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title: GeoRSS Events Sensor
description: "Instructions on how to set up GeoRSS sensors within Home Assistant."
date: 2017-07-31
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ha_category: Sensor
ha_version: 0.55
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The `geo_rss_events` sensor retrieves events from a GeoRSS feed and
shows information of those events filtered by distance to Home Assistant's
location and grouped by category.

This sensor is particularly useful if events occur unexpectedly in the
vicinity of the home while the GeoRSS feed also contains many events
representing distant unrelated entries. Typical examples are bush fires
alerts or earthquakes.

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The reference point for comparing the distance is defined by `latitude`
and `longitude` in the basic configuration.

Only entries of the feed are considered that define a location as `point`
or `polygon` in *georss.org* format or as *WGS84 latitude/longitude*.

The data is updated every 5 minutes.

## {% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable the GeoRSS events sensor, add the following lines to your
`configuration.yaml`. This is an example configuration showing bush fire
incidents from the NSW Rural Fire Service.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: NSW Fire Service
    url: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/feeds/majorIncidents.xml
    unit_of_measurement: 'Incidents'
    categories:
      - 'Emergency Warning'
      - 'Watch and Act'
      - 'Advice'
```

Configuration variables:

- **url** (*Required*): Full URL of the GeoRSS feed.
- **name** (*Optional*): Name of the sensor used in generating the entity id. Default is 'Event Service'.
- **radius** (*Optional*): The distance in kilometers around the Home Assistant's coordinates in which events are considered. Default is: 20km.
- **categories** (*Optional*): List of event category names found in the GeoRSS feed. A separate sensor is created for each category defined. Default is to join events from all categories into an 'Any' category.
- **unit_of_measurement** (*Optional*): The type of events found in the GeoRSS feed. Default is 'Events'.

## {% linkable_title Example Feeds %}

**Bush Fire Alerts**

```yaml
sensor:
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: Qld Fire and Emergency Services
    url: https://www.qfes.qld.gov.au/data/alerts/bushfireAlert.xml
    unit_of_measurement: 'Alerts'
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: Tas Fire Service
    url: http://www.fire.tas.gov.au/Show?pageId=colBushfireSummariesRss
    unit_of_measurement: 'Alerts'
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services
    url: https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/data/incident_FCAD.rss
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: ACT Emergency Services Agency
    url: http://www.esa.act.gov.au/feeds/currentincidents.xml
```


**Earthquake Alerts**

```yaml
sensor:
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: USGS All Earthquakes
    url: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_day.atom
    categories:
      - 'Past Hour'
      - 'Past Day'
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: BGS Worlwide Earthquakes
    url: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/feeds/worldSeismology.xml
    categories:
      - 'EQMH'
  - platform: geo_rss_events
    name: Recent significant earthquake reports (Canada)
    url: http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php?tpl_region=canada&tpl_output=rss
    categories:
      - 'Earthquake Report'
```