1.0 is a breaking release. The integration now follows the places on your WxAlerts account and signs in with your own login.
What changed
- Places replace Home Assistant zones. Save the places you care about on wxalerts.org and they arrive as devices on their own. Zones are no longer read.
- Storm cell alerts replace lightning. The lightning sensors, lightning devices, person tracking and lightning options are gone.
- Signing in replaces the shared public login. Home Assistant is a Supporter feature, and each Home Assistant gets its own login when you sign in to WxAlerts from it.
What happens when you upgrade
- Update WxAlerts in HACS and restart Home Assistant.
- Every 0.x entity and device (county, zone and lightning) is removed, so nothing is left behind as unavailable. Your alert type selection is kept.
- Home Assistant shows a re-authenticate prompt for WxAlerts. Open it and sign in with your Supporter account.
- Your places appear as devices within a few seconds.
Repointing automations
Automations and dashboards that used 0.x entities need new ids. Everything is
now per place: binary_sensor.wxalerts_<place>_... and
sensor.wxalerts_<place>_.... See
Entities and events for the list.
| 0.x | 1.0 |
|---|---|
| Per county alert entities | The same alert entities, per place |
binary_sensor.wxalerts_<zone>_tornado_alert |
binary_sensor.wxalerts_<place>_tornado_warning, one per alert type picked |
sensor.wxalerts_<zone>_lightning_flashes |
Removed. Use binary_sensor.wxalerts_<place>_storm_cell_approaching. |
location and zone in wxalerts_alert and wxalerts_hazard data |
place_id and place_name |
The wxalerts_storm_cell event and the storm cell device triggers are new in
1.0. See Automations for
examples.