🗑️ TrashCard

Never forget garbage collection day again!

TrashCard is a custom Home Assistant card that displays the your current and upcoming trash collection schedule. It uses events contained within the local calendar integration to display the information.

Features

• Colors, icons and text for residual, organic, paper waste and recycling events.
• Colors and icons for all custom events.
• A filter for events.

Pre-Requirements

TrashCard requires:

• The Home Assistant calendar integration.

Once you have both of these installed, you can install TashCard either:

• Through HACS.
• Manually.

Installation

HACS

TrashCard is available in HACS (Home Assistant Community Store).

1. Install HACS if you haven’t already.
2. Open HACS in Home Assistant.
3. Go to the "Frontend" section.
4. Click the "+" icon.
5. Search for "TrashCard".

Manual

1. Download the latest latest release of trashcard.js from the GitHub repository.
2. Add trashcard.js into your config/www folder.

You must then add a reference to trashcard.js in your Dashboard. There are two methods for doing this:

Using the UI:

• Settings → Dashboards → More Options icon → Resources → Add Resource → Set Url as /local/trashcard.js → Set Resource type as JavaScript Module.

Note: If you do not see the Resources menu, you will need to enable Advanced Mode in your User Profile

Using YAML:

Add following code to the lovelace section in configuration.yaml:

  ```yaml
  resources:
    - url: /local/trashcard.js
      type: module
  ```

Usage

Create events in your calendar

In order for TrashCard to display information, your garbage collection schedule needs to be added in the local calendar. Creating a dedicated “Garbage collection” calendar for this purpose is a good way to keep things organised.

Note:

• When adding the dates, the events must be set to “Full day”.
• The event name (in the “summary” field) must be the same name as the type of collection event.
• Up to five different types of collection events are supported (Garbage, recycling, organic waste etc.).
• Repeating events are supported.

Configuration

The TrashCard cards can be configured using the Dashboard UI editor.

Add a new card

1. In the Dashboard UI, select "Edit Dashboard" in top right corner.
2. Click the "+Add Card" button.
3. Find the Custom: TrashCard card in the list.
4. Set the entity to the calendar that contains the collection events.
5. Configure the display settings of the card using the options.

All the options listed below are available in the lovelace editor, but configuring via yaml is supported too.

Pattern

Other type trash configuration

Example calendar events

The red and yellow bins are collected every fortnight on Thursdays. The red and green bins are collected every other fortnight on Thursdays.

Example TrashCard configuration that displays the events shown above

Output of the configuration above, using a custom picture instead of an icon

Example YAML configuration

type: custom:trash-card
entities:
  - calendar.mags_abfuhrtermine
layout: vertical
event_grouping: true
drop_todayevents_from: '10:00:00'
next_days: 300
day_style: counter
card_style: card
color_mode: background
items_per_row: 4
refresh_rate: 60
with_label: true
filter_events: false
use_summary: false
hide_time_range: false
pattern:
  - label: Organic
    icon: mdi:flower
    pattern: braun
    color: light-green
    type: organic
  - label: Paper
    icon: mdi:newspaper-variant-multiple-outline
    color: indigo
    pattern: blau
    type: paper
  - label: Recycling
    pattern: gelb
    icon: mdi:recycle-variant
    color: amber
    type: recycle
  - pattern: grau
    icon: mdi:trash-can
    label: Waste
    color: dark-grey
    type: waste
  - icon: mdi:dump-truck
    color: purple
    type: others
  - label: Electric
    icon: mdi:electron-framework
    color: pink
    type: custom
    pattern: elektro

Icons and Layouts

Layout: icons

Layout: chips

Layout: cards

Using pictures instead of icons