Generic Weather component

Since weather-related things are a pretty popular feature request I was thinking of diving into the generic weather component that @fabaff started.

Has @fabaff or anyone else worked on this since that original pull request was submitted?

There are also a lot of requests for forecast data, but I’m not sure if a forecast is the same component as current conditions or not. They feel a little different to me, but maybe as far as the structure of HA goes they’re similar enough?

Hope you can get the icons to work

Are you talking about the custom icons or the condition icons sent from the service?

In my early AndroidWear days I remember building a facer watch face and having to put in an image for each icon name to match the background to the current weather conditions. I was actually thinking of seeing if I could reproduce this logic with templating, but I just got my first RaspPi yesterday and I have iBeacons coming today so that’s going to have to take a back seat. LOL

I’ve got to stop watching @brusc videos and reading the blog! First Ben’s video about the AIO installer then @Pavoni just did an excellent two parter about iBeacons that got me psyched. :laughing:

I’m talking about conditions in general, i.e. the difference between the array of data which is reported by a PWS, and a forecast which is generated by a service like WUnderground based on data from a PWS. In the case of Wunderground the two are pretty tightly intertwined, since WUnderground provides the API for both. But for someone reading an array of sensors locally, they might be two totally different services. So generalizing both current conditions and forecasts so that they can be connected to any weather sensors / forecast service is pretty valuable. A Weather/Forecast component would work with the existing weather platforms, as well as a WUnderground platform.

As far as icons and names, I think a lot of that is just icing on the top and shouldn’t be hard to pull in once there’s a good framework for things to nestle into.

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I don’t think that this PR was touched in the last time.

Sorry, my reply was to @dennisaion asking which icons he was referring to. I should have quoted, sorry for the confusion.

But your answer was illuminating; currently with your app which API are you pulling from?