Ambient Weather api stopped working

Configuration
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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?

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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!

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Natively? Do you mean local-only?

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sorry. i mean without using ecowitt

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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.

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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
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hello, problem solved in hass 2022.7.1

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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… :slight_smile:

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Sure. Find it here

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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!