Automation based on Google calendar event not firing

Configuration
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I have the following automation:

- alias: Set temp based on calendar
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: calendar.home_assistant_heating
    to: "on"
  action:
  - service: xiaomi_aqara.play_ringtone
    data:
      gw_mac: 7811dcb38199
      ringtone_id: 0
      ringtone_vol: 100

I couldn’t get the heating part working so I started with something simpeler and it turns out it’s just not activating at all. It sees the calendar, gets the data, but the automation is never triggered:

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The automation is basically the same as the example in the docs so I’m not seeing what I’m doing wrong here. Does anybody see it? Thanks!

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Okay, after hours of trying…turns out an event must have a duration. I put in start time 2150 endtime 2150, didn’t work. 2150-2151 does work. Next problem, I’m trying to use the data from the event to set an temperature:

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I don’t know what the rest of your code is like but this is how I did it.

I had an automation trigger an input_boolean when a calendar event happens, then other automation’s can use the status of the input_boolean as a condition of whether to run or not. At a set point each day the input_boolean gets reset back to off.

Like you mention you need a calendar event of at least 1 min.

4

Even got the temperature working, parsed the value in the message from the calendar as a | float and it works like a charm :slight_smile:

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Would you please post your code so that I can see how you are triggering it? Thanks!

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- alias: Set temp based on calendar
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: calendar.home_assistant_heating
    to: "on"
  action:
  - service: climate.set_temperature
    data_template:
      entity_id: climate.living_room
      temperature: "{{states.calendar.home_assistant_heating.attributes.message | float}}"

Voila

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