Ecowitt lightning display

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Hi all

I have been struggling on a good way to display lightning strikes on a dashboard. I have Ecowitt set up with the lightning detector which provides distance and strike counts. I have tried creating various calculations, time stamps, etc. but cannot find a good way to display the data when there are strikes. Anyone have any good ideas or examples?

Thanks

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Hello Paul,

I did not know this existed, cool to hear.
There are a few things you can try, dashboards and visualisations are very dependent on taste so see what you like.

  • Add visibility condition(s) under the card so it will not show unless there is lightning detected
  • Display an animation in a card
  • Adapt the icon/color/size of the font on the card depending on the amount or the distance of the strikes
  • (Not really what you asked) Link other things to the information: send out a notification reminding you to unplug unnecessary things from the outlets

You might need a card-mod to do some if the things in the list though.

Also check out some other posts in the forum: Can you recommend an accurate thunder/lightning forecast sensor?

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Thanks, yes have various graphs but they dont seem to represent it well. I really want to replicate what Ecowitt dashboard does but in HA and so far I cannot get it to show similar, it never quite works so anyone managed it I would be interested.

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i did this one using the apexcharts-card (downloadable from HACS).

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with the following code:

          - type: custom:apexcharts-card
            header:
              show: true
              title: Local Lightning Activity (25 mile radius)
            apex_config:
              chart:
                height: 170px
            graph_span: 24h
            span:
              start: day
              offset: +1m
            now:
              show: true
            series:
              - entity: sensor.gw1100b_lightning_strikes
                type: column
                name: Lightning Strike
                statistics:
                  type: change
                show:
                  legend_value: false
              - entity: sensor.gw1100b_lightning_strike_distance
                type: area
                name: Latest Distance
                stroke_width: 1
                extend_to: false