nsw-rural-fire-service-fire-danger

NSW Rural Fire Service - Fire Danger

The NSW Rural Fire Service provides an XML feed that contains the fire danger details for today and tomorrow for districts in the state.

This custom component is implemented as a simple sensor that fetches the feed and stores all details of the configured district. You can then use template sensors to present these details in Home Assistant.

Please note: This version is compatible with Home Assistant version 0.117 onwards.

Installation

Install custom component code

In your configuration folder create subfolder <config>/custom_components and copy the folder nsw_rural_fire_service_fire_danger into the new custom_components folder.

Please note: This folder structure will work at least from Home Assistant version 0.88 onwards. If you are using an older version, you will need to create sub-folders <config>/custom_components/sensor and move the sensor.py file in there and rename it to nsw_rural_fire_service_fire_danger.py.

Install dependencies

This custom component comes with its own manifest.json and thus dependencies should be installed automatically.

Both third-party libraries are also used by the rest integration, so they are likely already installed if you are using that integration.

Configuration Example

Fire Danger Sensor

Have a look at the XML feed at http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/feeds/fdrToban.xml and find your district. The district's name must be configured as district_name as shown in the following example:

sensor:
  - platform: nsw_rural_fire_service_fire_danger
    district_name: Greater Sydney Region

The above configuration will generate a sensor with entity id sensor.fire_danger_in_greater_sydney_region which is further used in the examples below.

The sensor's state will either be ok or unknown if no data could be retrieved.

The following attributes will be available for use in template sensors.

Attribute	Description
district	District name
region_number	Internal number of this district
councils	List of all councils in this district
danger_level_today	Today's danger level
danger_level_tomorrow	Tomorrow's danger level
fire_ban_today	Indicates whether there is a fire ban today
fire_ban_tomorrow	Indicates whether there is a fire ban today

Danger Level Today

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      fire_danger_level_today:
        friendly_name: "Danger Level Today"
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.fire_danger_in_greater_sydney_region', 'danger_level_today') }}"
        icon_template: mdi:speedometer

Fire Ban Today

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      fire_ban_today:
        friendly_name: "Fire Ban Today"
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.fire_danger_in_greater_sydney_region', 'fire_ban_today') }}"
        device_class: safety