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The dwd_weather_warnings sensor platform uses the Deutsche Wetter Dienst (DWD) as a source for current and advance warnings.

• A name is optional but if multiple regions are used a name will be required.
• The sensor checks for new data every 15 minutes.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To add the DWD WarnApp sensor to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: dwd_weather_warnings
    region_name: Hansestadt Hamburg

As it suggests the region name is not the city or nearest city you want to get the warnings for but the next higher level of the governmental district called "Kreis" in German.

Be aware, to get the region name you need to use the following link by replacing Hamburg with your city:

• Find your region here: https://www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/warnungen_landkreise/warnWetter_node.html?ort=Hamburg
• On the page that is loaded in your browser you will find the correct region ("Kreis") below the map as a headding.
• Verify if you find any warning for your region here. Your region ("Kreis") will appear only if warnings exist: https://www.dwd.de/DWD/warnungen/warnapp_landkreise/json/warnings.json?jsonp=loadWarnings

{% configuration %} region_name: required: false description: The region name string as identified from the DWD website. default: Hansestadt Hamburg type: string name: required: false description: The name you would like to give to the warnapp sensor. type: string default: DWD-Weather-Warnings {% endconfiguration %}

{% linkable_title Attributes %}

Attribute	Description
last_updated	Information last update from DWD service.
region_name	Requested region name. This should be the same as the region name in the configuration.
region_state	State (Bundesland) in abriviated form the requested region is located, e.g., "HE" for "Hessen".
region_id	Region ID assigned by DWD.
warning_count	(int) Number of issued warnings. There can be more than one warning issued at once.
warning_<x>_level	(int) Issued warning level between 0 and 4. 0: Keine Warnungen 1: Wetterwarnungen 2: Warnungen vor markantem Wetter 3: Unwetterwarnungen 4: Warnungen vor extremem Unwetter
warning_<x>_type	(int) Issued warning type. 0: Gewitter 1: Windböen, Sturmböen 2: ? 3: Schneefall 4: Nebel 5: Frost 6: Glätte, Glatteis Please be aware that the type numbers represent more like a category than an exact number-to-string match. For example Type 6 can mean GLÄTTE or GLATTEIS or similar.
warning_<x>_name	This name correlates with the warning type and indicates it in short as a string.
warning_<x>_headline	Official headline the weather warning.
warning_<x>_start	Starting time and date of the issued warning.
warning_<x>_end	Ending time and date of the issued warning.
warning_<x>_description	Details for the issued warning.
warning_<x>_instruction	The DWD is sometimes providing helpful information about precautions to take for the issued warning.

In the attribute name `x` is the counter of the warning starting from `1`.