🛰️ Techtime NWS Alerts for Home Assistant

Techtime NWS Alerts is a custom integration for Home Assistant that provides real-time weather alerts from the National Weather Service (NWS) directly into your smart home dashboard. Stay informed of critical weather events and automate actions based on the latest alerts! 🚀 Features

✅ Real-time NWS alerts ✅ Displays event type, headline, severity, urgency, and more ✅ Works with Home Assistant automations and notifications ✅ Easy to install and configure through the Home Assistant UI ✅ Supports multiple zone configurations ✅ Asynchronous fetching for lightweight and efficient performance ✅ Updates every 5 minutes ✅ Clean and simple Lovelace cards ✅ Open-source and actively maintained 📦 Installation Manual Installation (Custom Components Folder)

Download the latest release from the GitHub repository.
Or clone directly:

git clone https://github.com/TechTimeGuy/techtime_nws_alerts.git

Copy the techtime_nws_alerts folder into your Home Assistant custom_components directory:

/config/custom_components/techtime_nws_alerts/

The structure should look like:

custom_components/
  techtime_nws_alerts/
    __init__.py
    sensor.py
    config_flow.py
    const.py
    manifest.json
    translations/en.json

Restart Home Assistant.

⚙️ Configuration UI Setup (Recommended) or ...

Go to Home Assistant → Settings → Devices & Services → Integrations.
Click + Add Integration and search for Techtime NWS Alerts.
Enter your NWS Zone ID (e.g., NCC019) and click Submit.
The sensor will be created automatically.

🔗 Find your NWS Zone ID:

👉 https://www.weather.gov/gis/Zone Example: NCC019 (Brunswick County, NC) 🖥️ Lovelace Dashboard Examples Basic Entity Card

type: entity entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts name: Techtime NWS Alerts icon: mdi:alert

Entities Card with Attributes

type: entities title: NWS Weather Alerts entities:

• entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts name: Alert Status
• entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts attribute: headline name: Headline
• entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts attribute: description name: Description
• entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts attribute: severity name: Severity
• entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts attribute: urgency name: Urgency
• entity: sensor.techtime_nws_alerts attribute: instruction name: Instructions

🔔 Example Automation

Trigger notifications or actions when a new alert is issued:

Example Automations

• Weather Alert Notification with TTS and Alert Sound
• Play Alert Sound on Multiple Players
• Weather Alert MP3

📋 Sensor Attributes Attribute Description headline Short summary of the alert event description Full description of the alert effective When the alert becomes effective expires When the alert expires instruction Specific instructions to follow severity Severity level (Minor, Moderate, Severe, etc.) certainty Certainty level (Likely, Possible, Observed, etc.) urgency Urgency level (Expected, Immediate, Future, etc.) 🛠️ Troubleshooting

Ensure you have the correct zone_id during setup.
Check Settings → Logs in Home Assistant for errors.
Verify the NWS API is available by visiting https://api.weather.gov.

✅ To-Do / Planned Features

Configurable update interval Multi-zone support in a single sensor HACS support for easy installation

More languages (translations)

❤️ Credits

Data provided by NOAA / NWS Weather API
Developed by @TechTimeGuy

📄 License

MIT License Feel free to share, fork, and contribute! 🔗 GitHub Repo

👉 https://github.com/TechTimeGuy/techtime_nws_alerts