… so the toddler is starting to speak. The word count is exploding and where or when the kid is learning new words is very much out of the control of the parents.
It’s time to…

… and since capital punishment is the best punishment, given the raised capital is for a good cause, lets start a profanity counter for everyone in the house! It can be reset by paying into the education fund of the toddler. It’s a bit like a CO2-tax 🙂
Since Home Assistant is a very present UI on everybody’s smartphone, it’s the best way to ensure the counter will be always present and no bad words go unpunished.
Implementation with Home Assistant is super easy, and requires no external code whatsoever – thanks to the integrated Counter function! The best thing: the UI lets you increase the counter by tapping on the poop icon!!!

put this in configuration.yaml:
# profanity counters
counter:
person_1_profanity_counter:
name: person_1
icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
person_2_profanity_counter:
name: person_2
icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
person_3_profanity_counter:
name: person_3
icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
person_4_profanity_counter:
name: person_4
icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
person_5_profanity_counter:
name: person_5
icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
person_6_profanity_counter:
name: person_6
icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
put this in your lovelace configuration:
type: grid
title: Profanity Piggy-Bank
cards:
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: counter.increment
service_data:
entity_id: counter.person_1_profanity_counter
entity: counter.person_1_profanity_counter
show_state: true
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: counter.increment
service_data:
entity_id: counter.person_2_profanity_counter
entity: counter.person_2_profanity_counter
show_state: true
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: counter.increment
service_data:
entity_id: counter.person_3_profanity_counter
entity: counter.person_3_profanity_counter
show_state: true
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: counter.increment
service_data:
entity_id: counter.person_4_profanity_counter
entity: counter.person_4_profanity_counter
show_state: true
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: counter.increment
service_data:
entity_id: counter.person_5_profanity_counter
entity: counter.person_5_profanity_counter
show_state: true
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: counter.increment
service_data:
entity_id: counter.person_6_profanity_counter
entity: counter.person_6_profanity_counter
show_state: true
- type: markdown
content: |
pay 1€ per profanity to reset
columns: 4
square: false