Sep 12, 2024 2 min read

Bin day reminders

I have since moved into a house (about a year ago), where I am without the luxury of a communal waste area where it didn't really matter when the bin collection day was.

I realised that keeping track of the bin days which moved days when there was a bank holiday, was a tad annoying. I live in the "Adur & Worthing Council" area of the UK, and they have a website which reveals your designated collection days. Yes, I could just print the calendar and have that, but what would be the fun in that?

I found this HomeAssistant plugin that was growing in popularity, but didn't contain my council, so I used my previous skill of web-scraping to pull this data into my instance.

I now have a HomeAssistant calendar with the next 3-weeks worth of bin days, and made a couple of automations reminding me when to do either the recycling or refuse.

As of merging, I'm aware of 2 other people utilising it from the following bugs - (Who said engineers don't make mistakes?)