If its below that temperature, turn on heating. The Meteorologisk institutt (Met.no) integration was introduced in Home Assistant 0.79, and it's used by. What if in the trigger i set like this: Will it work if any of the two state become true? 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. That one works best if you pair it with a capable weather alert integration, which would ideally be local to your location. In order to use the API you need to register with https://openweathermap.org/api. Btw: If the template is one-liner, it needs double quotes around it. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Anyway, in my case, the case for predictive heating is to spend electricity when it is cheaper, and avoid when it is more expensive. The following YAML options are available when you use YAML mode or just prefer to use YAML in the Code Editor in the UI. 3 Jammybe 5 yr. ago It had limited functionality and got very few enhancements. Help with automated lights depending on weather pedolsky (Pedolsky) May 13, 2021, 4:41pm #2 Hello metcrl, it's a little bit to much for only one to: You can use various triggers but have to arrange them separately. Very useful to include on interfaces that people display on the wall. To use the Forecast.Solar integration, it will need some information about your solar panel system: latitude, longitude, declination, azimuth and total modules power. Rule 1 is then enabled. States with forecasts Issue #15 home-assistant/architecture Home Assistant Dashboard - Weather - Harshit's Blog Choose that and then choose the trigger "Current cond. However, the automation to do this is relatively simple and would only take a few minutes to set-up. You can see that in dev tools > state. If not set, it will default to Extrema (High/Low) if available, if not available then Precipitation and if precipitation isnt available then Humidity. Its what the existing conditional card is based on. 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. Contact Tomorrow's forecast notification in Home Assistant - EASY! Defaults to extrema if available, if not available then precipitation and if precipitation isnt available then humidity. I was trying to make a simple automation based on the current weather state. On one part I have the climate integration allowing to start, stop, set my airconditioning of Panasonic through the Panasonic Comfort Cloud. Step 2. should all be taken into account. But where in the docs i can see a text formatting like yours? This is really nice to have. For more information, see the action documentation. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Dont forget to add an automation as well, which would send you a notification for example, on a announce it to your smart speaker. Simple automation based on the current weather - Home Assistant Community 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. The more I think about it, the more I think having a standalone forecast piece in Home Assistant is the right thing to do. Yeah, the ones for the US (National Weather Service related) tend to be by county or zone (which in my small state happen to be identical). 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. Home-Assistant-based-Farm-Automation-and-Monitoring. The system is hard to create, and each building is unique, so generalizing is even harder. Ok, I see. SmartHomeScene.comis a participant in theAmazon Services LLC Associates Program, AliExpress Portals Affiliate Program and Banggood Affiliate Programs. If I define the exact same Condition as first action in the Actions section instead , there it gets tested correctly and further Actions stopped if it tests false. The fix didnt work, same error. Theme variables include: // If your state is not above, use this format. Zigbee There are multiple ways to skin this cat, and whats been proposed is 100% legitimate. The action taken on card double-tap. The Meteoalarm Card is a powerful yet simple custom card to show meteorological warnings card in Home Assistant. Same information, just the second one actually works for me. 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. If not, no double quotes needed. The lying Test button being one of them. daily)[0].wind_speed is todays wind speed forecast and daily)[1].wind_speed is tomorrows. Oh thanks for the answers. I consider Test function in the automation visual builder producing an error a bug, not the behaviour of the automation testing process as youve kindly reposted here. How to add an animated Weather Radar on Home Assistant? HA is immensely powerful and without doubt one of the best solutions for home automation. What you want to do is connect multiple conditions with OR statements to achieve what you are looking for. I agree that a very simplistic system can reap the lowest hanging fruits, but the engineer in me wants to do it properly. Now that is quite confusing for me and I dont really understand the reasons why that would be the case. Home Assistant can track and control and automate all your devices at home. It needs the specific location (defined by latitude and longitude ), which by default is taken from your Home Assistant configured "home" location. This is achieved by automatically converting units when creating state objects. Try: If that doesnt fix it, please post your entire automation code. Name of any loaded theme to be used for this card. An hourly forecast entity is needed for the correct operation of this card, otherwise it would result in an error. Nope, not silly at all. If it was simple, we would have this figured out by someone else ages ago. Unit Conversion Yet when defined, the condition is not tested (manual test produces an error), result is ignored and the automation runs anyway. These programs are designed to provide means for websites to earn revenue by linking affiliate products through their content. Check this if you would like to show the upcoming forecast under the current weather. With the by adding a weather map on home assistant, you will have one more piece of information about your home location that is easily available to you. I still dont think youre understanding fully, from what youve written although the automation trigger youve written probably does what you want it to . 