Home Assistant - Getting the position of ISS

Hi everyone,

Today I want to introduce how to get the position of the International Space Station and check it out on a map within Home Assistant.

Use case

You are a passionate of Home Assistant as well as of the Internation Space Station. Now you can easily get the up to date ISS position directly on your Home Assistant installation with a very little effort.

Software configuration

1. Home Assistant. I'm currently running version?2022.8.0
2. Internation Space Station integration configured in Home Assistant. This integration allows you to know if the station is above your home location (10° above the horizon of your home).
3. Within the configuration.yaml file set the coordinates (latitude/longitude) of your home location as well as the elevation in meters.

Home Assistant code (yaml)

This is the piece of code you have to write down after having added a Map card in your dashboard:

type: map
entities:
? - entity: binary_sensor.iss
title: Mappa
aspect_ratio: 5x4
default_zoom: 10        

And... this is the final result:

Just clicking on the ISS icon (I) you'll get some details about the International Space Station.

Some specifics about the code above

1. Having configured the ISS integration in your Home Assistant installation, the new entity binary_sensor.iss becomes available.
2. This is a sensor that provides some details about the ISS as well as the attribute state (ON / OFF) based on the position of the ISS compared to your home's position.

I do hope you have enjoyed this article. I'm available for any feedback so, feel free to contact me or share your thoughts in the comments section below!

Thank you for reading.

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