Descriptive summary sensors

[mdegat01]

Love this integration, excellent work. Was really happy to see you re-worked it to eliminate the dependency on dark sky now that Apple is cutting off their API.

You've almost covered everything I used to use the dark sky integration for except for one thing. The dark sky integration provided these useful summary sensors that provide a human-readable description of what is coming up in the next week, day and hour. For instance, right now I have these three with the following values:

• sensor.dark_sky_minutely_summary - Clear for the hour.
• sensor.dark_sky_hourly_summary - Mostly cloudy throughout the day.
• sensor.dark_sky_daily_summary - Rain on Monday through Friday.

I really like these sensors for notifications, especially the minutely one. When a weather event is happening that I want to be notified about I use the value of the minutely sensor as the notification message since it gives me a nice overview of what is going on (along with whatever data caused the scenario I wanted to be notified about).

Would it be possible for this integration to create similar sensors? Not a huge deal but I would really appreciate it. Then I could uninstall the dark sky integration and forget about it.

[briis]

Thanks. I am not sure Weatherflow provides that kind of information. But I'll look through the current API and see what is possible.

[briis]

Unfortunately the only text that is available, is the Condition text, like Clear, Rainy etc. These are already in the sensors and can be extracted from there. For your specific use case, you would then need to run the Forecast mode as hourly. I know this is not what you wanted, but the data is not there - at least not for now.

I will close this issue.

[mdegat01]

No worries, figured that might happen. Thanks for checking for me!