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Great info thanks @Databitz I will look into the Bosch alarms

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these are the 3 resources I have used in the past
https://www.global-mark.com.au/
https://equipment.erac.gov.au/Registration/EquipmentSearch.aspx?atn=public

I believe if they are OK in AU then they are good for NZ, Disclaimer: well thatā€™s what I have read.

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There are not different ZigBee channels on different regions.

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There is a very long thread about Australian certified devices.

NZ and Oz have a combined approvals regime, if it is certified for AU it is certified for NZ and vice versa. It would pay the search or ask there. Youā€™ll get a wider audience.

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Search for Allterco and Shelly if your looking on global-mark.
https://www.global-mark.com.au/certificate-search/

Most devices are under Allterco, some of the latest are under Shelly. Allterco was the name of the company previously and Shelly was a brand they had, but now the company/group is also called Shelly.

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Zigbee is the same channels and frequency.
However, Z-Wave, if they still do, use different frequencies depending on the region, I am sure the Z-Wave devices arenā€™t allowed in NZ or AU if the frequencies arenā€™t registered for that region as they could cause interference which is illegal so you have to purchase NZ licensed Z-Wave devices.
This may have all changed in the past 2 years but I doubt it.

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I know, I didnā€™t argue with the statement that z-wave uses different frequencies in different regions.

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sorry replied to the wrong post DOH

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Hi fellow HA kiwiā€™s
Can anyone explain how to use the previously mentioned Metservice home assistant integration? Iā€™ve not seen it available when adding an integration in HA.

I aim to read in a forecast for my Waikato location so that I can alert on forecast parameters (eg frost).
Many thanks.

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GitHub - ciejer/metservice-weather: Metservice New Zealand component for Home Assistant - follow that :slight_smile:

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Excellent, thanks.

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The data coming back from the Metservice integration looks great. To use lat/long instead of a town/city Iā€™d need to use the mobile API option, right?
Anyone know how to get one?
The GitHub discussion suggests it is a API key for the Metservice iOS app but no detail on how to obtain it.

I note that the forecast is not a sensor but named weather.Metservice_hamilton so Iā€™m currently unsure how Iā€™d specify that programmatically for notifications etc.
Cheers

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The forecast still has has some attributes which you can get to like this:

{{ state_attr('weather.metservice_hamilton', 'temperature') }}

That will get you only the current temperature.

The weather sensors used to have the future forecasts also as attributes, but they donā€™t now.

A change was signaled last year and recently the future forecast attributes has been removed. See here for how to get at the forecast data now:
2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI! - Home Assistant
So now you need to use a service something like this:

- trigger:
    - platform: time_pattern
      hours: /1
  action:
    - service: weather.get_forecasts
      data:
        type: daily
      target:
        entity_id: weather.metservice_hamilton
      response_variable: daily
  sensor:
    - name: Hamilton Temperature Max Today
      unique_id: hamilton_temperature_max_today_new
      state: "{{ daily['weather.metservice_hamilton'].forecast[0].temperature }}"
      unit_of_measurement: Ā°C        
           
    - name: Hamilton Temperature Max Tomorrow
      unique_id: hamilton_temperature_max_tomorrow_new
      state: "{{ daily['weather.metservice_hamilton'].forecast[1].temperature }}"
      unit_of_measurement: Ā°C        
      
    - name: Hamilton Condition Tomorrow
      unique_id: hamilton_weather_condition_tomorrow_new
      state: "{{ daily['weather.metservice_hamilton'].forecast[1].condition }}"
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Thanks for the useful info.

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Interested in ideas anyone has to automate turning off devices when there is a lot of load on the grid, like expected tomorrow morning.
Weather: Power cuts possible on one of coldest mornings of 2024: Auckland in for frosts, subzero temperatures around NZ (newstalkzb.co.nz)
The ask is to turn off non essential heating, and high load devices during the peak times.

Iā€™ve currently got an automation which kinda does the job, based on fossil fuel generation. It triggers off the ā€œElectricity Maps Grid fossil fuel percentageā€ when it exceeds 22%.

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Weird, I only have weather.metservice In my entities.

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In my case I chose a city (Hamilton) and gave it a name ā€œhamiltonā€ replacing the default word ā€œhomeā€. This added _hamilton to the weather entity.

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Hi Cody, thanks again for the integration. I just added today and it hasnā€™t seem to downloaded any data. I have the 9-12 free hours. Just like the other user below. Any support? (I am very beginner at this)

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Has anyone had the Contact Energy integration working? I would love to know. Thanks a lot

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I did, but in my old system. I have been rebuilding, but not got up to that but yet.