When to use _0d/_0h, and when not to?

[Intecpsp]

Describe the issue

I've looked around trying to find something telling me which to use, but haven't found anything. What are the use cases for the 2 sensors?

Example: It's currently raining outside where I'm at. I have sensor.pirateweather_precip_probability saying 25%, and sensor.pirateweather_precip_probability_0d saying 47%. Which of these do I trust? I'm contemplating just getting an average of the 2 and going with that, but I wanted to find the actual use cases for the 2 before I did that.

Documentation URL

https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/ha/

Acknowledgements

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[Intecpsp]

To add to this, when should I use the 0h equivalent?

[cloneofghosts]

The HA documentation is quite lacking at the moment but to answer your question:

• 0h is for the top of the current hour
• 0d is for the current day
• No suffix is for the current time

For your question:

• precip_probability - is the probability of precipitation for the current time
• precip_probability_0h - is the probability of precipitation for the current hour
• precip_probability_0d - is the maximum probability of precipitation for the rest of the current day

precip_probability_0d of 47% means that the maximum probability for the rest of the day is 47%

[Intecpsp]

Thank you for the help!

For a little more clarification, when you say "current time", do you mean "right now"? So if I wanted to know what the current weather is, use no suffix, correct?

[alexander0042]

Thanks for opening to issue, it really does help focus in on what needs to be clarified! "Current time" means right now, or at least as close to right now as possible. So for example, if you called the API at 2:15 pm, the data would be for:

• currently: 2:15 pm
• 0h: 2:00 pm (start of hour)
• 0d: 12:00 am (start of day)

currently has no suffix, so that's correct

[Intecpsp]

Got it, thank you for the clarification!