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Installation

Automated Installation Using HACS

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The Waste Collection Schedule component can be installed via HACS. This allows you to be notified of any updates or new releases of the component.

After installing HACS:

  1. Visit the HACS Integrations panel in Home Assistant.
  2. Click Explore & Download Repositories.
  3. Search for Waste Collection Schedule.
  4. Click on the Waste Collection Schedule entry.
  5. Click on Download to copy the relevant files to your config/custom_components/ directory.
  6. Configure your waste collection source(s).
  7. Configure your waste collection sensor(s).
  8. Restart Home Assistant.

Manual Installation

  1. Navigate to the waste_collection_schedule directory.
  2. Copy the waste_collection_schedule folder (including all files and subdirectories) to your Home Assistant config/custom_components/ directory.
  3. Configure your waste collection source(s).
  4. Configure your waste collection sensor(s).
  5. Restart Home Assistant.

Configuring Waste Collection Schedules

To use Waste Collection Schedules, additional entries need to be made in your configuration.yaml file. The required entries are:

  1. Configuring source(s)

    For each service provider, a source has to be added to the configuration. The source takes care of the arguments required to get the correct information from the service provider's web page, e.g. district, city, street, house number, etc.

    If you have to fetch data from multiple service providers, you have to add multiple sources. You can also add the same service provider multiple times. This only makes sense if you use it with different arguments, e.g. you are looking to display waste collection schedules for multiple districts served by the same provider.

  2. Configuring sensor(s)

    Sensors are used to visualize the retrieved information, e.g. waste type, next collection date, or number of days to next collection. The sensor state (which can be shown in a Lovelace/Mushroom cards) can be customized using templates. For example, you can display the collection type only, or the next collection date, or a combination of all available information.

    You can also add multiple sensors per source if you are going to display the information in separate entities. For example, if you want each waste type to have its own entity, you can add one sensor per collection type.

Configuring Source(s)

waste_collection_schedule:
  sources:
    - name: SOURCE
      args:
        arg1: ARG1
        arg2: ARG2
        arg3: ARG3
      customize:
        - type: TYPE
          alias: ALIAS
          show: SHOW
          icon: ICON
          picture: PICTURE
          use_dedicated_calendar: USE_DEDICATED_CALENDAR
          dedicated_calendar_title: DEDICATED_CALENDAR_TITLE
      calendar_title: CALENDAR_TITLE
  fetch_time: FETCH_TIME
  random_fetch_time_offset: RANDOM_FETCH_TIME_OFFSET
  day_switch_time: DAY_SWITCH_TIME
  separator: SEPARATOR
Parameter Type Requirement Description
sources list required Contains information for the service provider being used. For details see Attributes for sources
fetch_time time optional representation of the time of day in "HH:MM" that Home Assistant polls service provider for latest collection schedule. If no time is provided, the default of "01:00" is used
random_fetch_time_offset int optional randomly offsets the fetch_time by up to int minutes. Can be used to distribute Home Assistant fetch commands over a longer time frame to avoid peak loads at service providers
day_switch_time time optional time of the day in "HH:MM" that Home Assistant dismisses the current entry and moves to the next entry. If no time if provided, the default of "10:00" is used.
separator string optional Used to join entries if the multiple values for a single day are returned by the source. If no value is entered, the default of ", " is used

Attributes for sources

Parameter Type Requirement Description
name string required name of the service provider source to use. Should be the same as the source filename, but without the .py extension. See the README for supported service providers
args various required source-specific arguments provided to service provider to unambiguously identify the collection schedule to return. Depending on the service provider, some arguments may be mandatory, and some may be optional. See individual sources for more details
customize list optional Can be used to customise data retrieved from a source. For details see Attributes for customize
use_dedicated_calendar boolean optional Creates a calendar dedicated to this specific waste type. Default is False
dedicated_calendar_title string optional A more readable, or user-friendly, name for this specific waste calendar object. If nothing is provided, the name returned by the source will be used

Attributes for customize

Parameter Type Requirement Description
type string required The identity of the waste type as returned from the source
alias string optional A more readable, or user-friendly, name for the type of waste being collected. Default is None
show boolean optional Show (True) or hide (False) collections of this specific waste type. Default is True
icon string optional Icon to use for this specific waste type. Icons from the Home Assistant mdi icon set can be used. Default is None.
picture string optional string representation of the path to a picture used to represent this specific waste type. Default is None

Configuring Sensor(s)

Add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

sensor:
  - platform: waste_collection_schedule
    source_index: SOURCE_INDEX
    name: NAME
    details_format: DETAILS_FORMAT
    count: COUNT
    leadtime: LEADTIME
    value_template: VALUE_TEMPLATE
    date_template: DATE_TEMPLATE
    add_days_to: ADD_DAYS_TO
    types:
      - Waste Type 1
      - Waste Type 2
Parameter Type Requirement Description
platform required waste_collection_schedule
source_index int optional Used to assign a sensor to a specific source. Only needed if multiple sources are defined. The first source defined is source_index 0, the second source_index 1, etc. If no value is supplied, the default of 0 is used.

If you want to have a sensor which combines the data from multiple sources, just add a list of sources here. Example
name string required The name Home Assistant used for this sensor
details_format string optional Specifies the format used to display info in Home Assistant's more info pop-up. Valid values are: upcoming, appointment_types and generic. If no value is supplied, the default of "upcoming" is used. See options for details_format for more details
count int optional Limits Home Assistant's more info popup to displaying the next int collections
leadtime int optional Limits Home Assistant's more info popup to only displaying collections happening within the next leadtime days
value_template string optional Uses Home Assistant templating to format the state information of an entity. See template variables for further details
date_template string optional Uses Home Assistant templating to format the dates appearing within the more info popup information of an entity. See template variables for further details
add_days_to boolean optional Adds a daysTo attribute to the source entity state containing the number of days to the next collection
types list of strings optional Used to filter waste types. The sensor will only display collections matching these waste types

Options for details_format parameter

Possible choices:

upcoming appointment_types generic
shows a list of upcoming collections shows a list of waste types and their next collection date provides all attributes as generic Python data types.
Upcoming Waste Types Generic

Template variables for value_template and date_template parameters

The following variables can be used within value_template and date_template:

Variable Description Type Comments
value.date Collection date datetime.date Use strftime to format the output
value.daysTo Days to collection int 0 = today, 1 = tomorrow, etc
value.types Waste types list of strings Use join filter to join types

Examples:

    value_template: '{{value.types|join(", ")}}'
    value_template: 'in {{value.daysTo}} days'
    value_template: 'on {{value.date.strftime("%a")}}, {{value.date.strftime("%d.%m.%Y")}}'

Combine Data from multiple Sources

To combine data from multiple sources into one sensor, just add the source indexes like that:

    source_index: [0, 1]
#or
    source_index:
      - 0
      - 1

HomeAssistant Service to manually trigger update

If you want to trigger a manual update of the sources, you can call the service:

waste_collection_schedule.fetch_data

Normally the configuration option 'fetch_time' is used to do this periodically.

Further Help

For a full example, see custom_components/waste_collection_schedule/waste_collection_schedule/source/example.py.

For other examples on how to configure source(s) and sensor(s), see the FAQ.