Need Help Triggering An Automation Before A Google Calendar Event

[psinide (Raj Palvankar)]

I was in a similar situation and came across your thread, you can check my post on how I resolved it for me here:

How to trigger automation one hour before calendar event

Not sure if this was resolved, but this is how I did it: Problem: Calendar auto-updated via roster mobile app, cannot change change title to use offset. Event created in calendar ‘on-time’ and I needed my automations to trigger 60 & 30 mins prior (switch on a few devices etc) Solution: Calendar event has a start_time attribute that I used to convert the timestamp into a sensor which tracks the remaining minutes. Then used this sensor to trigger automations at 60 & 30 mins before my start tim…