If I am the only one that has this problem, I might try to do a fresh install of hassbian and see if it helps… My system has been acting weird lately.
@biochemguy No, quite a few people have reported the same issue. I still haven’t been able to replicate it as I don’t have a Raspberry Pi to test on, but it seems that on Raspbian / Hassbian you need to install these dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev libopenjp2-7
Let me know if that solves it for you and I’ll add it to the documentation.
Yes, this did work for me. The component is now working. I think it is a great idea to add it to the documentation.
Thanks a lot!
Does EnviroCan have terms of use? I’m wondering if a 1-minute polling period might be too aggressive.
I’m not sure. It’s not using any kind of API though, it’s mostly just reading the XML files that they host. It’s one of the most popular websites in Canada, so I don’t think they’ll notice.
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I’ll add my vote to setting the default update interval back to 10 min, and allowing the user to lower it as needed. While it could be cool to get the bad weather notifications within 60 sec of Env Canada posting them, is getting them within 10 mins that bad?
1 min polling by every user of this integration will definitely be visible to them as it is does not look like organic traffic. The last thing we need is for the admins on the Env Canada side to blacklist the Home Assistant user agent or worse, ask you to take down the integration.
@davidbb Sounds good, I’ve opened PRs to make the interval configurable with a default of 10 minutes.
This component is fantastic!
I’ve been working on setting up automation for warnings, advisories, watches. Curious how the ‘hidden’ attribute is toggled?
Would it be appropriate to use in an automation condition so that it only fires when there actually something to look at (ie the alert/warning/advisory is populated)?
If not, what’s the cleanest way to do this?
Current progress:
"Outside, it will be {{ states('sensor.condition') }} with a current temperature of {{ states('sensor.temperature') }} degrees.
The forecast for today is a high of {{ states('sensor.high_temperature') }} degrees and a low of {{ states('sensor.low_temperature') }} degrees.
{% if state_attr('sensor.warnings', 'hidden')!='true' %} There is a {{ states('sensor.warnings') }} in effect. {% endif %}
{% if state_attr('sensor.advisories', 'hidden')!=true %} There is a {{ states(' sensor.advisories') }} in effect. {% endif %}
{% if state_attr('sensor.ended', 'hidden')!=true %} The {{ states('sensor.ended') }} {% endif %}
I’m looking to do something similar with alerts. I’d love to have HA announce with TTS on my Sonos when an alert comes up!
Achievable with an automation.
There was a bit of this at the very end of the earlier thread:
I’ve also added the basic TTS script that I wrote to the documentation for the next release.
As of right now the hidden attribute is toggled based on whether there’s a value for the state or not. However, as of the next release it won’t be using the hidden attribute; entities can be hidden or shown using Lovelace instead (admittedly, I’m not sure how to do this myself).
On the automation side, you could try something like this:
automation:
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: sensor.warnings, sensor.watches
action:
service: script.turn_on
entity_id: script.alert_tts
I seem to continually get update errors when I use this platform. However, it seems that all sensors are still updating frequently despite the errors. For example:
2019-07-30 09:34:59 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.sensor] environment_canada: Error on device update!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 160, in _new_conn (self._dns_host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 57, in create_connection for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 748, in getaddrinfo for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags): socket.gaierror: [Errno -3] Try again During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 603, in urlopen chunked=chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 355, in _make_request conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1244, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1290, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1239, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1026, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 966, in send self.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 183, in connect conn = self._new_conn() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 169, in _new_conn self, "Failed to establish a new connection: %s" % e) urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fa1cfc0ae50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Try again
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 449, in send timeout=timeout
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 641, in urlopen _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 399, in increment raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause)) urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='dd.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /citypage_weather/xml/ON/s0000326_e.xml (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fa1cfc0ae50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Try again'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 261, in _async_add_entity await entity.async_device_update(warning=False)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 380, in async_device_update await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(self.update)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/__init__.py", line 224, in wrapper result = method(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/environment_canada/sensor.py", line 145, in update self.ec_data.update() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/env_canada/env_canada.py", line 72, in update timeout=10)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 75, in get return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 60, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 516, in send raise ConnectionError(e, request=request) requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='dd.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /citypage_weather/xml/ON/s0000326_e.xml (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fa1cfc0ae50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Try again'))
Interesting. That’s the right address, so I’m not sure what could be causing that. I suspect that it might be something upstream, e.g. DNS or the web server itself.
Not sure how easy it is to add the yesterday’s total precipitation to the component or if anyone is interested in getting it?
I am currently using yesterday’s data from the Environment Canada website for my location. I took yesterday’s total precipitation and added it to my Homeassistant system using the scrape sensor. I am using this to determine if my garden needs watering today.
Here are the details of my config if anyone is interested:
sensor:
- platform: scrape
resource: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/nb-36_metric_e.html
name: Environment Canada yesterday's precipitation
select: 'section:nth-child(6) > details > div > div:nth-child(2) > dl > dd'
value_template: '{{ ((value.split(" ")[0]) | float ) }}'
unit_of_measurement: "mm"
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Great idea, I’ve added this to my library and submitted PRs to add it to the component as well.
Is there an ‘last updated’ information available at the source for the camera?
The GIF has the times on it, but they’re kinda small and in UTC. If it were an attribute you could template it onto the card or even put it on the title.
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Good idea, I’ve added this for 0.98.
Quite a few changes took affect in 0.97, hopefully for the better. I’ve tried to capture them all above at Support for Environment Canada platforms, and have updated the documentation at https://www.home-assistant.io/components/environment_canada. If you run into any trouble, please let me know.
After update to 0.97, sensor.humidex shows unknown, anytime humidex reported as none.
This was still working on v0.96 as a monitored_condition.
Has anyone have the same issue?
My humidex sensor on 0.97.1 showed values when they were present yesterday. As I noted above though, monitored_conditions was removed as a parameter in 0.97, and the sensors are no longer automatically hidden. Is that what you’re seeing?