Pretty awesome what BoM are offering now. I’m not sure what I would do with an hourly forecast though, that’s a truckload of sensors.
Do you think there’s an appetite for hourly forecast sensors?
Without a card that displays them there isn’t much use I suspect. I find myself going back to the bom website all the time for forecast info as the current card doesn’t provide me enough info.
I really like the layout of the android app.
What else would you like to see? I must admit I find forecasts pretty much witchcraft anyway… there is a core card that you can set to use weather.home_hourly and it switches to those forecasts instead of hourly. Maybe Brendan could make a weather platform sensor that has the 3 hourly forecasts like the core one does.
That wouldn’t be too hard to do, a weather entity that does 3 hourly and another one that does 1 hourly
I suspect they put more effort into the capital city forecasts, but I find them reasonable. The one big thing I not a fan of for the current card is the forecast text being really small and only the current day being available. I must admit that I haven’t checked to see if there is a way to change this with the current implementation.
The summary text down the bottom? You should be able to change the size of that with the options…
Most likely an issue with the entity you are parsing. I had the same issue a few weeks ago and found I was using day 1 instead of day 0 for the slot. I did correct this in the examples on github…
I would be interested to see if there going to be a sudden drop or rise in pressure as this seems to have an affect on some people’s mental and physical health.
Im looking to make automated notifications in case such drop/increase forecasted.
Thanks for the link! Look pretty cool. But i guess this is not going to be in the forecast?
Anyway if by the chance anyone comes around such a thing as pressure forecast in home assistant id really appreciate a shout out here or a pm 
The data is out there… just need to find out if there is a source that you can ingest into HA:
https://www.myweather2.com/City-Town/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/14-Day-Forecast.aspx
Check the template sensorfire_danger. That is derived from fire_danger_0 so you have an error in your config is my guess…
that was it. thanks!
was
bom_fire_danger:
value_template: "Fire Danger Today: {{ states('sensor.pymble_fire_danger_1') }}"
Yeah I screwed up in the docs but corrected a few weeks ago. Sorry about that.
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Hello all,
Just updated to the new version of the BOM weather card. I seem to have the values but not the icons. I see icons in the /root/config/www/icons folder. I have folders for bom_icons and weather_icons.
There is a reference in the card documentation:
IF YOU USE the SAMBA addin in Home Assistant, the ICON directory will be hidden by default. Go to the configuration of the addon and remove the exclusion of icons and restart the addon otherwise you can’t create the directory.
It looks as though the files are in the right place. The files are hidden from Samba. Which addon does the text refer to? If it’s the BoM weather card, I don’t see an option to remove the exclusion of icons. How do I do that so I can copy the new icons across?
The Samba addon.
Oh, right!!! Yeah, that makes sense!
OK, I’ve copied up the files. I think the problem I had was an incorrect icon configuration in the card configuration.
I used [sensor.queanbeyan_mdi_icon_0] instead of [sensor.queanbeyan_icon_descriptor_0].
I’ve updated the others and its all fine now.
Thanks for the pointer.
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hey @BrendanMoran thanks for the link. Do you happen to know what is the easiest wey to get weather2 into home assistant?
Its so strange existing integrations do not support pressure forecast.
Trying to get it from that site would violate the HA standards. The info is generated at the backend so the only way is to web scrape the page. I suspect this is data that has to be paid for to access.
I just released version 0.85c of the card. With this version, I added a couple of example cards using some of the additional templates I include in the package like Heat Index and also the Beaufort rating.
I have also been playing around with an outdoor illuminance sensor so that is there as well (including a package to use it). I also use the met.no a HA default for illuminance so I can compare that to the template sensor. See the package for references to forum posts and components I have used for that.
Finally, this version supports locales other than en-US when building the html that displays the cards. This means for instance a decimal point can be replaced by a comma if that is used in your locale. There are no changes to be made to your card config for this - it just picks up the locale from the windows/browser settings.
As always, please create an issue on github if you see any problems or feel free to post here about the new cards/options for illuminance.