Hi Andrew, is Rental Control able to parse phone numbers with spaces? e.g.
DESCRIPTION:Name: Maria ***** Phone: +** * ** 48 63 04 Email: *****
Of course I want it to code as “6304” but it tried to add it as “3 04”
Yes it should handle that just fine. I have code in place to squeeze out spaces.
That being said I just put a fake number similar to what you provided into my test system and you’re correct that it’s not squeezing out the spaces. So, I obviously have a bug to go figure out.
v1.1.1 is now out. This fixes the problem that you were seeing. You will need to touch any door slots and toggle the Reset Code Slot option to get RC to properly manage the slot after the update.
Thanks so much Andrew, I’ll update it now.
Out of curiousity, what was special about this case?
Absolutely nothing. I had a bug in my logic that I thought I had already fixed. I don’t actually have any unit tests, because I haven’t figured out how to test everything, but this was something that I totally could easily have a test around, I just haven’t yet!
A question, I would like to create an automation that turns off a certain light bulb on the day of check-out at 11:00 am (check-out time). how can I do?
Your trigger will be “Calendar” Add Trigger, then Time and Location, then Calendar under entity select the rental control Calendar. Then select “Event End” for check out.
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Totally beat me to that!
LOL!! I know you’re always here to help.
No literally, beat me to it. I was just about to post when your’s popped in 
Hi Andrew, I’m wondering if Rental Control picks up changes in phone number? I can see on my calendar the phone number has been successfully updated and I’ve tried reloading the integration but it doesn’t change the code on Keymaster.
Once the code has been configured for the door slot RC will not modify it even if you’re using the phone number to generate the codes. If you’re trying to get an already assigned slot to pick up a change in the phone number, then you need to clear the slot and have RC re-allocate at which point it will pick up any changes related to phone numbers.
The reason behind this is that RC understands and allows for overriding the generated code. So, once it’s been assigned into Keymaster, then it’s set unless you explicitly override it, or clear the Keymaster slot and have RC re-allocate.
I see, it might be that actually there is a problem parsing 4 number numbers to get the last 4 digits? I have been putting in phone numbers as 4 digits numbers to get RC to use it as the code but it hasn’t been working.
If you’re using a custom calendar and not driving it off of one of the rental platforms, then you need to put the number into the desctiption in a specific way.
It needs to be in the event description as:
Phone (Last 4 Digits): 1234
or
Last 4 Digits: 1234
or
Phone: (123) 456-789
The spacing, capitalization, and punctuation all matter to the regular expressions that are used.