Mail and Packages: Custom component for UPS, FEDEX, and USPS

firstof9 · February 14, 2020, 2:53pm

Could change the output to an animated PNG file, might work better.

fuzzymistborn · February 14, 2020, 2:57pm

Happy to test. Just FYI this is what the image looks like when I open on TG mobile.

It’s really not the biggest deal but I liked it for convenience. Oh, and I don’t think the hass app supports gifs yet, just tried and no luck.

FunPsycho · February 14, 2020, 3:11pm

Ok so I tried…

How do I get the image? I tired adding a path to the mail_today.gif and I couldn’t find where to put the camera.mail_usps.

Thanks

fuzzymistborn · February 14, 2020, 3:24pm

Get the image where? Lovelace? Notification?

firstof9 · February 14, 2020, 4:20pm

With the UPS Update: Follow Your Delivery on a Live Map email did it still come from [email protected] email address?

thenorthernsmiths · February 14, 2020, 4:52pm

It did yes.

firstof9 · February 14, 2020, 4:53pm

I’ll add this to the next version I have cooking

FunPsycho · February 14, 2020, 8:05pm

Lovelace image. Just shows this

fuzzymistborn · February 14, 2020, 8:23pm

Did you add this bit of code to your configuration.yaml under the camera: section? And verify that the path is accurate?

FunPsycho · February 14, 2020, 8:27pm

I just saw the documentation was updated. I’m getting a config error now that I’m working through after putting the sensors: template in

FunPsycho · February 14, 2020, 9:26pm

FINALLY!!!

Holy crap that was an adventure. Thanks for all the help!

firstof9 · February 14, 2020, 10:57pm

I’m getting a weird error regarding the image in the Home Assistant logs:
2020-02-14 15:40:12 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.hangouts.hangouts_bot] Failed to fetch image, <class 'aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorError'>

Going to see if it’s a permissions thing.

EDIT: Not a permissions thing, but the notification via the mobile app works perfectly fine.

fuzzymistborn · February 15, 2020, 12:45am

With the gif? Hmm…must not have mine right.

Here’s my log erroring out in TG:

2020-02-14 08:09:40 ERROR (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.components.telegram_bot] Error sending message: Timed out. Args: (XXXXXXXXXX, "*Today's Mail and Packages*\n3 pieces of mail will be delivered. No packages are in transit."), kwargs: {'parse_mode': 'Markdown', 'disable_notification': False, 'disable_web_page_preview': None, 'reply_to_message_id': None, 'reply_markup': None, 'timeout': None}
2020-02-14 08:09:40 ERROR (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.telegram_bot] Error sending file: Timed out. Args: (XXXXXXXX, <_io.BufferedReader name='/config/www/mail_and_packages/mail_today.gif'>), kwargs: {'caption': None, 'parse_mode': 'Markdown', 'disable_notification': False, 'disable_web_page_preview': None, 'reply_to_message_id': None, 'reply_markup': None, 'timeout': None}

Also had this later when I tried manually:

2020-02-14 10:26:57 WARNING (updater) [telegram.vendor.ptb_urllib3.urllib3.connectionpool] Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<telegram.vendor.ptb_urllib3.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f47d71c3a10>, 'Connection to api.telegram.org timed out. (connect timeout=5.0)')': /botXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/getUpdates
2020-02-14 10:27:02 WARNING (updater) [telegram.vendor.ptb_urllib3.urllib3.connectionpool] Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<telegram.vendor.ptb_urllib3.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f47d5430950>, 'Connection to api.telegram.org timed out. (connect timeout=5.0)')': /botXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/getUpdates

firstof9 · February 15, 2020, 2:39am

Via the Home Assistant companion app notifications with the image work fine, I’m not sure what’s going on as the image seems fine when I hit it from external sources.

moralmunky · February 15, 2020, 3:41am

Taking a look through the Imageio docs I see that gifsicle also has a python port. This can dramatically reduce the size of animated gifs.

I use it to reduce the size of the animated weather maps I pull in from the National Weather Service in a shell script. I’m going to look into this so I don’t have to load the binary for my weather card.

firstof9 · February 19, 2020, 10:18pm

I have image scaling to 700x315 on my branch for testing if anyone wants to give it a go for testing as well. @moralmunky

moralmunky · February 19, 2020, 11:43pm

I’ve installed the efficiency branch. No mail today. Commenting out the image deleting so I can check out the images.

moralmunky · February 19, 2020, 11:47pm

Once the efficiency branch is merged I’ll create a development branch.

firstof9 · February 24, 2020, 3:19am

Version 0.1.1 up on github and HACS

Changes:

Only login to email once and pull all the emails needed in one swoop
Changed GIF rotation time to 5 seconds
Subtract delivered packages from ‘in transit’ packages, should no longer result in negative counts
No more slow start warnings since we check the email in one call now
Added aspect ratio calculations to keep image looking correctly
Added additional subject searches for FedEx emails
Bump version to 0.1.0 since we’re no longer using Imagemagick and fixed the speed issues

If you find bugs fire up an issue on github.

Anemoi · February 25, 2020, 11:56pm

First thanks for all the work everyone has done on this it is an awesome component that I am really excited to get working. Unfortunately I am having some trouble.

Before I updated to 0.1.1 I go to the point that it created all the sensors but I couldn’t get it to detect the emails. Now that I have updated the sensors are gone and I am getting an error in the logs saying “unable to install package scipy” and it is suggesting that I upgrade the pip. Truth is I am not at all savy when it comes to command line so I am hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

I am running the homeassistant docker in Unraid if it matters.