HA notifications

[Cyruz143]

Before using this I just had local calendar entries for my bins, automated notifications for them were quite simple, check the calendar event minus some hours so that I get the notification the day before.

I've been struggling a bit to find a way to mimic this behaviour using UKBCD as it doesn't add any calendar entries. I tried various bits like:

trigger: state
entity_id:
  - sensor.refuse_bin
for:
  hours: 12
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 0
attribute: days
to: "1"

This didn't seem to fire, not sure why...

I tried going directly to the newer sensor:

trigger: state
entity_id:
  - sensor.refuse_bin_days_until_collection
to: "1"
for:
  hours: 12
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 0

Didn't seem to fire either. Has anyone got a good working method to trigger notifications in HA?

[mrw298]

I set-up some template binary sensors to make it easier e.g. binary_sensor.brown_bin_collection_tomorrow:

{{ state_attr("sensor.brown_bin", "days") == 1 }}

I then have a reminder automation that fires at 8pm every night and checks what to remind me about!

[Cyruz143]

Ah right, that makes sense, although I guess I can go right to the new sensor rather than the old attributes like:

{{ is_state("sensor.refuse_bin_days_until_collection", "1") }}

[mrw298]

that would work as well, my templates pre-date that change!

[robbrad]

@Cyruz143 I just added a calendar to the source code 😉

[Cyruz143]

Awesome, appreciate it and already re-setup my automations