I created this python script that will search my calendars and send todays events to a tts player.
I took heavy inspiration from Gettling list of day's events from a calendar - #4 by FakeThinkpad
But I quickly get brain-fog when reading those {% .... %} template/script things, so tried out the Python Scripts - Home Assistant thing
Let me know if you have solutions for the known bugs, have suggestions for improvements, or if this was of any help/inspiration to you ;-).
Known bugs
I am missing is a way to listen for an event telling me that the last message is done playing, currently i just insert a 5 sec. pause.
The type method is apparently not allowed in these scripts, so the check to see if I get a valid response from hass.states.get is not failsafe.
Dependencies
It depends on the “ical sensor” available in HACS GitHub - tybritten/ical-sensor-homeassistant: an iCal Sensor for Home Assistant
I made my script to assume that I pull 10 events from each calendar, this you define when adding calendars to the ical integration.
As my developer PC is far from the speaker i use, I loved using the GitHub - thomasloven/hass-browser_mod: 🔹 A Home Assistant integration to turn your browser into a controllable entity and media player for testing
Automation
I created the automation to trigger the script in the UI
but here is the resulting yaml as reference:
alias: kalender udtal agenda
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.kokken_hojtaler_volume_down
from: "off"
to: "on"
condition: []
action:
- service: python_script.todays_agenda_to_tts
data:
player_id: media_player.kokken_hojtaler
mode: single
The script
And here is my python script
playerId = data.get( 'player_id', "media_player.browser_CH" )
logger.debug(f'playing on {playerId}')
tts_service_data = {"entity_id": playerId,
"message": "uuummmhhhh",
"cache" : "false", }
daystart = dt_util.start_of_local_day()
dayend = daystart + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
future = daystart + datetime.timedelta(days=1000)
logger.debug(f"Timeinterval: {daystart} to {dayend}")
agenda = []
calendars = ['martin_privat',
'martin_arbejde',
'born',
'alslug',]
for calendar in calendars:
logger.debug(f'looking in {calendar}')
for cnt in range(10):
cal = hass.states.get( f'sensor.ical_{calendar}_event_{cnt}').attributes
if 'start' in cal.keys():
start = cal['start']
if daystart < start < dayend :
summary = cal['summary']
agenda.append((start,summary))
else:
logger.warning(f"no start for sensor.ical_{calendar}_event_{cnt}")
logger.debug(f"{cal=}")
for start, summary in sorted(agenda):
anouncement = f'Klokken {start.hour} {start.minute:02} ... {summary}'
logger.info(anouncement)
tts_service_data["message"] = anouncement
hass.services.call("tts", "google_translate_say", tts_service_data, True)
time.sleep(5)
logger.debug(f'checking if Joe is comming home today')
anouncement = f'Joe kommer hjem i dag' # Default.
for cnt in range(10):
calSensor = f'sensor.ical_Joe_travel_event_{cnt}'
cal = hass.states.get( calSensor ).attributes
if cal is not None:
start = cal.get('start', future)
end = cal.get('end', future)
if (start < dayend) & (end > dayend) : # it has started today or earlier. and it ends after today.
anouncement = f'Joe flyver i dag'
else:
logger.warning(f"Failed to get {calSensor} attributes")
logger.debug(f"{cal=}")
logger.info(anouncement)
tts_service_data["message"] = anouncement
hass.services.call("tts", "google_translate_say", tts_service_data, True)
