Buienradar

The Buienradar integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.
[Learn more] uses buienradar.nl as a source for current meteorological data for your location. The weather forecast is delivered by Buienradar, who provides a web service that provides detailed weather information for users in The Netherlands.

The relevant weather station used will be automatically selected based on the location specified in the Home Assistant configuration (or in the Buienradar weather/sensor integration). A map of all available weather stations can be found here.

Besides the weather platform, there is currently support for the following additional device types:

• Camera: Radar map
• Sensor: Extended weather data

Configuration

To add the Buienradar integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Camera

The buienradar camera platform uses buienradar.nl as a source for the last rain radar map. The overview image of the whole of the Netherlands is loaded and shown as a camera in Home Assistant. The Netherlands is the default country and can be changed to Belgium (see Options).

Internally, this integration uses the radar map image as documented on buienradar.nl. The downloaded image is cached to prevent Home Assistant from making a new request to buienradar.nl multiple times a minute when Home Assistant checks for new stills from the camera.

The camera entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.
[Learn more] is disabled by default and should be enabled before it reads the camera images.

Sensor

The Buienradar integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.
[Learn more] will set up separate sensor entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.
[Learn more] with more detailed weather data. The selected weather station will provide all-weather data, with the exception of the forecasted precipitation. The forecasted precipitation data will be retrieved from Buienradar using your actual GPS location (and not the location of the nearest weather station). The sensor entities are disabled by default and should be enabled before they will be updated with data.

The following entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.
[Learn more] will be created:

• Station name: The name of the selected meteo-station
• Barometer forecast: A numeric barometric forecast (1 to 7)
• Barometer forecast name: A textual representation of the barometer forecast (eg: Thunderstorms, Stable, etc.)
• Condition code: A symbol and a unique code identifying the current weather condition
  • a: sunny/clear
  • b: Mix of clear and medium or low clouds
  • j: Mix of clear and high clouds
  • o/r: Partly cloudy (increasing character increases the condition)
  • c: Heavily clouded
  • p: Cloudy
  • d: Alternating cloudy with local fog
  • n: Clear and local mist or fog
  • f: Alternatingly cloudy with some light rain
  • h/k/l: rainy (increasing character increases the condition)
  • q: Heavily clouded with rain
  • w: Heavily clouded with rain and winter precipitation
  • m: Heavily clouded with some light rain
  • u: Cloudy with light snow
  • i/v: Heavily clouded with light snowfall (increasing character increases the condition)
  • t: (Heavy snowfall)
  • g: (Clear with (possibly) some heavy lightning)
  • s: (Cloudy with (possibly) some heavy (thunderstorms) showers)
• Condition: A symbol and the current weather condition (clear, cloudy, fog, rainy, snowy or lightning)
• Condition detailed: A symbol and detailed current weather condition (clear, partlycloudy, cloudy, partlycloudy-fog, partlycloudy-light-rain, partlycloudy-rain, light-rain, rainy, snowy-rainy, partlycloudy-light-snow, partlycloudy-snow, light-snow, snowy, partlycloudy-lightning or lightning)
• Condition exact: A symbol with the full current weather condition (in English)
• Symbol: A symbol for the current weather with the full current condition (in Dutch)
• Feel temperature: The current wind chill factor (in °C)
• Humidity: The relative humidity (in %)
• Temperature: The current temperature (in °C)
• Ground temperature: The current ground temperature (in °C)
• Wind speed: The wind speed (in km/h)
• Wind force: The wind speed/force (in Bft)
• Wind direction: Where the wind is coming from: N (North), Z (south), NO (North-East), etc.
• Wind azimuth: Where the wind is coming from in degrees, with true north at 0° and progressing clockwise
• Pressure: The sea-level air pressure (in hPa)
• Visibility: Visibility (in m)
• Wind gust: The wind speed of wind gusts (km/h)
• Precipitation: The amount of precipitation/rain (in mm/h)
• Precipitation forecast average: The average expected precipitation/rain within the given time-frame (in mm/h)
• Precipitation forecast total: The total expected precipitation/rain in mm within the given time-frame. The total expected rain in the configured time-frame will be equal to precipitation_forecast_total/timeframe mm/min. So, with time-frame configured to 30 minutes and a value of 5, the expected rain is 5 mm in 30 minutes, which is the same as 10 mm/h. If time-frame is set to 90 minutes and a value of 5, the expected rain is 5 mm in 90 minutes, which is equal to 3.3 mm/h.
• Irradiance: Sun intensity in Watt per square meter (W/m2)
• Rain last 24h: The rain over the last 24 hours (in mm)
• Rain last hour: The rain over the last hour (in mm)
• Temperature n days ahead: The forecasted temperature n days ahead (in °C)
• Minimum temperature n days ahead: The forecasted minimum temperature n days ahead (in °C)
• Rain chance n days ahead: The forecasted chance for rain n days ahead (in %)
• Sun chance n days ahead: The forecasted chance for sun n days ahead (in %)
• Rain n days ahead: The forecasted amount of rain (in mm) n days ahead; the average of Minimum rain n days ahead and Maximum rain n days ahead
• Minimum rain n days ahead: The minimum forecasted amount of rain (in mm) n days ahead
• Maximum rain n days ahead: The maximum forecasted amount of rain (in mm) n days ahead
• Wind azimuth n days ahead: Where the wind is coming from in degrees, with true north at 0° and progressing clockwise for n days ahead (derived from Wind direction n days ahead)
• Wind direction n days ahead: Where the wind will be coming from n days ahead: N (North), Z (south), NO (North-East), etc.
• Wind force n days ahead: The expected wind force (in Bft) n days ahead
• Wind speed n days ahead: The expected wind speed (in m/s) n days ahead (derived from Wind force n days ahead)
• Condition code n days ahead: Symbol and condition code of the expected condition n days ahead
• Condition n days ahead: Symbol and expected condition n days ahead
• Detailed condition n days ahead: Symbol and detailed expected condition n days ahead
• Full condition n days ahead: Symbol and full expected condition n days ahead

Options

Options for Buienradar can be set via the user interface, by taking the following steps:

• Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
• Go to Settings > Devices & Services.
• If multiple instances of Buienradar are configured, choose the instance you want to configure.
• Select the integration, then select Configure.