snikay
(emka)
November 6, 2023, 6:00pm
23
thank you @10der for explaining this.
but honestlyā¦ why is there no simple import button?! is almost unbelievable
Hi, local calendar developer here. It just needs to be designed and added. Keep in mind this is done in volunteer time, so someone has to be motivated to do this.
I personally donāt have a use case for this so I havenāt done it myself yet, but itās been on the bark burner " Todo list" for awhile. (I put time on Todo lists instead)
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10der
(Oleg Denisenko)
November 6, 2023, 9:10pm
25
Hi, thanks!
Can you elaborate? Rrules are supported. Maybe you mean via service calls is a gap? Yeah thatās true, only supported in the UI right now.
10der
(Oleg Denisenko)
November 7, 2023, 5:44pm
27
yep! Lack of calling API.
Misiu
September 2, 2024, 8:04am
28
I searched for a similar thing.
Once a year we get a new trash day calendar via a PDF file from a company that is taking the trash.
Then I must manually add all entries to 5 calendars (mix, plastic, glass, paper, bio).
Ideally, Iād like to enter those days in a csv file and import them via a service call.
Ideally, I need two services:
clear all events from a given calendar for a given time
bulk import/insert events to a given calendar
This way I could import all the events, clear the entire year, and reimport events (when I make a mistake or the company sends an update).
You can sort of already do this.
When you create a local calendar, it stores the data in an ics file, in the .storage directory.
You would have to convert your events to ICS, but you can add them to that ics file, reload the calendar integration, et voila ā calendar events.
a quick google suggets there are plenty of csv ā ics tools around, which would make it easier than manually curating those events.
if you can write a script it would be pretty easy to put something together that does it for you.
Nick4
(Nick)
September 21, 2024, 11:37am
30
FYI: with (some) pdf viewers you can select the information and paste that for example in excel (or any other spreadsheet program) which in turn might make the process easier to get your trash dates into a calendar.
zeehio
(Sergio Oller)
September 26, 2024, 8:53pm
31
I guess I have to write a pull request for the documentation but I have implemented this feature and submitted a pull request here, in case any of you wants to review my code:
home-assistant:dev
ā zeehio:feature/local-calendar-url
opened 08:45PM - 26 Sep 24 UTC
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Allow to provide a URL pointing to an ics file when creating a local calendar. If the URL is given, the calendar becomes read-only and shows events from the ics provided by the URL. The integration will refresh the URL once a day by default, although the update interval is customizable.
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Misiu
September 26, 2024, 9:38pm
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Sadly the PDF files that we get donāt look too good.
https://zgk.zlotow.pl/pliki/upload/H%20ZAM%20X%2024%20-%20III%2025/2024-%20gm-%20Zakrzewo%202.pdf for the last 3 months of this year
https://zgk.zlotow.pl/pliki/upload/H%20ZAM%20X%2024%20-%20III%2025/2025-%20gm-%20Zakrzewo%202%20.pdf for first 3 months of next year
Iāve contacted the company multiple times and finally, they replied that this is the only format they provide and wonāt share any other format.
Nick4
(Nick)
September 27, 2024, 9:03am
33
Thatās a pity.
I was just trying to help/inspire to prevent monkey work which is so not 21st century.
Over here, we get an ics file which I import in my mail program and from there synchronize with Nextcloud which is integrated in HA.
Misiu
September 27, 2024, 2:01pm
34
Lucky you
Iām happy that my local company isnāt sending telegrams
Iāve tried several times, and Iāve sent emails to every address I could find. I even offered to create API for them, but all I got was the answer āNo, because noā.
Thankfully the PDF has a table with the same structure, so I was able to create a parser.
Now, I must wait for Add read-only calendar from url by zeehio Ā· Pull Request #126862 Ā· home-assistant/core Ā· GitHub , to have a fully working automated calendar.
Hello everyone,
does anyone know how to delete ICS calendars imported into the local calendar?
In other words, I have the problem that I have an imported ICS calendar that cannot be found as local_calendar.xyz.ics in the .storage directory.
UPDATE: Found out for myself. The affected calendar comes from the custom integration Waste Collection Schedule. I was just no longer aware of it.
Maybe the new update has delivered:
So long
Pc
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