Dark sky Precipitation type unknown when clear

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I’ve noticed that Precipitation Type comes up as Unknown for dark sky when there is clear weather (ie no Precipitation) … it does show “rain” though when it’s raining… anyone else experiencing this or know of an open issue?

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I think this is how it’s supposed to be, certainly is in my setup.

Rain for rain, snow for snow, unknown in all other cases.

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Thanks, any idea why it’s Unknown rather than something like “None”?

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fun fact, they are setting it to None and home assistant interprets that as Unknown.

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suddenly notice (because @anon43302295 made this nice sensor for unknown entities …) that my precip sensor is unknown… According to the docs, this should be happening when precip_intensity is zero.

strange thing about that is I have these conditions configured:

      - precip_accumulation
      - precip_intensity
      - precip_probability
      - precip_type

and this is in the states:

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so, I don’t have the precip_type (which should be there), but see a sensor for _precip which isnt described anywhere?

added to that I dont see the precip_accumulation at all, while in fact that should shown as undefined ? Or is that equal to: will only be created if snowfall is expected?

all in all some peculiar behavior. please let me know if this is correct behavior?