Thanks for this, I'm going to give it a try. Since I already have a second Gmail account set up just for smart home stuff (nothing of worth to "steal" from there), I'm instead going to forward the emails from my main account to there so that I'm not exposing my primary email account credentials at all.
@@CookieCreative-ir2ii I ended up installing an IMAP sensor instead. Basically, set up a new folder in your email client, forward emails from shopping/shipping/delivery companies etc to this folder, then point the IMAP to monitor that folder. The sensor updates every time you get new mail. I then use Node Red to filter the emails and set up notifications. I found it much better doing it all myself rather than relying on an integration that might not necessarily have everything you need.
Thank you for the video! I am using this and am confused about your dashboard reporting. You say the numbers mean Shipped > Out for Delivery > Delivered. However, in the documentation for the Mail & Packages integration, it specifically says that it ONLY reports packages that are either going to be delivered that day OR have been delivered that day. Those are the last 2 states of your 3-state count. So what, then, is the first state "shipped" counting? I would think this would mean shipped by the carrier and arriving in a few days, but according to the integration, that is not reported. Thanks!!
Thanks to you, I have Telegram notifications to let me know when packages are delivered. Any tips on how to include an embedded or attached image with those Telegram notifications for carriers that provide a snapshot? It's good to know whether or not the packages are placed out of the line of sight of porch pirates!
Great guide. Been playing with this integration for a few days and came across your video. Do you know if there’s a way to show on the dashboard all packages combined.. eg “Deliveries today - 6” but this number is pulling from UPS, Amazon etc in one? And then same with “Delivered today”. Trying not to have a card for all 5-6 options for UK :) Also, would it be possible to add a second email address, and also combine these numbers?
I would just have your wife's email forward to your main mailbox. You can set up a rule in Gmail to move it to a folder so it doesn't get in your way. You don't have the option of a 2nd mailbox.
Just followed your tutorial, excellent! I having 1 problem, I've had the mushroom HACS fronted add on installed for a long time but am getting this message: custom element doesn't exist: mushroom-template-card. I have cleared my cache and restarted HA. Any thoughts?
Hi! Thanks for the tutorial, I have the newest release and they changed things around so I did my best to be resourceful and make it work, but I'm having this issue now "Entity not available: camera.mail_amazon_delivery_camera". Any idea on how to resolve this? Thanks in advance.
Can you explain the "Amazon forwarded email addresses" field to me like Im a toddler? I read the wiki, watched your video and I still dont get the purpose of it.
For USPS and UPS, I get emails for all packages that come to my house, but for Fedex, I only get mine. Is there a way for Fedex that you know of to provide me with all packages?
I know what you mean when you say you have a "folder" it checks and YES you did pop that up on the screen that Folder= Label but that may confuse people- You can make a filter in Gmail to automatically add a "label" to the email and that is actually what it checks- There is no way to make a rule to automatically skip the inbox and deposit a email into a folder, it will still be in your INBOX but..it will show under the LABEL you make...Which yeah looks like a FOLDER but it ain't because , well Google.
Yes, that is correct, it looks for anything with that label. It can be in your inbox or archive, the location doesn't matter it just needs to have the label applied. . I guess labels are more like Outlook's categories (one to many) vs folders (one to one). But I figured that is how most people use labels, as a substitute for folders. You can have it skip the inbox (that is what all of my rules do). Which technically moves them to archive, but applies the label first.
@@ThisSmartHouse Yeah exactly. did not want to sound like I was busting on you- Just the 1st time I watched something that was telling me to make a rule etc. it took me a day to figure out WTH they were talking about- did not want anyone else to go through that!!
I know this walk through is older but I used it to get it up and running. However, I can't get the Mushroom part of it working. I paste in the code from the blog and I get the following: Configuration Errors Detected: No Type Provided. Any ideas how to resolve that?
@@ThisSmartHousethis was my first ever HA anything. I couldn't get your code to work in it's whole so I was able to figure out how to get a generic card pit in. Then I just started putting in bits of your code and was able to get it working!
There is a setting I'm Amazon where they forward delivery information. I think you can specify account if you wanted to. But if your package notifications come to your main inbox you can use that one if you want.
I followed the guide, installed both Mushroom and Mushroom Themes from HACS, restarted. Then pasted in the code on your website as a manual code , I also tried breaking it down from sections, but I get the error " No card type configured". This happens on different browsers and also on my phone. Whats wrong? Thanks!
