Weather Underground, understand precipitation forecast

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Hi all,
i want to automate my awning. I found some example that use some weather service ( How to automate my awning (sunscreen) ) but my needs is to use Weather Underground to know the weather situation due some station is near my home.
What variable i can use to understand it will rain or not?

My needs is to find something similar blueinradar service

  • condition: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.br_precipitation_forecast_total
    below: 0.1 ## Almost no rain in the next 30 minutes

Hints?

Thanks

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Isn’t Dark Sky suppossed to offer a similar service for predicting rainfall? It’s sure advertising about it, I don’t know what exactly is available in the API.

I think I would look into that first.

I don’t think Weather Underground has any such sensor available. It was the reason I turned to Buienradar anyway :slight_smile:

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Yes DarkSky works too but wu have more accuracy due weather stations is near my home. But i don’t find the value. For now i swith to a mix of data from wu and darksky

Thanks

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Don’t really understand the requirement here.
Are you looking for more frequent/hourly forecast info?

For the daily forcast I use:

  • precip_1d_mm - Forecasted precipitation intensity in millimeters
  • precip_1d_in - Forecasted precipitation intensity in inches
  • precip_1d - Forecasted precipitation probability in %
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yes i’m looking for hourly forecast (or less)

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AFAIK they don’t provide hourly forecasts through the API although they have it on their website - not sure, if it could be scraped.