Fix release - Open-Meteo, Fog Density, more Sun and Moon Calculations

0.70.2 (2024-11-19)

Fixes

• Moon rising and setting and UpTonight import, fixes issue #64. Bump pyastroweatherio version to 0.70.3

0.70.1 (2024-11-17)

Fixes

• Bump pyastroweatherio version to 0.70.0

0.70.0 (2024-11-16)

Major changes

• Weather services provide forecast data of varying quality for different regions of the world. This makes further calculations such as ground fog, seeing etc. difficult. AstroWeather can therefore now also use data from the following services for internal calculations:
  • DWD Germany
  • Met Norway
  • NOAA U.S.
  • ECMWF
  • enventually more to come.
• This data is optionally retrieved via Open-Meteo and supplements or replaces the previous basic data. It makes sense to try out the different services and compare them with actual measured values, for example from your own weather station. This should allow you to find the best service for your area. I'd love to hear your feedback on this new feature and which Open-Meteo service you have chosen for your region.
• Refactored pyastroweatherio from the ground up and is now using typeguard and dataframes. It was a lot of work, but it made the code much easier to read and extend, and it was fun.
• AsterWeather now requires the AstroWeather-Card in version 0.70.0+. If you get a Entity is not a AstroWeather entity-error clean your browser cache and reload.

Changes

• Condition calculation now includes fog density. The fog density forecast is also included on the chart. Since fog is a very important factor in the condition calculation, AstroWeather can additionally estimate the density using temperature, relative humidity, dew point, and wind speed at ground level if you have activated the experimental mode. The condition calculation will then take into account fog forecast and the self-calculated fog density by using the worst value.
• The constellation of the Sun and Moon are now calculated.
• Additional calculations for Sun and Moon:
  • Current constallation of Sun and Moon.
  • Moon angular size, distance, relative distance and relative size, and more.

Open-Meteo, Fog Density, more Sun and Moon Calculations

0.70.1 (2024-11-17)

Fixes

• Bump pyastroweatherio version to 0.70.0

0.70.0 (2024-11-16)

Major changes

• Weather services provide forecast data of varying quality for different regions of the world. This makes further calculations such as ground fog, seeing etc. difficult. AstroWeather can therefore now also use data from the following services for internal calculations:
  • DWD Germany
  • Met Norway
  • NOAA U.S.
  • ECMWF
  • enventually more to come.
• This data is optionally retrieved via Open-Meteo and supplements or replaces the previous basic data. It makes sense to try out the different services and compare them with actual measured values, for example from your own weather station. This should allow you to find the best service for your area. I'd love to hear your feedback on this new feature and which Open-Meteo service you have chosen for your region.
• Refactored pyastroweatherio from the ground up and is now using typeguard and dataframes. It was a lot of work, but it made the code much easier to read and extend, and it was fun.
• AsterWeather now requires the AstroWeather-Card in version 0.70.0+. If you get a Entity is not a AstroWeather entity-error clean your browser cache and reload.

Changes

• Condition calculation now includes fog density. The fog density forecast is also included on the chart. Since fog is a very important factor in the condition calculation, AstroWeather can additionally estimate the density using temperature, relative humidity, dew point, and wind speed at ground level if you have activated the experimental mode. The condition calculation will then take into account fog forecast and the self-calculated fog density by using the worst value.
• The constellation of the Sun and Moon are now calculated.
• Additional calculations for Sun and Moon:
  • Current constallation of Sun and Moon.
  • Moon angular size, distance, relative distance and relative size, and more.

Open-Meteo, Fog Density, more Sun and Moon Calculations

0.70.0 (2024-11-16)

Major changes

• Weather services provide forecast data of varying quality for different regions of the world. This makes further calculations such as ground fog, seeing etc. difficult. AstroWeather can therefore now also use data from the following services for internal calculations:
  • DWD Germany
  • Met Norway
  • NOAA U.S.
  • ECMWF
  • enventually more to come.
• This data is optionally retrieved via Open-Meteo and supplements or replaces the previous basic data. It makes sense to try out the different services and compare them with actual measured values, for example from your own weather station. This should allow you to find the best service for your area. I'd love to hear your feedback on this new feature and which Open-Meteo service you have chosen for your region.
• Refactored pyastroweatherio from the ground up and is now using typeguard and dataframes. It was a lot of work, but it made the code much easier to read and extend, and it was fun.
• AsterWeather now requires the AstroWeather-Card in version 0.70.0+. If you get a Entity is not a AstroWeather entity-error clean your browser cache and reload.

Changes

• Condition calculation now includes fog density. The fog density forecast is also included on the chart. Since fog is a very important factor in the condition calculation, AstroWeather can additionally estimate the density using temperature, relative humidity, dew point, and wind speed at ground level if you have activated the experimental mode. The condition calculation will then take into account fog forecast and the self-calculated fog density by using the worst value.
• The constellation of the Sun and Moon are now calculated.
• Additional calculations for Sun and Moon:
  • Current constallation of Sun and Moon.
  • Moon angular size, distance, relative distance and relative size, and more.

