Creates sensors for Home Assistant with the AccuWeather Allergy level information for various sensor types

PRE APRIL22 changes

APRIL22 changes

This app is best installed using HACS, so that you can easily track and download updates.

Alternatively, you can download the accu_allergies directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the accu_allergies module.

The AccuWeather site provides this information, this just scrapes the page and makes the information available as a sensor in HA.

As this is non time critical sensor, it only gets the information on a set time schedule, once per day at 5.07am, but it also watches an input_boolean that you specify for when to update the sensor. You can obviously automate when you want that input_boolean to turn on.

You will need to create an input_boolean entity to watch for when to update the sensor. When this input_boolean is turned on, whether manually or by another automation you create, the scraping process will be run to create/update the sensor.

To reduce the number of requests to the website, I have made this a two stage system, with one input_boolean controlling when the data is requested from the website and a second when you want to update the sensors, meaning doing a HA restart won't trigger html requests, it will just read from your saved data file from that morning.

Therefore you will need to chain the two input_boolean requests so that one is offset by a minute to allow for the data to be downloaded.

You will also need to install Beautiful Soup / bs4 by adding bs4 to your python packages in Appdaemon.

system_packages: []
python_packages:
  - bs4
init_commands: []

accu_allergies:
  module: accu_allergies
  class: Get_Accu_Allergies
  ACC_FILE: "./allergies"
  ACC_FLAG: "input_boolean.get_allergies_data"
  DEB_FLAG: "input_boolean.reset_allergies_sensor"
  URL_ID: "21921"
  URL_CITY: "canberra"
  URL_COUNTRY: "au"
  URL_LANG: "en"
  URL_POSTCODE: ""
  WEB_VER: "" # or use "APRIL22"

This app will create sensors

• sensor.acc_data_last_sourced

Pre APRIL22

sensors for each of the types for today and tomorrow (24 in total) ragweed pollen, grass pollen, tree pollen, mold, dust, air quality, common cold, flu, asthma, arthritis, migraine, sinus

each sensor is a rating from 1->10

The actual site holds 12 days of information for each of the 12 concepts, but I have only chosen to get the current day and the next day.

Post APRIL22

air quality for today and tomorrow

sensors for each of the types for today only

each sensor is a low->extreme

dust & dander, sinus pressure, asthma, grass pollen, ragweed pollen, tree pollen, mold, migraine, arthritis, common cold, flu, indoor pests, outdoor pests, mosquitos, outdoor entertaining, lawn mowing, composting, air travel, driving, fishing, running golf, biking & cycling, beach & pool, stargazing, hiking

Please log any issues or feature requests in this GitHub repository for me to review.