Home Assistant News AWTRIX 3

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Send RSS News Title or Description of the news story to the Awtrix Light

Published 28 November 2023 · 3 downloads

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.

GjKxoYGy5mze.yaml · 1.5 KB

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

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