Note original repository: https://github.com/simonhq/accu_allergies

I just translated all the sensorsnames and text to Dutch, just for personal use.

please leave this text in tact

NOTE - added automatic daily download

AccuWeather Allergies

Creates sensors for Home Assistant with the AccuWeather Allergy level information for various sensor types

Lovelace Example

Installation

This app is best installed using HACS, so that you can easily track and download updates.

Alternatively, you can download the accu_allergies directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the accu_allergies module.

How it works

The AccuWeather site provides this information, this just scrapes the page and makes the information available as a sensor in HA.

As this is non time critical sensor, it only gets the information on a set time schedule, once per day at 5.07am, but it also watches an input_boolean that you specify for when to update the sensor. You can obviously automate when you want that input_boolean to turn on.

To Run outside of the schedule

You will need to create an input_boolean entity to watch for when to update the sensor. When this input_boolean is turned on, whether manually or by another automation you create, the scraping process will be run to create/update the sensor.

To reduce the number of requests to the website, I have made this a two stage system, with one input_boolean controlling when the data is requested from the website and a second when you want to update the sensors, meaning doing a HA restart won't trigger html requests, just reads from your saved data file from that morning.

Therefore you will need to chain the two input_boolean requests so that one is offset by a minute to allow for the data to be downloaded.

AppDaemon configuration

You will also need to install Beautiful Soup / bs4 by adding bs4 to your python packages in Appdaemon.

system_packages: []
python_packages:
  - bs4
init_commands: []

App configuration

accu_allergies:
  module: accu_allergies
  class: Get_Accu_Allergies
  ACC_FILE: "./allergies"
  ACC_FLAG: "input_boolean.get_allergies_data"
  DEB_FLAG: "input_boolean.reset_allergies_sensor"
  URL_ID: "21921"
  URL_CITY: "canberra"
  URL_COUNTRY: "au"
  URL_LANG: "en"
  URL_POSTCODE: ""

key	optional	type	description
`module`	False	string	`accu_allergies`
`class`	False	string	`Get_Accu_Allergies`
`ACC_FILE`	False	string	path and name of a file to store html in, to reduce number of requests to the website
`ACC_FLAG`	False	string	The name of the flag in HA for triggering getting the information from the website
`DEB_FLAG`	False	string	The name of the flag in HA for triggering refreshing the sensors from the stored html
`URL_ID`	False	string	The ID on the AccuWeather webpage for the node you want information for
`URL_CITY`	False	string	The name on the AccuWeather webpage for the node you want information for
`URL_COUNTRY`	False	string	The country code on the AccuWeather webpage for the node you want information for
`URL_LANG`	False	string	The language code on the AccuWeather webpage for the node you want information for
`URL_POSTCODE`	True	string	Some locations use the postcode as well as an ID in the AccuWeather webpage URL, this will default to the ID value if left blank

Sensors to be created

This app will create 25 sensors

sensor.acc_data_last_sourced
sensor.acc_ragweed_pollen_today
sensor.acc_ragweed_pollen_tomorrow
sensor.acc_grass_pollen_today
sensor.acc_grass_pollen_tomorrow
sensor.acc_tree_pollen_today
sensor.acc_tree_pollen_tomorrow
sensor.acc_mold_today
sensor.acc_mold_tomorrow
sensor.acc_dust_today
sensor.acc_dust_tomorrow
sensor.acc_air_today
sensor.acc_air_tomorrow
sensor.acc_common_cold_today
sensor.acc_common_cold_tomorrow
sensor.acc_flu_today
sensor.acc_flu_tomorrow
sensor.acc_asthma_today
sensor.acc_asthma_tomorrow
sensor.acc_arthritis_today
sensor.acc_arthritis_tomorrow
sensor.acc_migraine_today
sensor.acc_migraine_tomorrow
sensor.acc_sinus_today
sensor.acc_sinus_tomorrow

The actual site holds 12 days of information for each of the 12 concepts, but I have only chosen to get the current day and the next day.

Issues/Feature Requests

Please log any issues or feature requests in this GitHub repository for me to review.

DavyRoswinkel/accu_allergies