HP Printer Ink Levels

[Bartem]

Custom Component for printer ink levels

I really liked the idea of your custom component, but as I use hassio I dont think it will work since ink needs to be installed in the homeassistant docker container. So instead I took the approach to create a hassio addon that will run ink periodically, parse the output into JSON and sent it to HA via MQTT. Its very much a hack job (esp the shell script that calls ink and mosquitto client for MQTT) but it works great for my Canon Pixma 5300, and supports HA MQTT autodiscovery - albeit in a ve…

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