(yet another) trash-collection rule and icon

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I know there are a number of examples out there but I could not find one which worked for me.
I have primarily two bins collected every other week.
*Blue - Mixed Recycling
*Black - Landfill

There alternate each week but if there is a bank holiday (aka public holiday) then the date is shifted out by one. All these dates are pre-published by the local council.

The basis of this was with the help of @hannibal29’s post

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Operation

  1. Every Monday night at 3am a cron rule kicks off a shell script
  2. There is a text file which contains the date and the colour of the bin for collection
  3. The shell script runs through a text file of dates and looks for the first date newer than today and returns the line
  4. A rule executes when the “run” channel changes the item to OFF
  5. The rule parses out the returned line which is the date and the colour.
  6. I downloaded 3 icons from flaticon - trash, trash-blue and trash-black (Same svg, just different colours)
    7.The rule sets the value of TrashNextDate and TrashNextColour appropriately
  7. In Habpanel I have two Dummy widgets which display the date and the icon with correct colour.

What you need:

things


Thing exec:command:trash "Trash" [ command="/opt/apps/trash/trash.sh", interval=0, autorun=false ]

*Note: Your file must be executable by openhab. A cheat is
chmod 777 “path to file”
chmod +x “path to file”

bash script


#Current date
datum=$(date +%s)

trash_file="/opt/apps/trash/trash.txt"

while read raw_line
do
	datum_line=$(echo $raw_line| cut -c1-10)
	datum_line_sec=$(date -d $datum_line +%s)
	if [ $datum_line_sec -ge $datum ]
	then
		echo $raw_line
		exit 0
	fi
done < $trash_file
echo "Error"
exit 1;

dates file

2019-04-26|blue
2019-05-02|black
2019-05-10|blue
2019-05-16|black
2019-05-23|blue
2019-05-31|black
2019-06-06|blue
2019-06-13|black
2019-06-20|blue
2019-06-27|black
2019-07-04|blue
2019-07-11|black
2019-07-18|blue
2019-07-25|black
2019-08-01|blue
2019-08-08|black
2019-08-15|blue
2019-08-22|black
2019-08-29|blue
2019-09-05|black
2019-09-12|blue
2019-09-19|black
2019-09-26|blue
2019-10-03|black
2019-10-10|blue
2019-10-17|black
2019-10-24|blue
2019-10-31|black
2019-11-07|blue
2019-11-14|black
2019-11-21|blue
2019-11-28|black
2019-12-05|blue
2019-12-12|black
2019-12-19|blue
2019-12-26|black
2020-01-02|blue

items

// items for exec-binding

String      TrashRaw            "Script - trash [%s]"  { channel="exec:command:trash:output" }
Switch      TrashRaw_Run        "Script - trash - Run [%s]" { channel="exec:command:trash:run" }
Number      TrashRaw_Result     "Script - trash - exit [%d]"  { channel="exec:command:trash:exit" }

DateTime    TrashNextDate       "Next bin date [%1$td.%1$tm.%1$tY]"
String      TrashNextColour     "Next bin colour [%s]"   <trash>

rules

rule "trash - parse output"
when
  Item TrashRaw_Run changed to OFF
then  



    if (TrashRaw_Result.state != 0) {
        logError("trash - parse output", "Last exit code from Trash Run was not zero. Something went wrong.")
        return;
    }

    val String trashRes = TrashRaw.state.toString
    if (!trashRes.contains("|")){
        logError("trash - parse output", "Result, '" + trashRes + "' is not formatted correctly.")
        return;
    }

    val trashDateString = trashRes.substring(0, 10)
    val trashColour = trashRes.substring(11) 

    TrashNextDate.sendCommand(new DateTimeType(trashDateString + "T00:00:00"))
    TrashNextColour.sendCommand(trashColour)
end

rule "trash - get next date"
when Time cron "0 0 3 ? * MON *"
then 
    logInfo("trash - get next date", "Triggering")
    TrashRaw_Run.sendCommand(ON)
end

The final home screen on the wall-mounted tablets look like this:

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Hopefully someone else can use this or at least get some ideas from it. :slight_smile:

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