Any idea for a self hosted home maintenance reminder system? Essentially something that will have reminders for things that reoccur regularly either ie yearly, monthly etc. Ideally it would have some way of checking it off to show the task was completed and then it would reoccur at the preset time next month /year etc.
Donetick can be self hosted and has a nice UX.
Like, a calendar app?
I use chore-helper for Home Assistant for that. I chose it because I like the “after x days” vs. the classic “every x days” approach. If I forgot to clean the shower for over a week there is no point to have a reminder the next day after I finally did it, but I want it to happen x days later no matter how long I dragged the previous task.
It hasn’t received updates in ages though and can be quite slow and complicated to manage. I want to have a look in ChoreOps to replace it.
Thats an excellent feature, thanks for the suggestion!
I was going to say there are multiple addons for home assistant for this problem. I think even more than you listed here, HACS is in desperate need of some kind of organization system.
I use a DAV integration to show a bunch of shared calendars and task lists (nextcloud, but I guess you can find a Google alternative if needed)
Events: stuff like doctors appointments, bdays, etc.
Maintenance: stuff to do/fix. Some are recurring events (like cleaning faucet aerators, aircon filters, etc)
Shopping: separate from HAs shopping list, this one is for stuff that might be handy to get, but not a priority (not groceries, but stuff like idk a new potato peeler)
On my main dashboard I have atomic calendar revive card from HACS with “upcoming events” as the default view
I want this for cleaning my house. When did I last clean my dish washer, the lamps etc. It’s on my TODO to create when I have time.
You could uh… Hang a calendar on your fridge?
I’ve got an old slate that school marms used to hand out to their students to do their schoolwork on.
I use Vikunja for that. Recurring reminders, CalDAV, email reminders if missed, and more
I was thinking about making something like this actually.
I’m just getting into self hosting some things so I’ll see what I can come up with in the next few months.
Were you thinking like a web app that is basically a reoccurring to-do list, but it’s more maintenance focused?
I built a similar app for Android, but it’s limitedvright now, mostly a to-do list with a due date, no reoccurring, and no notifications.
Web app is probably best. That makes it easy to share with other members in the family so anyone can check off a task once done. Also having tasks pile up when they are not done is also very useful so you can see the backlog. It’s close to a calendar app but not quite optimized for something like this.
Ideally tasks could have a description section that explains how to do it, like flushing the water heater could have be exact steps written for the heater tank that you have specifically avoiding the need to keep looking it up every year.
There are several good webapps like this already, but they all are paid and locked in to their platform.
Could use something as simple as a cronjob or gitea runners. Loki/Grafana can read logs and trigger webhooks, send emails, etc.
Donetick is what I use for this kind of stuff. Still needs a bit of work on the OIDC systems, though
This looks fantastic! Thanks!
This would actually be an awesome feature request for homebox.
A ton of smart buttons. Every time you do the task you push the button and a time helper is updated to the next date. If today is beyond that date, update a second boolean helper to show the task must be again!
Bonus if you set a light or alarm to go off of you forget to do it or a reward dispenser to drop treats when you complete the task!
