Platinum weather card - Extended Section

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Platinum weather card is my favorite.
The original project GitHub - Makin-Things/platinum-weather-card: This is a fully customisable weather card for Home Assistant with a graphical configuration. seems to be a bit stuck, so I am using this fork: GitHub - tommyjlong/platinum-weather-card: This is a fully customisable weather card for Home Assistant with a graphical configuration. which seems to be working fine since the last weather call service update.

in this card’s configuration, there is a Extended Section which should be about displaying Weather Forecast Summary (see: Weather Forecast Summary)

Has anyone manage to do this at all?
I tried with integrations pirate weather, openweathermap, met.io and it does not seem that I can retrieve the weather sumary from the attributes.

any idea on how to do it?

*Environment Canada integration only works in Canada apparently (no good for me)

Thanks
Dan

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Here is a case that I use that works for me (using the forked version):

Using the Dev Tools Service call

service: weather.get_forecasts
target:
  entity_id: weather.wral_weather
data:
  type: daily

I get the output (I will only show 1st day (today) here):

weather.wral_weather:
  forecast:
    - detailed_description: >-
        This is meteorologist Brian Shrader in the WRAL Severe Weather Center. 
        We're still on track for a beautiful Saturday!  Mostly sunny today with
        highs generally in the upper 80s.  Lower humidity levels will make it
        feel comfortable to be outside.  Enjoy the afternoon!For the night:
        Partly cloudy skies and milder. Some of our high-resolution models want
        to include the chance of an isolated shower this evening. Don't be
        surprised if you get a sprinkle, but I wouldn't change my plans. Lows in
        the lower-mid 60s.
      wind_bearing: 225
      precipitation_probability: 0
      datetime: "2024-06-08T06:00:00-04:00"
      condition: partlycloudy
      temperature: 87
      templow: 66
      wind_speed: 6
    - repeat for day 2, 3, etc.

In PWC, the YAML looks like:

entity_extended: weather.wral_weather
extended_name_attr: detailed_description
extended_use_attr: true

This is what it looks like in my PWC with the Extended Section containing the detailed_description text:

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Alternatively, you should be able to create a template sensor that has an attribute containing the text of the Forecast Summary and specify it in the PWC config.

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Thanks mate… I will give it a try.

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Yep, works great but only way to define location is bya US zip code. No good for Europe.
I need to find an integration in Europe with:
forecast:
- detailed_description: >-

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looking into this great guide: Definitive guide to Weather integrations 🌦

I says accuweather should return detail forecast but I am not getting it.

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Yep looks like only one with detailed weather in Europe /global is accuweather.

It returns it as an entity not attribute but it works the same.

Thanks.

Happy to know if anyone finds an alternative in Europe.

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Does it return some other attribute that you could use?

What does the entity of look like? In theory, the state of an entity can be used (but I haven’t tried it), but the “state” is limited if I recall to around 250 characters.

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Accuweather returns the detailed forecast as an entity.
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May be worth a try to use this entity and just set the extended_use_attr: false