Severe Weather Alerts

[turboc (Chip Cox)]

No problem. It made me get off my backside and switch my app over to NWS.

I know your intentions were good. I’m not saying they were not.

Have a good day

[finity]

Thanks, again.

Once you get the code switched over make sure you post a link, please. I’m not against using AD. I’ve just never used it before. But if it’s the only way to move forward on this topic I may breakdown and learn it.

And from the responses I’ve gotten here and on my other new thread (zero replies so far…) it looks like that may be the only option.

[Dixey]

Looking at the DarkSky API I see you can request “Alerts” https://darksky.net/dev/docs#/dev/docs#api-request-types . I noticed in the HA darksky sensor addon darksky.py https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/master/homeassistant/components/sensor/darksky.py “Alerts” are not addressed yet nearest_storm_ distance and nearest_storm_bearing can be requested, are functional, but not mentioned in the addon documentation.
Yes, there is a storm 23 miles to the NW of us right now.

[finity]

I just finally had as chance to test the alexa TTS part of that automation I posted above (severe thunderstorm warning only luckily) and It didn’t work exactly as I expected.

When I put the message in a template it rendered perfectly but in the automation it read everything out word for word including the states.sensor… part.

I forgot I needed it to be a data_template to render the speech correctly. So you need to change the action: section to the following:

  action:
    - service: media_player.alexa_tts
      data_template:
        entity_id: 
          - media_player.computer_room_dot
          - media_player.kitchen_dot
          - media_player.livingroom_dot
          - media_player.master_bedroom_dot
        message: "Warning! Warning! The National Weather Service has issued a 
        {{ states.sensor.pws_alerts.attributes.Description }} for your area. 
        It expires at {{ states.sensor.pws_alerts.attributes.Expires }}."

Now it renders the speech exactly right.

My wife thought it was funny when Alexa started talking and said “dot” every other word!

[finity]

I just posted a new topic with a working set up that allows for notifications to replace the WU component.

You can find it here:

Severe Weather Alerts from the US National Weather Service

EDIT (04/2023): There is a new integration that can be used in place of the information found in this first post. It uses the custom integration found here. There is additional information at that link for configuration and usage examples Due to the possible discontinuation of the WU weather API at the end of the year, I was motivated to find a reliable alternative for timely emergency weather notifications. We already have a weather radio but it’s in a part of the house that we might not hea…

[molano (Arnout Verbeken)]

And I created one for Europe, based on meteoalarm.eu website. I used RodeNed to capture all the data from the website and publish over MQTT to HASS.

You can find it here:

[Project] European Weather alerts based on MQTT/PHP/Nodered

Hello World, (Let me start by saying I am in no way a real programmer. I learned dBaseIV, Fortran, Cobol and some C++ at school, but that’s a long time ago). I made this little project because I was not satisfied by the way the WeatherUnderground weather alerts are implemented. The fact that the attributes can grow dynamic based on the number of alerts, which is very difficult to handle and automate (at least in my eyes), made me create this. Plus the fact that it appears that the WU API wi…

[techdesk (CJ Ramseyer)]

I use a sensor for severe weather alerts from the national weather service. I have stopped using Weather Underground almost entirely. I have switch to darksky for everything except my current radar image and loop (looking for a replacement for these)

sensor:

• platform: weatheralerts
  sameid: !secret nws_sameid

I have been waiting for some severe weather so an alert goes off, and will draft an automation in Node-Red. Since the content may vary for what I would be looking for (i am particularly interested in high wind alerts), but someone else might want to key in on other values.
Node-Red would be good at parsing and directing the automation based on the information.

Hope this helps. I would also be interested to see what anyone else is doing for this and replacing wunderground.

[finity]

Did you actually read the thread?

There was a solution to the original question that I already posted two posts above yours.

Here is the link to that thread again:

Severe Weather Alerts from the US National Weather Service

EDIT (04/2023): There is a new integration that can be used in place of the information found in this first post. It uses the custom integration found here. There is additional information at that link for configuration and usage examples Due to the possible discontinuation of the WU weather API at the end of the year, I was motivated to find a reliable alternative for timely emergency weather notifications. We already have a weather radio but it’s in a part of the house that we might not hea…

You will need to read that thread all the way to the end, also, because there were changes made in later posts to the original project.

[Wabbit]

damn, came here to find answers and have to read an admin name calling.