My SO and I share a lot of expenses and I would love a way to keep track of it. For example shared household expenses like toiletries, food, etc. And sometimes we'll go on vacation and it would be nice to keep a list of what we spent on what to know what to split
Do any of you guys have a way of keeping track of that in HA? For now, I'm just using a shared excel spreadsheet where I manually type in everything and then send it to her.
Posted Oct 9, 2018, 1:37 PM UTC
not really a HA solution, but my friends use Splitwise for the very same task. (upon brief look, it seems they have an API, so might be possible to integrate to HA)
Yep. You can do this in python. Not sure how home assistant works though but definitely possible with the existing documentation http://dev.splitwise.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=get_expenses
As others have said, HA itself might not be a solution to this, unless perhaps you want to have a sensor that shows how on-budget either of you might be at any given time.
However, if you use a 3rd party web-based solution, you can add it to the sidebar of HA using a Panel iFrame, and then be able to access it from within HA. I’ve started doing this with some things, and it is nice to have HA also double as a launcher of sorts for other things I want people in the house to be able to access. Note that not everything will play nice when confined within an iframe (which is a page-within-a-page in a browser). You might have to make some tweaks to the application to allow it to work; some things may not work at all. Others might “frame-break” (or open in a new window/tab/replace HA entirely in current tab) when opening.
Hmm, while not simple or elegant, you could...
Use google assistant - ifttt - evernote and somehow pull that into HA..
For example we use it for a shared grocery list which is displayed on a MagicMirror.
The ifttt recipe is "Add (item name) to the [shopping list]" You could easily change [shopping list] to bills.
When we say "add milk to the shopping list" both of us get a notification on our devices that evernote is installed on. Additionally, when one of us checks off the item as purchased, we get another notification.
The applet I started with is https://ifttt.com/applets/HxMXjdYa-google-home-create-wunderlist-item/
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Because I couldn't resist .. Just because it doesn't make sense in YOUR home doesn't mean it doesn't make sense in someone else's home, that's part of the reason why we roll our own HA.
Not sure HA would be the best solution for this. Splitwise is super simple to split up expenses with other people, I would probably just use that.
This works with home assistant?
No, why would it? Tracking expenses isn’t really related to automation.
It could. It just depends on the use case.
"Sorry, but the zwave deadbolt won't unlock for you until you pay your half of the cable bill."
"Kitchen lights are only for people who kick in for groceries."
"Your bedroom lamp will remain red until you pay the water bill."
Exactly. I would assume he would want something that is compatible
What does “compatible” even mean in this context?