Thanks. For the low-techie that I am, Yaml is frustrating. I’ll watch the video 
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Hey everyone,
I finally had the time to connect my iOS calendar to Home Assistant. I have a number of options and triggers for camera notification. One should be that I will get notified when there is someone at the entrance, when I am working from home. When stumbling across this post, I use the code as suggested in the solution, however the condition returns as false, even though the calendar name shows the entry.
This is the code
alias: Home Office
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary | slugify == 'Home Office' }}"
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_oles_iphone
data:
data: {}
- service: tts.cloud_say
data:
cache: false
entity_id: media_player.sonos_one_sl
message: Jemand ist im Eingang gesehen worden.
options:
voice: KatjaNeural
The event Home Office is shown in the calendar.
I think I might need to specify the entity_id of the calendar, but I am unsure how to do this in a condition?
The filter slugify will never return the string “Home Office”.
Hm, okay. How can I then check if the calendar shows Home Office as an event today?
If the summary of the event will always be exactly “Home Office” you can just remove the slugify filter:
value_template: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary == 'Home Office' }}"
That’s what I have tried before, but the condition when being tested is still returning false.
I’ve also tried with eventS instead of event, no changes.
Post the entire configuration for the automation.
Quite a bulky one. It’s only about the alias: “Home Office”. The rest works fine.
alias: Benachrichtigung_Kameras
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.eingang_person_occupancy
to: "on"
id: Eingang
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.garten_person_occupancy
to: "on"
id: Garten_Person
enabled: true
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.garten_cat_occupancy
to: "on"
id: Garten_Katze
enabled: true
condition: []
action:
- alias: Eingang
if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Eingang
then:
- service: camera.snapshot
data:
filename: /config/www/Eingang.jpg
target:
entity_id: camera.eingang
- alias: Malin
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.malin
state: not_home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_malins_iphone
data:
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Eingang.jpg
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Eingang
- alias: Ole
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.ole
state: not_home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_oles_iphone
data:
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Eingang
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Eingang.jpg
- alias: Nacht Wochentag
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: time
after: "22:00:00"
before: "06:00:00"
weekday:
- mon
- tue
- wed
- thu
- sun
- fri
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Eingang
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Eingang.jpg
- alias: Nacht Wochenende
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: time
after: "23:30:00"
before: "08:00:00"
weekday:
- sat
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Eingang
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Eingang.jpg
- alias: Home Office
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "\"{{ trigger.calendar_events.summary == 'Home Office' }}\""
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_oles_iphone
data:
data: {}
- service: tts.cloud_say
data:
cache: false
entity_id: media_player.sonos_one_sl
message: Jemand ist im Eingang gesehen worden.
options:
voice: KatjaNeural
- alias: Garten_Person
if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Garten_Person
then:
- service: camera.snapshot
data:
filename: /config/www/Garten_Person.jpg
target:
entity_id: camera.garten
- alias: Malin
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.malin
state: not_home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_malins_iphone
data:
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Person.jpg
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
- alias: Ole
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.ole
state: not_home
enabled: true
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_oles_iphone
data:
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Person.jpg
- alias: Nacht Wochentag
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: time
after: "22:00:00"
before: "06:00:00"
weekday:
- mon
- tue
- wed
- thu
- sun
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Person.jpg
- alias: Nacht Wochenende
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: time
after: "23:30:00"
before: "08:00:00"
weekday:
- fri
- sat
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: Person erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Person.jpg
- alias: Garten_Katze
if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Garten_Katze
then:
- service: camera.snapshot
data:
filename: /config/www/Garten_Katze.jpg
target:
entity_id: camera.garten
- alias: Malin
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.malin
state: not_home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_malins_iphone
data:
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Katze.jpg
message: Katze erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
- alias: Ole
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.ole
state: not_home
enabled: true
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_oles_iphone
data:
message: Katze erkannt
title: 📹 Garte
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Katze.jpg
- alias: Nacht Wochentag
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: time
after: "22:00:00"
before: "06:00:00"
weekday:
- mon
- tue
- wed
- thu
- sun
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: Katze erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Katze.jpg
- alias: Nacht Wochenende
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: time
after: "23:30:00"
before: "08:00:00"
weekday:
- fri
- sat
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: Katze erkannt
title: 📹 Garten
data:
attachment:
url: /local/Garten_Katze.jpg
enabled: true
mode: single
This is why the Community Guidelines says to post the complete automation…
None of your triggers are Calendar Event triggers, so your trigger variable will never contain the trigger.calendar_event.summary property. You need to use the calendar.get_events service call in your action block.
