Flow Details
Home Assistant is equipt with RSS reader and we are taking advantage of it to project RSS story title to the Awtrix Light. The Automation dumps RSS title into TEXT helper entitity and then MQTT will push the "state" into Awtrix Light. We are also using sound notification in Alexa to know when the RSS feed is comming to the device. Enjoy.
Add Feeder RSS source into your "Configuration.yml" file
feedreader:
urls:
- https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/rss
- https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast
scan_interval:
minutes: 30
max_entries: 5
Create TEXT Helper with 255 charracters ( see picture attached )
Create Automation, This example will also play short sound on Alexa before the actual news appear on the device.
alias: BBC RSS title
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: feedreader
event_data:
feed_url: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml
condition: []
action:
- service: input_text.set_value
data:
value: "{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"
target:
entity_id: input_text.newsitem_title
enabled: true
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 10
milliseconds: 0
- service: media_player.play_media
data:
entity_id:
- media_player.studio
media_content_id: amzn_sfx_doorbell_chime_01
media_content_type: sound
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 10
milliseconds: 0
- service: mqtt.publish
data:
qos: "0"
retain: false
topic: awtrix/notify
payload_template: |-
{
"text": "{{ states('input_text.newsitem_title') }} ",
"icon": "1364",
"repeat": 2,
"duration": 20
}
mode: single
-- Flow first published on November 28, 2023.
