Aaaaaand… down again. Reload not working this time. Guess I’ll be getting an Ecowitt and forgo the cloud API, tired of these outages.
Working again, magic. Still ordered an Ecowitt.
Mine is down again too.
Does this integration still work? I am new to Home Assistant and this was one of the big reasons I was switching from another platform. I have my own weather station and have created the APP Key and API Key but get an invalid API Key when I try to set up the integration. Any insights would be helpful.
I got the Ecowitt which sucks up the signal locally. No more reliance on the API that is constantly going down. There’s a nice easy integration available for it and it’s not too costly. I highly recommend it.
Yessir I am
Any chance you have the actual device and what you did to configure it? Buying a whole new system isn;t doable but if I ca connect to my existing system and sip off it locally that would be ideal.
https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/goodsDetail/16
This device comes in three frequencies. You need to know on which frequency your station is broadcasting. As I understand it, Ambiweather devices come in two flavors, 433/915 MHz. So you’ll need to google your specific model and determine which it is before purchasing the Ecowitt. Don’t hold me to it, but I think mine was 915m
Thanks, mine is 915 as well. I was looking at my current weather station and it is Wifi enabled (WS-5000) and I wonder if it can be tapped in to. How are you accessing the ecowitt data locally?
So, it looks like it isn’t possible to link to the Ambient, ordered the ecowitt and downloaded the integration via HACS… should be fun.
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has anyone got Ambient Weather to work natively with Home Assistant? I too get the “invalid API Key” error. Bit of a bummer as I bought this $250 device specifically for Home Assistant!
Natively? Do you mean local-only?
sorry. i mean without using ecowitt
I have a WS-1550-IP reporting to Ambient and Weather Underground. I’m currently using a group of scrape sensors to retrieve data from the live web page served by the observer module. I’m using WU data feed to provide forecast data. I had previously used the Ambient integration with success.
Hello I’m facing this issue today on Home Assistant Core 2022.5.5:
Logger: homeassistant.config_entries
Source: components/ambient_station/__init__.py:191
First occurred: 4:49:06 PM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 4:49:06 PM
Error setting up entry cc794733a3bc for ambient_station
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/config_entries.py", line 335, in async_setup
result = await component.async_setup_entry(hass, self)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/ambient_station/__init__.py", line 76, in async_setup_entry
await ambient.ws_connect()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/ambient_station/__init__.py", line 191, in ws_connect
await self.websocket.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aioambient/websocket.py", line 156, in connect
await self._sio.connect(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/socketio/asyncio_client.py", line 109, in connect
await self.eio.connect(url, headers=headers,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/engineio/asyncio_client.py", line 111, in connect
return await getattr(self, '_connect_' + self.transports[0])(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/engineio/asyncio_client.py", line 306, in _connect_websocket
ws = await self.http.ws_connect(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 776, in _ws_connect
resp = await self.request(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 634, in _request
break
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohttp/helpers.py", line 721, in __exit__
raise asyncio.TimeoutError from None
asyncio.exceptions.TimeoutError
hello, problem solved in hass 2022.7.1
I know this is old, but the API is acting up again and I also have a station that uses the observer module. Any chance you could share your scrape YAML? I’d love to get all the data locally and would rather not reinvent the wheel… 
I use this to convert wind direction from degrees to compass points. I use a sensors.yaml file to store my sensor definitions.
- platform: template
sensors:
weather_wind_dir:
friendly_name: 'Wind Direction'
value_template: >
{% set direction = ['N','NNE','NE','ENE','E','ESE','SE','SSE','S','SSW','SW','WSW','W','WNW','NW','NNW','N'] %}
{% set degree = states('sensor.wind_direction')|float %}
{{ direction[((degree+11.25)/22.5)|int] }}
Here are the sensors I use:
- platform: pws_scrape
name: pws_scrape
resource: 'http://<*observer IP*>/livedata.htm'
selectors:
temp_indoor:
name: Indoor Temperature
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 4
unit_of_measurement: '°F'
humidity_indoor:
name: Indoor Humidity
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 5
unit_of_measurement: '%'
temp_outdoor:
name: Outdoor Temperature
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 8
unit_of_measurement: '°F'
humidity_outdoor:
name: Outdoor Humidity
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 9
unit_of_measurement: '%'
wind_direction:
name: Wind Direction
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 10
wind_speed:
name: Wind Speed
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 11
unit_of_measurement: 'mph'
wind_gustspeed:
name: Gust Wind Speed
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 12
unit_of_measurement: 'mph'
wind_maxgustspeed:
name: Max Gust Wind Speed
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 13
unit_of_measurement: 'mph'
solar_radiation:
name: Solar Radiation
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 14
unit_of_measurement: 'w/m2'
rain_rate:
name: Rain Rate
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 18
unit_of_measurement: 'in/h'
rain_event:
name: Precipitation Event
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 19
unit_of_measurement: 'in'
daily_rain:
name: Daily Rain
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 20
weekly_rain:
name: Weekly Rain
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 21
monthly_rain:
name: Monthly Rain
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 22
unit_of_measurement: 'in'
yearly_rain:
name: Annual Rain
select: "input:nth-child(1)"
index: 23
pws_battery:
name: PWS Battery
select: "input:nth-child(2)"
index: 1
# climate_battery: ***Not currently used***
# name: AV Closet Battery
# select: "input:nth-child(2)"
# index: 0
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Thanks for sharing! A little effort switching over to this now will be worth it to avoid dealing with another unnecessary cloud service (not to mention it currently being down). Thanks again!