affiliate Programs. Hy guys. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. In the Conditions section of Automation definition it says: Very useful to include on interfaces that people display on the wall.