Newbe coming from Openhab

[Jay72]

Hi All,
New here, made the move from openhab, slowly getting the hang of Home Assistamnt but i am stuck on one major thing,

I have a personal weather station that has its own website on my network, in Openhab i used to use REGEX to get the UV infor to trigger my home lights at a certain “LUX”.

I cannot for the lifr of me get the LUX value to report from the webpage. Ive tried to use the scrape method but its returning an ‘unknown’

Can i use REGEX in Home Assistant or does anyone know of a better way to get this info into openhab.

I have tried the Wunderground way but the API does not report LUX.

Weatherstation WEBPAGE

Code so far…

- platform: scrape
  name: Weather UV
  resource: http://192.168.20.99/livedata.htm
  select: "body > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(123) > td.line-content > span:nth-child(2) > span:nth-child(12)"
  value_template: ''
  unit_of_measurement: Lux

Thanks all

[koying (Chris B)]

It would be easier if the weather station had an actual API.
What brand/model is it?

[Jay72]

It would indeed!

its a Aercus Instruments™ WeatherSleuth® - Professional IP Weather Station with Direct Real-time Internet Monitoring - Aercus Instruments

[koying (Chris B)]

I guess this will help:

Weather Station (Ambient Weather, Fine Offsett, Aercus, etc) with ObserverIP box

I adapted the Multiscrape Sensor from @danieldotnl for scrape the sensor data from my personal weather station, wich is an Aercus Weathersleuth (a rebranded version of the Ambient Weather WS-1401-ip). This plug-in should works with any weather station wich use the ObserverIP ethernet box, which create a livedata.htm page. It’s need to assigh to the ObserverIP a static address trough it’s web-gui or, at leat, a reserved ip address on your dhcp server. You can find the script here: https://git…

[123 (Taras)]

Yet another way to get data from the weather station to Home Assistant:

Weather station recommendation?

I’m using weeWX, running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W connected to my weather station via USB, to get data from the station. The MQTT extension for weeWX is then publishing that data for HA to pick up. Been running this for the last six months or so with no problems. weeWX supports a lot of different stations. I’m using an Aercus WS3083 and I’m happy with it.

[Jay72]

Thanks Chris, this was spot on! (after i figured out how to load the intergration)