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I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)
My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.
Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!
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really like those custom:auto-entities cards
that really needs to be included functionality instead of something I need to find in #HACS!
Don't know how I could stand typing all entity-IDs into dashboards before I knew about that.
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CW: home automation, technical
#HomeAssistant
Finally gathered some courage and installed #HACS (Home Assistant Community Store). For those not familiar, it's a way to install unofficial HA integrations.
Tried the 1st one (#Landroid #Worx mower) - success, it works out of the box.
It's a cloud (not local) integration, but way better than nothing :)