Inspiration: Meal plan ("Hey google, What’s for dinner tonight?”)

Luitertje · December 11, 2020, 3:22pm

For inspiration: Meal plan
What about a meal plan? Ofcourse there’s the grocy addon. However, this was far too complicated and not scoring that high points on the WAF for just a meal plan. For this usecase I want to ask Google what’s for dinner today or tomorrow. Besides that also just look in HA at my Phone and see in a glance what we’ll be eating tonight. HA has already the helpers there but never thought this would be this usefull in this case.

If you copy this, make sure the ID of the entities all match up together. In the examples they don’t match!

So, for this I created in HA:

7 input_texts: input_text.monday, input_text.tuesday etc. (the ‘database’)
2 input booleans: input_boolean.what_eat_today and input_boolean.what_eat_tomorrow (to trigger the automations for google)
Template sensor for the right day of the week

Code for the template sensor:

- platform: template
  day:
    friendly_name: Dag
    value_template: "{{ ['Maandag','Dinsdag','Woensdag','Donderdag','Vrijdag','Zaterdag','Zondag'][now().weekday()] }}"

I do most of my automations in NR. Here’s the flow. But I’m sure this could also be achieved in HA. The broadcast message is in dutch

It might not be the most cleanish flow, but it works for me.

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}}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":670,"y":160,"wires":[["1f89844d.37a90c"]]},{"id":"a16f675b.744b38","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template maandag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.maandag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":670,"y":120,"wires":[["1f89844d.37a90c"]]},{"id":"7e709dc6.517f54","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template woensdag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.woensdag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":670,"y":200,"wires":[["1f89844d.37a90c"]]},{"id":"b5666712.2db558","type":"server-state-changed","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"WEWM 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}}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":660,"y":280,"wires":[["1f89844d.37a90c"]]},{"id":"559e5ce.6391da4","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template zaterdag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.zaterdag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":670,"y":320,"wires":[["1f89844d.37a90c"]]},{"id":"b5d866a1.ed7d58","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template zondag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.zondag') 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}}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":650,"y":580,"wires":[["4452f995.375368"]]},{"id":"97f88eb8.1d904","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template maandag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.maandag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":650,"y":540,"wires":[["4452f995.375368"]]},{"id":"95a5ee43.0bbad","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template woensdag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.woensdag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":650,"y":620,"wires":[["4452f995.375368"]]},{"id":"c752978a.589a48","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template donderdag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.donderdag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":660,"y":660,"wires":[["4452f995.375368"]]},{"id":"3995a4d7.8c52fc","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template Vrijdag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.vrijdag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":640,"y":700,"wires":[["4452f995.375368"]]},{"id":"9863b6cd.b19238","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template zaterdag","server":"d995232e.42f06","template":"{{ states('input_text.zaterdag') }}","resultsLocation":"payload","resultsLocationType":"msg","templateLocation":"template","templateLocationType":"msg","x":650,"y":740,"wires":[["4452f995.375368"]]},{"id":"2ce1cb1b.0231e4","type":"api-render-template","z":"c380e0f0.3d8dc","name":"template 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For the lovelace card I used a conditional card in a vertical stack.

type: vertical-stack
cards:
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Vrijdag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.vrijdag
      image: /local/pictures/menu
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Zaterdag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.zaterdag
      image: /local/pictures/menu
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Zondag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.zondag
      image: /local/pictures/menu
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Maandag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.maandag
      image: /local/pictures/menu
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Dinsdag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.dinsdag
      image: /local/pictures/menu
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Woensdag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.woensdag
      image: /local/pictures/menu
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: sensor.day
        state: Donderdag
    card:
      type: picture-entity
      entity: input_text.donderdag
      image: /local/pictures/menu

Last thing to do was to create a routine in GH. ‘Hey Google, Turn on what’s for dinner’ doesn’t sound that natural. When I say what’s for dinner tonight she will turn on the input_boolean what_eat_today and with that trigger the flow for broadcasting what’s for dinner.

andjohansen · October 19, 2022, 8:02am

May I ask you to share yaml for the layout of the input_text fields? Looks very clean.

Luitertje · October 19, 2022, 5:58pm

Hi,

Nothing special, just a few entities in a card with a dark background. The icon for the input_field is mdi:silverware-fork-knife


type: entities
entities:
  - entity: input_text.zondag
  - entity: input_text.maandag
  - entity: input_text.dinsdag
  - entity: input_text.woensdag
  - entity: input_text.donderdag
  - entity: input_text.vrijdag
  - entity: input_text.zaterdag
  - entity: input_text.zondag_2
  - entity: input_text.maandag_2
  - entity: input_text.dinsdag_2
  - entity: input_text.woensdag_2
show_header_toggle: false
state_color: true

Kevin-K · September 15, 2023, 2:50pm

Hi @Luitertje,

This looks great.

I’m new to Home Assistant and learning. How to create that sensor, I don’t get it working.
Can you help me so that I only see what meal is planned for today? And when I click on that I can see the other days and rewrite the input fields.

Thanks (alvast bedankt )
Kevin

Luitertje · September 17, 2023, 7:53pm

Hi Kevin!

Which part are you struggling on and what did you already try?
You can also reach out to me on discord (username LJU).

Kevin-K · September 19, 2023, 7:46am

What I tried already, not much because it’s al new for me and exploring how everything works. Bit by bit I learn more and can create more. But my request is just too complicated for me at the moment.

I would like to have a card that only displays what is on the menu today. But when I click on this card I see the rest of the week menu and be able to change the text fields.

Luitertje · September 19, 2023, 6:06pm

Think you’re looking for a pop-up card. That isn’t available by default in HA and you’ll need to install browser mod for that: GitHub - thomasloven/hass-browser_mod: 🔹 A Home Assistant integration to turn your browser into a controllable entity and media player