Move from custom garbage collection to local calendars!
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- A couple of months ago, Home Assistant added local calendars integration. And I thought that this great feature would replace the custom garbage collection integration I made a couple of years ago. So in my config, I stopped using my custom integration and I migrated that completely to the local calendars. Here is how it is done.
In my set-up, this was 100% feature fit, but many of you have very specific needs for dealing with exceptions. With the local calendars, you can do that manually. Or you can "influence" the core team to add the functionality to the standard calendars. About a year ago I removed all the custom logic from the integration and moved that to the automations with blueprints. So it should be as simple as adding the service calls to remove or move an event, and the blueprints can easily be modified.
00:00 - intro
02:17 - single calendar
06:20 - multiple calendars
08:08 - days template
14:07 - dashboard configuration
16:01 - outro - Наука та технологія
Thank you for this tutorial. I was using your original work and this is a very good walkthrough on how to utilize the local calendars feature.
For those looking for a copy paste of the commands
template:
- sensor:
- name: Bins - Black (General Waste)
state: >-
{{ min(((state_attr('calendar.bins_black_general_waste', 'start_time') | as_timestamp - today_at('00:00') | as_timestamp) / 86400) | int,2) }}
attributes:
days: >-
{{ ((state_attr('calendar.bins_black_general_waste', 'start_time') | as_timestamp - today_at('00:00') | as_timestamp) / 86400) | int }}
Thanks Vaclav for the original integration and this video. I stumbled across it looking for how to move from the integration to local calendars correctly.
Vaclav, many thaks for your video. Your integration was the first I added when I started with home assistant years ago. I learned a lot of it. Always has been working well.
Hi Vaclav, I have enjoyed your original card for quite a while. When it stopped working, I was very disappointed, but a friend sent me a link to your video on how to use local calendars. THANK YOU SO MUCH for such a detailed video. I managed to get it working over a morning. Thumbs up and subscribed. Keep the creativity and videos flowing!
First of all, thanks for the Garbage collection, which I have been really happy with, and for this great video, which was easy to follow and I learned something new about yaml and sensor
Hi Vaclav, thank you very much for really good explanation. Beside that this was exactly what I was looking for, I also learn other useful stuff. Have a nice day !
exactly what i needed and it worked 100% - easy to follow - appreciate your efforts thanks !
Excellent step by step tutorial. Thanks for the effort !- Liked and Subscribed.
Thank you video, I did use your garbage card and now have reverted it using local calender. For my pictures I use the custom button card (as I had them in my orginal configuration), using 'style' to change the picture based on the first element of ttemplate sensor, which has worked brilliantly. Thank you again.
Great tip!
Very impressive, thanks for the excellent tutorial!
To je nádhera. Parádní práce díky moc. Přesně to co jsem hledal.
thank you for your great job, I've used for 2 years it and very happy about that!
Very good tutorial, thank you.
Thanks, I have been using your old setup for garbage collection for the last year, and just happen to notice it was no longer going to be maintained, appreciate your work, and I’ve now migrated to local calendars with your helpful video here 👍🏻
@Vaclav, thank you for this video. I had previously installed the Garbage Collection integration but have now followed your instructions to swap to the Local Calendar version. I had never seen your videos before this so didn't realise the original was your work. So easy to follow and I finally have the images linked. Just waiting for the days to count down so I can see the images change. My only problem is that the images don't appear correctly on my desktop but do on my iPhone and iPad. This issue I cannot work out although I have restarted Home Assistant and also the Desktop browser. Thanks again for sharing your work.
Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes refreshing the browser cache helps.
I run my Home Assistant as an "app" from MS Edge. Ended up deleting it and recreating it whilst deleting all the data for it and it came back correclty. So very happy now.. Thanks.
Thank you. I hate losing my bin collection integration.
Awesome!! Was using the integration which was one of our fav HA features. Thanks for the clear explanation of the template too, I actually learned something ❤
Thanks for the video.
Hi Vaclav great video thanks
found images :) just need code has i'm not a code expert. thanks
thanks to Surfingspider69 for code
template:
- sensor:
- name: Bins - Black (General Waste)
state: >-
{{ min(((state_attr('calendar.bins_black_general_waste', 'start_time') | as_timestamp - today_at('00:00') | as_timestamp) / 86400) | int,2) }}
attributes:
days: >-
{{ ((state_attr('calendar.bins_black_general_waste', 'start_time') | as_timestamp - today_at('00:00') | as_timestamp) / 86400) | int }}
! tip make it easy for people to get code and images maybe in a zip file or a link?
Just got this working. Thanks for the tutorial. Did you make the images for the trash bins or are they available online?
I have enjoyed using your custom garbage collection integration for some time, with the custom garbage collection card from HACs... I love that you are moving to the integrated calendar... I added the template sensors as you show in the video, but I am having trouble getting them to work with the customer garbage collection card... Any tips or pointers?
