Weather underground (Wunderground) weather sensor

[arsaboo]

Credit goes to @kellbot who laid out the initial ground work here. I updated the sensor so that the values update and cleaned up the code.

Here’s the github link - https://github.com/arsaboo/HASS/tree/master/custom-components/wunderground

You can use this along with the sensor templates and customization provided by @rpitera below.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

There are three files here:

1. sensor_templates.yaml - all of the templated sensors for the shared, imperial and metric measurements. This goes in your sensors section; number it appropriately if you don’t use a separate sensors.yaml file and are adding it to your configuration.yaml
2. group_config.yaml - all of the named sensors in one group. Same rules as above.
3. customizations.yaml - all of the friendly names and icons. Same rules as above.

Enjoy - this is my way of giving back to the group. Let me know if you have any issues; my suggestion would be to back up ALL your YAML files before doing this and be very careful about editing! If you end up with a bunch of badge sensors on your front page, you probably missed a space or something. It happened to me more than once laying this all out.

sensor_templates.yaml (4.3 KB)
group_config.yaml (1.1 KB)
customizations.yaml (3.0 KB)

[arsaboo]

Thanks @rpitera I have updated the original post

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

My thanks to you and @kellbot. I love my WeatherUndeground!

[kellbot]

awesome! any chance you could submit that to the original repo as a pull request? I probably won’t have a chance to update it until after this weekend (2 jobs and 2 kids leads little time for much else lately).

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Kell, feel free to include my YAML files in your distribution.

[kellbot]

Will do next time I get a chance to sit down at a real computer, thanks!

[AlucardZero]

In the example config, the UV in states.sensor.weather_underground_pws.attributes.UV needs to be in caps, as that is how the API returns it

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

I fixed that in the original thread but forgot about it here.

Is anyone doing anything with weather underground

I have an update to fix the missing UV index data. In the sensor template for the UV sensor, change the case from pws_uv: value_template: '{{ states.sensor.weather_underground_pws.attributes.uv }}' to: pws_uv: value_template: '{{ states.sensor.weather_underground_pws.attributes.UV }}' Sorry I missed that!

[tchellomello]

@rpitera @arsaboo Nice!!! Are you going to request an official PR?

[arsaboo]

There are still a few this pending before I can create a PR, but am working on it.

[macaroni1975]

Line 33 of wunderground.py needed to be changed on Raspberry Pi to self._unit_of_measurement = TEMP_FAHRENHEIT from self._unit_of_measurement = “°F” because of ‘utf-8’ codec error. TEMP_FAHRENHEIT is defined in the homeassistant package in const.py and also needs to be added after line 7: from homeassistant.const import TEMP_FAHRENHEIT

For those newbies like me, I included the following in my configuration.yaml file:

1. At the end of the homeassistant: section, I added ’ customize: !include customize.yaml’. Note the two spaces in front of the line.

2. I added wunderground as my first sensor (note there are two spaces in front of everything after sensor below
   sensor:
   platform: wunderground
   api_key: YOURKEY
   pws_id: KMANORTH112

3. I added the sensor templates file as my next sensor:
   sensor 2: !include sensor_templates.yaml

4. Towards the end of my configuration.yaml file, I added the group line:
   group: !include group_config.yaml

[dv8ed]

Install instructions same for Pi all-in-one installer?

For Pi AIO you save to custom_components/sensor or deps folder?

I’m having a hard time getting this sensor up and running. Did everything macaroni1975 posted when I restart HA doesn’t start no log output either.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

@dv8ed

custom_components/sensor

Correct. I’m on AIO as well.

[dv8ed]

Can somone with a working wundergroud setup share their .yaml files? I must be grouping or customizing something wrong.

[arsaboo]

@dv8ed

Install instructions same for Pi all-in-one installer?

For Pi AIO you save to custom_components/

Before you try customizing/grouping, just make sure that you are getting those sensors created with the right data (start simple). What error are you getting?

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Take a look here:

Is anyone doing anything with weather underground

OK here we go… Here’s what the output looks like - keep in mind that I couldn’t show everything or else the window would take up the whole forum! So I only captured the Fahrenheit/Imperial sensors, but they are all there and the sensor icons for the Celsius/Metric sensors are the same. [image] [image] I believe I got almost all the sensors but if there is one I missed that you need, use my examples or ask me. Everything is separated conveniently into sections so you can delete the ones y…

I provided all the YAML files as well as screenshots.

[dv8ed]

thanks… i actually figured it out last night. was struggling with it for a few days… I used wget to grab py file so opening it revealed html code. used git to grab py file everything is working now.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Good to hear!

[arsaboo]

Just created a PR for the Wunderground sensor