Openweathermap forecasts not general daily forecast

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When using the weather integration here: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/openweathermap/#weather, the 5 day forecast gives the weather/temp for the current time plus 24, 48, etc hours. i.e. if I look at my dashboard at 10pm, I see the weather/temp at 10pm on each of the next 5 days. This is not what anyone would want from a forecast, and isn’t the norm for a forecast.

Can anyone tell me if this is all that is available with the free account? Is it a bug? IS there anything that can be done?

The background is that Im in the UK, and just want a sensible multi-day weather forecast on my dashboard (HomeHabit). There seems to be no supported source of weather forecast for the UK, which has more sensible forecast data.

Thanks

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I think you should check the OpenWeatherMap API documentation: https://openweathermap.org/api

I believe the One Call API was introduced fairly recently. The HA Openweathermap integration does not use this API yet. That is being worked on as you can see here: Convert OpenweatherMap Integration to use "one-call-api"

In the meantime, you can use a REST call to query the One Call API. If you think the forecast in the One Call API better suits your needs, just let me know. I can post my configuration for that if you want it.

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Thanks for the reply. Will take a look.

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I would very much like to see your REST configuration.

Thank you.

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Thanks @Emphyrio. I fear as a HomeHabit user, the results of the rest call, probably in a rest sensor, wouldn’t be accessible as a weather forecast in HomeHabit at this point anyway :frowning: //cc @igorz

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I think you are correct. Then you will probably have to wait for the One Call info to be put into a proper weather integration.

I wish there was a template weather available :upside_down_face:

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I just need 2 temperature items so here it goes, I hope it’s useful. If you need other items, just let me know and I’ll try to help out.

  - platform: rest
    name: openweather_report
    json_attributes_path: "$.daily[0]" # 0=today
    json_attributes:
      - temp
    value_template: "{{ value_json['current']['dt'] | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', true) }}"
    resource: https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall?lat=xxxxxx&lon=xxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=metric&lang=nl
    scan_interval: 3600
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      openweather_maxtemp_today:
        value_template: "{{ states.sensor.openweather_report.attributes.temp.max }}"
      openweather_temp_tonight:
        value_template: "{{ states.sensor.openweather_report.attributes.temp.night }}"
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Thanks so much! I’m a novice and fighting my way thru things. I needed to see a real world configuration for some json formating and this helped very much in my learning.

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thanks for that!
If I want to have a forecast, i have two option.

  1. generate a rest sensor for each day in the array. But that would mean I have seven rest request every 6 minutes
  2. I generate a rest request will like that
  - platform: rest
    name: openweather_report_all
    json_attributes:
      - daily
    value_template: "{{ value_json['current']['dt'] | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', true) }}"
    resource: https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall?lat=xxx&lon=xxx&appid=xxxx&units=metric&lang=de
    scan_interval: 3600

With the last option, I just get every information in a string and can’t distinguish between the days.
Is there a way to get these informations into an proper array?

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I’m a newbie at this JSON stuff too, but I wanted to learn :slight_smile:
This seems to work:

  - platform: rest
    name: openweather_report2
    json_attributes:
      - current
      - daily
    value_template: "{{ value_json['current']['dt'] | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', true) }}"
    resource: https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall?lat=xxxxxx&lon=xxxxxx&appid=xxxxxx&units=metric&lang=nl
    scan_interval: 3600
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      openweather_temp_day_today:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report2', 'daily')[0].temp.day }}"
      openweather_temp_night_today:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report2', 'daily')[0].temp.night }}"
      openweather_temp_day_tomorrow:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report2', 'daily')[1].temp.day }}"
      openweather_temp_night_tomorrow:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report2', 'daily')[1].temp.night }}"
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How would I use this to get the feels like and high low forecasts for a week? For weekly forecasts would I just increase the number 0 for today 1 for tomorrow 2 for the day after and so on?

Also do i need to include my api key anywhere?

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You are correct: you can increase the number from 0 = today, 1 = tomorrow, 2 = the day after etc.
Feels-like for today would be:

"{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report2', 'daily')[0].feels_like.day}}"

Api key goes in the URL where it says: appid=xxxxxx

You can get more information also from the API docs.

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Thank you. I will try this! Ive been wanting one call since dark sky got acquired!

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It worked! Is there a way to show the unit type like F or % in the template?

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Look for ‘unit_of_measurement’:

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Thanks that worked. But now I am having an issue calling from current

     openweather_temp_current:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'current').current.temp }}"
        unit_of_measurement: "°F"
      openweather_weather_id:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'current').current.weather.id }}"
      openweather_weather_desc:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'current').current.weather.description }}"

EDIT: I am waiting on a restart but I think I got it. I dont think I was following the convention as closely as I could.

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So you got it?

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Yup. Thanks

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Yeah I got a bunch of them working. The only ones I am having issues with is the daily.weather.description item. No matter how I configure it, they wont return a value.

      openweather_weather_desc_today:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'daily.weather')[0].description }}"
      openweather_weather_desc_tomorrow:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'daily.weather')[1].description }}"
      openweather_weather_desc_3:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'daily.weather')[2].description }}"
      openweather_weather_desc_4:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'daily.weather')[3].description }}"
      openweather_weather_desc_5:
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'daily.weather')[4].description }}"

I’ve tried this several different ways. Clearly there is something I am missing.

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openweather_weather_desc_today:
  value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.openweather_report', 'daily')[0].weather.description }}"

I think, didn’t test this myself.

Edit: my method is to call the API from the SoapUI program. Then I get the full structured JSON message. This helps a lot to determine the correct JSON paths. Perhaps SoapUI is useful for you too :slight_smile: