Invalid date in maintenance sensors about ha-rest980-roomba HOT 4 CLOSED

I've added some comments to the README and FAQ - thanks 👍

from ha-rest980-roomba.

I just clicked on my maintenance sensor check button cards - which were all reading "Over by 50 Years" and as I did so, they all started changing to proper/different dates. I knew that I had to click on the each once the first time to set them up but apparently once set up they need to be clicked on again? I'm going to leave this open for now until I can verify that these dates get updated and still work on my next vacuum run.

from ha-rest980-roomba.

Hey, sorry for the delay. The check button card sensors are independant of the vacuum and are just based around proposed timeline for maintance as suggested by iRobot - You wont find that these update based on your vacuum runs.

I know someone on the forum was going to look at integrating the two - but IMO its not worth it as its a 5 minute job to perfom weekly robot maintennce.

Hope this helps.

from ha-rest980-roomba.

Hey, no worries - I imagine you're pretty busy! I think I need to learn more about check button card; if I understood it better I would have realized how it worked. Reading back on the maintenance automation should have been a clue - I kept looking for way that the sensors were updated that wasn't there. If I understood better how the check buttons actually worked (and some of the use cases it was developed for, like feeding schedules for pets) I might have realized that I not only needed to click on the boxes the FIRST time, but also a SECOND time once the topics were created to 'start the timer' so to speak.

I don't know if any additional documentation would be in order; while it would have helped me, looking at the issues and forum posts, it seemed like everyone else figured this out easily or already knew it. Totally up to you if you decide there's any value in adding a sentence or two about this, but I do appreciate your response and REALLY appreciate your work! So cool to have this integrated into HA.

Will also leave this to you on whether you want respond or close this issue, but I'm good on my end. Thanks again.

from ha-rest980-roomba.