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Ambient Weather Station

The Ambient Weather Station integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] retrieves local weather information via personal weather stations from Ambient Weather.

Prerequisites

Using this integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] requires both an Application Key and an API Key. To generate both, simply utilize the profile section of your Ambient Weather dashboard.

Configuration

To add the Ambient Weather Station hub to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Ambient Weather Station.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Local API Option

This integration communicates with Ambient Weather PWS units via the Ambient Weather Cloud. Users desiring a local option can utilize ecowitt2mqtt in ambient_weather mode, (which supports MQTT Discovery).

Another option is to explore the Ecowitt family of devices, which support the built-in Ecowitt integration.