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HA Sensors for the ACT next bin pickup date information for suburbs
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Dataset problems (solved?) #4

Open Makin-Things opened 1 year ago

Makin-Things commented 1 year ago

Hi Simon, About 6 weeks ago the dataset got messed up (at least for my suburb). It took a little convincing and screenshots, but TSSC acknowledged that there was a problem and advised me yesterday that it had been fixed. I can't confirm that as yet, as the only time I got wrong data was on Sundays (the day before collection).

As a OT side note, have you considered doing this as an integration so that you don't need to use the appdeamon? I suspect it would be pretty straight foreward and would make it easier to install.

simonhq commented 1 year ago

Hi Simon,

Glad the dataset issue got solved, something similar seems to happen occasionally, maybe when an automatic upload doesn't run on their end or similar. I often just send them an email asking what is happening, never hear anything but it is fixed. Yours sounds more significant, possibly due to the changes they made to the pick up days in different suburbs.

I have looked at turning this into an integration, it is on my list but other things have been making me put it off. Though it looks like my work may be letting me do some of this type of work during work time, so this will be one of the first things on my list. But happy to have some guidance if you have done an integration before.

Simon.