Weatherflow Integration: Support for Manually Specified IP

[leoherzog]

The problem

I have an "IoT" network and a main network. Home Assistant is on the main network. I have opened up an exception in the firewall rules so that Home Assistant can communicate to and from devices on the IoT network, but I am unable to use the Weatherflow integration because the auto-discovery fails and there is no way to manually specify the station's IP address.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.7.2

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

Weatherflow

Link to integration documentation on our website

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

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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[natekspencer]

Unfortunately this likely won't work for you with your current setup. The way the Weatherflow hub works is by broadcasting it's data over UDP port 50222. Home Assistant does not try to connect to the hub, but rather just listens for the broadcast data. You would need to find a way to forward that broadcast to your main network.

[leoherzog]

Thanks for your work on maintaining this integration and for your response!

[jeeftor]

I'm working on getting sensors added to the cloud based integration which is probably what you would want to use. Or you can figure out how to cross-network route the UDP traffic - which is - a bunch of work on its own.

Or dual-home your home assistant :)

[leoherzog]

I've got both the Cloud and Local integrations running, thanks. That'll be great.

By "dual-home", do you mean, multiple network adapters? I briefly played around with having the WiFi connected to the IoT network and the Ethernet connected to the default network, but no dice.

Some rando on Reddit got UDP packets flowing across VLANs by running a VM that was constantly forwarding the packets, but I don't think I want to go that route...

[gjohansson-ST]

Closing this issue as it won't be a supported scenario