Calendar trigger doesn't always work

Configuration
1

Hi!

I have a calendar trigger configured and occasionally it just doesn’t work. I can’t understand the logic when it works and when it doesn’t. I’m doing a debug creating short events and one fires, another doesn’t. When it doesn’t it leaves no traces at all.
Does anyone know why it happens and what’s the logic behind it?

2

Maybe show us examples of automation that do not work?

3

Well, it’s very simple:

alias: "Test"
description: "Test automation for calendar"
trigger:
  - platform: calendar
    event: start
    offset: "0:2:0"
    entity_id: xxxx

I create a test calendar event and in 50% of time the trigger works, 50% doesn’t without any traces

4

You realize that will trigger 2 minutes after the start of the event, right?
What integration provides your calendars?

5

It’s a typo… The correct one is

alias: "Test"
description: "Test automation for calendar"
trigger:
  - platform: calendar
    event: start
    offset: "-0:2:0"
    entity_id: xxxx

As for integration I tried both Local calendar and Google Calendar with the same result.

The only idea I have is that it takes certain time for the event to get propogated through the system. When I’m debugging, of course, I do not want to wait longer and create events starting in 5 mins. But I wasn’t able to confirm this experimentally - some events created in 5 mins worked, others created in 10 mins didn’t work. Maybe events are registered every X minutes… I don’t know… That’s what I want to figure out

6

From calendar doc:

2 Likes
7

Thanks mate. As always I should RTFM before posting…

1 Like
8

Honestly, the note is quite hidden…