SMHI
smhi
The SMHI integration brings weather forecasts and fire risk forecasts from SMHI, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, into Home Assistant. Use it to show the weather and forecasts for your home on your dashboard, or to get notified when thunder or a high fire risk is expected.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
sensor | Sensor (temperature) |
How it connects
Cloud polling
Goes through the maker’s cloud, asking it for updates every so often. Needs the internet and an account.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 3,004 (0.42%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Platinum |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.81 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @gjohansson-ST |
Limitations from the docs
- Only locations within the SMHI forecast area can be added. This area covers Sweden and the areas close to it.
- The current weather and the weather sensors use the first hour of the latest SMHI forecast. The fire risk sensors show today's SMHI fire risk forecast. None of these values are weather-station measurements.
- The weather entity never reports the conditions hail, windy, or exceptional, because the SMHI forecast does not provide them.
- The fire risk sensors are most useful during the fire season. Outside the season, some of them can show values like Snow cover or Grass fire season over, or have no value at all.
- Each entry covers one location. To follow several locations, add the integration once for each location.
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
