I was feeling motivated, so I managed to get a dev environment up and running and take a crack at building an integration. But then I realized I have no idea what I’m doing and soon abandoned that idea. Then I thought I’d have a look at creating some rest sensors, but that too fell apart. The API returns a huge pile of JSON that needs to be parsed, and I just don’t have enough jinja skills to pull that off in yaml.
But I was able to cobble something together in node-red that works great! Behold, a flow to query the firefly API for this month’s bills, isolate the ones that are due today, and then send a notification via email (sms) to me and my wife:
Here’s a simplified flow if anyone is interested:
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Next, I may try to look back at all the bills for the month and send a notification if any haven’t been paid. Most are on autopayment, but I have a couple that are not - and I tend to forget to pay them. I’m also going to take a crack at sending a weekend planning notification Friday morning. I want to get notified how much money is left in our discretionary spending categories that way we won’t splurge if we know we don’t have the money.
