Calendar Summary help

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With a little bit of my own work and Chat GPT I’ve got stuck on filtering just the event summary from a calendar entry. Here is my automation

alias: New Automation
description: ""
triggers:
  - command:
      - What bin day is it
    trigger: conversation
conditions: []
actions:
  - target:
      entity_id: calendar.refuse_bin_calendar
    data:
      start_date_time: >
        {% set today = now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
        %} {% set days_until_thursday = (3 - today.weekday() + 7) % 7 %} {% set
        next_thursday = today + timedelta(days=days_until_thursday) %} {{
        next_thursday.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT00:00:00') }}
      end_date_time: >
        {% set today = now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
        %} {% set days_until_thursday = (3 - today.weekday() + 7) % 7 %} {% set
        next_thursday = today + timedelta(days=days_until_thursday) %} {{
        next_thursday.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT23:59:59') }}
    response_variable: calendar_events
    action: calendar.get_events
  - action: tts.speak
    metadata: {}
    data:
      cache: true
      media_player_entity_id: media_player.roam
      message: "{{ calendar_events }}"
    target:
      entity_id: tts.home_assistant_cloud
mode: single

When I look at the trace info, the information I want to announce is the event summary.

calendar_events:
  calendar.refuse_bin_calendar:
    events:
      - start: '2024-11-21'
        end: '2024-11-22'
        summary: Refuse Bin Collection

How do I pass through the event summary to TTS?

2

There’s no reason to calculate everything twice:

alias: New Automation
description: ""
triggers:
  - command:
      - What bin day is it
    trigger: conversation
conditions: []
actions:
  - variables:
      today: "{{ today_at() }}"
      days_until_thursday: "{{ (10 - today.weekday()) % 7 }}"
      next_thursday: "{{ today + timedelta(days=days_until_thursday) }}"
  - target:
      entity_id: calendar.refuse_bin_calendar
    data:
      start_date_time: "{{ next_thursday }}"
      end_date_time: "{{ next_thursday + timedelta(days=1, seconds=-1) }}"
    response_variable: calendar_events
    action: calendar.get_events
  - action: tts.speak
    metadata: {}
    data:
      cache: true
      media_player_entity_id: media_player.roam
      message: "{{ calendar_events['calendar.refuse_bin_calendar']['events'][0].summary }}"
    target:
      entity_id: tts.home_assistant_cloud
mode: single
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3

Hey, thanks for the edit. I ran the new code through but I get this error.

Error: UndefinedError: ‘str object’ has no attribute ‘weekday’

Do I need to declare weekday?

Thanks,

Mike

4

i think @Didgeridrew just had a small issue. change the today.weekday() to now().weekday():

alias: New Automation
description: ""
triggers:
  - command:
      - What bin day is it
    trigger: conversation
conditions: []
actions:
  - variables:
      today: "{{ today_at() }}"
      days_until_thursday: "{{ (10 - now().weekday()) % 7 }}"
      next_thursday: "{{ today + timedelta(days=days_until_thursday) }}"
  - target:
      entity_id: calendar.refuse_bin_calendar
    data:
      start_date_time: "{{ next_thursday }}"
      end_date_time: "{{ next_thursday + timedelta(days=1, seconds=-1) }}"
    response_variable: calendar_events
    action: calendar.get_events
  - action: tts.speak
    metadata: {}
    data:
      cache: true
      media_player_entity_id: media_player.roam
      message: "{{ calendar_events['calendar.refuse_bin_calendar']['events'][0].summary }}"
    target:
      entity_id: tts.home_assistant_cloud
mode: single
5

That shouldn’t be an issue since today should hold a datetime object. But, after testing, I agree it does seem to be the cause…

@mike2ns

You can update the variables as follows to work around the fact that they aren’t passing the datetime object:

  - variables:
      days_until_thursday: "{{ (10 - today_at().weekday()) % 7 }}"
      next_thursday: "{{ today_at() + timedelta(days=days_until_thursday) }}"
....