simonhq / act_garbage

HA Sensors for the ACT next bin pickup date information for suburbs

Australian Capital Territory Garbage/Recycling/Greenwaste Pickup

Creates sensors for Home Assistant with the collection information for the bins within a suburb in the ACT

Lovelace Examples

Installation

This app is best installed using HACS, so that you can easily track and download updates.

Alternatively, you can download the act_garbage directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the act_garbage module.

How it works

The ACT Open Data site provides this information, this just makes the information available as sensors in HA.

As this is non time critical sensor, it only gets the information on a set time schedule, once per day at 5.27am. It also asks for you to provide an input_boolean that you specify for when to update the sensor on your own time. You can obviously automate when you want that input_boolean to turn on.

To Run

You will need to create an input_boolean entity to watch for when to update the sensor. When this input_boolean is turned on, whether manually or by another automation you create, the scraping process will be run to create/update the sensor.

AppDaemon Libraries

Please add the following packages to your appdaemon 4 configuration on the supervisor page of the add-on.

system_packages: []
python_packages: []
init_commands: []

No specific packages are required for this app.

App configuration

In the apps.yaml file in the appdaemon/apps directory -

act_garbage:
  module: act_garbage
  class: Get_ACT_Garbage
  GAR_FLAG: "input_boolean.check_act_garbage"
  SUBURB: "CITY"
  SPLIT_SUBURB: ""

key	optional	type	default	description
module	False	string		act_garbage
class	False	string		Get_ACT_Garbage
GAR_FLAG	False	string		The name of the flag in HA for triggering this sensor update - e.g. input_boolean.check_act_garbage
SUBURB	False	string		The name of the suburb to get the information for
SPLIT_SUBURB	True	string		A number of suburbs have a North/South split, include if needed.

Sensors Created

This version will create 4 sensors & 6 binary sensors

• sensor.act_garbage_last_updated
• sensor.act_garbage_pickup
• sensor.act_recycling_pickup
• sensor.act_greenwaste_pickup
• binary_sensor.act_garbage_today
• binary_sensor.act_garbage_tomorrow
• binary_sensor.act_recycling_today
• binary_sensor.act_recycling_tomorrow
• binary_sensor.act_greenwaste_today
• binary_sensor.act_greenwaste_tomorrow

Issues/Feature Requests

Please log any issues or feature requests in this GitHub repository for me to review.