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. Getting data from the OpenWeatherMaps integration is easy and will expose sensors with forecast data. First I added the following to my configuration.yaml: YAML rest_command: !include rest.yaml This allows me to put my rest commands in the file rest.yaml. How to automate based on weather temperature forcast for current day Ive tinkered my own 2 story house heating/ cooling with two air heatpumps, many room temperature sensors and weather prediction to conserve energy with predictive automations. This is the simple version Im using for testing purposes but I think in future it will be modified to allow for longer days in summer and shorter days in winter. Ive also thought about writing a little tutorial about my prediction controlled system and some scientific studies behind predictive heat/ cool controlling in domestic housing. membersound May 9, 2020, 5:41pm #11 At the moment, just for try, i set for action a simple notification to my smartphone. Custom Integrations Depending on the forecast, example tomorow it will be 27C I would like to start my airco already in the early morning setting it to keep 22C in the rooms. Yeah sorry. manually: From the configuration menu select: Devices & Services. If the max temperature is above a certain value, turn on cooling. Properties have to follow the units mentioned on the respective unit of measurement in the table. A custom integration is needed to display useful data. Why exactly do you want a predictive system? If it just wasnt there, I would most likely create a test automation first and analyse my routine using the developer tools as advertised. Screenshot of the Weather card. The entity of the weather platform to use. If anyone has any experience or links to share Id be super grateful. So a change from windy to sunny will trigger it, which is not what you want. Click the Add Card button in the bottom right corner and select from the card picker. By looking forward, I could heat my home a little extra when the prediction is that more heating is necessary in the next few hours and the price will rise, and a little less when the price will drop and temperature forecast allows for it. This. Home Assistant Automation in Depth: Making my mornings a little easier If you want to test your automation by manually triggering it and have its condition evaluated, use Developer Tools Services. The Weather Forecast card displays the weather. Create a simple automation in the GUI to use the data and switch devices on/off. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. -35C. These weather conditions are included in our translation files and also show the corresponding icon. Ive tried this and although it reports an error when I test on the Automation dialog, just like all condition based on templates, it works properly: In my case the index 0 on forecast is today, so Ive used 1 for tomorrow. When there are any alerts issued, card will change color to let you know about upcoming dangerous conditions. For each weather entity, the user also has the option to override the presentation units, i.e., the units used in the state objects. How to get weather forecast for today? : r/homeassistant - reddit The hourly weather card is used to visualize upcoming weather conditions on a colored horizontal bar. For more information, see the action documentation. An example of a notification for a weather event is in the following automations yaml. In this video, we are going to be installing the Weather Alerts Integration from the Home Assistant Community Store. The default weather icons are themable via a theme. So this will trigger on rainy, and then check if it is sunny or cloudy, which it isnt, because it is rainy. To start off this list, we must mention the official Home Assistant Weather Card. 7.4.1.3 Correction of temperature sensor Forecast data should either be daily or hourly. This post is a collection of the best weather forecast Lovelace cards for Home Assistant available in the community store (HACS). Sorry, probably didnt make it clear. Or are/ were you just looking for ready made complex blueprint? These are the state attributes for my weather.home entity: If I use State type automation condition for the current day using just the entitys state, everything works fine: If I however want to use tomorrow or any subsequent days, I cant make it work, whatever I use getting into lists and their attributes. However, an hourly electricity pricing would be a reason to heat/cool in advance - to reduce energy usage when price is high. FarmOS Raspberry Pi Docker Install with SSL. One of the best cards on this list, the Platinum Weather Card is another fork of the original custom animated weather card. On hacs, have a look at PirateWeather. With or without double quotes, Ive tried various brackets at various places, it never works. Now I have to build testing automation with artifical trigger just to test the conditions work and are tested properly as the test doesnt work. 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. So we can breakdown the problem to programming Links to their Github profiles will be left in the description, so you can support them with a cup of coffee if you want. Click the kebab menu icon (three vertical dots) up the top right and select Edit Dashboard -> Take Control. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. - #14 by Tom7320, I will give that a try, if I succeed I come back on this. It displays daily forecast data with minimum and maximum temperatures in a simple bar, from your main weather integration. Home Assistant has a number of weather integrations based on multiple open data weather sources. The Weather Conditions Card is the most versatile card on this list. The Simple Weather Card is developed by kalkih, the same developer who made the awesome mini-graph-card for Home Assistant. I was trying to explain the the mistakes I was making, but maybe I didnt succeed very much The reason for this is because many smart heating systems begin heating the property to bring it to desired temperature by a set time. Automation condition based on weather forecast for the next day It takes a while for outside changes to affect indoor air anyway, so heating simply based on current temperature is proactive enough. By clicking Accept, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies, or click settings for more options. Try to remove the from your template, as it isnt in the same line as value_template. Weather forecast and current conditions for automations? I appreciate you replying to my post but I still think youre overcomplicating it. 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 However as summer approaches, I wanted to derive a "Best Time Of The Day" parameter from the weather forecast. Are you doing this via the UI or directly in YAML? Im using met.no that is already integrated on HA. Adding Meteorologisk institutt (Met.no) to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user