Garbage Collection Reminder

[ahndee]

Apparently the end point returns “Christmas” rather than “Christmas Day” – you need to change that in the initial definition of holidays (observedHolidays).

Also, it runs nightly in order to send the notification (if necessary) – seeing it being scheduled doesn’t mean that it is actually going to send a notification.

[Danabw]

Thanks, easy quick fix. Appreciate you taking the time to clear that up for me.

[DarcRanger]

Is this piston still working for anyone. It stop working for me, and I do not know what has changed.

[ahndee]

Still working for me. You might try to “Test” the piston to make sure it gets properly scheduled.

[WCmore]

The API call is timing out for me at:

http://holidayapi.riccardoravaro.com/api/v1/holidays?country=US&year=2018&month=3&day=20

[ahndee]

OK - seems like that API is no longer available. I found another one and reworked the piston to use that one as well (the piston actually got a little simpler since it can query for multiple days in a single request).

For some reason the editor likes to replace &r with ® – the URL expressions is

format('https://kayaposoft.com/enrico/json/v2.0/?action=getHolidaysForDateRange&fromDate=%s&toDate=%s&country=%s&region=%s&holidayType=public_holiday',formatDateTime($now, "d-M-y"), formatDateTime(addDays($now, pickupDay), "d-M-y"), countryCode, regionCode)

Please note that you need to adjust the countryCode and regionCode variables to match your need (the API website at the beginning of the post lists the available values for them).

[sgrayban]

Seems this feature is broken with your piston now.

Open the piston – not in edit mode – and scroll down to the bottom. Then click the tiny little edit button next to the variable:

[ahndee]

Nothing to do with the piston — webCoRE changed the way this is handled and now shows a dialog when editing variable values:

[sgrayban]

So change it to true ?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WtnvskXIfcYAszbRES4lPZztn5dQO5iX/view?usp=drivesdk

[ahndee]

So change it to true

True or false, depending what week you’re currently in. It will alternate after that.

[sgrayban]

We have recycling every week

[ahndee]

Then just initialize it to true in the code itself. That way it will always be true.

[sgrayban]

I did and I reported that it didn’t work last week. I’ll wait again for this week and see if it triggers correctly.

[coops8d]

At the end of the line 45 it has ‘with type JSON’ but when I put this code in I don’t have that and can not find a way to add it.

Also I am in Aus so can not use SMS and also using Hubitat so can not use push notification. I usually go with IFTTT push notification but how do I set it up for this instance?

EDIT: Never mind, worked it out with some other code to do Pushover.net with out IFTTT. Thank for the piston!

[ahndee]

At the end of the line 45 it has ‘with type JSON’ but when I put this code in I don’t have that and can not find a way to add it.

My screenshot is from an older version of webCoRE – if I would create a new screenshot now it would no longer show the with JSON either.

See the following announcement for more details on the change:

webCoRE Update v0.3.105.20180628: improvements to web requests, reorder variables, collapse fuel streams

The v0.3.105.20180628 update includes a few notable changes described below. Be sure to refresh your dashboard and update to the latest smart apps from GitHub. Feedback is welcome in this thread but if there are any serious issues please start a new topic. Variable reordering When editing a piston, the define section can now be reordered: [variable-reorder] Like statements, variables can be copied by holding down the alt key while dropping. Since variable names must be unique, copying a va…

[coops8d]

Fair enough, thanks for that!

[sgrayban]

Apparently this isn’t working anymore. Not sure if the GET format is asking in JSON format.

We had a holiday this week and all pickup is for Saturday but the piston returned Friday.

[ahndee]

It works just fine for me:

It lists Friday but my normal pickup day is Thursday:

(also note that isHoliday is correctly set to true).

Please make sure that you have the holidays listed, correctly spelled, and that both countryCode and regionCode are set correctly.

[sgrayban]

isHoliday is set false in the boolean

country us
region wa

strange

[ahndee]

Hmm - the request does return the correct result:
https://kayaposoft.com/enrico/json/v2.0/?action=getHolidaysForDateRange&fromDate=2-9-2018&toDate=6-9-2018&country=us&region=wa&holidayType=public_holiday