How to enable forecast?

[summitbri]

This is probably a really obvious one. The doc mentions 'If you have enabled the Forecast option, then there is a possibility to create a Weather Entity' but I don't see an option to do that. All of the sensors are reporting perfectly in HA, but no forecast and I fear I haven't turned it on :)

Any help would be great, thanks!

EDIT- figured it out, I was using the wrong # for the station (the number in the default station name isn't the right one.)

[briis]

Glad you figured it out, but re-reading the docs I can also see that it is not clear enough how to enable the Forecast, so I will update that.

[alvinchen1]

Hi, so looks like I am stupid. Awesome integration BTW. I also read the doc, but don't understand where to enable the Forecast option. Is it in the Addon / Docker configuration (I see Forecast Interval which I have set) or is it somewhere else? I went through the Tempest app and the website (tempestwx.com) looking at every possible setting for where to enable Forecast, but I can't seem to find it, and I don't see Sensors like

sensor.hub_hb_[my number]weather
sensor.tempest[my number]_temperature

but all my other sensors are working. Am I missing something really obvious?

[briis]

As you are using the Add-On version,

• go to -> Configuration -> Add-Ons
• Then click WeatherFlow to MQTT
• Now click Configuration in the top Menu
• Once here, toggle the Switch Show unused optional configuration options.
• Now you should see two fields you need to fill in: STATION_ID and STATION_TOKEN. Once these are filled in with your personal data, click Save below the section, and you will be asked if you want to restart the Add-On. Say yes, and shortly after that, you should get the Weather Entities.

[alvinchen1]

Awesome. That worked.

Just one mistake I made, and perhaps the documentation could be updated a bit to be slightly clearer.

Based on https://github.com/briis/hass-weatherflow2mqtt#docker-environment-variables

STATION_ID: Enter your Station ID for your WeatherFlow Station. Default value is blank.

The STATION_ID I put in originally was the ST-000XXXXX. When I looked through the WeatherFlow to MQTT logs, I saw an error

INFO:weatherflow2mqtt.weatherflow_mqtt:Setting up Hub sensor: Weather
ERROR:weatherflow2mqtt.forecast:Your API Key is invalid or does not support this operation
WARNING:weatherflow2mqtt.forecast:Forecast Server was unresponsive. Skipping forecast update

The correct STATION_ID is the five digit number that for example when you are on https://tempestwx.com/station/XXXXX/

Putting that in and everything works! I think for a newbie like me, it was a little confusing whether the STATION_ID needed in configuration is ST-000XXXXX or the last part of the URL https://tempestwx.com/station/XXXXX/.

[briis]

Fair point. We will look at how to improve the documentation. Thanks and glad you are up and running