tomorrow.io integration giving me the data for wrong geography

[knwpsk]

The problem

Just set up this integration for the first time. Got an API key and entered it. Nowhere did the integration, nor the website, ask me for my geo location.

Now I'm looking at the weather forecast and the pollen index info, and they all look wrong. The temps are all 5-7 degrees cooler than actual (for the next few days), and the pollen index shows "low" while it's actually pretty miserable here. :)

I can't find anywhere in the integration, nor on the tomorrow.io website, where I should enter/update my location.

On the tomorrow.io website, I notice that it gives me a suggested "first API call" and it shows a lat/long for Boston (I'm near Charleston SC). Maybe that's relevant, maybe not.

Any help?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.4.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

tomorrow.io

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tomorrowio

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[lymanepp]

It uses the location from the "Home" zone.

http://127.0.0.1:8123/config/zone

[knwpsk]

@lymanepp thank you I checked that and my Home zone is correctly configured. But (as I said above) the current temp, temp forecast, and all of the pollen values are way off.

Any other ideas? How do I troubleshoot this?

[lymanepp]

How do I troubleshoot this?

Add the following lines to your configuration.yaml and restart HA. Merge with existing logger section if it already exists.

logger:
  logs:
    pytomorrowio: debug

The home-assistant.log file will show what data is being passed to the API.

One more thing to check. Make sure the location in the /config/.storage/core.config file matches your Home zone. It should always match unless something is wonky.

[knwpsk]

Copied verbatim from the log. The location is obscured, but the latitude looks right.

2024-04-25 16:44:37.168 DEBUG (MainThread) [pytomorrowio.pytomorrowio] Sending the following payload to tomorrow.io: {'location': '32.90***32255', 'units': 'metric', 'timesteps': ['1h', '1h', '1d'], 'startTime': '2024-04-25T20:44:37+00:00', 'fields': ['temperatureMin', 'temperatureMax', 'dewPoint', 'humidity', 'windSpeed', 'windDirection', 'weatherCode', 'precipitationIntensityAvg', 'precipitationProbability']}

I don't have a homeassistant/config/ directory, is that a problem?

[lymanepp]

I don't have a homeassistant/config/ directory, is that a problem?

The configuration.yaml file is in the /config directory.

Try the following from a command-line. Replace <LAT>, <LONG> and <APIKEY> with your values. The response will be metric.

curl "https://api.tomorrow.io/v4/weather/forecast?location=<LAT>,<LONG>&apikey=<APIKEY>&units=metric&timesteps1h,1h,1d&startTime=2024-04-25T20:44:37+00:00&fields=temperatureMin,temperatureMax,dewPoint,humidity,windSpeed,windDirection,weatherCode,precipitationIntensityAvg,precipitationProbability"

[knwpsk]

I had to step away for a while. More tonight or tomorrow. Thank you.

[knwpsk]

Good morning @lymanepp

OK, so, in /homeassistant/ is where my config.yaml file lives. There is no /storage/ directory there, and there is no /core.config file there. (I'm using the fileEditor integration. I don't see any settings for it to say that it should hide or unhide any directory or file) (I'm not at home during the day, I'm working remotely, so it's a bit tricky to use another tool like ssh directly to my HA machine)

Meanwhile I ran the call using curl as you suggested. I manually entered my lat/long. I'm getting odd values back. I'm going to contact tomorrow.io and see what they say.

[lymanepp]

There is no /storage/ directory there, and there is no /core.config file there.

The directory is ".storage" not "storage".

[knwpsk]

Yeah I know. I don't have either /.storage/ or /storage/

[knwpsk]

Meanwhile... I think the "base weather layer" values that I'm getting back from tomorrow.io (temperature, humidity, etc) seem pretty close to correct. Close enough we can assume they are correct (with different root data sources, maybe). But the Pollen values are way off. I can't see (even in debug mode) what values are returned from tomorrow.io to the integration. And I'm trying to learn enough about tomorrow.io's API to simulate the query, but it takes time. Would mind sending me the curl command for that - assuming it's easier for you than for me!

[knwpsk]

edit: I found an example on github. Ran it. I think tomorrow is just providing bad data on pollen. I'll try to contact them.

curl "https://api.tomorrow.io/v4/timelines?location=32.xxxxx,-79.xxxxx&timesteps=current&fields=treeIndex,grassIndex,weedIndex&apikey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

{"data":{"timelines":[{"timestep":"current","endTime":"2024-04-26T20:40:00Z","startTime":"2024-04-26T20:40:00Z","intervals":[{"startTime":"2024-04-26T20:40:00Z","values":{"grassIndex":1,"treeIndex":1,"weedIndex":0}}]}]}}

[lymanepp]

Yeah I know. I don't have either /.storage/ or /storage/

The File Editor addon is lying to you. The directory is definitely there.