Need help with Brighton pls!

[davida72]

I'm trying to get Brighton working. I've installed Selenium via a docker container and can see Selenium Grid in a browser.

I don't think it's correctly connecting to Selenium because I see no activity in the Selenium GUI whether I choose headless or not. I've tried an IP address and tried a hostname,

The hostname version giving the following error.
Failed setup, will retry: Unexpected error: HTTPConnectionPool(host='myhost', port=4444): Max retries exceeded with url: /session (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f17a16974d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -5] Name has no usable address'))

And the IP giving me this error.
Timeout while updating data:

Any help appreciated!

[davida72]

I was able to debug this. The problem was that user_paon was being used instead of postcode in the BrightonandHoveCityCouncil.py file. With that change I was able to get the required information. I'll do a pull request in a while.

Example
python3 collect_data.py BrightonandHoveCityCouncil https://cityclean.brighton-hove.gov.uk/link/collections -p "1 Belle Vue Cottages, Brighton, BN2 6AA" -w http://localhost:4444/wd/hub

returns

{
    "bins": [
        {
            "type": "Rubbish",
            "collectionDate": "10/03/2025"
        },
        {
            "type": "Recycling",
            "collectionDate": "10/03/2025"
        },
        {
            "type": "Garden Waste",
            "collectionDate": "12/03/2025"
        }
    ]
}

[m26dvd]

I'm not sure this is required.

The BrightonandHoveCityCouncil.py scraper file requests the UPRN, Postcode and House Number values however never actually uses the UPRN.

Currently, the "postcode" attribute is used within the first search box and then searches the dropdown for the string value entered in the "House Number" attribute

Using the following gives me a correct result using the existing code

python collect_data.py BrightonandHoveCityCouncil https://cityclean.brighton-hove.gov.uk/link/collections -n "1 Belle Vue Cottages, Brighton, BN2 6AA" -p "BN2 6AA"

{
"bins": [
{
"type": "Rubbish",
"collectionDate": "17/03/2025"
},
{
"type": "Recycling",
"collectionDate": "24/03/2025"
},
{
"type": "Garden Waste",
"collectionDate": "26/03/2025"
}
]
}

Within Home Assistant, if I create a new service for Brighton and Hove City Council;
Entering a dummy UPRN,
Postcode - "BN2 6AA"
House Number - "1 Belle Vue Cottages, Brighton, BN2 6AA"
I get a successful result

[davida72]

I'm duplicating posts a bit here. Sorry!

The following works for me, even without specifying a Selenium server.

python collect_data.py BrightonandHoveCityCouncil https://cityclean.brighton-hove.gov.uk/link/collections -n "1 Belle Vue Cottages, Brighton, BN2 6AA" -p "BN2 6AA"

But I can't get it working in Home Assistant.

[davida72]

After disabling Tailscale I've got it working. I think it was just unable to reach the Selenium with Tailscale enabled.