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Thanks Tom, will give it a try - just d/loaded in raw format before and has never been an issue. Still just wants to create the one sensor. No dramas will roll back to an older version.

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What happens if you remove the fire danger ans UV alert monitored conditions?

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Good pick up Tom - it appears the UV and Fire Danger attributes are the issue. I use the UV rating to send alerts, so still need to roll back to older version unfortunately.

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what do you mean by this?

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I meant an output like this:

12Ā°C to 20Ā°C
Mostly sunny.

This is the solution for single quoted scalars according to the YAML docs :

  forecast_days: 6
  rest_of_today: True
  friendly_state_format: '{min}Ā°C to {max}Ā°C

    {summary}'
  text_if_no_value: '-'
  monitored_conditions:
    - 'max'

But it does not work.

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@sparkydave, Just realised that isnā€™t going to work for forecasts like this ā€œ2 to 8 mmā€.

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yeah, I looked into that tonight and tried an example. It seemed to giive me the first value

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It should be possible to extract the max value if that is more use. But it would need a conditional statement to look for ā€œtoā€ in the string.

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Apologies if I am hijacking this thread, but have any Aussies here been able to get pollen/allergy info from anywhere? I thought there might be info on the BOM site and could be extracted as described above but I couldnā€™t find it. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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I donā€™t think BOM do pollen forecasts, you could try this website but they mostly only cover Victoria:L

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weather.com seems to have info for everywhere Iā€™ve looked for a pollen count, but I donā€™t know where they get their data from, so I havenā€™t used it. Also WeatherZone has info for the capital cities, but for me itā€™s too far away.

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Time to build your own pollen sensor!

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This is great. Many thanks Brendan!

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Thanks for doing these, super helpful!

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Came here looking for this info too - it would be rather awesome if we could get current weather warnings. Iā€™d like to potantially set some lights to red or something similar of a current warning for my area was present (hopefully giving a heads up for giant hail etcā€¦).

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Is anyone else running the dev branch of this and getting the same AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text' error that @grantc and @tom_l discussed above?

It looks like disabling the UV and fire danger conditions stop this, but my understanding is that the dev branch exists to add support for this?

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Thanks for some fantastic work. Iā€™ve got this working well on my Sunology, using Docker, and 0.85.0 of Home Assistant

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Hi all, Iā€™m a bit of a noob, and having trouble with the n/a to n/a issue. Could anyone help me out with a ā€˜dummies guideā€™ to fixing it?

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Here is my config:

> #Sensors
> #weather stuff
> sensor:
>   - platform: bom_forecast
>     product_id: IDV10450
>     name: Melbourne
>     forecast_days: 3
>     rest_of_today: True
>     friendly: True
>     friendly_state_format: '{min} to {max}'
>     monitored_conditions:
>       - 'max'
>       - 'min'
>       - 'chance_of_rain'
>       - 'possible_rainfall'
>       - 'summary'
>       - 'detailed_summary'
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The problem is, ā€˜n/aā€™ is referring to the minimum temp or low temp for that day. If it is ā€˜todayā€™ then the lowest temp has already past, it wouldā€™ve occurred at some time before sunrise. So BoM donā€™t publish that low in their ā€œforecastā€ because it is not actually a ā€œforecastā€, it is historical. To overcome this you could create a template sensor that is based on the value for ā€˜todayā€™ but removes the n/a section of the value. Hope this helps.

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Hey, thanks for the reply. Iā€™ve never worked with template sensorā€™s before, is there a example for this I can work off?