simonhq / canberradams

A Home Assistant Appdaemon app for creating a sensor with the ACT Dam level information

NOTE - added daily scheduled run

Canberra Dams

Creates sensors for Home Assistant with the ACT Dam level information

Lovelace Example

Installation

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

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

How it works

The Icon Water site provides this information, this just scrapes the page and 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 5.23am, but it also watches an input_boolean that you specify for when to update the sensor. You can obviously automate when you want that input_boolean to turn on.

To Run outside of schedule

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:
  - xmltodict
init_commands: []

Note: bs4 (beautiful soup) is no longer required for this app

App configuration

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

canberra_dams:
  module: canberradams
  class: Get_ACT_Dams
  DAM_FLAG: "input_boolean.check_dams"

key	optional	type	default	description
module	False	string		canberradams
class	False	string		Get_ACT_Dams
DAM_FLAG	False	string		The name of the flag in HA for triggering this sensor update - e.g. input_boolean.check_dams

Sensors Created

This version will create 6 sensors

• sensor.act_dam_last_updated
• sensor.act_dam_bendora_dam
• sensor.act_dam_combined_volume
• sensor.act_dam_corin_dam
• sensor.act_dam_cotter_dam
• sensor.act_dam_googong_dam

Issues/Feature Requests

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