Calendar Support to Entering Rotating/Rolling Rosters

[Chykan (Andrew)]

The post below shows the easiest way I have found to insert a Rotating/ Rolling Roster into Home Assistant.

How To: Rotating/Rolling Shift Work Roster with Stock Calendar

Introduction I work in mining and we do not work the typical 5 Day week. There is a few other industries that use rotating/recurring rosters, i.e factories and medical services. There is no easy way to place a shift pattern into the calendar and have it repeat. Configuration To add the Local calendar integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button: [image] Creating Calendar Open the Home Assist Calendar from you Side Bar. Select + Create calendar bottom left of your screen S…

Features Required:

• Ability to enter a Custom Shift Pattern and set a seed date.

  • Possibly leveraging off the scheduler integration

• Ability to set individual times for shifts

  • Ability to set a Calendar Shift Entity (Name, Start Time, End Time)
  • When entering the above mentioned shift pattern you are placing the Shift Entity on the days.

• Central control of Shift Entity

  • i.e if you change the Shift Entity times or name, it is automatically updated in your pre-seeded Custom Shift Pattern

• Ability to edit/delete individual entries i.e. day off, post seeding.

Images below to explain concept

[Edwin_D]

What you could currently do is this: There are phone apps around that shift workers can use to fill and export to e.g. a Google calendar. You could then integrate that calendar into HA.

[Chykan (Andrew)]

Thanks Edwin, I will have a search… I quite like Shift Work Calendar Planner App I am using because of the the home screen widget.

I will have a look at other App options that integrate with Google Calendar.

It would be nice to to have this function natively in Home Assistant though. I can see many uses for it. Also creating a source of truth.

I am fairly happy with how I have entered my roster manually, with the How To: I created.