Home Assistant weather provider using data from Belgian IRM KMI. The data is collected via their non-public mobile application API.
Although the provider is Belgian, the data is available for Belgium 🇧🇪, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, and The Netherlands 🇳🇱
- Go to HACS > Integrations
- Add this repo into your HACS custom repositories
- Search for IRM KMI and download it
- Restart Home Assistant
- Configure the integration via the UI (search for 'IRM KMI')
This integration provides the following things:
- A weather entity with current weather conditions
- Weather forecasts (hourly, daily and twice-daily) using the service
weather.get_forecasts
- A camera entity for rain radar and short-term rain previsions
- A binary sensor for weather warnings
- Sensors for active pollens
The following options are available:
- Styles for the radar
- Support for the old
forecast
attribute for components relying on this
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The weather provider sometime uses two weather conditions for the same day (see below). When this is the case, only the first weather condition is taken into account in this integration.
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The trends for 14 days are not shown
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The provider only has data for Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands
Mapping was established based on my own interpretation of the icons and conditions.
The warning binary sensor is on if a warning is currently relevant (i.e. warning start time < current time < warning end time). Warnings may be issued by the IRM KMI ahead of time but the binary sensor is only on when at least one of the issued warnings is relevant.
The binary sensor has an additional attribute called warnings
, with a list of warnings for the current location.
Warnings in the list may be warning issued ahead of time.
Each element in the list has the following attributes:
slug: str
: warning slug type, can be used for automation and does not change with language setting. Example:ice_or_snow
id: int
: internal id for the warning type used by the IRM KMI api.level: int
: warning severity, from 1 (lower risk) to 3 (higher risk)friendly_name: str
: language specific name for the warning type. Examples:Ice or snow
,Chute de neige ou verglas
,Sneeuw of ijzel
,Glätte
text: str
: language specific additional information about the warningstarts_at: datetime
: time at which the warning starts being relevantends_at: datetime
: time at which the warning stops being relevantis_active: bool
:true
ifstarts_at
< now <ends_at
The following table summarizes the different known warning types. Other warning types may be returned and will have unknown
as slug. Feel free to open an issue with the id and the English friendly name to have it added to this integration.
Warning slug | Warning id | Friendly name (en, fr, nl, de) |
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wind | 0 | Wind, Vent, Wind, Wind |
rain | 1 | Rain, Pluie, Regen, Regen |
ice_or_snow | 2 | Ice or snow, Chute de neige ou verglas, Sneeuw of ijzel, Glätte |
thunder | 3 | Thunder, Orage, Onweer, Gewitter |
fog | 7 | Fog, Brouillard, Mist, Nebel |
cold | 9 | Cold, Froid, Koude, Kalt |
thunder_wind_rain | 12 | Thunder Wind Rain, Orage, rafales et averses, Onweer Wind Regen, Gewitter Windböen Regen |
thunderstorm_strong_gusts | 13 | Thunderstorm & strong gusts, Orage et rafales, Onweer en wind, Gewitter und Windböen |
thunderstorm_large_rainfall | 14 | Thunderstorm & large rainfall, Orage et averses, Onweer en regen, Gewitter und Regen |
storm_surge | 15 | Storm surge, Marée forte, Stormtij, Sturmflut |
coldspell | 17 | Coldspell, Vague de froid, Koude, Koude |
The sensor has an attribute called active_warnings_friendly_names
, holding a comma separated list of the friendly names
of the currently active warnings (e.g. Fog, Ice or snow
). There is no particular order for the list.
One sensor per pollen is created and each sensor can have one of the following values: active, green, yellow, orange, red, purple or none.
The exact meaning of each color can be found on the IRM KMI webpage: Pollen allergy and hay fever
This data sent to the app would result in oak and ash have the 'active' state, birch would be 'purple' and alder would be 'green'. All the other pollens would be 'none'.
This is a personal project and isn't in any way affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.
All product names, trademarks and registered trademarks in (the images in) this repository, are property of their respective owners. All images in this repository are used by the project for identification purposes only.