Text to speech calendar appointments at specific trigger?

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I recently came across

I wonder if it is possible to do a “simplified” version of this without openAI, probably someone already did something similar.

I’d like HA to text-to-speech the appointments for the current day, triggert by a time each morning or when something is triggered in the morning, like the coffee machine, light or or whatever.

like
if (power consumption of coffee machine >10W && time between 6 and 8)
→ texttospeech appointments of current day on specific device

“specific device” would be a tablet in my case

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Here’s mine, for what it’s worth. This is a response to a custom sentence, so you’d need to tinker a bit to get it to work with another trigger.

The sentence is:

language: "en"
intents:
  CustomCalendarToday:
    data:
      - sentences:
          - "[Is] (Anything | What | What's | What is ) ( in | on ) [the] (calendar | diary) [for] today"
          - "[Is] (Anything | What's | What is ) ( happening | going on ) today"

Assist says:

  CustomCalendarToday:
    action:
      - service: calendar.get_events 
        target: 
          entity_id: calendar.mycalendar
        data: 
          duration: 
            hours: "{{ 23 - now().strftime('%H') | float(0) }}"
        response_variable: diary
      - service: script.tts_response
        data:
          tts_sentence: >-
              {% if states('sensor.number_of_events_today') | float(0) > 0 %}
              Today you've got, 
              {% for event in diary['calendar.mycalendar'].events %} 
              {{ event.summary }},
              {% endfor %}
              {% else %}
              Nothing today
              {% endif %}

script.tts_response simply takes the sentence diary and says it on the appropriate speaker.

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Thank you.
So you are triggering it by voice if I understand that right?
Okay the trigger shouldn’t be the problem, is the event.summary a default from the calendar?
Need to learn more about the output I guess, since I don’t want it to be played on all connected devices.

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Yes. event.summary gives you the title of the event. There’s lots of examples in the docs (which is where most of mine came from):