Met office - trying to create a sensor for current max daily temperature

[Thewookiewin (Lewis)]

I’ve got the Met Office integration working fine and want to create a sensor to examines the current daily max temperature but struggling.

I’ve created the below sensor on my template.yaml file and it creates the sensor but no data just unavailable.

- sensor:
  - name: "Met Office Daily High Temperature"
    unique_id: '66b8c2a0-b401-4d6e-8f04-81d6efbff8120'
    unit_of_measurement: "°C"
    state: "{{ state_attr('weather.met_office_cheltenham_racecourse', 'forecast')[0]['temperature'] }}"
    attributes:
      friendly_name: "Daily High Temperature"      

Any help would be appreciated as I’m not a confident coder.

[Didgeridrew]

The forecast attribute was removed from the state object of weather entities about 18 month ago, there is no way to access it directly with a state template. You will need to follow the example in the docs showing how to create a template sensor using the action weather.get_forecasts.

[123 (Taras)]

@Thewookiewin

create a sensor to examines the current daily max temperature

Maximum temperature of Met.no

The following example reports the maximum temperature in an hourly weather forecast. If you want the maximum temperature for a daily forecast, replace the value hourly with daily. template: - trigger: - platform: time_pattern hours: /1 - platform: event event_type: event_template_reloaded action: - variables: w: weather.home - service: weather.get_forecasts data: type: hourly target: entity_id: '{{ w }}…

[Thewookiewin (Lewis)]

@123 so I’ve followed that example and replaced weather.home with weather.met_office_cheltenham_racecourse

Currently the new sensor shows as unknown

[123 (Taras)]

@Thewookiewin

the new sensor shows as unknown

I just tested it on my system and it reported the maximum forecasted temperature for my area.

[Thewookiewin (Lewis)]

Odd,

I tried this approach and it’s working now

- trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: weather.met_office_cheltenham_racecourse
  action:
    - variables:
        w: weather.met_office_cheltenham_racecourse
    - service: weather.get_forecasts
      data:
        type: daily
      target:
        entity_id: '{{ w }}'
      response_variable: r
  sensor:
    - name: 'Met Office Daily Max Temperature '
      unique_id: 'met_office_daily_max_temperature'
      unit_of_measurement: '°C'
      device_class: temperature
      state: "{{ r[w].forecast[0].temperature }}"

[123 (Taras)]

@Thewookiewin

state: "{{ r[w].forecast[0].temperature }}"

I thought you had asked for the maximum forecasted temperature. Your modified version, of my example’s template, does not do that.

EDIT:

I see you changed the value of type from hourly to daily.

@Thewookiewin

Odd,

Very odd indeed because the example I offered does work.

BTW, the reason my template excludes strings (using reject('string')) is because there are rare occasions when met.no doesn’t report a numeric value for temperature.