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Feed: My Home Automation bin-day LED strip reminder

LED strip changing to the colors of the different bins

Do you ever remember that it was bin day only after the collection truck has already passed and your bin is still full?

To avoid this, I made an LED strip reminder under my dresser. Every evening, my home automation checks the waste-collection schedule and lights up a Zigbee LED strip in the color of the bin that needs to be put outside the next day: green for garden waste, grey for household waste, blue for paper, and orange for plastic.

bin day countdown

The automation starts with the Dutch/Belgian Home Assistant Afvalbeheer integration. On my phone and living-room dashboard, I can also see the upcoming collection days and countdowns. I use Home Assistant templates for a trash bin day countdown and to check whether tomorrow is a trash bin day. Node-RED, my automation tool, checks each day which bin is due the next day and sets the LED strip to the matching color.

I can also send the same reminder from Node-RED to Home Assistant as a notification to my phone.

For a smaller visual reminder, I also built a smart notification light with a smart GU10 light which can be used for this purpose as well.

smart notification light for bin day based on a GU10

Read the full LED strip setup, including the Home Assistant and Node-RED flow, on the Bin day LED strip reminder page.

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