Okay, I’m really struggling to understand how appdaemon works with home assistant.
My plan was to use appdaemon so I can code in python making it easier for me to interact with my Arduino/google sheets. lol at me apparently. I’ve installed supervised home assistant on a RPI 4, followed up appdaemon and text editor in the add on the store. According to the logs everything is fine and running.
What I’m trying to do is create a button that I can attach to either the Lovelace and or HAdashboard that triggers a python script.
I’m trying to follow:
I’ve updated the app.yaml to include:
module: doorbell_notification
class: DoorBellNotification
sensor: sensor.doorbell
with my python script including:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
class DoorBellNotification(hass.Hass):
def initialize(self):
self.log('initializing')
# initialize last_ring variable to avoid extra `If` condition
self.last_ring = datetime.now() - timedelta(seconds= 35)
self.listen_state(self.on_doorbell_press, self.args["sensor"], new="on")
def on_doorbell_press(self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
if self.last_ring < datetime.now() - timedelta(seconds= 30):
self.last_ring = datetime.now()
self.log('sending notification')
butttttt I don’t get where to put the entity:
sensor.doorbell
I tried just adding sensor.doorbell to the on of the dashboard templates but it returns not found./its not showing up in my entities list.
which leads me to the next question, say if i wanted to start this script only if i was to turn a switch on via either of the two dashboards, would i just set up a dummy switch such as:
input_boolean:
dummy_switch:
switch:
- platform: template
switches:
dummy:
value_template: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.dummy_switch', 'on') }}"
turn_on:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
entity_id: input_boolean.dummy_switch
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
entity_id: input_boolean.dummy_switch
turn_off:
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
entity_id: input_boolean.dummy_switch
and then just pick up input_boolean.dummy_switch in my python?
any help would be great.