Hi! I’m in the process of moving 10 years of work in another platform to HA, trying to spend as little time as possible creating code/yaml from scratch as the to do list is long.
One of the first things I am trying to do is get a ‘Countdown Card’ for significant calendar events displayed on the dashboard, ideally with a background image. Like this:
I’ve found this thread, which is a little older and requires some navigating of GitHub issues and one dead link that sounded promising.
I worry about trying to apply code from old threads as it often leads to learning that something changed in the core system that I have to figure out. I’ve spent more time searching than I care to admit. Do I need Mushroom? I didn’t see a good example while skimming those threads.
Can someone point me to a good solution?
sort of? I have a rule that reads from a calendar in order to populate the entities, and the card then points at the entities. However, it seems to always refresh the image (which comes from the notes of the calendar item as a URL). I want to improve it but have too many other competing projects and it works well-enough for now:
description: Updates stored event data daily
triggers:
- at: "00:01:00"
trigger: time
- event: start
trigger: homeassistant
conditions: []
actions:
- target:
entity_id: calendar.automations_google
data:
start_date_time: "{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00') }}"
end_date_time: "{{ (now() + timedelta(days=999)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00') }}"
response_variable: future_events
action: calendar.get_events
- target:
entity_id: input_number.calendar_majorevent_1_daysuntil
data:
value: >
{% set events = future_events['calendar.automations_google'].events |
selectattr('description', 'equalto', 'event') | list %} {% if events |
length >= 1 %}
{% set diff_seconds = (as_datetime(events[0].start + ' 00:00:00').replace(tzinfo=now().tzinfo) - now()).total_seconds() %}
{% set days = (diff_seconds / 86400) | round(0) | int %}
{{ days if days > 0 else 0 }}
{% else %}
0
{% endif %}
action: input_number.set_value
- target:
entity_id: input_text.calendar_majorevent_1
data:
value: >
{% set events = future_events['calendar.automations_google'].events |
selectattr('description', 'equalto', 'event') | list %} {% if events |
length >= 1 %}
{{ events[0].summary }}
{% else %}
None
{% endif %}
action: input_text.set_value
- target:
entity_id: input_text.calendar_majorevent_1_url
data:
value: >
{% set events = future_events['calendar.automations_google'].events |
selectattr('description', 'equalto', 'event') | list %} {% if events |
length >= 1 %}
{{ events[0].location }}
{% else %}
No Event
{% endif %}
action: input_text.set_value
