Weather¶

The weather condition checks the current state reported by a Home Assistant weather entity — both the named condition (sunny, cloudy, rainy, and so on) and numeric attributes such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed.

Configure a weather entity

Before the weather condition can do anything, you need to tell Ambience which weather entity to reference, as explained in Add a Weather integration.

In the scene editor, click + Add condition… and choose Weather. The condition panel has two independent sections — Groups and Thresholds — and you can use either, both, or neither.

Example of the Weather condition.

Groups¶

A group is a named collection of weather states. When you tick one or more groups, the condition passes only if the current weather state belongs to at least one of them.

Ambience comes with five built-in groups:

Group	Weather states it covers
Sunny	Sunny
Dim	Cloudy, Partly cloudy, Rainy
Dark	Clear (night), Fog, Hail, Lightning, Lightning-rainy, Pouring, Snowy, Snowy-rainy, Exceptional
Wet	Hail, Lightning, Lightning-rainy, Pouring, Rainy, Snowy, Snowy-rainy
Windy	Windy, Windy (variant), Exceptional

You can add your own groups in the panel's settings under the Conditions tab. Each custom group has a label and a list of individual weather states drawn from the full set that Home Assistant defines. Once saved, your custom groups appear alongside the built-ins in every scene's weather condition picker.

Configuration of Weather condition.

Thresholds¶

A threshold tests a numeric attribute of the weather entity against a value you supply. Click + Add threshold and choose:

Attribute — one of: Temperature, Apparent temperature, Humidity, Wind speed, Pressure.
Comparator — less than (<), at most (≤), greater than (>), at least (≥).
Value — the number to compare against. The unit shown matches what your weather entity reports (for example °C or hPa).

You can add as many thresholds as you like. All of them must hold for the condition to pass.

Combining groups and thresholds¶

Groups and thresholds work together. If you select the Wet group and add a threshold of "Temperature ≥ 5", the condition passes only when the weather is wet and the temperature is at least 5 degrees. Neither check alone is sufficient.

For a worked example that builds a weather-based scene, see Step 4 of Getting started.

Notes¶

If the configured weather entity is unavailable or not yet loaded, the condition does not match. Scenes that depend on the weather condition are therefore skipped until the entity reports a valid state.
If you rename or delete a custom group that is already referenced by a scene, Ambience will warn you via a banner in Settings listing the affected scenes.

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