Thanks. No my config is not online.
for your automated lights it might not be that much of an issue. Here you can see the graph of the difference New Product: Bird Deterrent Accessory - #153 by sunny
Easiest way to fix this automation is to include a rule that the lights never go on when the sun is above the horizon.
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I guess I wasnât obvious enough.
Would it be possible for you to point us to how you made those nice looking graphs happen? Use Dew Point as a good example. The HA documentation and terminology is a bit difficult to understand. Examples always help more.
If you are using hass-weatherflow2mqtt then there are some more sensors you could add.
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https://github.com/GlennGoddard/CanvasGaugeBackgrounds
You can look at these examples for the ranges and the colors (in the yaml) and utilize that in the graph cards of your choice. I have the yaml I used in each âdirectoryâ with each type of gauge. I have dewpoint as one of mine and you can use the same colors for a mini-graph card like above and it works well. Just to note, you may need to covert to/from RGB/HEX color schemes depending on the card but that is just as easy as a google search.
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Hi all,
First post. My Tempest sits atop a 10â pole mounted to the fence in our backyard roughly 200ft from our house. We own 5 acres on the valley floor with no outbuildings, trees or other rotor inducing obstructions. As an aviator (paramotor pilot), having accurate wind data at home is important. We love our Tempest weather system! Aside from the weather forecasting utility, it provides important metrics that I rely upon (in addition to several other sources) when deciding whether or not to fly.
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Nice view. No problem with nearby trees there!
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That is quite spectacular. Nice piece of property.
I use the custom mini-graph card and apexcharts. There are many examples on the Home Assistant forum.
I am using https://github.com/briis/smartweather , no need for mqtt it interfaces directly with the API.
I have more sensors in other views.
The wind has started to pick up now and is causing oscillations.
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Whole lot of shaking going on; Headphone warning (volume)
I even tried moving the pole lower but it got worse and both ends were shaking.
that kind of shake should be fine, as long as the pole is firmly mounted and nothing is hitting it.
Itâs fine regarding how secure it is but not how it records rain.
Iâm going to try filling the pole somehow, by starting with a wooden stick or even filling it with soil (I donât have sand to hand)
i donât know, but perhaps a wooden stick would just hit the pole on the inside, causing false rain detections.
RightâŚI found (had) a clothes line pole in the garden which slides perfectly over the other currently up and has pegs that are near the top of it to wind your line round that go through the middle. So Iâve slid/dropped the mast up insde it upsidedown until it reaches the pegs and it seems much more steady without the almost constant oscillation
Some crazy rain totals today and yesterday when I was messing with it to find the perfect solution!
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Increase the length so the time between swings (or sways) is longer. Too short of a pole increases rigidity and such causes false rain.
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The width and thickness of the mastâs material strength play a part.
It has a flex limit and once that is exceeded all it does is cause oscillation along the length with only having one clamp in place.
The solution would be to have a very wide mast with decreasingly smaller inner poles with the smallest holding the device as a tier (if you can picture what I mean?).
What I have got (now) is the best I can do, considering the chimney has very little area to accommodate any more secure clamping. Itâs doing considerably better than when I first put it up here.
Doing this triggers rain almost instantly!
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Then stop banging a wrench on the guide wire
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great, but what do I do to create sunny weather?
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Thatâs a billion dollar question as it would certainly change solar farmersâ bottom lines significantly! 
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