As long as the entity name is right that should work.
Hello, my camera displays nothing with the default integration parameters and with only the station ID. The color scale is displayed, but no satellite image. But you are right, the camera works fine when I also set the lat/lon coordinates.
Thank’s for your work, my Rhasspy voice system now tells me in french, the temperatures and "les previsions meteo !
The following does not explain your problem but here is config works and will work after a bug fix that might show in the March release.
Right now if station and coordinates are specified then station is used for weather and coordinates are used for radar. If only station is specified then coordinates from the station are used. If only coordinates are specified they are used for radar and to find the closest station for weather.
In the future the current plan is if both station and coordinates are specified then station will be used for weather (same as now) and the station’s coordinates will be used for radar (instead of what was in in the config screen). This is proposed. Feedback appreciated! There is no change if only one of station or coordinates are specified.
Regardless of where we end up, this would be a good update to the docs.
As to the mostly blank radar, that usually occurs when Environment Canada doesn’t return radar data. It could be there is no radar data for the coordinates.
Hello and thanks for your answer, personnally I found out why my satellite map was not working by reading the forum and your comment about it. Since I could not find any documentation about it, I guess an easy fix would simply be to add a comment in the initial configuration section that station ID is required for weather and lon/lat are required for radar data. If there was a reason you kept these two separated to start with, I would say this a minor change… Of course if you impose/request to add in both station ID and coordinates at initial configuration time, as I understand what you propose, then you would achieved the same result. Bye and have fun ! jrb.
Thanks for your reply… Something funny was going on with my HASS instance… after reading your response I checked again and had the same issue… power cycled the server (using HassOS) and then it worked… cheers!
Hey folks, a couple more updates and a reminder on the request we asked of the group. Let me start with the request.
If you are not using radar please disable the entity. This will reduce the load on the Environment Canada servers. Thanks!
On to the updates…
AQHI is added back in and works as expected.
Radar being down will no longer block weather!
Both of those should show up in the March release.
What is left is to figure out the best approach to be able to switch radar between snow/rain and there is a small inconvenience (bug?) with the config flow where it will use the station for weather and the coordinates for AQHI and radar. It most notable when the station and the coordinates are not the same place and causes the possibility of getting a duplicate entity.
Both the above are low priority.
Thanks for the work that went into this integration. I’m trying to set up some automations to notify us when weather alerts come up, but would like to be able to react based on the severity of the weather event (Tornado Warning vs Rainfall Warning). Can anyone point me to a list of the advisories, warnings, watches, and statements that EC uses in their messaging?
I hadn’t looked for this info before, but I believe that this is the list of alert types:
However, I wouldn’t recommend relying on Home Assistant for life-threatening alerts like tornado warnings. For that I would recommend push notifications via the WeatherCAN app:
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Thank you for the link. I do have the WeatherCAN app installed, and I have a weather radio, this will be another layer for notifications. I want to try using HA to flash some lights to draw attention to a new alert. I’ve found that I can’t rely on the weather radio, the reception from our local transmitter has dropped off and I no longer receive weekly tests or alerts. Several years ago we did have a tornado warning in our area… we received thunderstorm warnings before and after the tornado warning via weather radio, but did not receive a tornado warning. I lost some faith in the weather radio service after that.
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You wouldn’t happen to have a handy link to a list of the weather icon values would you? I see the mapping in but I can’t find a list of what the icon numbers represent.
Thanks! I had already found that. I was actually looking for a list of what the icon numbers meant. The link in the code is dead. But I just did a search for current_conditions_icon_code_descriptions_e.csv and found someone that had it posted.
Here it is if anyone is curious.
