Met.no automation & creating sensor template

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Hi,
I’m new here, so be kind :slight_smile:

I need to use the weather condition in met.no (rainy, cloudy, etc.) in order to create an automation to control my window shades.
I understand that I have to create a template sensor, so I paste the code below in my configuration.yaml:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      rain_check:
        friendly_name: "Condizioni meteo"
          value_template: "{{ state_attr('weather.boaria', 'condition') }}"

weather.boaria is the entity name of met.no.

Sure I’m missing something because I can’t see the new sensor, but I’m lost…

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Please format your code as explained in the sticky post.

That said, did you run a command line config check, as explained here? The UI misses some common problems.

After that passed, did you restart HA?

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Thank you Tinkerer.
I hope I formatted the code in the right mode.

I run a ha core check without problem, now I’ll proceed to restart HA.

EDIT: Ok, now I have an entity called 'sensor.rain_check" but it’s showing “none”…

4

Test the template in Developer tools -> Templates - see what it returns there.

I certainly don’t see condition as an attribute of the weather entity, the state of the weather entity is the condition.

5

It returns “none”.

Now I see that the condition=rainy value is present only in the forecast.
For example, if I insert “humidity” the sensor give the correct result.

How can I setup a virtual rain sensor, in order to close the shades if it’s raining?
Thanks!

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It is the state of weather.boaria itself

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So no virtual rain sensor needed, just use the state of the weather entity

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