iprak / weatherapi

HomeAssistant custom integration to fetch data from weatherapi

Summary

The WeatherAPI integration displays weather forecast, air quality and ultra violet data from WeatherAPI.

You should see 3 entities generated for a location starting with the id:

• sensor.weatherapi_
• airquality.weatherapi
• weather.weatherapi_

Installation

• First obtain a free API key by signing up with WeatherAPI. The free API key is limited to 3 day forecast and 1,000,000 calls per month. You can get 5 or more days of forecast with a paid account.
• Download all the files from custom_components/weatherapi/ into <config directory>/custom_components/weatherapi/.
• Restart HomeAssistant.
• WeatherAPI can now be added to your Home Assistant instance via the user interface, by using the Add Integration button in Integrations page on your Home Assistant instance.
• You should see one weather entity and some air quality/UV index entities. All entity ids will start as weather/sensor.weatherapi_location. Entity id can be adjusted from Entities page.

Configuration

The integration can be configured using the CONFIGURE button on the Integrations page.

• Configure generation of weather related sensors. If unchecked, the sensors would become disabled and would need to be manually deleted.
• Configure generation of forecast and hourly forecast.
• Configure hourly forecast to start at midnight or the current hour.

Additional Data

• The weather entity has the reported_condition which is the original reported condition (condition codes).

Breaking Changes

• v0.7: If you had upgraded to v0.6 then the previous UV and air_quality entities will appear unavailable. Now individual entities for air quality parameters are created.
• v0.6: You might get duplicated/invalid entity after upgrading to v0.6. This can be fixed by deleting the inactive entity and adjusting the id of the active entity from Configuration -> Devices & Services -> Entities.