Weather Forecast Entity Only Using Rain Data for 'Days' with 'Nights' Being Excluded

[brooksben11]

As the title says, I just noticed that the rain probability and amounts in the weather forecast entity are only pulling the data for the day portions of the forecast and completely excluding the night data. For instance, we are supposed to get significant rain tonight but the rain forecast for 'today' shows everything as zero. However, both the Wunderground website as well as the individual forecast sensors created by the integration show the rain that is actually forecast for tonight.

I mainly use this integration during our summer (which is getting ready to start), so not sure if something changed since last year or if I just never noticed this issue before.

[cytech]

what "weather forecast entity"?
what weather card are you using?
if the sensors :
entity_id: sensor.<pws_id>precipitation_probability
description: Forecasted precipitation probability in %. (suffix Variations 0d, 1n, 2d, 3n, 4d, 5n, 6d, 7n, 8d, 9n)
are working, than it is working...

[brooksben11]

When I run this using the weather entity created by the integration:

action: weather.get_forecasts
data:
  type: daily
target:
  entity_id: weather.kkskansa30

The rain forecast data it provides is only for the day portions and is skipping the nights (so it's showing the forecasted rain amounts and probabilities for the next 5 days, but omitting the night data in between those days). I confirmed this by both comparing it to the Wunderground website as well as the optional forecasted precipitation amount and probability sensors created by the integration.

[cytech]

yes, unfortunately that is how it is..
you can see in that action there is only one "precipitation_probability" line (not a day or night).
i only populate the weather entity with the "day" forecast.
it doesn't support a day AND night forecast in the entity, which would mean configuring a time of day/night and a nightmare of
code to change. then you still would only see it after that set time.

at this point to see both you would have to enable and use the sensors outside of the card:
sensor.<pws_id>_precipitation_probability_0d
and
sensor.<pws_id>_precipitation_probability_1n.

also note that what you see on the weatherunderground page is not necessarily what is being returned by their API...

[brooksben11]

Would the 'Twice Daily' forecast type option address this issue or is that something else entirely? I couldn't really tell from the docs what it's intended use-case is.

Is the intent that one manually setup a weather card using the optional forecast sensors (at least for rain)?

[cytech]

it would if i was willing to rewrite the code to support it. ...
at this point i am not willing.. :)

the intent is to support the default home assistant weather card, and still support the sensors that have been in the integration for years, while keeping the ability to access wunderground data...