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Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar

17 pointsby surprisetalklast Monday at 1:45 PM4 commentsview on HN

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toabitoday at 12:08 PM

Nice. My personal fridge bin reminder setup uses a Cheap Yellow Display, Home Assistant and the wonderful https://github.com/mampfes/hacs_waste_collection_schedule

mortartoday at 12:08 PM

Interesting what works for some, we just use two recurring calendar events for a 3-bin system the night before. Where the pickups differ like end of year holidays, we revert to no tech and just glance into the street and see what everyone else is doing.

artisinaltoday at 12:14 PM

I always smile when I see Anglophones and their outdated concepts. You could just have a communal or public bin and then never have to worry about putting the bin out. But no, let’s instead make a complicated schedule and penalize people who don’t keep to that schedule. And have everyone sacrifice a square meter of their yard to stinky bins.

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whycometoday at 12:13 PM

I’m suppose this only needs to show two types of collection days? (Black and green).

Things are more complicated in other states: Recycling (Blue?) Organics (Green?) General (Black?) Bulk (Red?) Yard Waste (Brown?)

And you’ll need to show multiple items for single days.

I’m starting to think a calendar isn’t the best reference tool for my own situation. I don’t need to see the entire month. Maybe something along the line of just the listings of the pickup days for that week (Fridays in my part of town).

Fri Jul 3 (Moved to Sat Jul 4) Garbage. Recycling. Organic. Bulk. Yard.

Fri Jul 19 Recycling. Organic.

Etc

It’s an interesting design problem