Messages from collectors in afvalwijzer?

[sndrsmnk]

Hi! My municipality switches to KlikoGroep waste collector in 2025. Ofcourse they want you to download their app and 'regularly visit the website for news'. How about no. So i helped implement their API so i can keep using homeassistant-afvalwijzer with my automations and dashboard.

Aaaaanyways; i dont plan on regularly visiting their website for the latest news either and discovered there is also a getMyMessages API call on their front end. So now i'm wondering wether it would be nice to implement some kind of notification system in homeassistant-afvalwijzer?

These messages are like 'we will close collection point xyz for maintenance on dd-mm-yy' or 'xmas tree collection, sign up here', etc. They could be useful...

I would try to build this in homeassistant-afvalwijzer myself, but i may (will 😛) need some guidance. This would be totally new functionality and the thing is the API does not have a 'seen' flag, just a post date for the messages, so i guess i need to keep local 'seen'-state? Also i dont know if there is any other collectors offering this kind of information making this worth the effort. And not least important, wether this functionality sounds like something we (xirxiz & community) would want in this specific HACS repo.

It could as well be my first HACS repo, implementing this separated from homeassistant-afvalwijzer... :)

Looking forward to hearing your ideas on this.

Thanks for being awesome, everyone. ❤️ Have a great 2025. 💥

[PatrickSt1991]

@sndrsmnk I've just created this #391, which also adds a new functionality to Afvalwijzer. Maybe we can start working on this as well.

I mean, if it's useful for you, it might be useful for other folks as well, right?

As long as we make it optional or implement it in your own garbage collector as a start, it won't interfere with the others.