How to list multiple calendar event in a template

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:wave: Hi

I have the Google calendar integration which put the next event in state. I can as well see all events in the calendar view of HA.

I want to achieve the following: I want to be able to list in a message the events of the day with time and name. Would be awesome I can check how attendees are in the event to know if it is a meeting or if it is simply time I blocked.

I want as well to retrieve the last event of the morning in order to know when I can book and automate a message saying when the lunch should be ready.

For now I made some try with node red calling the HA calendar endpoints. It is not so bad except I need to authenticate for this call.

Before I explore more with Node Red do you know if there is a way to do it with HA ?

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Go to developer tools → states tab. Copy/Paste the attributes on your calendar entities here. Make sure you do this on a desktop computer because the attribute column will be hidden if the browser window is too small (like on mobile). Be sure to include all entities.

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So right now if I am looking at the right place I see:

message: 
all_day: false
start_time: 2021-10-27 10:00:00
end_time: 2021-10-27 10:45:00
location: 
description: 
offset_reached: false
friendly_name: XXXXXX Events

But a lot of things happened lately. What I first did is I use the api node in Node red to fetch the events from /calendars/calendar.XXXXXX. Then there I do some filtering like eliminating the one without any attendees or other specific to my need to have only real meeting and then I expose them in a numerical sensor as an attribute. The state itself being the amount of meetings.
And it works well. That being said I am moving away from Google Agenda so I will probably need to check the calDAV integration.

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each event comes through as a separate entity? What’s the name of the entity

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Not as far I see. There is only one Boolean entity which is either true or false if there is a meeting going on.

Then the information of the meeting is in the attributes.

But the attributes does not expose following meetings.

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I have no idea what you’re going on about. Are you using a calendar entity? If not, what type of entity is it? I’m trying to help with the original question, if you moved away from the original question then please say so.

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Ok sorry it probably confused you that I called it boolean entity. It is a calendar entity but as result to me it gives a state ‘on’ or ‘off’

I use Google Calendar Event - Home Assistant and put track: True on the calendar I want.

It gaves me this entity:
calendar.clement_xxxxxx_xxxxxx_com

Right now it is ‘off’ and with as attributes:

message: Enfants
all_day: false
start_time: 2021-10-27 15:00:00
end_time: 2021-10-27 18:00:00
location: 
description: 
offset_reached: false
friendly_name: XXXXX Events

And this is the same entity that I shared early on with an other event in attributes

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It seems the google calendar integration doesn’t display the events just the next one.
I know someone else asked a very similar question a few weeks ago and I was also very surprised by the entity having data but not… displaying it.

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This will get you todays calendar events, if they appear as separate entities.

{% set time = ' 00:00:00' %}
{% set start = now().date() %}
{% set end = (start + timedelta(days=1)) ~ time %}
{% set start = start ~ time %}
{% set entities = states.calendar | selectattr('attributes.start_time', '>', start) | rejectattr('attributes.end_time', '>', end) | list %}
{{ entities }}

From this point, you have a list of entities that are happening today, you’ll have to figure out what you want to do with them. If they only list the next entity like @Hellis81 says, then there’s nothing you can do.

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Hey petro, that was exactly i was looking for. Seems like i can’t find any documentation for this “set entities” function.

the result i get is

<template TemplateState(<state calendar.privat=off; message=Test Termin, all_day=False, start_time=2022-02-09 16:00:00, end_time=2022-02-09 17:00:00, location=None, description=None, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=Privat @ 2022-02-09T00:37:54.043329+01:00>)>

tried to access the data in the list with

{{ entities[0].message }}

any advice would be greatly appreciated. I want to extract information to build a TTS message for upcoming events that day.

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set is a keyword in Jinja. entities is a variable. The right side of the equal sign’s result is placed into the entities variable.

The result of that line is a list of state objects, you can only access things that are availabe in the state object. See:

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Hi Petro,

This is also exactly what I have been looking for, but in the Home assistant dvelper tools → template section, I found this effor:

UndefinedError: 'homeassistant.util.read_only_dict.ReadOnlyDict object' has no attribute 'start_time'

Could you please advise how to modify it?

Regards,
Richard

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your calendar entity needs to have a start and end time for it to work. That error is saying it doesn’t

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Hi Petro,

I do see start and end time for the output of

{% set time = ' 00:00:00' %}
{% set start = now().date() %}
{% set end = (start + timedelta(days=1)) ~ time %}
{% set start = start ~ time %}
{{ states.calendar  | list }}

