Weather forcast entity not working out of the box

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Hi,

I’m new to home assistant and I installed it on Raspberry Pi5. It works great with Zigbee devices, however I have some issue with the basic Weather.forcast_home entity out of the box.

For unknow reason, it does not retrieve data related to my location set in Settings > System > edit location.

So on the overview board, I have the classic error message that entity is currently unavailable.

I’m lost. What’s wrong with it ?

thx

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The documentation is a bit muddy about this, but you need to install a weather service integration.

To use the integration, you need to get an API key from your weather service. It is almost always free, especially for low-volume use. For example, I use OpenWeatherMap which allows 1,000 API calls per day for free, I set my configuration to check the weather every ten seconds which is well below that 1,000 per day limit.

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Ok, thx.

I was thinking that at least this integration is built-in as the card on the dashboard is right out of the box there.

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There are too many weather services all over the world to include all of their integrations in the Home Assistant core. The amount of storage space needed would be prohibitive.

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when I try to configure OpenWeatherMap, HA returns me :

Failed to connect: Cannot connect to host api.openweathermap.org:443 ssl:default [Could not contact DNS servers]

with my API key :frowning:

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