✋ Unmaintained and replaced

Having to constantly adapt to changes in the scraped HTML structure got annoying when there are better options available now. Thus, as of November 2021 I've replaced this integration in my own setup with a bunch of RESTful sensors utilizing the excellent rki-covid-api by @marlon360 as available on api.corona-zahlen.org.

Take a look at Migration if you want to do the same switch.

Coronavirus Hessen

Home Assistant component to scrape the current SARS-CoV-2 data for the German state of Hessen from the website of the Hessisches Ministerium für Soziales und Integration.

For a look-and-feel as displayed in the screenshot above you'll need to install lovelace-multiple-entity-row (available on HACS), create a bunch of sensors and then use a configuration similar to this for each sensor:

- type: custom:multiple-entity-row
  entity: sensor.coronavirus_hessen
  entities:
    - attribute: cases
      name: Cases
    - attribute: deaths
      name: Deaths
    - attribute: incidence
      name: Incidence
  show_state: false
  icon: 'mdi:biohazard'
  name: Hessen
  secondary_info: last-changed

Setup

There are two ways to set this up:

1. Using HACS

Open your HACS Settings and add

https://github.com/foosel/homeassistant-coronavirus-hessen

as custom repository URL.

Then install the "Coronavirus Hessen" integration.

If you use this method, your component will always update to the latest version.

2. Manual

Copy the folder custom_components/coronavirus_hessen to <ha_config_dir>/custom_components/. When you are done you should have <ha_config_dir>/custom_components/coronavirus_hessen/__init__.py, <ha_config_dir>/custom_components/coronavirus_hessen/sensor.py and so on.

If you use this method then you'll need to keep an eye on this repository to check for updates.

Configuration

In Home Assistant:

1. Enter configuration menu
2. Select "Integrations"
3. Click the "+" in the bottom right
4. Choose "Coronavirus Hessen"
5. Choose the county you wish to monitor (or "Gesamthessen" for all of Hessen)
6. Save

Services

The integration offers one servce, coronavirus_hessen.refresh, which you may use to manually refresh the data from the web. It takes no arguments.

TODO

• Find out why the created sensors don't show up in the integration overview
• Find out if there's a possibility to select more than one county during configuration to have all created sensors under one integration entry
• Make this thing work with HACS for easier installation/updating

This is my first integration for Home Assistant ever and I basically learned how to even begin to do this stuff while writing this. I'm happy for any pointers as to how to improve things.