Custom Weather Meter

Hi,

I have a weather meter, which is connected to home assistant via RS232 (using a serial to IP converter) which (will after I’ve tested it later) plot it’s readings to various sensors like temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc via node read - yet to get this working as the converter only just turned up.

Is there a formal/good way to get this to plot to a weather card, or is the only way to add the various sensors as entities to Lovelace?

Also, the wind direction is output in a value between 0 and 360, is there a way to set this so that anything between “x” and “x” = north, and “x” and “x” = north east and “x” and “x” = east, etc.

Thanks.