Lightning detector

I don’t see this any on this forum, but it would be great if someone can create a lightning detector app, like: if close, send push “Thunder in the area”. Based on these maps:

http://nl.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=16
or:
https://www.lightningmaps.org/

The Blitzortung.org site seems to forbid its data for use with something like Homey:
http://en.blitzortung.org/contact.php#contribution_7

Lightningmaps.org uses the same data.

Thanks for your reply. That’s to bad :(.

Update: https://www.buienradar.nl/nederland/neerslag/onweerradar-live maybe?

Im looking for the same thing.
I want to shut off the alarm if a lightning is close by.
If the power goes, then my alarm starts.
it quite annoying in the nights

I have a misol lightning detector in the garden.
Bought it on Aliexpress.
Connects to Homey using the misol gateway and the Homey misol app.

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This can be fun, attached to a smart implant input, like:
Shelly Wifi implant
or
Fibaro smart implant (z-wave plus)

Interesting.
Does it need to be outside?
It does not look like it isn’t waterproof, im living in Denmark and it is raining a lot :slight_smile:

How long time does the batteries work?

It is for outside. I have only had mine for 2 weeks so not sure how long the battery will last but I think it is at least one year.

@Adrian_Rockall
What about the gateway, how it it powered, USB?
What is the black wire for?

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The Home Assistant/HACS has a lightning alarm with a map. The warnings can be passed on to Homey via MQTT.

Yes, power is via USB. The black wire is a temperature and Humidity probe.

Great,
I have just placed a order :slight_smile:

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Hi Uwe, what component do you use? The Hacs component from Github user mrk-its?
Is the map a component, too? Or is it a webpage inside an IFrame?

The map is an inset website

I don’t know anything about programing but this site we use in norway/ Swedenm/Denmark/finland

https://lyn.met.no/

Hi Adrian,

Are those lightning strikes in realtime within the Homey? Or will they only be received every 80 seconds?

Every 79 seconds according to the specification ECOWITT Welcome to Ecowitt!