Fix release

0.61.1 (2024-10-10)

Fixes

• Hopefully fixes some install problems which occured on arm64 platforms (Yellow, RPi4) and addresses the issues #62 and #63. Tested platforms:
  • HassOS (arm64) 2024.10.1 - seems resolved
  • HassOS (amd64) 2024.10.1 - didn't have issues
  • Dev container (amd64) 2024.11.0.dev0 - didn't have issues
  • Non-supervised in container (amd64) 2024.10.1 - didn't have issues
• Fixes NoneType comparison #63

Comets and Altitude vs. Time Plots

0.61.0 (2024-10-05)

Changes

• AstroWeather can now analyse the UpTonight report on comets. This makes it possible to know which comets will be in the sky tonight, their distance to the Sun and Earth and their current visual magnitude.
• One more thing with UpTonight: Check the altitude vs. time diagrams for all observable objects, bodies, and comets from the Home Assistant. See the README for examples.

Observe the planets

0.60.0 (2024-09-13)

Changes

• AstroWeather can now analyse the UpTonight report on solar system bodies (planets). This makes it possible to know which planets will be in the sky tonight, when they will be at their maximum elevation and in which direction they can be observed.

Fixes

• Return ISO format datetime from get_forecasts service. Fixes Issue 60.

Show Precipitation and Fix #59

0.50.4 (2024-07-07)

Changes

• About the AstroWeather Card v0.52.4:
  • The card can now graph the precipitation amount.
  • The amount of precipitation for the next 6 hours, starting with astronomical darkness, is now displayed in the status description if there is precipitation.
• Forwarding setup to config entry platforms. Fixes Issue 59.

Card revised

0.50.2 (2024-06-85)

A lot of changes, fixes and improvements in the AstroWeather-Card are done.

Changes

• About the AstroWeather Card v0.52.2:
  • The card can now display the precipitation forecast graphically. When activated you will get a scale on the right with up to 10mm of rainfall per hour.
  • The lifted index got a dedicated scale on the right as well.
  • The duration of astronomical darkness and deep sky darkness of the following night are now shown.
  • The tabular forecast is now filtered by the enabled subcharts and shows 7 forecast hours max.
• News on AstroWeathers condition calculation:
  • The forecast precipitation now influences the status calculation by making it worse.

Fixes

• The icons for precipitation are now changing depending on rainfall per hour.
• Lots of fixes in the CSS section of the card.

Minor fix for Major Release 0.50.0

0.50.1 (2024-05-28)

See the full changelog for version 0.50.0 below.

Fixes

• Minor fix in pyastroweatherio at seeing calculation.

Major Release

0.50.0 (2024-05-27)

This is a massive release, at least under the hood. The pyastroweatherio library is more or less completely redeigned and much more resilient. It now offers an experimental mode which estimates atmospheric conditions like the lifted index.

Fixes

• AstroWeather-Card now uses new Forecast service instead of weather entity attributes. Fixes Issue 34 and Issue 50.
• Removed the dependency to pytz in AstroWeather and pyastroweatherio which introduced a blocking call.

Breaking Changes

• Removed the sensor seeing_plain. This is now replaced by the sensor seeing giving you the calculated seeing in arcsecs.
• Removed the sensor cloudcover_plain. Use the sensor cloud_cover instead.
• Setting a name for the AstroWeather instance (see below) required to rearchitecture the entity IDs and the unique IDs. All entities of of an already existing instance will be migrated, but not the location name you defined within the AstroWeather-Card. The location name can now only be set during instance creation. If you want proper entity names, you need to delete existing instances and readd them after updating to the version 0.50 and above.

Changes

• AstroWeather now got an experimental mode which you can activate in the integration configuration. When using this, AstroWeather is now approximately calculating the seeing, transparency, and the lifted index based on Met.no delivered data. These calculations are a challenge and still at an early stage. They need to be validated, especially for different locations. Please report back how well it works for you.
• The integration should now be much more resilient. Fixes Issue 55 and Issue 56.
• News on AstroWeathers condition calculation:
  • Calmness as an additional factor is now included. So the less wind the better gets the condition. Weighting can be adjusted same as seeing, transparency and the clouds.
  • You can now weaken the influence of high, medium, and low clouds. By default, all levels are equally weighted, but high clouds can be less impairing for deep sky astronomy than medium or low clouds. Depending on your typical weather, it can make sense to weaken high clouds for the calculation. Experiemt with that.
• About the AstroWeather Card:
  • Some labels on the AstroWeather Card are shortened to avoid line breaks.
  • The card can now graph calmness and lifted index.
• Weather services used by AstroWeather:
  • Met.no now became the leading forecast service instead of 7Timer. This happened because 7Timer has repeatedly provided unreliable data or was inaccessible in the recent past.
  • In case 7Timer is not available, AstroWeather automatically falls to experimental mode.
• Replace deprecated HomeAssistantType with HomeAssistant fixes Issue 57.
• You can now name the AstroWeather instances when adding them to Home Assistant. Solves Issue 53.
• Completely redesigned configuration and options workflow.