Alert Sensor Documentation

phurth commented 8 months ago

Describe the issue

I have the integration set up to create a weather entity, but have the monitored condition of Alerts set up to create a sensor. Currently, there are no alerts for my location, so I'm not surprised that there is no alert sensor that has been created. However, to test, I set up a new integration with the same settings but for a location that does have an active alert (Bangor, Maine - all of Maine seems to be having a winter storm). Still nothing.

So, my question is what should I expect to see if there is an alert when I have this configured to create a sensor for the monitored condition of Alerts? A new entity named something like sensor.name_of_the_location_alerts?

Home Assistant version

2024.4.0

Integration version

1.4.5.1

Troubleshooting steps

[X] I have updated my Home Assistant installation to the latest version.
[X] I have updated the Pirate Weather Integration to the latest version.
[X] I have gone through the documentation, parameter documentation and sensor documentation before opening this issue.
[X] I have searched this repository and Pirate Weather Repository to see if the issue has already been reported.
[X] I have restarted my Home Assistant installation.
[X] I have checked to see if the issue is not an API issue.
[X] I have written an informative title.

cloneofghosts commented 7 months ago

Looks like this issue got skipped. @alexander0042 mentioned in issue #208 that he was going to look at the alerts sensor but hasn't replied back yet.

For the location you tested did you check the API in the browser to confirm that the API is returning an alert? According to this comment https://github.com/Pirate-Weather/pirate-weather-ha/issues/209#issuecomment-2042732221 only zone based alerts are being integrated into the API at the moment.

phurth commented 7 months ago

I went back into the configuration for my location and checked Sensor under Weather Entity and/or Sensor Entity. This, along with having Alerts selected under Monitored Conditions is doing the trick. I now have a separate sensor for alerts for the location. For what it's worth, it wasn't obvious to me that both options needed to be set.

cloneofghosts commented 7 months ago

Glad to know you got it working. I've tagged this one with the documentation label since the documentation is lacking on the HA side of things.

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