current_conditions_icon_code_descriptions_e.csv
0,Sunny,Day Conditions Only
1,Mainly Sunny,Day Conditions Only
2,Partly Cloudy,Day Conditions Only
3,Mostly Cloudy,Day Conditions Only
6,Light Rain Shower,Day Conditions Only
7,Light Rain Shower and Flurries,Day Conditions Only
8,Light Flurries,Day Conditions Only
10,Cloudy,Day and Night Conditions
11,Precipitation,Day and Night Conditions
11,Squalls,Day and Night Conditions
11,Light Precipitation,Day and Night Conditions
11,Heavy Precipitation,Day and Night Conditions
12,Rain Shower,Day and Night Conditions
12,Light Rain and Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
12,Light Rain,Day and Night Conditions
12,Rain,Day and Night Conditions
13,Rain and Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
13,Rain Shower,Day and Night Conditions
13,Heavy Rain and Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
13,Heavy Rain Shower,Day and Night Conditions
13,Heavy Rain,Day and Night Conditions
13,Rain,Day and Night Conditions
14,Light Freezing Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
14,Light Freezing Rain,Day and Night Conditions
14,Heavy Freezing Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
14,Heavy Freezing Rain,Day and Night Conditions
14,Freezing Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
14,Freezing Rain,Day and Night Conditions
15,Rain and Flurries,Day and Night Conditions
15,Rain and Snow,Day and Night Conditions
15,Light Rain and Snow,Day and Night Conditions
15,Heavy Rain Shower and Flurries,Day and Night Conditions
15,Heavy Rain and Snow,Day and Night Conditions
16,Light Snow,Day and Night Conditions
16,Snow,Day and Night Conditions
17,Flurries,Day and Night Conditions
17,Heavy Flurries,Day and Night Conditions
17,Snow,Day and Night Conditions
18,Heavy Flurries,Day and Night Conditions
18,Heavy Snow,Day and Night Conditions
19,Thunderstorm with Rain,Day and Night Conditions
19,Thunderstorm with Heavy Rain,Day and Night Conditions
19,Thunderstorm with Light Rain,Day and Night Conditions
19,Thunderstorm with Rain,Day Conditions Only
19,Thunderstorm,Day Conditions Only
19,Heavy Thunderstorm with Rain,Day Conditions Only
19,Heavy Thunderstorm,Day Conditions Only
23,Haze,Day and Night Conditions
24,Fog,Day and Night Conditions
24,Ice Fog,Day and Night Conditions
24,Fog Patches,Day and Night Conditions
24,Shallow Fog,Day and Night Conditions
24,Mist,Day and Night Conditions
25,Drifting Snow,Day and Night Conditions
26,Ice Crystals,Day and Night Conditions
27,Snow Pellets,Day and Night Conditions
27,Ice Pellets,Day and Night Conditions
27,Hail,Day and Night Conditions
28,Snow Grains,Day and Night Conditions
28,Light Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
28,Heavy Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
28,Drizzle,Day and Night Conditions
30,Clear,Night Conditions Only
31,Mainly Clear,Night Conditions Only
32,Partly Cloudy,Night Conditions Only
33,Mostly Cloudy,Night Conditions Only
36,Light Rain Shower,Night Conditions Only
37,Light Rain Shower and Flurries,Night Conditions Only
38,Light Flurries,Night Conditions Only
39,Thunderstorm with Rain,Night Conditions Only
39,Thunderstorm,Night Conditions Only
39,Heavy Thunderstorm with Rain,Night Conditions Only
39,Heavy Thunderstorm,Night Conditions Only
40,Blowing Snow,Day and Night Conditions
41,Funnel Cloud,Day and Night Conditions
42,Tornado,Day and Night Conditions
43,Windy,Day and Night Conditions
44,Smoke,Day and Night Conditions
45,Dust Devils,Day and Night Conditions
45,Dust Storm,Day and Night Conditions
45,Volcanic Ash,Day and Night Conditions
45,Blowing Dust,Day and Night Conditions
45,Sandstorm,Day and Night Conditions
45,Drifting Dust,Day and Night Conditions
46,Thunderstorm with Hail,Day and Night Conditions
46,Heavy Thunderstorm with Hail,Day and Night Conditions
47,Thunderstorm with Blowing Dust,Day and Night Conditions
47,Thunderstorm with Dust Storm,Day and Night Conditions
48,Waterspout,Day and Night Conditions
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The icons themselves are also described at https://dd.weather.gc.ca/citypage_weather/docs/Current_Conditions_Icons-Icones_conditions_actuelles.pdf
To be clear, we don’t use the Environment Canada icons and instead map them to the HA icon set. The icon code is also provided as a sensor if you’d like to fetch it with a path like this: https://weather.gc.ca/weathericons/03.gif
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Cool! I just may be able to use those. Thanks!
I have a template weather entity that is a mix of envcan and my own weatherflow data. I was just trying to complete my own mapping for the current condition (I’m just using the standard lovelace weather card). Picking them off one by one as they came up was getting irritating. 
Your integration has been more reliable than Environment Canada’s weather forecasting, so thanks!
(For the record, envcan is actually pretty good)
What’s your config? Station ID and coordinates. It could be AQHI is not supported for that location.
My location si Shawinigan, PQ
In order to check I need to know how you configured Environment Canada integration. Station ID and coordinates.
@michaeldavie, Love the integration and have been using it since it has been released. Not sure if this is a known issue or just on my system but I have noticed that the sensor.forecast is truncated at 256 characters. Not sure if this is a limit to the sensor state length or something else. I recall reading somewhere that state attributes don’t have this length restriction so not sure if there is a way to make the forecast an attribute or not.
Thanks for the great work!
Yup, it’s a limitation on the state property. I suppose we could store the full value in an attribute of the sensor as well, if it allows for longer values. I’ll take a look when I get a chance.
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