UK weather warnings from the MET RSS feed, just in time for winter

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So I managed to get working weather warnings last year, when the UK snow hit. As my wife kept asking.

I cobbled this together from our places and people on the forums, but through i would help my UK friends (and anyone else that needs it)
Please note i only use the normal web interface, not lovelace.

So in my config have this entry.

feedreader:
  urls:
    - http://metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/PWSCache/WarningsRSS/Region/se

Then i have an automation for alerting me via notification

- alias: 'Alert From Weather RSS Feed'
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: feedreader
  action:
    - service: notify.james
      data_template:
        message: "{{ trigger.event.data.description }}"
        title: "{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"

If you have other items in you feed it will alert you to changes in these as well.

To find your location on the go here and use the link listed

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Thanks for this.

I have it setup (for Yorkshire) like:-

Hope that will work… it deviates from yours in using data not data_template…

  - alias: 'Alert From Weather RSS Feed'
    trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: feedreader
    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone
        data:
          message: "{{ trigger.event.data.description }}"
          title: "{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"
      - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone2
        data:
          message: "{{ trigger.event.data.description }}"
          title: "{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"