Baby Buddy Dashboard & Blueprint

Noblewolf · November 13, 2022, 2:26am

This may not be necessary for you!

Now that Ingress is fixed in the Baby Buddy add-on, creating a custom UI like this in an HA Dashboard may be superfluous. Once you install the add-on you have the option to “Show in sidebar”. This will allow you to access Baby Buddy within the HA Companion app and not use a VPN.

Intro

I recent installed Baby Buddy and Baby Buddy HACS Integration and wanted to share the setup I built with it inspired by @OCT0PUSCRIME work here [WIP] Baby Buddy Integration Frontend

For this I built the Blueprint Baby Buddy Log: Tummy Time, Sleep, Feeding, Diaper Change, Pumping

My Dashboard

Using standard UI cards and subviews I built a basic Baby Buddy UI in Home Assistant. I did this because I’m hosting Baby Buddy at home and did not want to make it directly available to the internet and also wanted to be able to control Baby Buddy with a Zigbee remote and Alexa.

Feeding:

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: select.baby_buddy_feeding_method
  - entity: select.baby_buddy_feeding_type
  - entity: input_number.bb_amount
  - entity: input_text.bb_notes
footer:
  type: buttons
  entities:
    - entity: input_button.bb_feeding_helper
      name: Open Baby Buddy
      tap_action:
        action: url
        url_path: http:/IPADDRESS:8000/feedings/
    - entity: input_button.bb_feeding_helper
      name: Log This Feeding
title: Feeding

Diaper:

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: select.baby_buddy_diaper_type
  - entity: select.baby_buddy_diaper_color
  - entity: input_text.bb_notes
footer:
  type: buttons
  entities:
    - entity: input_button.bb_feeding_helper
      name: Open Baby Buddy
      tap_action:
        action: url
        url_path: http://IPADDRESS:8000/changes/
    - entity: input_button.bb_diaper_helper
      name: Log a Diaper Change
title: Diaper
show_header_toggle: false

Pumping:

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: input_number.bb_amount
  - entity: input_text.bb_notes
footer:
  type: buttons
  entities:
    - entity: input_button.bb_pumping_helper
      name: Open Baby Buddy
      tap_action:
        action: url
        url_path: http://IPADDRESS:8000/pumping/
    - entity: input_button.bb_pumping_helper
      name: Log This Pumping
title: Pumping
state_color: false
show_header_toggle: false

The YAML

I’m not sure who could easily read this but here is my YAML of those dashboard pages:

  - theme: Backend-selected
    title: Baby Buddy
    path: baby-buddy
    icon: mdi:baby
    type: custom:vertical-layout
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: horizontal-stack
        cards:
          - color: teal
            type: tile
            entity: input_boolean.home_occupied
            name: Go Home
            icon: mdi:home
            tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/
            icon_tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/
            show_entity_picture: false
          - color: pink
            type: tile
            entity: input_boolean.home_occupied
            name: Open Baby Buddy
            icon: mdi:baby-face
            tap_action:
              action: url
              url_path: http://IP_ADDRESS:8000/
            icon_tap_action:
              action: url
              url_path: http://IP_ADDRESS:8000/
            show_entity_picture: false
      - type: horizontal-stack
        cards:
          - show_name: true
            show_icon: true
            type: button
            entity: switch.firstName_lastName_timer
            icon_height: 30px
            name: Start Timer
            show_state: false
            tap_action:
              action: toggle
          - show_name: true
            show_icon: true
            type: button
            icon: mdi:baby
            name: End Tummy Time
            icon_height: 30px
            entity: input_button.bb_tummy_time_helper
            tap_action:
              action: toggle
          - show_name: true
            show_icon: true
            type: button
            icon: mdi:sleep-off
            name: End Sleep Time
            icon_height: 30px
            entity: input_button.bb_sleep_helper
            tap_action:
              action: toggle
          - show_name: true
            show_icon: true
            type: button
            tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/baby-buddy-feeding
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_timer
            name: End Feeding
            show_state: false
            hold_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/baby-buddy-feeding
      - type: horizontal-stack
        cards:
          - type: tile
            tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/baby-buddy-diaper
            icon_tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/baby-buddy-diaper
            name: Diaper
            icon: mdi:human-baby-changing-table
            show_entity_picture: false
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_change
          - type: tile
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_pumping
            name: Pumping
            tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/pumping
            icon_tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /lovelace/pumping
      - type: entities
        entities:
          - type: section
            label: Feeding
          - entity: counter.bb_feeding_count
            name: Feedings Today
          - type: attribute
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_feeding
            attribute: end
            name: Last fed
          - entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_feeding
            name: Amount
          - type: attribute
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_feeding
            attribute: method
            name: Method
          - type: attribute
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_feeding
            attribute: duration
            name: Duration
          - type: section
            label: Pumping
          - entity: counter.bb_pumping_counter
            name: Pumped Today
          - entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_pumping
            name: Last Volume pumped
          - type: attribute
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_pumping
            attribute: time
            name: Time
          - type: section
            label: Diapers
          - entity: counter.bb_diaper_count
            name: Diapers Today
          - entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_change
            name: Last change was
          - type: section
            label: Tummy Time
          - entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_tummy_time
            name: Last tummy-time duration
          - type: attribute
            entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_tummy_time
            name: Last time was
            attribute: end
      - type: history-graph
        entities:
          - entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_sleep
          - entity: sensor.firstName_lastName_last_tummy_time
        hours_to_show: 24
  - theme: Backend-selected
    title: Baby Buddy Feeding
    path: baby-buddy-feeding
    icon: mdi:mother-nurse
    subview: true
    type: panel
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: entities
        entities:
          - entity: select.baby_buddy_feeding_method
          - entity: select.baby_buddy_feeding_type
          - entity: input_number.bb_amount
          - entity: input_text.bb_notes
        footer:
          type: buttons
          entities:
            - entity: input_button.bb_feeding_helper
              name: Open Baby Buddy
              tap_action:
                action: url
                url_path: http://IP_ADDRESS:8000/feedings/
            - entity: input_button.bb_feeding_helper
              name: Log This Feeding
        title: Feeding
  - theme: Backend-selected
    subview: true
    title: Baby Buddy Diaper
    path: baby-buddy-diaper
    icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
    type: panel
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: entities
        entities:
          - entity: select.baby_buddy_diaper_type
          - entity: select.baby_buddy_diaper_color
          - entity: input_text.bb_notes
        footer:
          type: buttons
          entities:
            - entity: input_button.bb_feeding_helper
              name: Open Baby Buddy
              tap_action:
                action: url
                url_path: http://IP_ADDRESS:8000/changes/
            - entity: input_button.bb_diaper_helper
              name: Log a Diaper Change
        title: Diaper
        show_header_toggle: false
  - theme: Backend-selected
    subview: true
    title: Pumping
    path: pumping
    icon: mdi:pumpkin
    type: panel
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: entities
        entities:
          - entity: input_number.bb_amount
          - entity: input_text.bb_notes
        footer:
          type: buttons
          entities:
            - entity: input_button.bb_pumping_helper
              name: Open Baby Buddy
              tap_action:
                action: url
                url_path: http://IP_ADDRESS:8000/pumping/
            - entity: input_button.bb_pumping_helper
              name: Log This Pumping
        title: Pumping
        state_color: false
        show_header_toggle: false

