WRAL Weather (Raleigh, NC USA)

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Voice Assistant Intents for WRAL Weather.

HA has a few built-in intents for weather that can be used as is. For example, using a wral weather entity with friendly name “wral” one can say:

  • “What is the weather like”
  • “What is the wral weather like”
  • “What is the weather for wral”

These built-in intent will get the wral weather entity’s state and temperature.

However I wanted to expand on this, and I came up with a few custom intents (which I’m still playing around with):

  • Ask about the current weather and get the current temperature and humidity
  • Ask about today’s weather forecast and get not only the current temperature and humidity but also the day’s forecast from the detailed_description where WRAL provides a lot of textual information.

To get at the forecast data, one has to use the action weather.get_forecasts, so I use a Sentence Trigger to customize the intents:

alias: Weather Sentence Trigger
description: Weather Sentence Trigger
triggers:
  - trigger: conversation
    command:
      - what is [today's|the] weather [forecast] [for today]
      - what is [today's|the] forecast [for today's weather]
    id: weather_today
  - trigger: conversation
    command:
      - what is the current weather
    id: weather_current
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: weather.get_forecasts
    data:
      type: daily
    target:
      entity_id: weather.wral_weather
    response_variable: forecast_data
  - set_conversation_response: >-
      Currently it is {{ states("weather.wral_weather") }} with a temperature 

      of {{state_attr("weather.wral_weather","temperature") }} degrees 

      and humidity of {{state_attr("weather.wral_weather","humidity") }}
      percent.

      {% if trigger.id == 'weather_today' %}  
          The forecast. {% set forecast =
          forecast_data['weather.wral_weather'].forecast[0] %} {{
          forecast['detailed_description'] }}
      {% endif %}
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