RSS News

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

Home Assistant AWTRIX 3

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Specifications
System	Home Assistant
AWTRIX version	AWTRIX 3
Topic	News
Built by	Vendo232
File	GjKxoYGy5mze.yaml · 1.5 KB
Icons	—
Published	28 Nov 2023
Downloads	20

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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

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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