That is a good point. Having done some checking they are hosting on a CDN not connected to UA. They use leaseweb which is a global cloud platform run out of the Netherlands, including a Sydney presence.
I think I will change over and if it all goes to poo I can always revert to the current version.
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It will work exactly the same as it currently does, but different colours and much less lag. I find with the bom radar that it show you the storms only after they have passed by as the lag is so horrible.
Would this allow me to gauge the cloud coverage so I can set automations based on how dark it is outside?
No. There are no sensors. Only pretty pictures.
Get or build yourself a Lux sensor.
Yeah but I have trouble finding a place outside where the sensor wouldn’t get ruined with moisture.
I know that some automations use the darksky for “cloud coverage”, not sure how accurate that would be for us
Would any of the sensors in the native BOM integration be relevant?
Don’t know why it’s in Chinese…
It’s in Chinese because you linked to a Chinese fork of Home Assistant.
The BoM weather integration was removed from home assistant ages ago as it used web scraping. That Chinese version wont work either as the BoM have instigated web scraping prevention measures.
There is a third party BoM weather integration that uses the official BoM public API but it does not have cloud sensors as that is not provided by the API.
The Astroweather third party integration has a cloud cover sensor.
I used to use one of these: BH1750 BH1750FVI Chip Light Intensity Light Module Light ball for Arduino|Integrated Circuits| - AliExpress siliconed to a waterproof enclosure on my roof. It’s connected to an ESP running ESPHome inside the roof (metal roof shields my wifi). Very simple to set up. Now I’m using a Weatherflow Tempest weather station but it updates too slow. So I’ll write up the BH1750 project in a month or so when I put it back on the roof.
Awesome, there are a lot of sensors in this, thanks Tom!!!
You wouldn’t believe it, but I bought a Holman weather station from bunnings 2 yrs ago and I’m yet to mount/set that up haha
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I have just published a pre-release (v2.0.0) of the card that uses an alternative data source (rainviewer). The reasoning for the change is that the data from this site is much more responsive than that from the BoM themselves. It has images at 5 minute intervals and they appear to be available just 1 minute after each 5 minute interval. Note that as it is a global service they don’t provide the BoM colour scheme (they provide 8 options, I have just hardcoded one of them for the demo). Note that because of the interval change from 10 to 5 minutes you will want to double the framecount in your config to get coverage of the same period of time.
If you are interested in helping guide development please try it out and provide feedback. In particular I am interested in the reliability of the data source, so let me know of any problems with missing tiles etc.
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there is a thread on here with templated for estimated illuminance that I find fairly effective for indoor lighting depending on outside conditions. There also a custom component by Phil Bruckner you can use. they both use the current conditions.
What I do is I use the met.no (which isn’t as bad as you might think) and also the BOM one and the automation triggers when both ate at or below a certain estimated illuminance. It works pretty well actually.
Have a look at https://www.rainviewer.com/weather-radar-map-live.html you can choose other schemes under settings.
Any release that uses this data will allow you to choose any of them. I just hardcoded one for testing. I quite like the darksky theme.
I am thinking that the proper release version will allow you to choose a datasource/colour combination as a single config item (ie. keep the current bom source/scheme even though it is horribly laggy, and add rainveiwer/meteored, rainviewer/darksky etc).
I’m not in love with any of their schemes
The ‘universal blue’ scheme isn’t too bad.
I gave it a try. It does not seem as detailed as the BoM version.
With the BoM version I can see a rain front advancing. With the new one the blobs just seem to move around randomly.
Thanks mate, this is the component you were talking about right? GitHub - pnbruckner/ha-illuminance: Home Assistant Illuminance Sensor
I’d also love to muck around with what you have setup, would you be able to give the details/code, or make a quick thread about the build?
yes that’s the one. you can see my full config on the below github (lovelace yaml as well)
home-assistant/illuminance.yaml at 8f4f94b18db6448a720dd2ddba3cec15faf6d5bd · DavidFW1960/home-assistant · GitHub is the yaml package I made
graph can jump around a bit.
Automation
So I want my lights to go on when sun is lower than 25° and after 4PM depending on the state of the 2 illuminance sensors
- id: '1505977024304'
alias: Turn Lounge Light On Elevation < 25° & after 4PM
trigger:
- platform: state
from: 'on'
entity_id: 'binary_sensor.sun_above_25'
to: 'off'
- platform: time
at: '16:00:00'
condition:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: time
after: '16:00:00'
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: or
conditions:
- "{{ (states('sensor.illuminance') | float < 7500 ) and (states('sensor.estimated_illuminance') | float < 10000) }}"
- condition: state
entity_id: 'binary_sensor.sun_above_25'
state: 'off'
action:
- service: script.turn_on
data:
entity_id: script.loungenormal
So before 25° I want it off unless its very dull outside. This works pretty well and of course you can tweak it. I use Phil’s sun2 for the binary sensor too.
Thanks mate,
Just fiddling with it now, I see you have weather.kariong in your template, how did you set that sensor to where you’re located?
I should just change that to weather.home as I’ve already added pnbruckner’s met.no component as weather.home?
The new BOM integration mimics the met.no one and provides a weather entity for the forecast location.
Sorry mate, which new BOM integration?
I can’t find anything to do with BOM under integrations
It’s a custom component configured in the GUI
It’s in HACS. Docs here GitHub - bremor/bureau_of_meteorology: Custom component for retrieving weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology.