Hello everyone, I would like it if calendar events for the next day are scheduled, you receive a WhatsApp reminder. The special thing is that the WhatsApp message should arrive at 5:00 PM each time. With a specific time before, it wouldn’t be a problem to solve. I’ve created a makeshift solution using a helper switch. Is there a more elegant solution that would be easy to implement? Does anyone know of one? Thank you for your help.
If you only want to know “if calendar events for the next day are scheduled”, seems pretty easy.
But you want the calendar details, I guess, right?
What do you actually have now?
Currently, I have an automation that activates another automation if there is an entry in the calendar 28 hours before
, and it automatically deactivates at midnight. It works well because the entries are between 7 am and 7 pm. But there must be a more elegant solution, right? Yes, I also have the YAML code for the event name,
{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary }}
which is sufficient for me.
I actually meant: Show your full code.
It is quite pointless to try to describe computer code with words when you can just copy/paste it, isn’t it? 
you have a solution?
description: ""
mode: single
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "17:00:00"
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_von_anousone
data:
title: test
message: >-
Anthony morgen hast du {{ trigger.calendar_event.summary }}
startet am {{ trigger.calendar_event.start }}
Does anyone else know of a simple solution?
hmm…
if we’re being honest here, that automation has no prayer of doing anything. it’s not fetching from any calendar, it’s not talking w/ whatsapp. i’m guessing you tossed a few lines of code together when @koying pressed you to…
as a hint on how to be sly, next time throw your question in to chatgpt when asked for code and you don’t have any :). it’ll almost certainly be wrong still, but it won’t look as obvious that you were asking for someone to write it all from scratch for you…
i don’t know whether you’ve got actual content in the ha calendar, or google calendar or where you’re pulling your calendar from. you talked about whatsapp, but do you have a whatsapp integration set up? are you able to actually send to whatsapp already?
someone might come along and be super generous and write the whole thing from scratch… but the community generally does best helping folks who reasonably try to help themselves… so i’d encourage you to give it a real try first, post a real effort… and get some help then…
but who knows, maybe someone will gift you a full solution…
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Hello, yes, I shortened the YAML code because it was too complicated, and I posted it incorrectly, my mistake Now here’s the complete code, and yes, it works. I have another automation that either activates or deactivates this automation, depending on whether there’s an entry in the calendar. Here’s the code: can I trust your help now? @armedad
alias: 06_08_Erinnerung_Kalenderereignis_vortag_Anthony
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "17:00:00"
id: Zeit_Anthony
- platform: event
event_data:
action: KALENDER_ANTHONY
id: kalendereintrag erledigt
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
- platform: time
at: "23:55:00"
id: 0uhr
condition: []
action:
- if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Zeit_Anthony
then:
- repeat:
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_von_anousone
data:
data:
actions:
- action: KALENDER_ANTHONY
title: Wenn Kalender Überprüft bestätigen
title: Kalender
message: Kalender morgen überprüfen
- service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g998b
data:
data:
actions:
- action: KALENDER_ANTHONY
title: Wenn Kalender Überprüft bestätigen
title: Kalender
message: >-
Anthony morgen hast du {{ trigger.calendar_event.summary }}
startet am {{ trigger.calendar_event.start }}
enabled: false
- if:
- condition: zone
entity_id: person.anthony
zone: zone.home
then:
- service: notify.alexa_media_anthony_echo_dot
data:
message: >-
Anthony bitte Kalender eintrag für morgen überprüfen und
dann via whatsapp bestätigen
title: Kalender
data:
type: tts
- delay:
hours: 1
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
until:
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.kalenderereignis_morgen
state: "on"
- if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- kalendereintrag erledigt
then:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.kalenderereignis_morgen
- if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- 0uhr
then:
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.kalenderereignis_morgen
mode: parallel
max: 3
Here’s the automation that checks 28 hours ahead if there’s a calendar entry tomorrow.
alias: 06_08_Kalenderereignis_auto_start_beenden_Anthony
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: calendar
event: start
offset: "-28:0:0"
entity_id: calendar.anthony
id: kalender
- platform: time
at: "23:59:00"
id: 0Uhr
enabled: true
condition: []
action:
- if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- kalender
then:
- service: automation.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: automation.06_08_erinnerung_kalenderereignis_vortag
- if:
- condition: trigger
id:
- 0Uhr
then:
- service: automation.turn_off
target:
entity_id:
- automation.06_08_erinnerung_kalenderereignis_vortag
data:
stop_actions: true
mode: parallel
max: 3
ok, that is way more helpful. please always share the actual code if you are having problems with code. it is otherwise quite hard to guess.
