Help with WCS getting to run - Austria

[stefa75]

Hi there,
im relative new to HA and automated my Energy and EVs in the future.
Now i want to build a Dashboard for our house and integrate the Waste Schedule.

My Config is like this:

waste_collection_schedule:
  sources:
    - name: umweltverbaende_at
      args:
        district: "krems"
        municipal: "Gobelsburg, Mittelberg, Reith, Schiltern, Zöbing"
      
sensor:
  - platform: waste_collection_schedule
    name: Müllabholung

But i get no entries in the calendar and the Sensor "Müllabholung" says "unknown".

Someone here who uses the "Umweltverbände" Source?

Thanks,
Stefan

[5ila5]

This source seems to be not perfectly made for multiple scedules within one municipality. In the current implementation you need to use

waste_collection_schedule:
  sources:
    - name: umweltverbaende_at
      args:
        district: "krems"
        municipal: "Langenlois"

and then remove the wrong one using customize.

I did some improvements in #1553 to solve this problem then you can use

waste_collection_schedule:
  sources:
    - name: umweltverbaende_at
      args:
        district: "krems"
        municipal: "Langenlois"
        calendar: "Gobelsburg, Mittelberg, Reith, Schiltern, Zöbing"

to only get your relevant entries.

This improvement will be part of release 1.45.0 or is available now as master (git) version (HACS: 3-dot menu -> redownload -> change version to master. This will increase updates by a lot)

[stefa75]

Thank you for this fast answer and solution. Will try the master version ;-)

[stefa75]

Have installed the 1.45.0 and now only the related Collection seems to be fetched from the website.

For example: Today is shown "Restmüll". But this is only for the "2-weekly-interval". The normal Interval is 4 weeks and shouldnt be shown in my case.
Also no Schedules for 2024 are in the calendar. Are they first fetched after 31.12. ?

In the PDF Calendar there ist shown "Restmüll" and "Restmüll 2". In their "text" calendar there ist "Restmüll monatlich" and "Restmüll 14-tägig".
Were do you get the data from?

[5ila5]

we do not parse the pdf but take the information from the table below Kalenderansicht on their page. If I have to guess they probably name the collections Restmüll and "Restmüll 2" like in the pdf. You could change this behaviour by providing customization:

waste_collection_schedule:
  sources:
    - name: umweltverbaende_at
      args:
        district: "krems"
        municipal: "Langenlois"
        calendar: "Gobelsburg, Mittelberg, Reith, Schiltern, Zöbing"
      customize:
        - type: Restmüll
          show: false
        - type: Restmüll 2
          alias: Restmüll

As for dates in 2024 they are not yet listed in Kalenderansicht. If they do not publish them there you need to switch to the ICS source and get the ICS file as we will not parse PDFs and I do not see any other location where collection dates are listed

[stefa75]

Thank you! I Will wait if they put the new dates in the Kalenderansicht! The best would be if they publish the ICS source on their Website...