Friday 23 March 2018

weewx to home-assistant

At home I have a Fine Offset (this one branded by Jaycar) weather station that publishes to weather.two-fifteen.com via weewx (this is much simpler now I don't have to have the thing solar mounted in a field using a 3G dongle - at least the NBN is useful for some things) but I'd like to be able to use some of the measurements in home-assistant.

There isn't yet a direct plugin (spare time project anyone?) that I can see, but because I'm pushing the metrics locally to influxdb (have I mentioned I like drawing graphs of things?) for grafana, it's possible to use this in home-assistant via weewx-influx

Weewx config:
[StdRESTful]
      [[Influx]]
        host = localhost
        database = weather
        unit_system = METRIC

and on the home-assistant server:
  - platform: influxdb
    host:    203.0.113.88
    queries:
    - name: Outside Temp
      database: weather
      measurement: 'record'
      field: 'outTemp_C'
      group_function: last
      where: 'time > now() - 5m'
      unit_of_measurement: °C
      value_template: '{{ value | round(1) }}'

and lo and behold, you should end up with something like this:
which when compared to our nearest BOM observation site up the road in Grove correlates nicely (Grove is in a valley, we're at the top of a hill)


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