Post Baby Update…

So we had our baby last week and so far my wife is preferring using the Baby Buddy directly. Using it directly you can watch the timer run full screen which she likes will feeding/pumping.

You can make use easier by setting it up on your phones as a web app:
iOS: How to Install Web Apps on iPhone or iPad: 6 Steps (with Pictures)
Android: How to Add a Website Shortcut to Your Android Home Screen
Windows Phone: Oh how I miss Windows Phone Quicky, an easy way to add shortcuts to your Windows Phone Notification Center | Windows Central < But I did find a guide so that made me smile a bit.

lsognen · November 27, 2022, 11:01am

looks great, but the yaml you posted doesn’t exatly make it easy. At some point the indentations has been messed up. Could you post the panel yaml’s?

tango259 · December 11, 2022, 4:00am

When you past the yaml into the raw config, you need to make sure your indents are correct. Posting new code won’t correct that, since certain devices will mess up indentations sometimes. If you’re unsure of how things should be indented, I’d recommend adding the code to an existing dashboard and verifying indentations. I had to make a few minor adjustments for indents, but after that it worked perfectly.

Noblewolf · December 13, 2022, 9:27pm

Is there anything other than the indentations that is not working?

I didn’t post the panels because it is just an entity list, but I’ve updated the post with that.

kmanan · January 16, 2023, 7:21pm

Hi, this is simply awesome!!! Like this blueprint is a game changer. I’ve been pulling my hair out getting these sensors to work through coding etc. but the blueprint is magic!

1 issue though: Is there a way that feeding and pumping buttons (& count) work without having anything to do with “Amount”. I am not entering amount anywhere (don’t know where to and don’t want to). I am seeing the following error in the trace:

Stopped because an error was encountered at January 16, 2023 at 11:20:01 AM (runtime: 0.02 seconds)

expected int for dictionary value @ data['amount']

EDIT: I created the amount notepad and no longer get this error but there is no feeding logged. Only the counter increases but nothing is logged for feeding. Any way to simply the feeding and pumping logging with dummy values for amount / type etc. Just want to capture last time on press and increment the daily count.

EDIT 2: Amount and method. If only there’s a way to give dummy values for this and not have automations be broken.

tango259 · January 31, 2023, 10:30pm

Certain API POSTs require certain data values. Feeding requires an amount value otherwise it won’t post correctly and will result in an error. You can reference what pieces of data are required here.

Noblewolf · February 7, 2023, 4:39pm

In my UI I just have an amount of “0” and it stays between restarts. It hasn’t caused any issue for us.

cloudbr34k · April 12, 2023, 10:50am

just set this all, and retrospectively added the data we had on another app.

Just wondering how you create totals for sleep, feed etc??

I thought maybe utility meter would do the trick??
I have a help for Sensor sum, but I don’t think that’s working either??

Noblewolf · April 12, 2023, 5:50pm

Hello, please see the section at the top of my first post.

This may not be necessary for you!

Not all datapoints are available via the Baby Buddy integration. Check out it’s documentation for details.

We no longer use the integration and just use Baby Buddy directly.

cloudbr34k · April 12, 2023, 8:40pm

I got it working with utility meters.

@Noblewolf Last question, tags do appear to work??

Noblewolf · April 23, 2023, 4:35pm

I never needed them so I do not know.

jeti · May 20, 2023, 7:13am

could you please post your total-sleep utility meters, I am trying it this way:

utility_meter:
  daily_adam_sleep:
    source: sensor.adam_last_sleep
    cycle: daily

but it seems that it only counts the sleep but no naps.

and did you rebuild the the sleep rythm graph by chance?

cloudbr34k · May 22, 2023, 10:47am

i never got it working tbh, gave up lol