Is there an update for the HACS Grocy custom component 2.0.2? Or flexcard? I updated the Grocy sensor addon a couple of days ago, reenabled the sensors, and for some reason it’s showing undefined,undefined,undefined on my tables
Any help here would be appreciated. I just want a nice, clean graph format for my grocy items! People at my house have a hard time reading the table format otherwise. The prettier, the better.
Hi,
I want to try the grocy android app as the scanner does not wok on my phone when using it with the HA companion app. But my Home Assistant is only reachable via nabu casa. Is there a way to use the nabu casa adress in the grocy app? Or did anyone already managed to do that?
Thanks for your help!
I’ve tested it on my Huawei P10 lite with android 8.0.0 and some other phones but the problem only occurs on my phone. Anyway I just wanted to have a nice shopping list and I think Grocy is to complex for my use and the HA shopping list integration also doesn’t fit my case so I´m trying to build my own list.
That doesn’t sound like it is related to the Grocy add-on (this thread). The Grocy add-on doesn’t provide a specific service call, the community add-on does. I’d try to ask there: Grocy - Custom component and card(s)
That’s specific to the HA app, please ask there. Grocy only expects your input, no matter where it comes from (an app, you typing it, from a scanner…).
“using an option built into Grocy”. Maybe you can tell me how to enable this option. I have an Android phone with a barcode reader app. No matter if I go to Grocy through Home Assistant app (supervisor-Grocy) or Chrome (URL) on my phone, it gives me (sometimes) a barcode “window” under “add” with a bulb (I assume is for lighting up the barcode), but NO reader (red line).
I’ve spent hours messing with this “for convenience” in keeping a pantry inventory. Before I go completely crazy over this, does it actually import data for the scanned barcode or will I have to enter the info and associate it with the barcode. I can do that already with Memento Database
Sorry to say, but what you’re trying to do is not possible in that way.
The scanning function in Grocy is only available if you connect to your Grocy instance via https. And on top, the scanning function depends on browser settings (security), that can always change during a browser update.
But what I read from your post, what you want to do is scanning a barcode, ask the internet for a product for this barcode, get information back and add that to Grocy. For that you’d need something like BarcodeBuddy.
You’d scan a barcode with BCB (not Grocy!), BCB is calling different databases (settings dependable) and gives you either a message for a not known barcode or what it found in the db. If the product is not already set up in Grocy, you can add it with one click or remove it (wrong product).
With adding the product to your inventory things change. The next scan to BCB (still not Grocy) will realise that (it asks Grocy) and your scan will consume x-times the product. If you change the scanning settings before, you can switch to add mode, so the next scan will add x-times the product. This is done by scanning a specific barcode before scanning a product.
To make it short, Grocy only adds your barcode as an identification, not for further use (minimalistically speaking). If you want to make use of your barcode, you need something like BCB.
I hope that clears it up a little.
To make things nice, BCB is available as a HA addOn, but there is a small bug, that prevents BCB from saving the data persistently. But that is being worked on.
I am working on a tutorial about the use of all the different components that are available together/for Grocy, that will be ready in a few days. But I’ll wait for BCB to fix the addOn before I’ll publish it.
If you have further questions, please open up a new thread, as this one here is only for the HA addOn of Grocy. Just put a link in here to direct people to your question.
Thanks for the quick and informative response. I am not very proficient with HA - sometimes try to be with mixed results. I found the documentation for Barcode Buddy a little intimidating. I understand that I can install in a “Docker container” in HA; if I also understand correctly, HA itself (in my instance) is running in a Docker container. I have used the “Terminal & SSH” addon before to get to a command prompt (shell?) but don’t know if that has anything to do with making or finding a Docker container.
I am happy to hear that there is a BcB addon coming - it looks like it will be great and do exactly what I’m looking for. Please let me know (if you can) when and where to view the tutorial.
I think I have the HACS addon on installed. I enabled the entities. My question is; are all chores supposed to be grouped into one sensor.grocy_chores entity?
I only have two chores right now but grouping them all into one sensor is limiting and not very useful.
I have a webpage card configured to show the url for the Recipes tab of Grocy. This works if I am logged into Grocy, but if the cache is cleared (frequently) or I am logged out of Grocy, then I receive a “401: Unauthorized” error. Is it at all possible to remain logged in and cached or remove the need to log in altogether? I know it sounds odd, but it matches my particular use case. Thank you!