How to get all my calendar entries

[HopsPopsAl (Alan)]

Hi all
I’m trying to make a helper list of all the calendar evens I have in some calendars so that I can use that to trigger automations. But I’m not getting the list and not sure where I’m going wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

alias: Schedule - Calendar events for the day
description: >-
  Gets a list of events that are on the calendars and can be used in other
  automations
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "00:01:00"
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: calendar.get_events
    target:
      entity_id:
        - calendar.calendar1
        - calendar.calendar2
    response_variable: calendar_events
  - action: input_text.set_value
    data:
      value: "{{ calendar_events | map(attribute='summary') | join(', ') }}"
    target:
      entity_id: input_text.helper_calendar_events_for_the_day
mode: single

[Hellis81]

Input text can only hold 255 characters.
Could that be the issue?

[HopsPopsAl (Alan)]

There’s not that many events, but I suppose characters can fill up quickly. I’ll check.
Would it not fill in the first 255 characters still?

[Hellis81]

No not the way you set it up.
It will break

[HopsPopsAl (Alan)]

OK, thanks. I checked though and there are less than 30 characters in events, so that is not the problem

[Didgeridrew]

Your variable calendar_events does not contain anything with a summary attribute. It contains a dictionary whose keys are the entity IDs of your calendars. Those entity ID strings don’t have a “summary” attributes.

You might be better off setting this up as a Trigger-based template sensor and storing the list of events in an attribute.

Querying Multiple Calendars

- trigger: platform: time_pattern minutes: /5 action: - action: calendar.get_events data: duration: hours: 120 target: entity_id: - calendar.recurring_events - calendar.local_events_2025 - calendar.school_2025 response_variable: agenda - variables: combined_events: | {{ agenda['calendar.recurring_events'].events + agenda['calendar.local_events_2025'].events + agenda…

Regarding Hellis81’s comment about state length… if you really want to store the list in a state, make sure to use the truncate() filter to cutoff the returned value at 254 characters.

[HopsPopsAl (Alan)]

Thanks, I’ll have a look at that. I don’t specifically want to store as a state. I just want anyway I can get my calendar events and use the results in automation conditions. I’m still n00b so trying to figure out and learn as I go along.