Save the automation and set up a tag with name ‘medication’ or some thing else.
Create a separate automation with name ‘Tag medication’ (the entity name must match what you put in the code above). This automation should trigger when the tag is scanned but otherwise do nothing in conditin and action.
The need for this second automation is to reliably source when a tag is scanned, as this event is not saved elsewhere AFAIK.
Then after reloading, your can prevent the reminder to be sent to our phone, if you scanned the tag within the last 24 hours. This of course can be set to another time frame by changing the value 86400.
I use 17:00 (5 pm) as reminder time and thus have 61200 in the pre-condition (60 * 60 * 17).
Further improvement of the code not done would be to log the scanning of the tag as a ‘Medication taken’. Also after the automation has begun its run, scanning of the tag will, as of now, not stop the reminder loop.
my partner and I (and sometimes a neighbour) have to coordinate administering medications to someone in our care. We want to make sure that everyone is up to date and that the drugs don’t get administered twice.
Thanks for the Blueprint! It seems to be working well for me.
One question that I have is I’d like to be able to add a calendar entry at the time that I press Taken.
In my blueprint I added an action to create a calendar entry. However I’m a little lost as to how tell it to use the time that I pressed Taken as the start of the calendar entry.
I’m sure there is a variable that I can use, I’m not sure how to go about finding it.
Thanks so much!
Here’s Automation so far
alias: Morgan's Morning Med Reminder
description: ""
use_blueprint:
path: Aohzan/medication_reminder_android.yaml
input:
reminder_time: "07:00:00"
notify_device: 90f00fa94658684ef6cb540b825734fd
input_boolean: input_boolean.morgan_meds
notification_title: Morning Medication Reminder
notification_message: It's time to take your morning medications.
notification_action_later: Delay 30 Minutes
optional_action:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.morgan_meds
state: "on"
then:
- service: google.create_event
data:
summary: Morning Meds Taken
description: Morning Meds Taken
start_date_time: ?????
end_date_time: ????? +1 hour
target:
entity_id: calendar.morgan_c_simmons
First of all thank you for this great blueprint! I started using it recently and it works great. What I was missing though is a way of confirming the reminder (medication taken) without my phone. I have a small Zigbee button next to it and wanted a click to also confirm.
This is what I added:
new input
confirm_button:
name: Confirm button
description: Physical button to confirm the task is done
selector:
device:
integration: zha
multiple: false
Sorry the indentation got screwed up a bit here because of copy & paste but it works for me. What do you think about this? Anything that can be improved? If someone thinks its a valid improvement I can create a PR for the original blueprint
I adapted this great blueprint to make it able to use calendar entries. i setup a special medication calendar. which this blueprint searches as soon as an item triggers in this calendar on a keyword. Also the title and message can be derived from the calendar item. See below the blueprint code;
blueprint:
name: Advanced medication reminder calendar (iOS)
description: Get advanced notification and history for medication reminder via calendar
domain: automation
input:
reminder_calendar:
name: Calendar
description: Which calendar to use
default: calendar.
selector:
text: {}
calendar_keyword:
name: Keyword
description: Calendar keyword to look for
selector:
text: {}
notify_device:
name: Notification
description: Device needs to run the official Home Assistant app to receive
notifications
selector:
device:
integration: mobile_app
multiple: false
input_boolean:
name: Dedicated input_boolean
description: Create and set here a input_boolean to handle history and state
of the automation
selector:
entity:
domain: input_boolean
multiple: false
notification_title:
name: Notification title (Optional)
description: 'Default: Medication reminder'
default: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary }}"
notification_message:
name: Notification message (Optional)
description: "Default: calendar description"
default: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.description }}"
notification_action_taken:
name: 'Notification action: Taken (Optional)'
description: 'Default: Taken'
default: Taken
notification_action_later:
name: 'Notification action: Ask later (Optional)'
description: 'Default: Ask later'
default: Ask later
notification_action_skip:
name: 'Notification action: Skip (Optional)'
description: 'Default: Skip'
default: Skip
ask_later_wait_time:
name: Wait time before next reminder
description: Minutes before notify again after a Ask later action.