@@ThisSmartHouse Thank You for getting back to me, I got the visual display working with your code. However, I received an Amazon package today and when it was delivered, there was no update on the tile. It still says zero.
After reading the comments it sounds like you can forward emails. I made a new email account and its sole purpose is to receive package emails from my main account. however theyre not showing up. is it because the sender is from my account and not amazon or DHL?
Great video, as always, Ryan. Question for you however, regarding Amazon. Unless I'm reading things wrong, they (Amazon) don't seem to email Amazon order information anymore; they send it via text. Rather than making things unnecessarily complicated and hacky, I was hoping to get those notifications in email as well. However, for the life of me, I can't seem to figure out how/when/where to enable that in Amazon. Am I missing something?
I do t think so, but at least for me they hand off to the USPS for the last mile. But if course that depends on you home country. You can always as the dev on GitHub!
@@ThisSmartHouse I live in Israel, of course, UPS and other services available to me in the country. Me and many more in the world buy through Aliexpress and I thought there was such a possibility. Thanks, I really like your UA-cam channel. And my robot S7 works perfect for you.
Thanks for this, I'm going to give it a try. Since I already have a second Gmail account set up just for smart home stuff (nothing of worth to "steal" from there), I'm instead going to forward the emails from my main account to there so that I'm not exposing my primary email account credentials at all.
Very smart. Always good to keep your main email account secured. I would do that but I am lazy. 😂
How did this go for you? Were their any problems? I am thinking of doing the same.
@@CookieCreative-ir2ii I ended up installing an IMAP sensor instead. Basically, set up a new folder in your email client, forward emails from shopping/shipping/delivery companies etc to this folder, then point the IMAP to monitor that folder. The sensor updates every time you get new mail. I then use Node Red to filter the emails and set up notifications. I found it much better doing it all myself rather than relying on an integration that might not necessarily have everything you need.
Thank you for the video! I am using this and am confused about your dashboard reporting. You say the numbers mean Shipped > Out for Delivery > Delivered. However, in the documentation for the Mail & Packages integration, it specifically says that it ONLY reports packages that are either going to be delivered that day OR have been delivered that day. Those are the last 2 states of your 3-state count. So what, then, is the first state "shipped" counting? I would think this would mean shipped by the carrier and arriving in a few days, but according to the integration, that is not reported. Thanks!!
Thanks to you, I have Telegram notifications to let me know when packages are delivered. Any tips on how to include an embedded or attached image with those Telegram notifications for carriers that provide a snapshot? It's good to know whether or not the packages are placed out of the line of sight of porch pirates!
Great guide. Been playing with this integration for a few days and came across your video.
Do you know if there’s a way to show on the dashboard all packages combined.. eg “Deliveries today - 6” but this number is pulling from UPS, Amazon etc in one? And then same with “Delivered today”.
Trying not to have a card for all 5-6 options for UK :)
Also, would it be possible to add a second email address, and also combine these numbers?
Very nicely done. You explained it well. I have it set up. Now have to wait for a delivery. New subscriber.
Awesome!! Glad the video helped! I think it is one of those really nice features I use almost everyday!
Great video. You mentioned you and your wife get packages... how do you add an 2nd email (for your wife's packages for example) ?
I would just have your wife's email forward to your main mailbox. You can set up a rule in Gmail to move it to a folder so it doesn't get in your way. You don't have the option of a 2nd mailbox.
Just followed your tutorial, excellent! I having 1 problem, I've had the mushroom HACS fronted add on installed for a long time but am getting this message: custom element doesn't exist: mushroom-template-card. I have cleared my cache and restarted HA. Any thoughts?
Does it happen on multiple browsers? Worst case scenario you might just have to remove and re-add it. But it's strange for it to just disappear.
Woah!!!
Thanks for the tag!!!
Hope you don't mind! You are the first person I think of when I talk about an international audience. Hope you are doing well!
@@ThisSmartHouse Loved it!!
hello im cant change e-mail folder because "value should be a string" any suggestion?
Hi! Thanks for the tutorial, I have the newest release and they changed things around so I did my best to be resourceful and make it work, but I'm having this issue now "Entity not available: camera.mail_amazon_delivery_camera". Any idea on how to resolve this? Thanks in advance.
Just heard HA podcast, loved what you had to say! :) Sub'd
Thank you! I hope I get to go back on again! Too much fun, I could have spent hours with those guys.
Can you explain the "Amazon forwarded email addresses" field to me like Im a toddler? I read the wiki, watched your video and I still dont get the purpose of it.