Thanks for the video. I understand you have setup different colour for the bin to notify how many days remaining until collection day. In the UK we have collections every week, but specific bins on alternative weeks. Week 1, Brown only, Week 2 Blue, Grey and Green. Please could you do a video as a continuation to this one, which covers adding picture card, and bins and its reference colours etc. Thanks in advance.
Same here. Green waster every week, alternate weeks for general garbage and recycling. And glass once a month on the second pickup week. Vaclav's integration dealt with all of that flawlessly and the the local calendar integration is going to require some reasonably complex automations to do that.
Thanks Vaclav. Nice! Are there any mechanism to differentiate between different entities in the same calendar? I mean, If I have two households with two different collection schedules, can I then have two entities, one for each household. Or do I need to have two calendars? I cannot get my head around how to do!
Fantastic thank you!
Is your template sensor copy/paste-able from anywhere?
Also more importantly, how would I do the "move on public holiday on the week" using this?
template:
- sensor:
- name: Bins - Black (General Waste)
state: >-
{{ min(((state_attr('calendar.bins_black_general_waste', 'start_time') | as_timestamp - today_at('00:00') | as_timestamp) / 86400) | int,2) }}
attributes:
days: >-
{{ ((state_attr('calendar.bins_black_general_waste', 'start_time') | as_timestamp - today_at('00:00') | as_timestamp) / 86400) | int }}
Hi Vaclav, thank you for the original garbage card, it was so helpful! Thanks very much for this video, I'm having problems installing the config-template card but I'm sure I will sort that. I wanted to ask if there was anyway you could share the bin images you have. I've been looking for suitable images but the only pngs I can find are all a side view. Yours are perfect. Thanks, Andrew.
Hi, first thanks for your integration and the maintenance of that. I'm using it since one year now, works fine. Also thanks for the video. But I found one (big) difference between your integration and the method over the local calendar: In your integration I can select to respect public holidays. That works really nice and the local calendar doesn't offer that. Thats a backstep for me.
I had a few discussions with the Home Assistant team, but their main goal is to keep it simple, and this is too complicated. So as it is now, we should only allow users to change the schedule using user interface - look in the holidays, then open the local calendar and make the 5-10 edits manually. Probably less work than the whole set-up.
@@bruxy70 respect public holidays please. With such a breaking change, your garbage plugin seems useless to me as i can already set a reminder every weeks in local calendar to do so. it should be pushed by one day if holidays with your plugin.
Thanks for this. The calendar did not have TZ information in the datestamp, but "time_at()" did. This made it simpler anyway using a timedelta:
{{ (state_attr("calendar.garbage", "start_time") | as_datetime | as_local - today_at('00:00')).days }}
Great video and thanks for posting it. Quick question. I never used the calendar feature except for the Garbage Collection integration. How do I get rid of it before adding the new, local calendar? Thanks
Some people say that creating a local calendar with the same name and then deleting it fixes that. Not sure why this happens.
A question, I added the blueprint via your GitHub for the weekly calendar offset script. It’s coming up with “This blueprint doesn't have any inputs.” I’m fairly new at blueprints, so I’m a bit stuck getting this working.
I used a single calendar for all my waste. The setup worked very well with your video. Now there is only one problem. On the day of the emptying, the variable remains 0. If there is another emptying on the following day, I am not not notified. Is there a good workaround? Maybe to reset the variable at 10:00?
Hi thanks for the video!
Everything is working, but stupid question, where i can find image of trash cans like yours?
Thanks for this video and your efforts with the custom integration in the past.
Any suggestions on how to replicate the mark as completed functionality? I currently use the separately developed garbage collection card so I can just tap on it to dismiss until next time.
I'm guessing a combination of toggle helpers, filter cards, automations, etc. might be needed to get the same functionality back.
Looks to me as a simple input boolean helper, that is set on when the calendar is on, and off either by a button or the calendar. Not sure, I do not use it - i look outside the window ;)
@@bruxy70 fair enough, thanks for replying. I have to remember to put different bins out on different weeks (they go out the night before as they're collected around 7am in my road) and also use it to know when to put out and take in the container I get my milk delivered in. So I use the "collected" feature more as a "put out confirmation".
I currently have some persistent app notifications that don't go away until I've checked off in the dashboard that the bags or whatever have been put out/taken in.
Looks like I've got a bit of work to do in order to replicate all the functionality from before. I'll add it to my (long) personal HA improvements to do list!
Almost perfect! I just wish the card would display the bins in the order they'll be collected. That would require a custom card or at least custom CSS
You can show the next one with single calendar. But I actually prefer the controls to be there n the same spot. I know general is the first, and if it turns amber, i know that general waste is due tomorrow. And I do not have to read which one it is... But you can do it the way you like it. Templates are a strong thing :)
Hi,
Thank you for this video. I used Garbage Collection which allowed me to take public holidays into account. How to do the same thing with the calendar?
