Environment Canada for Home Assistant (built-in integration)

About

Environment Canada is a built-in integration that brings weather data from Environment Canada into Home Assistant. It provides a weather entity with a forecast, a radar camera, and a set of sensors covering items such as current condition, high and low temperature, dew point, humidex, air quality index and advisories. The radar camera has options for loop frame rate, map radius, radar type, opacity, legend, timestamp and how many minutes of past and future frames to show. The future frames come from a short-term forecast layer and apply only to rain and snow. Actions retrieve alerts, forecasts and the precipitation forecast series, and another action sets the radar type. Setup happens in the interface, where a location and language are chosen, and the integration needs the vendor's cloud.

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Supports

Uses the vendor's cloud Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor.
Set up in the UI Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
Updated with Home Assistant Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

Provides

Cameras
Sensors
Weather

Setting it up

It is added under Settings, Devices and services, with Add integration.

Environment Canada: weather location and language

Weather information language
Latitude
Longitude
Weather station

After setup

Loop frame rateFrame rate of the radar animation
Smooth radar imageSmooth the radar image instead of leaving it pixelated (uses more bandwidth)
Map radiusRadius of the radar map in kilometres
Colour scaleNumber of colours in the rain/snow radar scale (has no effect on the precipitation type layer)
Radar type
Show legend
Radar opacityOpacity of the radar layer overlay (0-100)
Past minutesHow far back the radar animation goes, in minutes (0 for the full available history)
Future minutesExtend the radar loop past now using Environment Canada's short-term forecast (nowcast) layer, in minutes (up to 72, the limit of the available data). Only affects Rain and Snow; no effect on Precipitation type
Show timestamp

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, Apache License 2.0.

Entities

CamerasRadar
SensorsAdvisories, AQHI, Current condition, Dew point, Endings, High temperature, Humidex, Icon code, Low temperature, Normal high temperature, Normal low temperature, Chance of precipitation, and 13 more
WeatherForecast

Actions

Get alertsRetrieves the alerts from the selected weather service.Fields: Environment Canada service
Get forecastsRetrieves the forecast from selected weather services.
Get precipitation forecastRetrieves the precipitation forecast series from the selected weather service.Fields: Environment Canada service, Future minutes, Hourly hours, Past minutes, Precipitation type
Set radar typeSets the type of radar image to retrieve.Fields: Radar type