Updates for NOAA Tides integration

Feature Requests
1

I would like some features added to the NOAA Tides integration. Most Home Assistant users that need NOAA tide data use this fork of NOAA tides.

This is likely because the fork has important features that are missing from the built in integration. The most important are Next Tide, Last Tide, and tide_factor (water level). If you are building a tide display these are necessary but are not available in the original integration.

The fork is no longer maintained and will not work in the next version of Home Assistant. Someone could update the fork but it seems better to add these features to the original built in integration where they belong.

2

That is a tall order. The integration doesn’t use the ui, so no changes will be allowed in core unless that is done. Perhaps you can get what you want from the world tides integration. Mine has the following attributes and state

State = High tide at 09:08 PM
high_tide_time_utc: 2025-01-04T08:08+0000
high_tide_height: 0.85
low_tide_time_utc: 2025-01-04T14:16+0000
low_tide_height: -0.953
attribution: Data provided by WorldTides
friendly_name: Whakaraupo Tides
3

That is definitely sad news. I wish I could help as I have a large community that was using that info and World Tides integration is missing very KEY pieces of information to produce a “Tide Clock” – for me, that was huge. I’m so very bummed that this integration is gone. I wish my skills were such to make the necessary transformation to use the ui. Bummed, but thankful for your response.

4

I haven’t used noaa tides, or the fork. It doesn’t of course work for most of the world.

What exactly is world tides missing?

Could you please list the states and attributes of the noaa integration, and the fork? (Properly quoted as above)

5

Just out of curiosity, what in the fork causes it to fail in version 2025.1.x?

Can we fix just that?

I don’t really care whether or not it’s accepted as part of the core. I just need those key data points like next and last tide. I’m happy to use an “unofficial” fork if we could get it working.

In fact, personally I’d rather make my settings in a .yaml file where I can maintain version control and comments, rather than some UI where I’ll probably forget what I did and why, next time I go to look at it.

6

Agreed, I use the fork exactly for the addi0nal info.

7

The fork has been fixed so it works on 2025.1.x. I added some addition code for making analog tide clocks. It’s call tide_percentage and it is the percentage of how far along the tide is. So for example if it half way between high tide and low tide it’s set to 25%. Once you have that number you can make a meter that goes from 1-100 and it will represent the tide.

That code is available here

This is my ESPHome LVGL clock that uses it.

tide_meter

8

I sorry I missed your question, but I wanted to thank you for taking your time to engage and put thought towards a problem that wasn’t your’s. Thank you and so many other’s for teaching people like me who are trying hard to “hang-on.” Thank you!

9

Can’t thank you enough for this post - it has made many people so very thankful for getting the Tide Clock working again. I keep trying hard to learn how to edit code, but it’s taken me a long time to get savvy enough just to copy someone’s efforts and tweak it to fit my desires. Thank you!