Household Bin Collection 🗑

[dannytsang]

Create integrations that would help with bin collection at home. My local council collects different types of pre-sorted waste on alternate weeks.

Goals

• Take the bin out reminder
• Calendar integration
• Bin emptied notification
• Lovelace card

Credit to @jcallaghan for the idea.

[dannytsang]

Dashboard card using auto-entities to show / hide the bin card only when it is bin day +/- the notification offset.

It uses the mushroom template card to set the bin icon colour and text with the type of bin to take out.

card:
  type: custom:mushroom-template-card
  primary: Take the bin out
  secondary: >-
    {% if is_state_attr('calendar.bins','message','Recycling Waste') %}Recycling
    Bin{% elif is_state_attr('calendar.bins','message','General Waste') %}Black
    Bin{% endif%}
  icon: >-
    {% if is_state_attr('calendar.bins','message','Recycling Waste')
    %}mdi:trash-can-outline{% elif is_state_attr('calendar.bins','message','General
    Waste') %}mdi:trash-can{% endif%}
  icon_color: >-
    {% if is_state_attr('calendar.bins','message','Recycling Waste') %}green{%
    elif is_state_attr('calendar.bins','message','General Waste') %}black{%
    endif%}
  multiline_secondary: false
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: binary_sensor.bin_collection_due
      state: 'on'
show_empty: false
sort:
  method: state
  ignore_case: true

[dannytsang]

Need to think of a sensor to tell the bin has been emptied.

[dannytsang]

BLE distance sensor is unstable and fluctuates. Need to look into some noise filtering or averaging sensor to see if the bin is away from the house or not.