Outside Clothing

Sensors that recommend clothing based on the weather forecast.

Features

• Display names (clothing items) configurable per sensor.
• Criteria configurable per sensor.
• Default values.
• Works with both daily forecasts and hourly foercasts.
• Configurable time ranges for criteria per sensor.
• Provides both a sensor and a binary_sensor platform.

Sensor Configuration

• name: Friendly name of the sensor.
• entity_id: Weather entity supplying the forcast (either hourly or daily).
• unique_id: Unique ID for customizing the sensor.
  (Optional)
• conditions: A series of clothing items and the conditions under which they would be appropriate. See Sensor Conditons for more details.
  (Optional but if you don't use it, then you must have default)
• default: One of the default sets of conditions. See Sensor Defaults for more details.
  (Optional but if you don't use it, then you must have conditions)
  • jacket
  • pants
  • boots

  Only avaliable for sensor.

• mode: Either a shorthand or the number of hours to consider from the forecast. See Mode for more details.
  (Optional: Defaults to hour)
  • hour
  • day
  • hours: <hours in range 1 - 24>

Example:

sensor:
  - platform: clothing
    name: Jacket
    entity_id: weather.montreal_hourly
    unique_id: default_jacket
    default: jacket

  - platform: clothing
    name: Pants
    entity_id: weather.montreal_hourly
    conditions:
      "Snow Pants":
      - temperature < -2
      "Rain Pants":
      - precipitation_probability > 40
      "Pants":
      - temperature >= -2
      - temperature < 17
      "Shorts":
      - temperature >= 17
    mode: hour

  - platform: clothing
    name: Default Pants
    entity_id: weather.montreal_hourly
    default: pants
    mode: day

  - platform: clothing
    name: Boots
    entity_id: weather.montreal_hourly
    conditions:
      "Winter Boots":
      - temperature < 5
      "Rain Boots":
      - precipitation_probability > 20
      "Shoes":
      - temperature >= 5
    mode:
      hours: 24

Sensor Conditions

Conditions allows you to set appropriate outerwear (or anything else really) based on forecast conditions. The format is a named clothing item as a key with a list of weather conditions (criteria) that need to be met for that clothing item to be appropriate. All criteria must be met for the clothing to be recommended.

"<clothing item>:
- <criteria 1>
- <criteria 2>

Sensor Defaults

There are three defaults with reasonable values for clothing:

• Jacket: This is a set of outerwear worn on your upper body. 😉
  The conditions this matches are:

  "Winter Jacket":
  - temperature < 5
  "Rain Jacket":
  - precipitation_probability > 20
  - temperature >= 5
  "Jacket":
  - temperature < 15
  "Long Sleeves":
  - temperature < 20
  - temperature >= 15
  "Short Sleeves":
  - temperature > 20

• Pants: This is a set of outerwear worn on your legs.
  The conditions this matches are:

  "Snow Pants":
  - temperature < -2
  "Rain Pants":
  - precipitation_probability > 40
  "Pants":
  - temperature >= -2
  - temperature < 17
  "Shorts":
  - temperature >= 17

• Boots: These are things to wear on your feet.
  The conditions this matches are:

  "Winter Boots":
  - temperature < 5
  "Rain Boots":
  - precipitation_probability > 20
  "Shoes":
  - temperature >= 5

Bianry Sensor Configuration

• name: Friendly name of the sensor.
• entity_id: Weather entity supplying the forcast (either hourly or daily).
• unique_id: Unique ID for customizing the sensor.
  (Optional)
• conditions: A list of conditions for which the sensor will be set. See Binary Sensor Conditons for more details.
  (Optional but if you don't use it, then you must have default)
• mode: Either a shorthand or the number of hours to consider from the forecast. See Mode for more details.
  (Optional: Defaults to hour)
  • hour
  • day
  • hours: <hours in range 1 - 24>

Example:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: clothing
    name: Mow the Grass now
    entity_id: weather.ottawa_richmond_metcalfe_hourly
    unique_id: mow_grass
    conditions:
      - temperature > 5
      - precipitation_probability < 20
    mode:
      hours: 4

Binary Sensor Conditions

Conditions allows you to set the binary sensor based on the forecast. The format is a list of weather conditions (criteria) that need to be met for binary sensor to be set. All criteria must be met for the binary sensor to be set.

- <criteria 1>
- <criteria 2>

Criteria

Criteria must be in the form: <forecast key> <operator> <value>.

Forecast Key

The forecast keys are any key that a forecast provides. Current keys are:

• datetime (though this one isn't super helpful)
• temperature
• condition
• precipitation_probability

Operator

The standard comparison operators you might expect are supported:

• < - Forecast is less than value
• <= - Forecast is less than or equal to value
• == - Forecast is equal to value
• >= - Forecast is greater than or equal to value
• > - Forecast is greater than value
• != - Forecast is not equal to value

Value

Value can be either a string or a float. This allows the criteria to be, for example: temperature < 5 or temperature < 5.5 or condition == sunny

For string comparisons, they are just that. So while cloudy < sunny is true, it probably isn't all that useful to do string comparisons with operators other than == and !=.

Mode

There are several modes that determine how many hours of the forecast to consider.

• hour - Takes into consideration only the next hour.
• day - Considers the next 10 hours. Or about how long you might be resonably expected to be outside for the day.
• hours: <hours in range 1 - 24> - Considers how many hours you want to specify up to 24.

In the case that entity_id is a daily forecast, the mode doesn't matter as it only considers today. Though this has not been tested on all possible weather integrations.