You might be able to just use a State condition that targets the calendar entity, but that is only reliable if the target calendar never has concurrent/overlapping events.
Okay, so from what I understand:
- When the camera detects motion, it must call the calendar.get_events service to retrieve data.
- This must be stored in an variable
- The condition then checks if this variable is containing “Home Office”
Right?
If yes, how would I accomplish that? That goes far beyond what I did so far. 
You have a lot of unnecessary repetition in there… I would use a few variables to make the automation more readable:
alias: Benachrichtigung_Kameras
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.eingang_person_occupancy
to: "on"
id: Eingang
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.garten_person_occupancy
to: "on"
id: Garten_Person
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.garten_cat_occupancy
to: "on"
id: Garten_Katze
condition: []
action:
- variables:
filename: "/config/www/{{trigger.id}}.jpg"
camera: "camera.{{ trigger.id|slugify }}"
url: "/local/{{trigger.id}}.jpg"
message: "{{ 'Katze erkannt' if trigger.id == 'Garten_Katze' else 'Person erkannt'}}"
title: "{{ 'Eingang' if trigger.id == 'Eingang' else 'Garten'}}"
- alias: Take a Snapshot
service: camera.snapshot
data:
filename: "{{filename}}"
target:
entity_id: "{{camera}}"
- alias: If Entrance, Check calendar for Home Office, then send TTS
choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Eingang
sequence:
- service: calendar.get_events
target:
entity_id:
- calendar.malin_ole
data:
start_date_time: "{{ now() }}"
end_date_time: "{{ today_at('23:59') }}"
response_variable: agenda
- delay: 1
- condition: template
value_template: |
{{ 'Home Office' in agenda['calendar.malin_ole'].events | map(attribute='summary') | list }}
- service: notify.mobile_app_oles_iphone
data:
data: {}
continue_on_error: true
- service: tts.cloud_say
data:
cache: false
entity_id: media_player.sonos_one_sl
message: Jemand ist im Eingang gesehen worden.
options:
voice: KatjaNeural
continue_on_error: true
- alias: Notify everyone not at home
repeat:
for_each: |
{{ ['person.malin', 'person.ole']| reject('is_state', 'home') | map('replace', 'person.', '') | list }}
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_{{repeat.item}}s_iphone
data:
data:
attachment:
url: "{{url}}"
message: "{{message}}"
title: "📹 {{ title}}"
continue_on_error: true
- alias: Nacht
choose:
- conditions:
- or:
- condition: time
after: "22:00:00"
before: "06:00:00"
weekday:
- mon
- tue
- wed
- thu
- sun
- condition: time
after: "23:30:00"
before: "08:00:00"
weekday:
- fri
- sat
sequence:
- service: notify.familie
data:
message: "{{message}}"
title: "📹 {{ title}}"
data:
attachment:
url: "{{url}}"
mode: single
EDITS:
- Corrected typo in calendar service call.
- Moved emoji to service calls
Phew, that is by far more advanced than anything I did before, thanks for giving me something to learn :). I just blindly copy and pasted this, changing the calendar to the right entity to test it and give this a proper study the next days. But the traces show this
I forgot to erase the duration line… I’ve corrected it in the post above.
I am sorry for being a pain and I feel to hijack this post which was really not my intention!
With the duration deleted it gives me this for the variables block
Fehler: TypeError: decoding to str: need a bytes-like object, LoggingUndefined found
Try erasing the camera emoji from the title variable… sometimes emojis and templates don’t agree with each other. You should still be able to use it, you just have to have it in each of the notification service calls like:
title: "📹 {{ title}}"
Thanks, I will give it a try 
I have a slight variation on this topic, where I wanted the name/title/summary of my calendar event to be a meaningful message that changes, but I use the description to filter the automation. In my case, I broadcast the summary to all my Google Home devices in the house.
My solution was to put a constant string in the description, in my case notify and then I have a meaningful name in my calendar for what I am being notified about. I’m not sure if this is useful, but I had trouble modifying the condition for where summary contains notify, and this was an easy way to get around that because I don’t use the description for these events in my google calendar.
alias: Notify Calendar Event
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: calendar
event: start
offset: "0:0:0"
entity_id: calendar.family
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.description == \"notify\" }}"
enabled: true
action:
- action: script.audio_notificaiton
metadata: {}
data:
message: "\"{{trigger.calendar_event.summary}}\""
mode: single
This may be slightly off topic, or at least tangental to this, but this thread was the first thing I found on Google.