Air Quality Health Index

[jm66]

Hi @michaeldavie, inspired by env_canada and following the module architecture, I put together aqhi_canada which work pretty much the same as env_canada:

from aqhi_canada.aqhi_data import AqhiData

aqhi = AqhiData(coordinates=(lat, long), language='english')
aqhi.conditions
{'aqhi': {'label': 'Air Quality Health Index', 'value': '2.1'}}

aqhi = AqhiData(coordinates=(lat, long), language='french')
aqhi.conditions
{'aqhi': {'label': 'Cote air santé', 'value': '2.1'}}

But pulling data from different source AQHI_XML_File_List.xml, http://dd.weather.gc.ca/air_quality/aqhi/{cgndb}/observation/realtime/xml/AQ_OBS_{lan}_CURRENT.xml and http://dd.weather.gc.ca/air_quality/aqhi/{cgndb}/observation/realtime/xml/AQ_FCST_{lan}_CURRENT.xml.

At first I thought it could be a different package, but since the data comes from Environment Canada as well, I believe it could be part of the env_canada. Please, let me know your thoughts and if you agree to add aqhi_data.py - I could happily submit a PR.

[michaeldavie]

Cool! I think that it makes sense it add it, and I can add it to the environment_canada component for Home Assistant as well. PR away!

[jm66]

Thanks for merging the code. Please, let me know how I could help to add aqhi to the environment_canada component.

[michaeldavie]

I did some work on this today, and I think I'm going to merge the AQHI logic you developed into the existing ec_data file. That will make things simpler on the Home Assistant side, and I think it makes sense for the module as well. I'm going to try to work on this over the next next week; hopefully we'll get it into the 0.102 release, which is a little more than 3 weeks away.

[michaeldavie]

The AQHI data has been added to release v0.0.30, and I've opened a PR (home-assistant/core#28487) to add an AQHI sensor to Home Assistant in 0.102.

[jm66]

Thanks a lot @michaeldavie im looking forward to adding the AQHI index to my alerts/notifications.