For USPS and UPS, I get emails for all packages that come to my house, but for Fedex, I only get mine. Is there a way for Fedex that you know of to provide me with all packages?
I know what you mean when you say you have a "folder" it checks and YES you did pop that up on the screen that Folder= Label but that may confuse people- You can make a filter in Gmail to automatically add a "label" to the email and that is actually what it checks- There is no way to make a rule to automatically skip the inbox and deposit a email into a folder, it will still be in your INBOX but..it will show under the LABEL you make...Which yeah looks like a FOLDER but it ain't because , well Google.
Yes, that is correct, it looks for anything with that label. It can be in your inbox or archive, the location doesn't matter it just needs to have the label applied. . I guess labels are more like Outlook's categories (one to many) vs folders (one to one). But I figured that is how most people use labels, as a substitute for folders.
You can have it skip the inbox (that is what all of my rules do). Which technically moves them to archive, but applies the label first.
@@ThisSmartHouse Yeah exactly. did not want to sound like I was busting on you- Just the 1st time I watched something that was telling me to make a rule etc. it took me a day to figure out WTH they were talking about- did not want anyone else to go through that!!
I appreciate the feedback. I didn’t want anyone confused. Why can’t Google just follow the normal conventions…
I know this walk through is older but I used it to get it up and running. However, I can't get the Mushroom part of it working. I paste in the code from the blog and I get the following: Configuration Errors Detected: No Type Provided. Any ideas how to resolve that?
Do your mushroom cards work for other entities? Did you change the entity IDs to match yours?
@@ThisSmartHousethis was my first ever HA anything. I couldn't get your code to work in it's whole so I was able to figure out how to get a generic card pit in. Then I just started putting in bits of your code and was able to get it working!
What does it mean by amazon forwarded email address? Amazon sends me email direct
There is a setting I'm Amazon where they forward delivery information. I think you can specify account if you wanted to. But if your package notifications come to your main inbox you can use that one if you want.
@@ThisSmartHouse IT does setup but when checking it says Retrying setup: none
integration stopped working a few days ago. I get "initializing" or "Retrying setup: None"
I followed the guide, installed both Mushroom and Mushroom Themes from HACS, restarted. Then pasted in the code on your website as a manual code , I also tried breaking it down from sections, but I get the error " No card type configured". This happens on different browsers and also on my phone. Whats wrong? Thanks!
Have you tried closing out if the browser and trying again?
@@ThisSmartHouse Thank You for getting back to me, I got the visual display working with your code.
However, I received an Amazon package today and when it was delivered, there was no update on the tile. It still says zero.
I have the same issue, looks like an issue with code, how did you correct it?
Awesome work, even though I can't use it 😔
I use 17track but that has additional requirements or adding the details to the app.
Thank you. I looked into 17track, but you have to add everything manually.
After reading the comments it sounds like you can forward emails. I made a new email account and its sole purpose is to receive package emails from my main account. however theyre not showing up. is it because the sender is from my account and not amazon or DHL?
Did you find a solution for this?
@@CookieCreative-ir2ii Also looking.
I've tried posting your code on the mushroom lovelace section with the custom card manual yaml and just get "No card type found"
Nevermind, I separated out the code from the Packages beginning section, Deliveries, and vertical stack entries of the carriers and got it working.
@@TheycalllmeTim How did you fix this?
Could you share the working code?
Great video, as always, Ryan.
Question for you however, regarding Amazon. Unless I'm reading things wrong, they (Amazon) don't seem to email Amazon order information anymore; they send it via text. Rather than making things unnecessarily complicated and hacky, I was hoping to get those notifications in email as well. However, for the life of me, I can't seem to figure out how/when/where to enable that in Amazon.
Am I missing something?
I get Amazon packages daily and it's never not emailed to my email address on file with Amazon.
at 4:47 you mention configuration, not finding it with HA 2022.9.7
Sorry it is settings then devices & services. They renamed it a few versions ago.
Is it possible for aliexpress delivery services?
I do t think so, but at least for me they hand off to the USPS for the last mile. But if course that depends on you home country. You can always as the dev on GitHub!
@@ThisSmartHouse I live in Israel, of course, UPS and other services available to me in the country. Me and many more in the world buy through Aliexpress and I thought there was such a possibility. Thanks, I really like your UA-cam channel. And my robot S7 works perfect for you.
Quick comment: the "MailHA" link leads to a 404 Error :(
Omg.... ireland isn't even on that map 😢