Meteo-Swiss integration, fixed and properly working — beware: not the one available by default in HACS!

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That works

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I will address these issues today! I had not noticed the thread activity because the thread was muted for some reason.

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Alright everyone, I’m back.

First of all, a heartfelt apology to every Swiss national who uses the MeteoSwiss integration, for neglecting to attend to the bitrot that is expected over time.

Second, thank you all who contributed to improve the integration with pull requests and issues. Your attention has been useful to everyone.

Third, I woud like to announce the following:

  • The Nominatim OSM issue that many of you raised has been
  1. fixed completely, by adding a unique user agent to the HTTP request;
  2. robustified against unforeseen issues, as any temporary Nominatim error will no longer prevent the integration from being configured, but rather the user will be warned of the situation and asked to enter the postal code and name manually;
  • The integration now supports Rumantsch, Italian and German languages.
    • Please note that my AI’s translation may not be the best, but you are welcome to fix those translations by modifying these files and sending PRs.
  • MeteoSwiss for HA now supports hourly temperature and rain forecasts.
  • You can select an additional precipitation station during setup, so you can see real-time entities from a station that might be closer to you, or immediate real-time rain information that is not available on your selected weather station.
  • Many other defects have been resolved, and code quality has increased by judicious use of Python types.

With that, the major issues that have been raised in the bug tracker have been addressed. You should be able to upgrade to the latest version. If the integration does not appear to be updateable, simply ask HACS to redownload the integration, then restart Home Assistant as usual.

Thanks again for your loyalty and help!

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danke dir, es funktioniert wieder.
ein problem das ich noch habe:

Ich möchte einen Rain precipitation sensor erstellen mit dem ich das ausfahren des Sonnenschirms verhindern kann.
Wenn Regen in den nächsten 3 Stunden, dann nicht ausfahren.
Ich probiere das schon seit monaten mit Accuweather, openweather, aber hab es nie hinbekommen trotz diversen Anleitungen.

Kannst du es so erklähren, dass es ein fünfjähriger verstehen würde?
-Service calls, templates

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Ja gerne aber leider nur in Englisch denn mein Deutsch ist scheiss :slight_smile:

Now that you have your forecast entity (weather.xxxx), you can create a template sensor, which is documented here:

With that sensor (which has an update every 15 minutes per the code), you can obtain the precipitation forecast for this very hour.

Alternatively, if you have added a precipitation station, the precipitation station should give you real-time precipitation in the zone as a sensor already.