default: 30
selector:
number:
min: 5.0
max: 1440.0
unit_of_measurement: minutes
step: 1.0
mode: slider
logbook_message_remind:
name: Logbook message for remind (Optional)
description: 'Default: Reminder sent'
default: Reminder sent
logbook_message_taken:
name: Logbook message for action Taken (Optional)
description: 'Default: Medication taken'
default: Medication taken
logbook_message_later:
name: Logbook message for action Ask later (Optional)
description: 'Default: Postpone reminder'
default: Postpone reminder
logbook_message_skip:
name: Logbook message for action Skip (Optional)
description: 'Default: Reminder skipped'
default: Reminder skipped
logbook_message_no_answer:
name: Logbook message for no action after timeout (Optional)
description: 'Default: No answer time out'
default: No answer time out
optional_action:
name: Optional action
description: Run an action like notify a speaker at the same time that the mobile
notification
selector:
action: {}
default: []
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aohzan/hass-blueprints/main/blueprints/medication_reminder_ios.yaml
variables:
kw: !input calendar_keyword
trigger:
- platform: calendar
event: start
offset: "00:00:00"
entity_id: !input reminder_calendar
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ kw in trigger.calendar_event.summary }}"
mode: restart
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
target:
entity_id: !input input_boolean
- alias: Notify until the medication has been take
repeat:
while:
- condition: state
entity_id: !input input_boolean
state: 'off'
sequence:
- service: logbook.log
data:
name: !input notification_title
message: !input logbook_message_remind
entity_id: !input input_boolean
- choose:
- conditions: '{{ true }}'
sequence: !input optional_action
- device_id: !input notify_device
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: !input notification_title
message: !input notification_message
data:
actions:
- title: !input notification_action_taken
action: taken
- title: !input notification_action_later
action: later
- title: !input notification_action_skip
action: skip
tag: !input input_boolean
- wait_for_trigger:
platform: event
event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
event_data: {}
timeout:
minutes: !input ask_later_wait_time
- choose:
- conditions: '{{ wait.trigger and wait.trigger.event.data.actionName == ''taken''
}}'
sequence:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
target:
entity_id: !input input_boolean
- service: logbook.log
data:
name: !input notification_title
message: !input logbook_message_taken
entity_id: !input input_boolean
- conditions: '{{ wait.trigger and wait.trigger.event.data.actionName == ''later''
}}'
sequence:
- service: logbook.log
data:
name: !input notification_title
message: !input logbook_message_later
entity_id: !input input_boolean
- delay:
minutes: !input ask_later_wait_time
- conditions: '{{ wait.trigger and wait.trigger.event.data.actionName == ''skip''
}}'
sequence:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
target:
entity_id: !input input_boolean
- service: logbook.log
data:
name: !input notification_title
message: !input logbook_message_skip
entity_id: !input input_boolean
default:
- device_id: !input notify_device
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
message: clear_notification
data:
tag: !input input_boolean
- service: logbook.log
data:
name: !input notification_title
message: !input logbook_message_no_answer
entity_id: !input input_boolean
I did figure out how to get it to work, thanks to your suggestion. It may be a bit messy, but I actually created a modified blueprint for myself, and a seperate one for my spouse. Here is the useful snippets of code:
I have one small remark though. It keeps track of medication use. But you can’t really do much with this data because the boolean data is just off or on. Sure you can look at the logbook and see what the latest status is. But it would be nice to have the last triggered state as a separate variable state too.
This so you can create nice logs with it instead of just On or Off.
Hello everybody,
here I am again, I would like to ask how to implement the following function:
I would like to count the remaining pills in the box, I created a boolean input where I set a minimum value of 0 and a maximum of 12 (number of pills) and every time the drug alert notification arrives, when I press on taken, it subtracts 1 from me variable, and when there are 2 pills left, it sends me a notification to buy more, who can help me with the realization of this modification, I would be really grateful. thank you
with the optional action, you can call the service to call the service input_number.decrement to decrement the input_number, after that do an automation to send an alert with the wanted threshold
