Unable to specify start & end time for pumping

[seanhagen]

I'm trying to add a button that will add a pumping entry with a specific start and end time, but that doesn't seem to be possible currently.

When I add the button via the Lovelace UI, this is the YAML that gets created:

show_name: true
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: babybuddy.add_pumping
  target:
    entity_id: sensor.baby_name
  data:
    amount: 33
    time: '22:33:00'
entity: sensor.baby_name
name: Add Pumping

I've tried using a template, and just entering in specific values -- nothing seems to work for setting the start time.

I looked at the OpenAPI schema ( which I found by going to /api/schema on my Baby Buddy instance ) and the arguments for adding a pumping don't specify time as a field:

    Pumping:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          readOnly: true
        child:
          type: integer
        amount:
          type: number
        start:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        end:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        duration:
          type: string
          readOnly: true
          nullable: true
        notes:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        tags:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      required:
      - child
      - amount

It looks like the API supports setting a start and end time as of version 2.0.0, same as for feedings -- but the code is only sending a time field.

I've tried to update the code so that it has a start and end like async_add_feeding and created a PR: #121 -- I'm not a Python dev though, I'm a Go dev; so I probably missed something 😅

[Ksp3cialK]

I have tried playing with adding this myself and had no luck, the wife has been asking for this feature!

[brylee123]

This one issue was throwing me off. I was setting a time via the service call but it was not actually setting in baby buddy. I would like to bump this for a fix too

[20BBrown14]

I was running into this issue as well and was causing my wife frustration. I ended up using a rest_command within HA to replace the broken add_pumping service from this integration.
If you add this to your configuration.yaml for Home Assistant you can call the service as below

rest_command:
  add_pumping:
    url: [[your instance]]/api/pumping/ # be sure to set this to the address of your baby buddy instance
    method: POST
    headers:
      authorization: !secret baby_buddy_token # but auth token is stored in `secrets.yaml` in the format of `Token abc123`
      accept: "application/json, text/html"
    content_type:  'application/json'
    verify_ssl: false # This was false for me since I don't use ssl
    payload: '{"amount": "{{ amount }}", "notes": "{{ notes }}", "child": "{{ child }}", "start": "{{ start }}", "end": "{{ end }}"}'

Then in my automation I have

service: rest_command.add_pumping
data:
  start: >-
    {{(states('input_datetime.pumping_start_time') |
    as_datetime).strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')}}
  end: >-
    {{(states('input_datetime.pumping_start_time') |
    as_datetime).strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')}}
  amount: "{{states('input_number.pumping_amount')}}"
  notes: "{{states('input_text.pumping_notes') or ''}}"
  child: 1