I don’t see how the first code can work because you are triggering on Zeit. And then you are trying to reference
trigger.calendar_event.summary
Which does not exist on a time triggered event.
You will first need to use calendar.get_events to get the calendar event data.
I am on mobile right now so hard for me to do the code but I think that is the first fundamental issue. Others here may be able to gen the code… But hopefully thats good to get you going if not…
At 17:00, use calendar.get_events to get tomorrow’s events (in a response_variable) and then report the contents of the response_variable via your choice of notification service.
alias: example
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '17:00:00'
condition: []
action:
- service: calendar.get_events
data:
duration:
hours: 24
start_date_time: "{{ today_at() + timedelta(days=1) }}"
target:
entity_id:
- calendar.anthony
response_variable: agenda
- service: notify.your_phone
data:
title: Daily agenda for {{ now().date() + timedelta(days=1) }}
message: >-
Your scheduled events for tomorrow:
{% for event in agenda['calendar.anthony']['events'] %}
{{ event.start}}: {{ event.summary }}<br>
{% endfor %}
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Thank you, this would work, but if I don’t have an entry, I still receive a notification. I only want to receive a WhatsApp message if there’s an entry the next day. Is there a solution for that?
Yes, add a condition that checks if the quantity of events is greater than zero. Here’s one way to do it:
alias: example
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '17:00:00'
condition: []
action:
- service: calendar.get_events
data:
duration:
hours: 24
start_date_time: "{{ today_at() + timedelta(days=1) }}"
target:
entity_id:
- calendar.anthony
response_variable: agenda
- condition: "{{ agenda['calendar.anthony']['events'] | count > 0 }}"
- service: notify.your_phone
data:
title: Daily agenda for {{ now().date() + timedelta(days=1) }}
message: >-
Your scheduled events for tomorrow:
{% for event in agenda['calendar.anthony']['events'] %}
{{ event.start}}: {{ event.summary }}<br>
{% endfor %}
Reference
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Thank you very much! That is the solution!
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Hello everyone, another question, I would like to continue to be asked at 5:00 p.m. whether there is a calendar entry for tomorrow, but only a notification comes if there is an @ sign in the calendar text, does anyone know why this code does not work?
I add this code:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary is search('@') }}
alias: example
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "17:00:00"
condition: []
action:
- service: calendar.get_events
data:
duration:
hours: 24
start_date_time: "{{ today_at() + timedelta(days=1) }}"
target:
entity_id:
- calendar.anthony
response_variable: agenda
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary is search('@') }}"
- service: notify.your_phone
data:
title: Daily agenda for {{ now().date() + timedelta(days=1) }}
message: >-
Your scheduled events for tomorrow: {% for event in
agenda['calendar.anthony']['events'] %} {{ event.start}}: {{
event.summary }}<br> {% endfor %}
- condition: template
value_template: >
{{ agenda['calendar.anthony']['events']
| selectattr('summary', 'contains', '@')
| list | count > 0 }}
- condition: template
value_template: >
{{ agenda['calendar.anthony']['events']
| selectattr('summary', 'contains', '@')
| list | count > 0 }}
Thank you very much, but unfortunately, this YAML code does not work.
Oh, I have unfortunately made a formatting error. Thank you very much for your help!
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Hello everyone, is there another way to check multiple calendars? I tried it like this, but it didn’t work.
service: calendar.get_events
data:
duration:
hours: 24
start_date_time: "{{ today_at() + timedelta(days=1) }}"
target:
entity_id:
- calendar.anthony
- calendar.andrew
response_variable: agenda
enabled: true
{{ agenda['calendar.anthony', 'calendar.andrew' ]['events']
| selectattr('summary', 'contains', '@')
| list | count > 0 }}