Greetings!
I am new to home assistant with some very beginner/basic level knowledge about coding.
I am a pilot and hence my schedule is different each day. I have synched my schedule to a google calendar and have integrated the google calendar with home assistant.
the automation I want to achieve in node red is this:
when I leave the zone airport after my duty ends , notify my family that i have left the airport to come home … only when my duty has finished (basically comparing the current time to the attribute ‘duty_endtime’ in the payload (calendar.dharmil_schedule)
the problem I face is that i am not able to compare time (present time with duty end time) . the output of the flow i made is very random … it works sometime and outputs true only when i genuinely leave the airport post my flights but most times it send a false notification as soon as i leave the zone airport/take off irrespective of my duty time not finished
i am not sure if google calendar outputs the ‘duty_endtime’ as a string and i am trying to compare string with current timestamp. please do shed some light on this. i tried learning about comparing times in json but was not so successful
thank you so much you guys for helping this community has really helped and taught me a lot.
PS: sometime i also do 4 flights a day which involves shuttling between to cities like …example departing from 1)paris to rome 2) Rome to paris 3)Paris to milan 4)milan to paris
this is the node red flow i tried using.
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