Pollen/Allergy Sensor

Feature Requests
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Nice! This would be greatly appreciated.

22

Alrighty, folks – making great progress: I have the base platform in place. Will submit an official PR tomorrow; in the meantime, enjoy some screenshots!

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Alrighty: PR completed and submitted. PRs:

Sensor Platform: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/11573
Docs: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io/pull/4392

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24

How can I do this in Canada?

I am new to Home Assistant

25

Bravo on the quick work! Thank you. Will you be doing the cold/flu sensors as well?

26

Indeed! To put a list together, here’s a quick list of the sensors and attributes the platform produces:

  • Allergy Index: Forecasted Average
  • Allergy Index: Historical Average
  • Allergy Index: Today
    • Allergen Genus
    • Allergen Name
    • Allergen Type
    • Outlook
    • Season
    • Trend
    • City
    • State
    • ZIP Code
    • Rating (e.g., “Low/Medium”)
  • Allergy Index: Tomorrow
    • Allergen Genus
    • Allergen Name
    • Allergen Type
    • Outlook
    • Season
    • Trend
    • City
    • State
    • ZIP Code
    • Rating (e.g., “Low/Medium”)
  • Allergy Index: Yesterday
    • Allergen Genus
    • Allergen Name
    • Allergen Type
    • Outlook
    • Season
    • Trend
    • City
    • State
    • ZIP Code
    • Rating (e.g., “Low/Medium”)
  • Cold & Flu: Forecasted Average
    • Trend
    • City
    • State
    • ZIP Code

Keeping the majority of data as attributes keeps the base implementation slim and allows for access of that data via template sensors.

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Pollen.com only supports U.S. ZIP codes, unfortunately.

28

any alternatives for Canada?

29

Not to my knowledge, unfortunately.

30

I wish it would work in the UK. Especially the flu sensor is AWESOME.

31

Thank you for all your work on the pollen.com sensors.

Has anyone else’s sensor broken with the 0.67.0 upgrade?

Thanks in advance.

32

Yes, I noticed that with the upgrade. I’ll dig in and see if I can find out what’s going on. While I dig, I’ve opened an official bug: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/13896

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Thank you.

34

Just updated the issue: looks like all of pollen.com is down. Will have to wait it out.

35

FYI, site is back up and some API changes are necessary. PR submitted here: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/13959

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36

Thanks again

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37

Thanks, working again on 67.1

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38

As an FYI this plugin is very helpful.

I suffer from bad allergies but only if the pollen is significant in the air; and only if juniper or elm. Maple doesn’t bother me much. As we live in a very forested part of the country a lot of pollen can be in the air particularly in spring as trees are coming out of winter hibernation.

The challenge I have is the allergy medication I take makes me feel a bit defocused and groggy. So I don’t want to just pop a pill daily for the entire pollen season.

So this plugin helps; I have a simple automation that sends me a notification to my iPhone at 6am that basically tells me to take a pill or not; based on the forecasted pollen level (above 8.5 I need a pill) and if it’s elm or juniper.

So part of my morning routine is to pop a pill if HA tells me to do it so that by the time I’m out of the shower and heading out the door to work it’s active and helping me through the day.

In the past I used to forget all the time and get to work without having taken one and looking like a emotional nut job with tears and a drippy nose all day :wink:

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39

how about an alternative for Europe/the world? a sensor using data from https://air-matters.com/ ?

40

Thanks for the recommendation. Let me dig into that app a little bit and see if I can pull meaningful data from it. Will report back.