Appreciate the walkthrough!
I have a horizontal stack with 3 picture entity for 3 bins, what's the best way to resize these as they are overtaking the dashboard.
I usually use grid card, put them in columns, they become smaller .
@@bruxy70
The "grid card" worked a treat, thanks for the suggestion.
Hello Vaclav, I am trying to implement this into my Home Assistant. I have everything correct, and the template-card installed. But when I make the card, it shows a blank card with no name, picture, or errors. Have any thoughts?
Like a lot of people, I also used your old plugin. A question, I have wstch and through and created one calendar and the templete for my schedule recycle, but am I right that if I have other collections like general, garden and glass then I will need to create a calendar and template for each one. ?
ok i have created my calendars and code for each collection, and I can see the right results in Dev, I have also installed the custom:config-template-card but for me I am getting Custom element doesn't exist: 'config-template-card'. any ideals ? also I don't want to use the picture card or have a image, just plane text. so is there a way to do this ?
Hi Vaclav, Thank you for this solution. It works great (day counting), but I also would like to have an event name (from calendar). Should I add something to template ?
No need for a template. Check the message attribute in the calendar entity.
Thank you for this. Is there a way to left align the state text? It centers - which clashes with the picture entity and isn't readable. thanks again!
If you are ok using card-mod custom frontend component. Otherwise not. In general, if the title does not fit, I'd think about making it shorter, or making the cards bigger.
@@bruxy70 - thank you for the reply. Actually - it's not about it being too long, it's when it is too short - it sits int he middle and the image I am using 'hides' it....... I'll see if i can find a way to send you a screenshot. Thanks again.
Excellent video Vaclav - I was doing a search on garbage collection days and found your video - I managed to successfully following your process and worked. However, Im stuck on the custom:config-template-card Ive added this via HACs, however I cant find the card when trying to add it and I get an error: Custom element not found: config-template-card
I am sorry, when you write >- Is that some kind of a shortcut in Studio Code Server or can I just write >- and it will be fine.
I am new to this and can't figure out what >- is...
did you figure it out? i have the same doubt too
Zdravím Václave, děkuji za upřesnění kalendáře - výměny z Garbage Collection. Neměl byste v textové podobě template, abych to nemusel přepisovat ručně? :) Děkuji
There is a bug, where by if you have a event in one calendar, but then edit the event and select another. I get an error "Error while updating event: {err}" it lets you get as far as asking to update for just this single event or all others, but then fails.
I create Garbage event and then decided to also create a separate Calendar fro them. And tried to move the events (3, General, Recycle, and Green/Garden) over to the new cal. Delete and recreate was the solution.
What would the proper way be to have this display "4 days, on May-08-2023"? I like having the verbose option right now I'm stuck with just the number 4 (for 4 days) and no additional context. I'm almost done replicating how I used garbage collection!
If someone can help me, i have a question?
How i can add a date of the day that i need to take out the garbage bin in the card "config-template-card"?
Thanks to Vaclav for is videos, always very useful!
8:26 I didn't know that you can copy from that icon. I usually mouse select and copy it. Also, will you be still maintaining your custom integration?
No. I think it is conceptually wrong. It makes much more sense to focus the effort to building similar functionality around the local calendars.
Curious if you've solved for holidays using the local calendar? The holidays integration was one of the best parts of your plugin! I can think of a few ways to do it, but just wondered how you've gone about it.
I did not really think about that. Where I live, they collect the garbage based on the schedule regardless on the holidays. They do different villages in different days, so if they would move my Arey, they would have to skip somewhere else. So it would not really help. But I suppose you can always modify your calendar. Or somebody can write something to do that automatically. But there were endless variations, different rules, so it is quite hard to catch all the exceptions automatically.
@@bruxy70 here in the UK, it's pretty common for a holiday to shift the collection day by 1 day for each holiday (so in the rare case of consecutive holidays, it's often shifted by 2 days). Should be easy enough to automate anyway, but your integration worked so well for this use case. I agree it's best to use the built in functionality and build something around that, though. Thanks for your efforts on the integration up to now.
Same issue here in Canada which was a big motivation for me using Vaclav's HACS integration. Once it was set up, I could just forget about it. I'm not sure that I feel like dealing with an automation to 'hack' the calendar itself or an automation to check public holidays right now. So, I will stick with the current integration for now - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!.
Same with the US. I need to find a way to handle holidays before moving off his integration.
And same here in Belgium... 😉
But many thanks for your custom intégration! It was very usefull before the new calendar... 👍
When you do state: >- mine doesn't look fancy like yours. How do you set it to template? state: template ? Thank you!
