nwsradar

⚠️ This integration is broken due to changes in NWS radar servers.

Custom integration for NWS radar loops for Home Assistant. Radar stations can be found by clicking on this map.

Installation

• This custom integration can be installed and managed using HACS.
• If you want to manually install, place files in the custom_components/nwsradar/ folder into path/to/haconfig/custom_components/nwsradar/

Configuration

Use UI to configure: Configuration -> Integrations -> National Weather Service (NWS) Radar

• The Standard radar style offers a simple white background.
• The Enhanced radar style offers a topographical background.
• The Mosaic radar style offers a longer range radar view of regions or the entire US.

Works with picture-entity card:

- type: picture-entity
  entity: camera.vwx  # use your entity name

Change log

• 0.5.1
  • Use standard homeassistant method for updating data
• 0.5.0
  • Use UI configuration
  • DEPRECATION: YAML configuration to be removed in 0.6.0
• 0.4.0
  • Add Mosaic style option
• 0.3.0
  • Add Standard style option
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Default is now Standard style

⚠️ Required Dependencies for Installation

There are system image library dependencies for the python Pillow package that may be required. Here are some reported by users:

• A jpeg library dependency, libjpeg-dev, libjpeg-turbo or similar, that needs to be separately installed via sudo apt-get install libjpeg-turbo. See here for report. You will get an error message like this otherwise: ImportError: libopenjp2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
• A tiff library dependency, libtiff5 or similar, that needs to be separately installed via sudo apt-get install libtiff5. See here for report. You will get an error message like this otherwise: ImportError: libtiff.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.