Australian Animated Radar using BOM Public FTP

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Lovelace :slight_smile: with custom card-modder. I haven’t updated the repo to include this card when I get home ill do it so you can see how to implement it.

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Hmm thanks - looks more wife friendly than standard Lovelace :laughing:

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updated lovelace config so you can see bom card amoung others aswell as fixes required for 0.84.6

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Is there any possibility you can increase the timeout on the image loading?

Lately the time it takes to load the GIF has increased, and enough that 50% of the time I get a broken image instead of the GIF. When I open the URL its trying to load in a web browser, it always works, but can take upwards of 10 seconds to load.

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I don’t have a HA instance running at the moment, so I can’t test this, but try updating line 79 like below. There is every chance that this will completely break it :slight_smile:
ftp = ftplib.FTP(‘ftp.bom.gov.au’)
To:
ftp = ftplib.FTP(‘ftp.bom.gov.au’, timeout=60)

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So far so good. I get a flash of the broken image, but then within the next 3 seconds, it is refreshed and the radar image appears.

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I’m new to Hassio and I can’t quite figure out how to get the radar image to show… The logo is correct and when I click into the card I get the animated radar images.

Here is what I see:
image

Here is my configuration.yaml:
camera:
- platform: ‘bom_radar’
name: “geelong_radar”
product_id: ‘IDR023’

Here is my lovelace-ui.yaml:

  • entities:
    • entity: camera.geelong_radar
      show_header_toggle: false
      title: Radar
      type: entities

I think I’ve read the documentation 3 or 4 times now.
Any obvious things I’m doing wrong?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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      - type: vertical-stack
        cards:
          - type: picture-entity
            title: BOM Radar Sydney
            entity: camera.bom_radar_sydney
            tap_action:
              action: more-info
            hold_action:
              action: more-info
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I have mine set up like this in lovelace:

  - type: picture-entity
    title: Perth Radar
    show_info: false
    show_name: false
    show_state: false
    camera_image: camera.perth_rain_radar
    entity: camera.perth_rain_radar
    tap_action: dialog

looks like this (just the radar part obviously):

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Any reason why you have a single card in a vertical stack David?

Nice background image sparkydave. Lovelace really is making some pretty UIs possible.

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I don’t… it’s just to show some context… I have 3 cards in that stack and the fire warning card as well.

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Thanks @DavidFW1960 - Now working :slight_smile:

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Thanks @sparkydave - I tried something close to this configuration but got a bit lost when trying to link to the camera image… I was providing the folder path to the image with the token, it didnt seem like it was the right direction.

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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Kudos to you @tom_l … Seeing your year with home assistant post on Reddit really inspired me to get on with my home automation projects. Your setup has given me lots of ideas :slight_smile:
:beers:

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Thanks J85. After perusing the card-modder thread I think I have to lift my interface design more than a bit.

Starting with @sparkydave, how did you do that weather forecast card?

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It’s M.P.Frankland’s Darksky Weather Card. https://github.com/iammexx/home-assistant-config/tree/master/ui/darksky

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So it’s using darksky not BoM data?

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Not sure… some people use the FTP BOM sensor as well as the regular one and have replaced the darksky components. @jimpower I think has done that. I find that DarkSky and BOM don’t have any practical difference so I just use darksky as well as some BOM stuff but I have not bothered changing that animated card.

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Last I checked (quite a few months ago) I wasn’t happy with Darksky’s forecasts for my location.

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Yeah people say that but I have both side-by-side and there’s no discernible difference in accuracy to me. I find 90% of the time BOM sucks anyway…