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bremor / bureau_of_meteorology

Custom component for retrieving weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology.
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hourly entity displaying 'snowy' for frost warning #142

Closed lichenophile closed 2 years ago

lichenophile commented 2 years ago

image Example of attribute data:

- datetime: '2022-07-05T18:00:00Z'
  temperature: 4
  condition: snowy
  precipitation: 0
  precipitation_probability: 5
  wind_bearing: NNE
  wind_speed: 1.67

The hourly integration has 'snowy' reported for the hours of 4-9am. BoM website disagrees. Snow is also very improbable for my area.

There is currently a minor frost warning for the area that covers that time period. I can only assume that this is erroneously being reported as snow by either the integration, or perhaps the api this integration uses?

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Makin-Things commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately this is a problem caused by home assistant. For the weather.xxxx entities they restrict what values can be stored in the condition attribute to what is on this list. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/weather/ So integrations have to do some sort of mapping from the real condition (currently for your location the condition being reported by the BoM is frost. I suspect you are not far from me as I see the same thing). The integration currently maps that to snowy and I can't see anything better to map it to. There logic is that there needs to be an mdi:icon available for any condition they are going to include, which results in wrong data due to the translation required. Maybe raise an issue against the weather integration https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22integration%3A+weather%22 to get them to add more conditions. There is an mdi icon snowflake-melt which is probably the best for frost.