Waste Collection Schedule smarthome integration for Home Assistant users in KW
For other Home Assistant users in the region, I wanted to make you aware of the ReCollect Waste integration which adds your collection schedule from the Waste Whiz app into your smarthome ecosystem. I found it while looking for ways to set up voice reminders the night before garbage day and thought it would be helpful to share in case there are others like me.
The Region's Waste Whiz app uses ReCollect and identifies each household's collection schedule using a Service ID (1110, global for the entire region), and a Place ID (unique to each address). You can get the Place ID of your house by looking it up on the Waste Whiz tool on the ROW website, clicking 'Get a Calendar', and extracting it from the calendar URL.
From there, you can use the calendar entities and Current/Next Pickup entity attributes to get the date and details about the upcoming collection event. I've added a dashboard card and some voice reminders listing pickup types so I know which bins to roll out plus some reminders the night before. I've found this especially helpful with the recent changes to garbage/recycling; since the region keeps Waste Whiz up to date I didn't have to do anything when my schedule got changed up.
Hope this helps somebody! I'm looking into the Green Button Connect integration next to hopefully hook in Enova utility monitoring. If there's any similar integrations you're aware of, I'd love to hear about them.
