Home Assistant configuration Kevin

Most of my configuration and some custom components.

Component overview

• Cure Waste component
• Feedparser component
• Postcodeloterij component

Cure Waste component

This component queries the api of the Cure Waste app. It's only meant for the following Dutch municipalities:

• Eindhoven
• Geldrop-Mierlo
• Valkenswaard

Installation

• Copy file 'custom_components/sensor/cure_waste.py' to your '[ha_config_dir]/custom_components/sensor' directory;
• Configure with configuration below.
• Restart Home-Assistant

Usage

To use this component in you installation, add the following to your 'configuration.yaml' file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry

sensor:
  - platform: cure_waste
    location: Eindhoven
    postalcode: 1234AB
    housenumber: 99

Configuration variables:

• location (Required): Specify the name of these sensors, this can be your city or home name
• postalcode (Required): Specify your postalcode, existing out of four numbers and two letters
• housenumber (Required): Specify your house number, excluding any suffix (not tested yet)

If you want to overwrite sensor names, head over to customization.yaml. Sensors will be called: 'Eindhoven General waste'.

# Example customize.yaml

# overwrite waste sensors
sensor.eindhoven_biodegradable_waste:
  friendly_name: GFT afval
sensor.eindhoven_biodegradable_waste_countdown:
  friendly_name: Dagen voor GFT

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Automation example

If you would like to receive a proper notification one day before, you could use an automation like in the xample below:

# Example automation.yaml

- alias: Waste notification - paper
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '20:00:00'
  condition:
    condition: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.eindhoven_paper_waste_countdown
    below: 2
    above: 0
  action:
    - service: notify.pushover
      data:
        title: "Waste"
        message: "Tomorrow: Paper waste"

Feedparser component

This component calls RSS feeds to retrieve the latest item

Installation

• Copy file 'custom_components/sensor/feedparser.py' to your '[ha_config_dir]/custom_components/sensor' directory;
• Configure with configuration below.
• Restart Home-Assistant

Usage

To use this component in you installation, add the following to your 'configuration.yaml' file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry

sensor:
  - platform: feedparser
    name: NOS Algemeen
    url: http://feeds.nos.nl/nosnieuwsalgemeen
    attributes:
      - link

Configuration variables:

• name (Required): Specify the name of these sensors, this can be your city or home name
• url (Required): Specify your postalcode, existing out of four numbers and two letters
• title_attribute (Optional): Specify the attribute that should be used as the value of the sensor (default 'title')
• attributes (Optional): Specify a list of extra attributes to append to the sensor (default: none)

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Postcodeloterij component

This component checks your lottery winnings

Installation

• Copy the files in 'custom_components/postcodeloterij/' to your '[ha_config_dir]/custom_components/postcodeloterij/' directory (create this folder first);
• Restart Home-Assistant so the component is loaded.
• Configure with configuration below.
• Restart Home-Assistant again

Usage

To use this component in you installation, add the following to your 'configuration.yaml' file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry

sensor:
  - platform: postcodeloterij
    postcode: 1234AB

Configuration variables:

• postcode (Required): Specify your postcode to retrieve winnings from

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Automation example

This automation will send the prizes as soon as the sensor updates:

# can be pasted into automation.yaml, if you do that, remove the first line with automation:

automation:
- id: 1acc5110-8b4b-44b8-a5b5-43a445c41a0d
  alias: "00 - Prize Postcodeloterij"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.postcodeloterij_prijs
      not_to:
        - "0"
        - unavailable
        - unknown
  action:
    - alias: "Send notification"
      service: notify.mobile_app_<your_phone_here>
      data:
        title: "🏆 Winnen doe je bij..."
        message: >
          {% set p = trigger.to_state.state | int %}
          {% set m = 'prijs' if p == 1 else p ~ ' prijzen' %}
          {% set prizes = trigger.to_state.attriubutes.prizes %}
          "We hebben {{ m }}: {{ prizes }}"
        data:
          channel: LotteryPrize
          ttl: 0
          priority: high
          notification_icon: mdi:trophy
          tag: LotteryPrize