Tracking numbers

Third party integrations
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EDITED for clarity.

I just want a HA integration that looks at my mailbox, finds tracking numbers or notifications, and shows me a notification when things are arriving. In Home Assistant. on a nice handy-dandy card. or even just generate entities I could make into one.

there’s “mail and packages” which is 5 years outdated. (and doesn’t work or is so arcane i can’t tell)
there’s “HA Email Sensor”/tracking-numbers which is like 3 years outdated. (and doesn’t work)
both of which I dumped hours of my life into and eventually found messages from others saying “is this maintained? hello?” with no answer so if they’re maintained there’s no support.
…anyone able to suggest something current that does this job?

i’d be very happy with a plugin that just went into my email and looked for a keyword and then did an action…I could bend that into a whole bunch of useful things. and could add a layer of security in a number of ways depending on the mechanism of the tool but first i’d need to find such a thing.

Please assume I’ve been looking things up in this open, publicly-available forum for a while. but if one doesn’t know the right keywords to search on a particular topic, it becomes very frustrating.

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You have been here under 60 days. Read an hours worth. And are pretty demanding.

And, what you are asking for is one of the most secure products due to hacking issues.

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MicroSoft OutLook has ‘rules’ for doing exactly that. There are shipper supplied apps. There is AI that can monitor your inbox.
What exactly are you trying to achieve?

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The IMAP sensor as @Didgeridrew posted can do this.
I have this to renew the kids placement in a queue every month by “clicking a link”.

I’m curious though, what do you mean by 5 years outdated? Has it not world for 5 years? How would you know?

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There are automations to do that for you too… :slight_smile:

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Packages that have been around for years, that have no recent updates, no recent bug reports, not archived, frequent updates solving user reports in a short time frame tends to indicate ‘stable’ to me.
What specific packages did you look at and reject?
Why?

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Yes… ?
That is what I have. A IMAP sensor and automations to perform different actions such as clicking the link.

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To save @splott from searching, far more deeper, would you be kind enough to suggest which integration you use? Oh I see, the inbuilt one. Ok.
Is there lots of examples and gotcha warnings? Ok.
Will it work after careful research and defining requirements clearly? That is the question.

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@Didgeridrew thank you! that looks like a good candidate!

@IOT7712 the “packages that have been around for years” message looks like sarcasm but since you didn’t say what package you’re talking about, I can’t go look it up.

Hellis81: I’m looking at Github Issues sections and messages here. The Mail and Packages integration has been entirely off the map for 5 years and the card first wouldn’t install, then after three restarts it showed up but doesn’t configure, just shows up empty. making my own cards just didn’t work, i think the entities are dead.
The tracking-packages integration has a working card, but the integration itself doesn’t work and there was a message from the dev saying “oh it’s not grabbing dependencies, just install these packages manually” which is not a thing in HA, afaicf. unless it’s a Docker thing. I don’t use Docker.

Anyway, once again, I was looking for an integration suggestion. not troubleshooting. I’ve beat my head against the wall and read support requests, frozen my HA server repeatedly(!!!) trying to experiment, and I’m ready to find a better option and it looks like the IMAP integration might be it.