Home Assistant | Next Scheduled Feeding Sensor Template

[DhananjayRamachandran]

Device model name

Granary Feeder

Device model number

PLAF103

Device type

Feeder

Feature name

Next Scheduled Feeding

Describe the feature

It would be extremely helpful to have a sensor entity for next scheduled feeding time and quantity

What problem does this feature solve?

Additional Sensor for Dashboard

Available to help with the feature development

• I agree to help with testing or providing relevant information for this feature request

[C4-Dimitri]

@DhananjayRamachandran, you should be able to see this in the feeding plan sensors sensor attributes:

So as you can see in my example, plan 3 is the pending one.

you can make a template sensor that will return a result from the next "Pending" plan in the attributes, like this:

{% set feed_plan = states.sensor.lounge_jet_s_feeder_today_s_feeding_plan.attributes %}
{% for plan, result in feed_plan.items() %}
  {% if result is mapping and (result.state | default(result['state']) | string | lower) == 'pending' %}
    {{ result.time | default(result['time']) }}
    {% break %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

this one returns the time for the next feeding plan.

you can of course have it return something else by changing this bit:

{{ result.amount| default(result['amount']) }}

to say amount for example instead to return the amount to be fed next.

The only thing this won't give you, is that if the next feed is in the next day. In which case this template will be blank, but that is because the schedule is fully completed, so there are no more "pending" feeds in the schedule and therefore in the attributes.

[jjjonesjr33]

That actually would be pretty handy for my dashboard.

[itsthekayl]

I just had this thought and here it is. Thanks!

[C4-Dimitri]

FYI in the current open pull request this is also being added to the integration itself, so no need for the template after that :)

[itsthekayl]

Since I suck at time formatting but just spent two hours figuring it out......here's my template if it helps anyone else.

{% set feed_plan = states.sensor.left_granary_feeder_today_s_feeding_plan.attributes %}
{% for plan, result in feed_plan.items() %}
  {% if result is mapping and (result.state | default(result['state']) | string | lower) == 'pending' %}
    {% set time1 = (result.time | default(result['time'])) %}
    {% set time2 = strptime(time1,"%H:%M") %}
    {{ time2 | as_datetime | as_timestamp | timestamp_custom('%-I:%M %p') }}
    {% break %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}