Customising the BOM Weather and lovelace - now in HACS

tom_l · October 3, 2023, 3:16am

Downgrade to the previous version of the integration until the service is implemented. You have 4 or 5 months until the attribute will no longer be supported.

rybackisback · November 21, 2023, 11:39pm

Hi @DavidFW1960 for some reason i do not see an hourly forecast even when choosing the hourly weather entity. I just get one reading. how do i see the hourly forecast?

DavidFW1960 · November 22, 2023, 2:21am

Ibelieve a change in home assistant broke this and the bom weather integration needs an update

rybackisback · November 22, 2023, 4:07am

@DavidFW1960 thanks for the quick reply. I hope the integration will be getting updated soon.

karl.snow · January 24, 2024, 1:29am

Love the BOM Integration and that Platinum Card. I’m trying to find the chance of rain sensor to add to the card but can’t find it in the BOM integration. Has anyone managed to get this to work or do I need another weather integration for this data? I can see the % on the BOM website but can’t find it in the integration. Thanks in advance.

DavidFW1960 · January 24, 2024, 2:36am

It’s definitely in the integration - maybe it’s a sensor you need to enable in the configuration

karl.snow · January 24, 2024, 3:36am

Thanks for the quick reply. I can’t seem to find it. I have 98 entities with the BOM integration and non of them appear to be rain chance in a % or any number. There also isn’t any hidden sensors I could enable.

I check the attributes too of the entities and I can’t see a rain chance or likely hood anywhere. Do you have that BOM integration and possibly show me what I’m looking for?

zoogara · January 24, 2024, 4:39am

I have 131 - so quite a few more than 98. Rain data is 32 sensors, rain_amount_min_0 through _7, rain_amount_max_0-_7, rain_amount_range_0-_7 and rain_amount_chance_0-_7.

Sounds like you are missing all of those?

Maybe the data isn’t present for your location? BOM does not supply every entity for every site, but I’d expect rain forecast data to be there.

karl.snow · January 24, 2024, 4:51am

thanks. That is a very good point. I’ll try putting in Melbourne location rather than my suburb and see what it comes back with.

karl.snow · January 24, 2024, 4:55am

ok that was it… When I put in lat and long for Melbourne it came back with 163 sensors. So more than my standard suburb closest station. Thanks everyone for the advice and feedback.

yesterdayshero · February 18, 2024, 9:50pm

Does anyone know how to get rain probability from the BOM data?

I was using a template like this, but it stopped working in a recent update.

{{ state_attr(‘weather.bom’, ‘forecast’)[0].precipitation_probability }}

The data must still be in the BOM entity, as if I use a HACS weather card, it’s able to show the rain probability.

tom_l · February 18, 2024, 10:37pm

Replace <your_location>

Today

{{ states('sensor.<your_location>_rain_chance_0') }}

Tomorrow

{{ states('sensor.<your_location>_rain_chance_1') }}

yesterdayshero · February 22, 2024, 11:59pm

Hmm. Interesting, I don’t have those entities. I’m guessing I may need to re-configure my location again to pull them in. Thanks for the point in the right direciton.

robb1 · March 25, 2024, 6:28am

I have noticed a big change in the available hourly forecast data in version 1.3.0 compared with 1.1.21. and I see from above discussion that may be to do with non-station locations. This is what the older version returned:

and the newer version is much truncated:-
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How do we go about restoring the missing data?

PodPerson · July 25, 2024, 11:36am

Can’t see your second photo but if it’s like mine, the attributes under forecast are missing? I’ve been trying to access via templates and can’t find any way to do so.
I tried previous versions back to 1.2.3 and tried other locations to see if it was just my station, but still not working.

I opened an issue on GitHub but the only reply was that it was only me, and it was closed. If this is the same issue as you have, and you never resolved it, please post and say it’s not just me.

Otherwise, if you’ve fixed it, could you let me know how?

robb1 · July 25, 2024, 1:34pm

I have never been able to fix it. I figured a new version would come along some day but has not happened so far. Same issue, all of the forecast attributes are missing.
And no different if an actual Station is used.
I will post in the github link as well.
Maybe I am just not understanding how the new config should be setup.
This is my 2nd image.

PodPerson · July 25, 2024, 1:44pm

It is odd that clicking on the info button lets you see the forecast, which means the data is there, but we can’t access it in any way.

robb1 · July 25, 2024, 2:03pm

Even my card is broken since the updates. I have missing data there.

Here is my card config

      - Entity_forecast_max: sensor.camberwell_temp_max_0
        card_config_version: 8
        entity_apparent_temp: sensor.melbourne_olympic_park_temp_feels_like
        entity_extended: sensor.camberwell_extended_text_0
        entity_fire_danger: sensor.camberwell_fire_danger_0
        entity_forecast_icon: sensor.camberwell_icon_descriptor_0
        entity_forecast_icon_1: sensor.camberwell_icon_descriptor_1
        entity_forecast_max_1: sensor.camberwell_temp_max_0
        entity_forecast_min: sensor.camberwell_temp_min_0
        entity_forecast_min_1: sensor.camberwell_temp_min_1
        entity_pop: sensor.camberwell_rain_chance_0
        entity_pop_1: sensor.camberwell_rain_chance_1
        entity_pos: sensor.camberwell_rain_amount_range_0
        entity_pos_1: sensor.camberwell_rain_amount_range_1
        entity_summary: sensor.camberwell_short_text_0
        entity_summary_1: sensor.camberwell_short_text_1
        entity_sun: sun.sun
        entity_temperature: sensor.melbourne_olympic_park_temp
        entity_todays_fire_danger: sensor.camberwell_fire_danger_0
        entity_todays_uv_forecast: sensor.camberwell_uv_category_0
        entity_wind_bearing: sensor.melbourne_olympic_park_wind_direction
        entity_wind_gust: sensor.melbourne_olympic_park_gust_speed_kilometre
        entity_wind_speed: sensor.melbourne_olympic_park_wind_speed_kilometre
        old_daily_format: false
        option_time_format: 24hour
        option_tooltips: true
        section_order:
          - overview
          - extended
          - slots
          - daily_forecast
        slot_l1: daytime_high
        slot_l2: daytime_low
        slot_l3: wind
        slot_l4: pressure
        slot_l5: sun_next
        slot_l6: remove
        slot_l7: remove
        slot_l8: remove
        slot_r1: possible_today
        slot_r2: humidity
        slot_r3: uv_summary
        slot_r4: fire_danger_summary
        slot_r5: sun_following
        slot_r6: remove
        slot_r7: remove
        slot_r8: remove
        type: custom:platinum-weather-card

Not sure what I have wrong there either.