Tidbyt Integration

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I’ve created a Tidbyt App which you can use to show notifications from HA.

The idea is:

  • HA uses the rest_command to post to a MongoDB cluster (M0-Free) in Atlas (atlas.mongodb.com)
  • The Tidbyt app (MongoDB Notify) will pull that notification from the MongoDB cluster and display it.

It’s open-ended in that you should be able to display almost (Marquee isn’t going to work) anything you like. You just have to “draw” it in JSON instead of using the Tidbyt widgets. I have a simple notification and a placard notification in the README.md to get you started.

https://tidbyt.dev/docs/reference/widgets

I have this working at my home and it does what I want it to do. It takes a bit of setup on:

  • Home Assistant
  • Atlas / MongoDB
  • Tidbyt

but hopefully the README.md is complete enough to where you can just go through it, copy/paste things and have it working.

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Just a note: It stopped working this morning. I found the “bug” (I think something was changed on the back end because it was now seeing ints as floats and complaining). Anyway, because of that, you won’t see the backend error and you won’t see your messages. I put the fix up but am waiting for them to approve it.

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FYI: They merged the code and released it. It’s working again.

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Note: Data API on Atlas is being deprecated. It’ll work until September 30, 2025 but then that’s it.

Hopefully we can come up with some other ways of getting notifications on the Tidbyt within the next year.

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Here’s an alternative to what you’ve built that doesn’t rely on anything other than Tidbyt servers.