Australian Weather Forecast using BOM Public FTP

[BrendanMoran]

Hey Dave, I replicated your setup but couldn’t replicate your issue. Did a google search and came up with this… it might help you?

Log File records error whenever I click on overview or open side panel

[BrendanMoran]

Hi Semet, make sure you have copied the bom_forecast.py file into the correct folder and described in the opening post.

[BrendanMoran]

This is my bad, fixed now. thanks for your patience while i figure this all out, very new to me. @aidbish @tom_l

[BrendanMoran]

Hey RKor, the stations are for current observations, they are basically big weather stations that report current observations.

If you can find a weather forecast for a particular suburb I could try and integrate it.

[aidbish (Adrian)]

Just updated, works perfectly
Thanks for the quick updates

[Semet8 (Scott Elson)]

Hi Brendan

bom_forecast.py is located in my custom_components folder

[Semet8 (Scott Elson)]

Hi Brendan

My fault, didnt read it properly and didnt notice the “sensor” folder added that and put the bom_forecast.py and now its all good. Thanks for the help

[RKor (Rani)]

That would be great mate, because another thing I wish your component does is give me current observations and locally

Here’s my station http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60901/IDN60901.94757.shtml

Also, ever thought about making it an animated card? .

Custom UI: Weather state card

EDIT: updated for Lovelace: https://github.com/bramkragten/custom-ui/tree/master/weather-card I created a custom weather state card with animated icons: [image] But, I have some problems getting it to display… This is my config: customize_domain: weather: custom_ui_state_card: custom-weather In my config folder I have: The awesome icons from amcharts (if only they had a little more icons!) in: \www\weather_icons\animated\ \www\custom_ui\state-card-custom-weather.html: <dom-m…

Or

Custom animated weather card for Lovelace

UPDATE (1/9): @Bram_Kragten has updated the card to use lit (to improve performance). It is also significantly easy to get started with. Please follow the link here for instructions. UPDATE (7/3): Thanks to @ciotlosm for all his inputs to get the card fixed. We now have a significantly better version of the custom animated card that provides the same output, but is less “hacky”. To configure the card: Place the weather-card.js and weather-card.css files in www\custom_ui\. Save, the amcharts i…

I know I’m asking for a bit much but see how you go…

[BrendanMoran]

I don’t think I am going to be putting current observations into my component because it is already in the main bom sensor. Also, that link you showed me is for current and historical observations only, not for a forecast. I dont think BOM do forecasts per ‘station’, they only do it per city/town/district.

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

Thanks. I did manage to sort out the log file error which was as per the link you suggested. I do still have an issue if I try to run the standard BOM component but I have now moved to just the BOM sensor and your forecast

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

any chance of adding a .json file for this component so it can be tracked with the custom_updater?

[RKor (Rani)]

@sparkydave

/frontend_latest/app-d4eea1e0.js:434:176 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘_stateDisplay’ of null

Hey Dave,

That issue link says he had updater.updater in his lovelace file and when he removed it, the error stopped.
I don’t have that entity in my lovelace.
How did you fix it?

[Mahko_Mahko]

Anyone want to share how they’re using it in automatons? I need help with the second one if anyone would care to have a go.

1. If forecast max above x, let me know via my morning routines (that are announced over Google Home) for me to shower at work, not at home (I prefer to shower at home before my short cycle to work, but if it’s too hot, I’ll get too sweaty, so shower at work). This is pretty simple.

2. (I need help). If it’s close to the weekend (say from Wednesday), start telling me the weekend forecast in the morning/afternoon, so I can think about weekend activities.

I’m using the friendly option. The weekday condition is simple enough, just a bit of now().weekday() etc , but I can’t think of logic to point the action to the relevant weekend sensor/attributes.

Does that make sense? Can anyone help?

[tom_l]

Thinking out loud:

now().weekday() returns 0-6 for Monday to Sunday. So…

Wednesday is day 2,
Thursday is day 3,
Friday is day 4.

For saturday’s forecast:
On Wednesday (day 2) you want the attributes of sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_3
On Thursday (day 3) you want the attributes of sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_2
On Friday (day 4) you want the attributes of sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_1

Or for all three days you want sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_{{ 5 - now().weekday() }}

Unfortunately this is where it all falls down as I don’t seem to be able to access the attributes of

states.sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_{{ 5 - now().weekday() }}

e.g. for max temp I expected it to be:

states.sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_{{ 5 - now().weekday() }}.attributes.max_temp_c

But this returns nothing. So does:

states.sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_3.attributes.max_temp_c

So there’s nothing wrong with the template. There’s something funny about the attributes of this sensor.

[petro]

@tom_l

states.sensor.bom_forecast_[location]_{{ 5 - now().weekday() }}.attributes.max_temp_c

If that’s going in a template, that won’t work. You’ll need to use code like this:

{{ state_attr('bom_forecast_[location]_{}'.format(5 - now().weekday()), 'max_temp_c') }}

[tom_l]

Thanks @petro. That makes sense but there’s still something screwy with this sensor’s attributes:

[petro]

What does states.sensor.bom_forecast_hobart_3.attributes return?

[tom_l]

It’s shown in second part of the image (under the second blue bar).

The test under that returns nothing.

[BrendanMoran]

Could it be the capitalisation? There is every chance there is something screwy with the attributes I can take a deeper look at this through the week or someone could try and poke holes in my python code if they felt up to it

[tom_l]

I hope you didn’t take any offence by that Brendan. I’m very grateful for your work on this.

@BrendanMoran

Could it be the capitalisation?

Could be. Looking at the attributes of my other sensors they are all lower case and use underscores for spaces.