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Car Wash Binary Sensor for Home Assistant

This component checks the weather forecast for several days in advance and concludes whether it is worth washing the car now.

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Installation

Install from HACS (recommended)

1. Have HACS installed, this will allow you to easily manage and track updates.
2. Search for "Car Wash".
3. Click Install below the found integration.

... then if you want to use configuration.yaml to configure sensor...

1. Add car_wash sensor to your configuration.yaml file. See configuration examples below.
2. Restart Home Assistant

Manual installation

1. Using the tool of choice open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called car_wash.
4. Download file car_wash.zip from the latest release section in this repository.
5. Extract all files from this archive you downloaded in the directory (folder) you created.

... then if you want to use configuration.yaml to configure sensor...

1. Add car_wash sensor to your configuration.yaml file. See configuration examples below.
2. Restart Home Assistant

Configuration Examples

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: car_wash
    weather: weather.gismeteo_daily

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Configuration Variables

Note:
This sensor should work with any weather provider in any of it settings. But please note that the sensor cannot see further than the weather provider shows. Therefore, it is recommended to set the daily mode in the weather provider settings. If necessary, you can configure a separate weather provider instance especially for this sensor.

weather:
(string) (Required)
Weather provider entity ID.

unique_id
(string) (Optional)
An ID that uniquely identifies this sensor. Set this to a unique value to allow customization through the UI.

Note:
If you used the component version 1.4.0 or earlier, you can specify the special value __legacy__, so that no duplicates of already existing sensors are created.
The use of this special value in newly created sensors is not recommended.

Another way is to manually delete all old sensors via Configuration > Entities. Then restart HA and all the _2’s were was the original sensors again complete with their history.

name:
(string) (Optional) (Default value: 'Car Wash')
Name to use in the frontend.

days:
(positive integer) (Optional) (Default value: 2)
The number of days how far forward the sensor looks for the weather forecast.

Usage examples

Follow the link to see example how you can use this sensor in automations.

Note:
You can find a real example of using this component in my Home Assistant configuration.

Track updates

You can automatically track new versions of this component and update it by HACS.

Troubleshooting

To enable debug logs use this configuration:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    custom_components.car_wash: debug

... then restart HA.

Contributions are welcome!

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We have set up a separate document containing our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this component is by Andrey "Limych" Khrolenok.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

This Home Assistant custom component was created and is updated using the HA-Blueprint template. You can use this template to maintain your own Home Assistant custom components.

License

creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

See separate license file for full text.