Weather forecast for Australia using WillyWeather

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Just set it up as per the screen shots in the doco for the integration.

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yeah doco on the site is crap… will have to bin this idea then

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I’m not sure what the problem is here.
Your screen shot of your Willy Weather API configuration above is quite clearly different on a number of options from the one I provided in the readme:

Yours has:

  • 10 locations when it should be 1
  • Nothing under “Weather”. You have options under “Weather Station” (and then under “Observational Graphs”

You need to set the options under “Weather”, then “Observational” and Forecasts.

Just look at your screen shot vs the one in the link above.

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Any reasonyoure not using the BOM custom component?

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Not so much now. When I wrote the integration the BoM integration was pre the light-weight API and did not give information for our location, which is rural.

So I found the Willy Weather forecast much more useful.

Now that the BoM has more localised data, it is more valuable and I can probably retire the WW integration.

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Thank you for building this sensor.

I’m new to HA and, although I’ve downloaded and installed the code, applied for and added the sensor and my API key to configuration.yaml as per your instructions, even after restarting HA, no willyweather sensors appear for me.

Suggestions greatly appreciated!!

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Happy to help, but I would use the new BoM integration via HACS.

if you still want help, you need to provide a lot more detail on what you have done.

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@safepay - I’m new to HA but a fan of willy weather so have added your willy weather integration. Then I found this thread and I see you suggest to use BoM integration via HACS.

Can you explain why and also I can’t seem to find the BoM integtation on HACS

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try here for the actual integration - GitHub - bremor/bureau_of_meteorology: Custom component for retrieving weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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If anyone is still interested…

I rewrote this integration.

Now fully supported via the UI, including the latest HA architecture.

Supports:

  • Weather Entity: Real-time weather conditions with full daily and hourly forecast support
  • Observational Sensors: Current weather measurements including temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, rainfall, and more
  • Sun/Moon Data: Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and moon phase information with dynamic moon phase icons
  • Tide Information: Next high and low tide times and heights (coastal locations)
  • UV Index: Current UV levels with alert categories
  • Swell Data: Wave height, period, and direction (coastal locations)
  • Wind Forecasts: Detailed wind speed and direction forecasts
  • Weather Warnings: Binary sensors for active weather warnings with severity indicators
  • Automatic Station Detection: Automatically finds the closest WillyWeather station based on your Home Assistant location
  • Configurable Data: Enable/disable optional sensors through the UI
  • Forecast Data: Daily (7 days) and hourly (3 days) with comprehensive data points

Some may find the moon phases, tides and or swell info useful.

Also, there is a full suite of warning sensors that can be used in automations.

I haven’t got it back into HACS yet, but all residual issues have been cleaned up.

Sure, maybe the BoM integration is still fine (I use it), but this integration just has a bit more granularity in terms of forecast and sensors.

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Thanks for all the work you’ve put into this - I manually installed the config but I’m getting an issue that the API key access is denied - I’ve copied exactly the key from the WW website - would you have any suggestions?

Thanks

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You just have to make sure that the API key is correct in HA and that the right tick boxes are in WillyWeather API config as per the screen shots.

If in doubt, tick them all, then gradually remove them until it works or you break it!

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To see if you have a problem at WW, try this in your browser:

https://api.willyweather.com.au/v2/YOUR_API_KEY/warnings.json

You should not get an error, but a whole bunch of json.

Maybe you need to add your credit card? Its not a free API.

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So I just installed this so I can use the new bubble weather card - and BOM doesn’t work well with it.

I went in to try and reconfigure and turn off warnings after initial set up, but just get an “Error - COnfig flow could not be loaded: 500 Internal Server Error Server got itself in trouble”

So while I can set it up, it doesn’t look like I can change the config afterwards?

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Also looks like it pulled the data initially then went unavailable. Screenshot

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Additionally. the sensor doesn’t seem to update the night time forecast. It’s remained “Sunny,” even thought it is well past 10pm. Note I initially set my nightime as hour 23. BoM and Met are both showing Night, Clear.

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This error is fixed. Home Assistant deprecated a config_flow process in 2025.12

The unavailable error I can’t fix without detailed logs or more information.

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Please submit proper bug requests with all details.

However, the clear-night thing is a WillyWeather API response. It does nor provide a distinction between day and night.

I have updated the code to map sunny to clear-night when it is nighttime.

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Ok thank you! I’ll see how it goes

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I have also submitted a bug in Github - the UV warning and Index doesn’t seem to be updating.