Forecast for hours of sunshine

[johndoe0815]

weather.get_forecasts seems to not include any information on amount of sunshine/sun duration, although https://github.com/FL550/dwd_weather?tab=readme-ov-file#additional-sensor-entities indicates that it should

There is a deactivated sunshine duration sensor which I activated, but that seems to only contain the forecast for the current hour (or next 60 minutes?!). This sensor has attributes of forecasted sunshine duration in seconds per hour, so I guess somehow one could build a sum over those values, but the attribute values for the past also disappear within the day.
I have done data extraction only with the get_forecasts service, so would be helpful to have that value part of the general weather entity.

In the end my aim is to have one number for hours of sunshine for a day.

[FL550]

This is a good idea. For this I'll have to implement some kind of caching. Good news is, that I already have this on my todo list, as I need this for another feature idea.

However I don't know when I find time for this, so until then I have to ask for your patience.

[johndoe0815]

Any reason this was closed? The sensor for duration of sun only indicates the sunshine in the next hour (max 3600 sec).
I was looking for one value that shows the amount of sunshine for the complete day.

[FL550]

My bad, I thought this was fixed as I looked through old issues. Thanks for replying. I'll implement this soon then

[packone]

Maybe there is no caching necessary.
The api https://app-prod-ws.warnwetter.de/v30/stationOverviewExtended?stationIds= already sends a sum for the duration of sun.
Inside the json "days" array (10 entries) each day has one "sunshine" value.
Dividing the value by 10 to get the sunshine minutes for each day. source: dwd-api

I checked the package used inside this integration "simple-dwd-weatherforecast".
Inside the readme below "Advanced Usage" they mention:

If you want to access the forecast data for the next 10 days directly for further processing, you can do so. All data is stored in dictonary and can be accessed like this ...

Is it possible that this already contains this data?

[FL550]

@packone Thanks for tuning in. I pull the data from the DWD OpenData Server directly via the simple-dwd-weatherforecast package and for the moment I don't want to rely on another package which itself relies on an undocumented way to use the Warnwetter App API