Really awesome!!!
How does the coffee machine water level sensor work??? Is this a smart CM?
Tks!!!
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Its a dumb Aldi coffee machine with an Ultrasonic sensor being added to the lid of the water reservoir. It reports the water level and when I trigger my morning routine, done by walking past a motion sensor it will read out weather etc and alert me if I need to refill water level before making coffee, it is mainly for my wife as she runs it without water all the bloody time.
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Next step with this is to rig up the buttons so they can be automated also, but making pod coffee is still a pretty much manual process, I could have the milk frother filled in the evening before I get up but to be honest its just part of my routine and how far does one take it to save maybe 2 mins.
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One question: how do you get the icon to turn yellow for Living: Detected?
Hey @jimpower, sorry to badger but any word on this?
I replied but maybe I forgot to reply directly to you sorry.
Actually thats a lie, and I really can’t remember I used to use a custom component to do this
But I think now I just set the device_class of the binary_sensors and they do the rest.
binary_sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
## Door Sensors
front_door:
friendly_name: Front Door Sensor
device_class: connectivity
entity_id: sensor.front_door
value_template: "{{ is_state('sensor.front_door', 'on') }}"
icon_template: >-
{% if is_state('sensor.front_door', 'on') %}
mdi:door
{% elif is_state('sensor.front_door', 'off') %}
mdi:door
{% else %}
mdi:alert
{% endif %}
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Nice job. Given you are in Aus, have you got Darksky working or are you using different weather feeds? I can see darksky referenced in your lovelace-ui.yaml, but I can’t see the sensor referenced anywhere else…just curious as I did not think we could get AU wether feeds from Dark Sky.
we can get Aussie weather on DarkSky but it is not very accurate from my experience which is why I stopped using it
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As @sparkydave states you can but they are pretty inaccurate which really baffles me as how hard would it be to scrape it from the BOM site like we do 
I use weather underground and the BOM weather platforms. I use the BOM states with my morning briefs etc and to display against my picture element cards. I have been meaning to adapt the custom weather card for use with the BOM platform I think I saw a new one added just last week here its on my to do list just there is alot. I still have boxes of sensors in my garage, led strips etc we are in the middle of house reno atm so bathroom is gutted but I get to run a few extras in there now 
@jimpower @Pre10der I am now using this which works really well for a forecast, combined with the standard BOM sensor for the current values.
Yes that’s the one on my to do list just need to add it when I’m finished on my current lovelace card.
Great, thanks @sparkydave. I’ll give it a shot and like @jimpower, see if I can incorporate it into a lovelace card.
Nice work.
How it looks on phone screen?
To be honest I never really use on my phone as mainly everything is automated and I can use Alexa to do things if manual intervention is required. If I do need to press a button it is normally a smart button or tablet used for that. I will bring it up on my phone now, I have a Samsung S9 so I think screen size is odd compared to others brands?
Actually scaling doesn’t work to well for picture-elements cards I’m not sure how to achieve this maybe with using absolute positioning? I’m not sure if this can be done maybe someone smarter then me can way in on this but since it is CSS you should be able to.
any good guides to create my own pictures for lovelace? do i need to reference a js file? I just started with home assistant but plex doesn’t have a custom lovelace when its idle, very frustrating!
I’m sorry, completely forgot this. I’ll try to add it tomorrow night!
What do you think, should it override artwork cover or only if no media artwork is available?
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Yeah I think the artwork cover is great but unless you are meticulous like me with all of your media files then it is quite possible that some media may not contain artwork and also idle.
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gday @jimpower i’m in Brissy trying to get some stuff working with animated weather cards. I cant quite find where you are pulling the weather from for your animated cards in repo. looks like BOM and wunderground at the moment. just wondering how you got the text along the bottom for forecast.
Hi Dominic,
I think my weather package isn’t up to date on github, I am using the dark sky component however as stated above it isn’t very accurate for Australia.
You can find the link here
@jimpower @Pre10der I am now using this which works really well for a forecast, combined with the standard BOM sensor for the current values.