Feature Request: Park until next schedule

[r3dsouza]

Firstly, thanks for creating this custom component. I recently bought an automower and it was great to be able integrate it within home assistant using this component.

I'd like to request the addition of "Park until next schedule". Currently when I invoke the return_to_base service, the mower is parked manually which means I have to manually turn it on the following day. I would like to request an additional service that will park the mower but will it will start on next schedule.

[nelsonblaha]

I find it much simpler to issue all start and stop commands from Home Assistant, and do all one's scheduling via Node-Red or automations. That way anything is possible.

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[r3dsouza]

That's a good idea! I hadn't considered using NodeRed for scheduling and was trying to use the scheduling in the built in app. I will give NodeRed a try. Thanks.

[sjp770]

I find it much simpler to issue all start and stop commands from Home Assistant, and do all one's scheduling via Node-Red or automations. That way anything is possible.
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 3:59 PM r3dsouza @.***> wrote: Firstly, thanks for creating this custom component. I recently bought an automower and it was great to be able integrate it within home assistant using this component. I'd like to request the addition of "Park until next schedule". Currently when I invoke the return_to_base service, the mower is parked manually which means I have to manually turn it on the following day. I would like to request an additional service that will park the mower but will it will start on next schedule. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAKH5PZEWQNMDFDDOL4DZ7TR3DHB5ANCNFSM4OXO6K3A .

How do you interface with it in Node Red?

Also voting for this Park until next schedule feature.

[nelsonblaha]

@sjp770 I didn't keep track of the whole process sadly, but the steps are something like:

• get this custom component in, so that you can call vacuum.start and such successfully
• get node-red hooked up to Home Assistant so that services can be called from it (I think using hass.io supervisor and installing node-red through it simplifies this)
• call vacuum services in Node-red with the "call service" node

All of this is out of date but I published my automower node-red flows a while back, might be helpful. You can copy/paste json into node-red somehow and see how the nodes are linked.