This is a quick treat! We recently learned that one of our children needs to take medicine twice a day for the foreseeable future. He鈥檚 too young to take it on his own, so the twice-a-day responsibility is split up between my partner and I. However, sometimes our schedules don鈥檛 overlap so succinctly, so we needed some sort of indicator to let the other know if the previous dose was (or wasn鈥檛!...
Checking for Entities If you鈥檙e following up on this from my first post, you鈥檝e already added your AppDaemon script and confirmed that the AppDaemon logs don鈥檛 show any errors. Now is the true test if it鈥檚 working: do you have the new sensors in HomeAssistant?! The best way to do this is by just type e from any screen in the HomeAssistant UI! That will bring up a list of entities....
This is Part One of a Two Part Series. You can find Part Two, here. Update: 10/11/2023. A huge thanks to Mastodon User e_mobile2014 who found a broken link in this guide and pointed out that I never explained how to get the mqtt sensors into HomeAssistant! What you will need BirdNET-Pi HomeAssistant AppDaemon MQTT Broker (I use Mosquitto) Background In early 2023, at the height of the Raspberry Pi shortage I felt like a king with an extra Rpi laying around, not being used....
Admittedly, I feel a bit like a child sharing something like this, as there are so many devs that pull and merge requests from contributors on a regular basis. However, while I鈥檝e contributed to documentation and/or tutorials and other non-coding portions of repositories, I feel a tiny bit proud that this was the first instance where I was using a library, found a bug, created an issue, cloned the repo to my local machine, found and fixed the code, and opened a pull request....