IRM KMI Weather Belgium

The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] integrates the weather data from IRM KMI (meteo.be) with Home Assistant.

Although the provider is Belgian, the data is available for Belgium 🇧🇪, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, and The Netherlands 🇳🇱.

The data provided by this integration is retrieved from their mobile application.

Configuration

To add the IRM KMI Weather Belgium service to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select IRM KMI Weather Belgium.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Location

The location for which you want to get weather data.

Options

Options for IRM KMI Weather Belgium can be set via the user interface, by taking the following steps:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.
  • If multiple instances of IRM KMI Weather Belgium are configured, choose the instance you want to configure.
  • Select the integration, then select Configure.
Language

Override the Home Assistant language for the textual weather forecast. Useful if your Home Assistant language is not supported by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.

Supported features

The integration provides a weather entity along with weather forecast services.

Limitations

  1. The weather provider sometimes uses two weather conditions for the same day (see below). When this is the case, only the first weather condition is taken into account in this integration.
    Example of two weather conditions

  2. The trends for 14 days are not shown.

  3. The provider only has data for Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.

Data updates

The integration pollsData polling is the process of querying a device or service at regular intervals to check for updates or retrieve data. By defining a custom polling interval, you can control how frequently your system checks for new data, which can help optimize performance and reduce unnecessary network traffic. [Learn more] weather data every 7 minutes by default.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.