Help with Google Calendar

[bphillips921 (Brad Phillips)]

I have been through the Google Calendar docs but am having a tough time figuring out how to utilize it. I have a calendar setup and working in home assistant, I just can’t find out how to set automations using it.

I want to use this to set a condition for my Christmas Lights. I have a calendar entry named “Christmaslights” in the calendar from November 20th to January 20th, repeating annually. I’d like to add a condition to my Christmas lights automation that only turns them on if it is between those dates, during the calendar entry. So far, I’ve only been able to get an automation working if there is ANY calendar entry. How can I set the condition to just use specific entries like my “Christmaslights” entry?

[wills106 (Will)]

Like I just posted on this topic

Automation based on Google calendar event not firing

I don’t know what the rest of your code is like but this is how I did it. I had an automation trigger an input_boolean when a calendar event happens, then other automation’s can use the status of the input_boolean as a condition of whether to run or not. At a set point each day the input_boolean gets reset back to off. Like you mention you need a calendar event of at least 1 min.

Have a look at my post from last July of how I used calendars for lights.

RESOLVED - Google Calendar based lights

I have worked on this some more to clean it up and improve the functionality, I no longer need separate calendars. I can search within one calendar now. I still can’t get the offset to work though, so I have moved my timers in the calendar to 8:30PM. configuration.yaml # Track calendar false is needed to prevent Hass from overwriting the google_calendar.yaml file. google: client_id: id.apps.googleusercontent.com client_secret: password track_new_calendar: false input_boolean: …

[bphillips921 (Brad Phillips)]

Thank you for the help! I was able to get this to work using your guide.

[wills106 (Will)]

Glad it helped.