BIR Waste Watch for Home Assistant

This is not an official integration from BIR!

This Home Assistant extension dynamically generates sensors for waste collection schedules based on your address. It fetches the data from BIRs API to find the appropriate dates for waste pickup and creates sensors accordingly.

🌟 Features

• 📍 Dynamically creates sensors based on the available waste types (e.g., Mixed Waste, Paper & Plastic, Food Waste or Glass & Metal) for your address.
• 🎛 Easy setup through Home Assistant's UI.

📝 Prerequisites

• Home Assistant instance up and running.
• Your garbage is picked up by BIR and your address is listed in BIR.no's database.

📦 Installation

Option 1: HACS

• Follow and install it

• Restart Home Assistant

  or

• Go to HACS -> Integrations,

• Select +,

• Search for BIR Waste Watch and install it,

• Restart Home Assistant

• Go to Devices & services and click add integration and search for BIR Waste Watch

• Follow the configuration guide bellow

Option 2: Manual

1. Download the latest release here.

2. Extract the zip and copy the files to the custom_components folder.

   cp -r bir/ /config/custom_components/

3. Restart Home Assistant

   Restart your Home Assistant instance to pick up the new files.

4. Add Integration

   • Go to Home Assistant's UI.
   • Navigate to Settings.
   • Go to Devices and Services.
   • Click Add Integration.
   • Search for BIR Waste Watch and click to add.

Configuration

During the setup phase, you'll need to provide a URL from BIR.no

1. Go to bir.no.
2. Enter your address in the search field and click on your address.
3. Once you can see the dates, copy the URL from the address bar(should looks something similar to this: https://bir.no/adressesoek/?rId=c2435f0f-2e4b-4908-86cf-bafbd3a2cf61&name=Lillehatten%20330,%20Bergen).
4. Paste this URL into the setup phase of the integration in Home Assistant's UI.