Best weather platform for Belgium?

I just added meteo.be to my dashboard. They provide a url for embedding in an iframe. You can specify your zipcode, background and more.
You can’t easily access the data, but if you have an outside temperature available there’s probably not much you can do with it anyway (at least I wouldn’t rely on weather forecasts for automations)

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The inside and outside temperature come from my Daikin airco

Grtz,
Ivo

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Pity they don’t provide an api. But better than the weather card of 0.109.x

They do have an app for smarphone, perhapse there is an API. Most likely not public.

Hi Ivo,

Just saw your post. May I ask you to share the API integration details?

Thx!

Kr,
JP

hey Thibault. ever got this to work? I would love to integrate id=“weather-react” from VRT weer in my hass lovelace, but can’t figure out how to show only that part and not the whole page.

I’ve managed to publish the client to interact with VRT services on pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pyvrt/ but haven’t found the time to create a HA integration for this.

I found this: https://services.vrt.be/

but it seems that everything stated there is the old styling.
i managed to download their icons from their current weather div.

for the moment I made an iframe with some padding and margins on a page on my website, and then use the Webcard view to show THAT page in an iframe…

not what I wanted but i’m not too good with code to create something unfortunately…
thanks for the Info Thibault.

For you and those interested, I created a small Flask app as an example on how you could run these locally for weather info, traffic and radio (which i added today): https://github.com/thibmaek/vrt-http-flask

thank you Thibault. as Flask is new to me, i’ll read up on it and try to understand how i can implement this in my home assistant…

thank you very much.

I think it depends on the location, as I live in western Flanders I did a comparison between the buienradar and the meteo France integration.
Buienradar gives me conditions from the Cadzand meteo station, Meteo France from the Werviq-sud meteo station.
Cadzand is 60km’s from where I live, Werviq-sud is 25km.
For me, Meteo France is the most accurate, especialy when you take in account the coastal weather differs from the inland.

Hey,

Sorry but you are all Dutch speaking?

is there also a community in dutch? would be very easy!

Tweakers has an active forum part for Home Assistant.

https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/2058344

There is a Dutch home assistant group on Facebook! “HOME ASSISTANT (Dutch)”

@tom_el_camino, did you manage to create an integration for home assistant. I was also looking for a good source of weather data, and found the KMI app. It uses an api (https://app.meteo.be).

By looking at the code of the app, I managed to figure out how it works. However, I’m not a coder … So I’m looking for someone who could help me in creating an home assistant integration based upon the KMI api.

Yeah, unfortunately I’m in the same boat. Didn’t manage to get it going.
Tried with webscraping, but the result the default weather forecast is actually so accurate close to kmi, I’m just using that one.

I managed to write a small python scripts that uses the meteo.be api to retrieve the forecast data, but I’m not skilled enough to create a home assistant integration based upon it.

If anyone wants to help, please let me know.

Same. I managed to setup an API endpoint locally but don’t have any experience in implementing it in a Home Assistant integration. :slight_smile:

ooh, I can help with this one! what’s the url of the api?

@wernerkarlheisenberg @amedia I was looking into the possibility of integrating the KMI forecasts into HA and stumbled across this topic. It sounds like you both found a way to interact with meteo.be (through an actual api?) in a way that I haven’t managed to find at this time. The best I seem to be able to do would be to process and extract the relevant data from the response of e.g. https://app.meteo.be/nl/meteo/change-day/1/21004?
Is this what you did as well, or could give some guidance in a different direction?

Thanks in advance.

I created an integration to grab data from the IRM KMI app (meteo.be). You can have look here: Belgium weather provider: IRM / KMI (meteo.be)

As of version 0.2.6, the integration provides the following:

  • A weather entity with current weather conditions
  • Weather forecasts (hourly, daily and twice-daily) using the service weather.get_forecasts
  • A camera entity for rain radar and short-term rain previsions
  • A binary sensor for weather warnings
  • Sensors for pollen levels
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