Sunday, December 11, 2022

Home Assistant with Feedreader for Google Alerts (monitor a share), Planning Alerts (new developments in your area), Open Australia (what your local member says and does)

RSS is a really powerful tool. Google Alerts allows you to monitor for news and new results, and importantly output to an RSS feed.

Here I'm picking an Adelaide company I quite like; to monitor few news via their stock ticker:


Through HomeAssistant, you simply want to enable that RSS feed via the feedreader component.

Very quickly, you've suddenly got a push notifications:

This opens up a huge range of possibilities. Want to have your automation platform let you know when your local representative talks about cycling infrastructure?
What about automatically discovering your neighbour is going to knock down your fence via planning applications in your area?


   

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