Has the BoM sensor failed for anyone else?

1

It only updates on a restart of HA then no further updates come in.

- platform: bom
  station: IDT60901.94970
  name: Hobart
  monitored_conditions:
  - apparent_t
  - gust_kt
  - air_temp
  - dewpt
  - press
  - rain_trace
  - rel_hum
  - wind_dir
  - wind_spd_kt
2

I can’t even use this to update it manually:

- id: weather_update
  alias: 'Weather Update'
  hide_entity: true
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern # Matches every hour at 10 minutes past whole
    minutes: 10
  - platform: time_pattern # Matches every hour at 40 minutes past whole
    minutes: 40
  action:
    service: homeassistant.update_entity
    entity_id:
    - sensor.bom_hobart_air_temp_c
    - sensor.bom_hobart_dew_point_c
    - sensor.bom_hobart_feels_like_c
    - sensor.bom_hobart_pressure_mb
    - sensor.bom_hobart_rain_today
    - sensor.bom_hobart_relative_humidity
    - sensor.bom_hobart_wind_direction
    - sensor.bom_hobart_wind_gust_kt
    - sensor.bom_hobart_wind_speed_kt

Checking the BoM website there are observations being added every 30 minutes.

3

Updating to 0.92 fixed the problem.

4

I’m on 0.92.2 and still got bom.sensor errors… this is hugely descriptive error I get…

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has anyone else seen and managed to resolve this - appeared around 0.91 from memory

my sensor config is:

  • platform: bom
    station: IDV60901.94870
    monitored_conditions:
    • apparent_t
    • cloud
    • gust_kt
    • air_temp
    • dewpt
    • press
    • rain_trace
    • rel_hum
    • vis_km
    • weather
    • wind_dir
    • wind_spd_kt
5

Have you updated to the new component?

You need this in your config as well as the sensor config.:

weather:
  - platform: bom

Also please take note of points 3 and 11 in this: How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question

6

Thanks for that… Unfortunately it makes no difference. The documentation indicates the weather component is an alternative to the sensor, rather than a dependency.

On HASSIO it works, but not Hassbian, yet there are no documented dependencies that I can see

7

Yeah you’re right. That is not needed for the sensor.

That’s pretty specific. You should open an issue: Issues · home-assistant/core · GitHub

8

I resolved my issue last night (in case anyone also has it) … when I delved deeper into my logs, I found that Pillow was trying to upgrade the bomradarloop module, and failing.

the resolution ended up being:

sudo aptitude install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk

then activating the python venv, and upgrading Pillow

source  /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate 
pip install Pillow
pip install bomradarloop

reboot, and voila - bom sensor working again

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