[<template TemplateState(<state calendar.family_calendar=off; offset_reached=False, friendly_name=family_calendar @ 2022-03-28T14:42:49.516789+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.holidays_in_germany=off; message=Palm Sunday, all_day=True, start_time=2022-04-10 00:00:00, end_time=2022-04-11 00:00:00, location=, description=Observance
To hide observances, go to Google Calendar Settings > Holidays in Germany, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=Holidays in @ 2022-03-28T14:42:47.613284+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.richard_calendar=off; message=Lunch, all_day=False, start_time=2022-03-29 13:30:00, end_time=2022-03-29 14:15:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=richard_calendar @ 2022-03-28T19:20:46.690701+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.school_vacation=off; message=Vacation, all_day=False, start_time=2022-04-11 01:45:00, end_time=2022-04-11 02:00:00, location=, description=2:00, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=school_vacation @ 2022-03-28T14:42:43.547137+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.sheng_ri=off; offset_reached=False, friendly_name=生日 @ 2022-03-28T14:42:45.989382+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.task_important=off; message=Important: application form for Zehao and 60 Euro, all_day=False, start_time=2022-03-30 07:45:00, end_time=2022-03-30 08:00:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=task_important @ 2022-03-28T14:42:44.944210+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.tv_time_calendar=off; message=TV_Time, all_day=False, start_time=2022-03-29 18:20:00, end_time=2022-03-29 18:40:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=tv_time_calendar @ 2022-03-28T18:35:46.402878+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.vivian_calendar=off; message=面试, all_day=False, start_time=2022-03-29 10:00:00, end_time=2022-03-29 11:00:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=vivian_calendar @ 2022-03-28T14:42:47.164417+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.weather=on; message=Forecast for 广东省深圳市 (19° | 15°), all_day=True, start_time=2022-03-28 00:00:00, end_time=2022-03-29 00:00:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=Weather @ 2022-03-28T14:42:47.998908+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.zehao_calendar=off; message=School Time, all_day=False, start_time=2022-03-29 08:00:00, end_time=2022-03-29 12:40:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=zehao_calendar @ 2022-03-28T20:00:46.941931+02:00>)>, <template TemplateState(<state calendar.zherui_calendar=off; message=Sports, Sports and Sports, all_day=False, start_time=2022-04-01 07:30:00, end_time=2022-04-01 07:45:00, location=, description=, offset_reached=False, friendly_name=zherui_calendar @ 2022-03-28T14:42:49.217703+02:00>)>]
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I have tried to adapt this code to work in template, but I still only get the current next entry in the calendar.
The problem I encounter is I am trying to send a notification 2hrs before a calendar event but can only read one event. so in my below example, there are 2 entries at 11am in the calendar for our cleaning company; HA is sending two notifications for the same address. Things work fine if the entries are at different times, but our calendar is fed from AirBNB for the checkin time / check out time of a guest and we have 5 properties, so there can be up to 5 entries at the same time for a cleaning task.

Any idea how I can trigger the text message for all entries in the calendar that are the same time?

alias: Notify Vicky of clean Today
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: calendar
    event: start
    offset: '-2:0:0'
    entity_id: calendar.vicki_YYY
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ 'cleaning' in
      states.calendar.vicki_YYY.attributes.description.lower() }}
action:
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ '30c' in states.calendar.vicki_YYY.attributes.location.lower()
          }}
    then:
      - service: rest_command.websms_txt
        data:
          message_to: 64271234567
          message_text: >-
            This is a friendly reminder that you have a clean at 30c XXX Dr
            today
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ '30d' in states.calendar.vicki_YYY.attributes.location.lower()
          }}
    then:
      - service: rest_command.websms_txt
        data:
          message_to: 64271234567
          message_text: >-
            This is a friendly reminder that you have a clean at 30d XXX Dr
            today
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ '132c' in states.calendar.vicki_YYY.attributes.location.lower()
          }}
    then:
      - service: rest_command.websms_txt
        data:
          message_to: 64271234567
          message_text: >-
            This is a friendly reminder that you have a clean at 132c XXX st
            today
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ '30e' in states.calendar.vicki_YYY.attributes.location.lower()
          }}
    then:
      - service: rest_command.websms_txt
        data:
          message_to: 64271234567
          message_text: >-
            This is a friendly reminder that you have a clean at 30e XXX Dr
            today
mode: queued
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Like others, I’m trying pull up a list of google calendar entries.
My use case is that I have Tesco deliveries twice a week. The Tesco app puts the delivery into google calendar which has all my other events too. I book the slot a few weeks in advance and then populate the order the evening before the delivery is due. Yesterday I forgot I had a delivery due today so am paying £6.50 for a few raspberries (a placeholder). I want HA to look at my google calendar once a day and notify me if there is an event tomorrow with the title or message ‘Tesco order due’.
Like others, all i can see is the next event and its attributes.

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My use case is that I am interested in all events of the day from a single calendar.
And the calendar entity only contains the next event.

For example, there is a meeting at 10:00 and a presentation at 14:30.

Then I am trying to have a preview of the day by being notified everyday at 8:30 about the events of the day if only if there is any.

Currently, I am using Alexa, but it notifies me even when there isn’t any event.

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There is a feature request for this functionality.

If you are also interested in getting a calender event list, please vote for this feature: Calendar - new entitites that show a list of events with a certain scope

My use case is to show a list of upcoming events on a epaper display. I already tried some ICS/ICAL custom_components, however they all seem to have huge problems with reoccuring events (e.g. birthdays events).

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I’m just curious if anyone has solved this. I can only pull the next event in a given calendar, but sometimes even that doesn’t work (perhaps because it’s more than X hours away?).

Is there any way to pull a list of entities/attributes for upcoming events? Ideally in Node Red.

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Office integration and calendar works