If you like in depth weather updates as much as I do, then EchoSistant can serve you up the right amount of details when you need it.
No longer need to listen to the current weather conditions when you ask Alexa what temperature is outside. – Just ask Hone what temperature is outside.
No longer need to listen how the weather is today, if you only want to know what the weather would be tomorrow. – Just ask Home how’s the weather tomorrow.
No longer need to listen to lengthy weather forecast if you only want to know what chances of rain are today or tomorrow or even in the next hour. And yes, EchoSistant can provide hourly weather updates via Alexa when prompted or via a remote speaker when scheduled via Notifications Add-on
If you want to get specific weather information from Alexa, all you need is to install Echosistant and ask Alexa. Alexa will privide feedback based on the location coordinates if your hub. If, for some reason your location is not the location you want the weather info to be provided, then head to the Main Home Control page, then select Defaults and scroll down. You could change the weather to metric system or select a zip code of your choice.
If you like real time weather updates. Then the Notification Add-on is for you.
There are two options:
Weather Alerts, which deliver a short name description and the expiration time of selected alerts issued by the National Weather Service.
After installing the add on, head to ‘Configure Profiles’, then select ‘View and Create Notification Profiles’. From there, pick one or more alerts that matter most to you and click done to activate.
The next weather notification alert type, is the hourly forects changes. This allows you to get alerts (audio or text) of hourly forecast changes for one or all of the following four elements:
Once an option is selected, an hourly notification will be delivered ONLY when the forecast is updated.
Alexa is also able to deliver both weather notification when prompted. Just ask:
Alexa ask Home if there are any weather alerts in my area?
OR
Alexa ask Home if there are any forecast/weather changes OR changes in forecast or however it feels natural for you to ask. EchoSistant should be able to handle it.
Here are more details about the EchoSistant Weather 2.0 release.