I have a calendar that contains reminders for various events that I want to announce. After the many latest updates, it's not working correctly.
The calendar contains events I call SCV Meetings twice a month. The description of one is SCV Board Meeting and the other is SCV Dinner Meeting. I then have two automations that should fire at the beginning of these calendar events. The problem is in the conditional statement where I select Description and then I want to specify the SCV Board Meeting or the SCV Dinner Meeting, no choices appear. I made sure that the description was filled out in the calendar events. This worked previously.
Post the properly formatted automation yaml from when it worked & we'll help you out.
For what it's worth, I've never used the description in my garbage calendar automation. I simply named each separate garbage collection day differently in the Summary field, then used the Message attribute to point to it. When I open the Automation in the UI, I don't see anything in the dropdown either, but it works.
Description is also an attribute & should work identically as Message. Are you sure it's not working? Maybe you have a typo somewhere?
This is the relevant part of my automation:
actions:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: calendar.garbage
attribute: message
state: Mixed Waste Collection
sequence:
- data:
message: Remember to take out the trash!
title: Mixed Waste Collection Day
data:
color: blue
ttl: 0
priority: high
action: notify.mobile_app_my_mobile
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: calendar.garbage
attribute: message
state: Recycling Collection
sequence:
- data:
message: Remember to take out the recycling!
title: Recycling Collection Day
data:
color: blue
ttl: 0
priority: high
action: notify.mobile_app_my_mobile