GoalList_Home_Assistant

This is a python script for home assistant for creating recurring daily goals in the todo list

Prerequisite

• Have Home Assistant
• Create a todo list that has all your Daily Goals Setup
• In each of your goals set a due date and add to the description a number representing your error budget (This is how many days you can skip in a week)

Install

1. Follow this guide to install Python Script: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/python_script/ Summary:
   1. Add to configuration.yaml: python_script: Like this

   ...
   python_script:
   ...

   2. Next create a folder python_scripts inside Home Assistant data folder
2. Inside the python_scripts folder run wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shreyasajj/GoalList_Home_Assistant/main/goallist.py -O goallist.py
3. Run Service Python script: Reload
4. You should now see a service called Python script: goallist

Input

• entity_id: Your todo list entity_id ie entity_id: todo.goallist - required
• reset_window: Either weekly or daily supported now ie reset_window: weekly - optional, default: "weekly" # Not working right now

service: python_script.goallist
data:
  entity_id: todo.goallist

Output

• failed_goals: Goals that were failed and passed the error budget. This will be a string that follows Failed to accomplish these goals in 7 days: goal1, goal2, and goal3
• end_of_week_report: Weekly status report, it will return on the end of the week and be a string that looks like

**This is the end of week report**
**Goal 1**
[7/29/2024] No work notes for today
**Goal 2**
[7/29/2024] Skipped
**Goal 3**
[7/29/2024] Worked on it today got so and so done

Usage

• In order to use this, just update description with what you did that day and mark that todo list item completed

Automation

Here a automation on how I am using it

alias: Daily Goal List Automation
description: An Automation for accountablity, sending my friend a list a goals I failed to acchieve and send a weekly status report at the end
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "00:02:00"
condition: []
action:
  - service: python_script.goallist
    data:
      entity_id: todo.goallist
    response_variable: goal_list_response
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ not goal_list_response['failed_goals']  == false}}"
    then:
      - service: notify.notify
        metadata: {}
        data:
          message: "{{ goal_list_response['failed_goals'] }}"
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ not goal_list_response['end_of_week_report']  == false}}"
    then:
      - service: notify.notify
        metadata: {}
        data:
          message: "{{ goal_list_response['end_of_week_report'] }}"
          data:
            text_mode: styled

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