Does not matter how it looks. I edit it in the VS Code add on. If you use a different editor, it might have a different formatting. But it has will not have any influence on how it works.
@@bruxy70 Thank you for the reply, I had stayed up way too late lastnight to be messing with anything. Also to note, I don't think I deleted your custom integration properly and couldn't remove the old garbage collection entry in the calander. I eventually cleard the cache and reloaded the browswer and boom. Thank you for your video and response. I used your custom integration for ages and it was used everyweek by the family! I have now migrated to local calendars!
For the last step "dashboard configuration" how to we aquire the icons. I swore I saw them lastnight after getting it to work but don't see them this morning, unless I am missing something. Maybe I removed them when I deleted your integration?
@@KrogerKing I made them, and I put them on GitHub i think
@@bruxy70 they seem like older ones, any chance of newer ones?
Thanks for your video, but Why Do you use multiply calendars and one event for each calendars instead of single calendar and multiple events ?
Yu can use one, I think I said that. Then it will tell you the number of days to the upcoming collection, of all types combined. I use multiple calendars to show the number of days for each waste category. So when I want to know how many days till bio waste, it is there.
@@bruxy70 using the "service: calendar.get_events" and then handle the resulting variable 🤔 ?
This is great, thank you both for maintaining the old garbage collection intergration, and for taking the time to do this video.
when I add the template to config.yaml, I get error "Incorrect Type. Expected array." Can anyone point me at what I've done wrong?
same here
Hi, thanks for the video. I use your custom component for this. Your custom component is still much much easier to implement. No jinja/templates involved . Are you still going to maintain it? Thanks
I am afraid not. But it is still available.
@@bruxy70 I didn't know you mad that integration. I use it for everything from bins to water filter changes to pet medicine timers. Thank you. I don't think the default replacement is quite as good but I'm sure I'll cope :D
@bruxy70 thanks for that information. I haven't tried it yet but will I be able to make a schedule for a bin that has two different schedules, for example, during the winter it's every two weeks but during the summer it's every week. In your custom integration I would make two sensors but then make a third one that combines the first two sensors is this something I can do in the Calendar method? Thanks
@@antoniodecrisci2369 yes you can add different recurring events to one calendar. Each with a start and end date of the recurrence.
@@bruxy70 thanks! Ok, did this example where I have a bio bin, which from April 1 to Aug 31, it gets picked up every week, but from Sept 1 to Mar 31 its every 2 weeks. These two events are correctly placed in the same calendar BUT, the problem is that it ends on Mar 31, 2024. I.e. its not recurring forever, so I have to repeat this every year, or did I miss something?
Hey, I don't think today_at() can be used here, because it's not triggering template sensor updates. Sensor value is not changed every day as it should, now() must be used.
Thanks for catching that. You can always add trigger to the template sensors.
Great video as always. One thing to mention is that there is "waste collection schedule" HACS plug-in that pulls the info from your local collection office and populates all appropriate calendar entries. It is useful in case if collection is moved from statutory holidays so this type of update is automatically populated and collection dates adjusted. It has a lot of features in terms of templating and formatting. Any entity card could be used including "garbage collection card" or "button card" or any other. Hope it helps others. Another note - I cannot remove a calendar.garbage_collection and HA brings an error. Entry does not exist in the calendar but somewhere, it is trying to pull the info. I created same entry and removed it (as suggested) but with no luck
you could use as_datetime instead of as_timestamp
hi Vaclav is there anyway can rename states e.g. 0 1 2 to garbage empty, garbage full, garbage put out !
Sure, just tweak the template any way you want.
@@bruxy70 thanks can you give examples I’m no good with code
Shame you are removing it from HACS it is 100% easier to understand and implement than the local calendar which really does feel like a HAC :)
No idea why the HA Team have not implemented a full blown component to cover this as everybody has Bin collections but you could use it for mass uses.
Do you have a link on how to fully remove you integration as there is no docs covering removal!!!
If there are many people who need that, removing my custom integration might actually help the core tem to realize the need. Right now, the core development was going completely opposite direction. And actually agree that this is better, i would not be able to pull it out.
I think it is generally a good idea to remove the entities before removing the integration. If not, I suppose you could remove themnfrom the list of entities.
@@bruxy70 hi got everything running config wise but could you do a video showing a more in-depth how you get the dashboard working with images and colour swapping etc please ?
@@daleholden It is shown from 14:07
Another quick question. Where is the custom card "config-template-card"? It doesn't show up when I try to add it within a grid card. The error message I'm seeing is "No card type found". I thought I successfully downloaded the card and it is residing in config/www/community/config-template-card. Thanks.
You can get in in HACS
Thanks for the response. I managed to get this working and was thinking your
tutorial could be used to time or track other events.
@@michaelcoulton7039 Mind share the card code? i get no image source configured.