thank you. I was finally at the level where this makes sense and it is AWESOME to be able to do this. Now i have implemented it, but when i first watched this video as a noob, my brain broke. now i have a much better sense of HA and loving google calendar integration and utility. NOTE there are some changes with recent HA/integration updates- no more configuration.yaml code segment needed.
Great video. Since you made it, I think the integration has been updated, as all of the configuration of the calendar is now done through the Integration itself (no YAML) and the documentation states that the use of the google_calendars.yaml file is deprecated and not recommended as it is incompatible with other HA features. The Google Calendar documentation also mentions the limitation on the calendar attributes being limited to one event, and states that Calendar Automations should be used instead. Would be great if you could provide an updated video on the new approach, which sounds more flexible.
Thank you very much for this video, it did what was intended for me. I already had the calendar integration but struggeled (wasn't bothered) to make it useful, with your tips on entity ids and hashtags I can now start using it for what I most need it for. Heating the car up before we need to leave or pick up kids from school when temperature is low.:)
Thank you. This was very useful. I gave up on trying to find the Supervisor tools. Apparently moved to Configure, but I still couldn't find a way to add a file editor. In the end I just Putty to my NAS and vi edited the files that way
Can the search filters be more flexible? I have a certain calendar (school calendar imported via iCal) that names dissimilar events... similarly 😅 I was thinking something like a regex search or an `|` might be able to do the trick, but they don't seem to work the way I expect 🤔
Hi Jeff, first of all: Thanks for your great Videos. I've followed your guide about two thirds through the video before facing a problem which appears to be quite new: I'm missing the google_calendars.yaml After some research i've found out, that this affects everyone who's installing the google calendar integration after 2022.6. On the integration page it states: "The integration supports additional configuration from a file google_calendars.yaml which is available for existing users before version 2022.06. This file is no longer automatically populated." Do you know a clean and easy suggestion on how to populate this file? Or plans on releasing an update to this video?
oke, dumb me, after being busy all morning to figure stuff out i see this comment only now... putting away this calandar option for now and wait for a solution haha
I've been wanting to do this integration for months now. I put this video on my watch list as soon as it came up on my notifications. Having already taken a very quick look at the official integration page, I could tell the most difficult part was going to be the Google credentials, rolled my eyes and just put this off. You're video showed how easy the HA side of this is and so I finally went ahead with it... and really, getting the credentials wasn't that bad. I was up and running with Calendar within half an hour! Thanks so much for this video. I also really appreciated @Frank Graffagnino 's smart suggestion to create a calendar specifically for HA and avoid the # searching. Application? I wanted this integration for easer management of firing off scheduled TTS announcements over my mic-less Google Minis. Before this, I had a myriad of time-based automations, "It's time for
This video is really well timed and well explained as always. I made a Siri shortcut that triggers a Home Assistant script with whatever text is said and Home Assistant then performs actions based on the text content. I've been thinking about expanding it to allow scripts to be scheduled in Home Assistant. For example, I could schedule a whole home TTS announcement with dynamic text. Using Google Calendar would help track the time for the trigger with the contents holding the information about the action.
Watched yours and a couple more on this task/subject - you mention another "Google" account (for your home)....is that the account you are logging into Developer Console with?
Thank you, Jeff for all your videos! I'm learning a lot from you. I am looking forward to implementing this calendar integration and expanding the capabilities of my automations. I was curious about your thoughts on using the CalDav integration with iCloud or a Synology Caldav calendar. I would be interested in those mainly for keeping it local (with Synology) and keeping it private (with both). Do you know of any trade offs for using one of those instead of Google? Any thoughts on privacy concerns with Google calendar?
I’m not sure there would be any real trade offs. I have read a lot of people having issues trying to get caldev to work though. But I haven’t tried. In Theory I think it should work fine. I don’t have any real privacy concerns with the calendars. That said. I wish home assistant had an easy way to sync a local one. If I could keep it local I would go that route. The google calendar was just easier. my biggest issue it’s needs to be easily accessible and updatable with everyone in the house using it when I went down that path.
instead of using hashtags in the descriptions to separate things, could you just make more calendars in your account - like one for birthdays, one for bedtimes, etc.?
Is this integration being removed? I get a weird error. I had this working a long time ago, but the company email we were using got switched to microsoft office. I made a new google account so we could use it and was following this how to, to reinstall. The error: The Google Calendar YAML configuration is being removed Configuring the Google Calendar in configuration.yaml is being removed in Home Assistant 2022.9. Your existing OAuth Application Credentials and access settings have been imported into the UI automatically. Remove the YAML configuration from your configuration.yaml file and restart Home Assistant to fix this issue.
Not getting removed. They are just removing the google_calendar.yaml file for basic config and removing the option to configure the integration via the configuration.yaml file. After 2022.9 you will only be able to set it up Via the ui through the integration panel.
On my main HA display I use a atomic-calendar-revive card, a really flexible, compact and useful card for displaying upcoming events with progress bar and all.
Hello Jeff - is there any way to integrate TASKS from the Google Calendar into HA? in my HA instance, events transfer over as expected but tasks do not....do I need additional configuration?
I had a problem that I could only solve with python involving having multiple birthdays on the same day (Me and my great niece). I couldn't find any other solution but the python solution works okay. I can probably refactor it but I wasn't sure if your viewers might have run into that problem with the existing google calendar integration; in general it only reports the 'next' event and since I had two birthdays there wasn't a convenient way to render two events that I could come up with. My solution will work for multiple birthday events (Tom, Dick and Harry for instance) but just a heads up in case anyone else ran into this. As always, I love your channel!
Oh great point. I use a python script for things like anniversaries and birth days too. I can use case that when I talk about how I get the school lunch data into home assistant. All of these weird ways to get date based data into home assistant.
@@SlackerLabs Appdaemon is relatively straightforward but since I'm a programmer by trade, what's easy for one isn't as easy for others. Plus the developer I got my solution from was German and I had to translate a few things to figure out what he was doing ;) I look forward to your follow up video on this topic!
@@VWTesla I would love if you could share. As I am still kind off new to HA - a slip stream into managing complexity would be nice (currently doing data - but played right across the industry)
@@clairerovic I think the Google Calendar integration has changed and it's more difficult to access the google token than it was when I wrote the above comment. I'm in the process of rebuilding my home assistant and I'll see if I can get the integration working again. I wish it were easier and perhaps a HACS component will be developed to facilitate getting dates integrated more easily in the future.
Yes. They removed the auto created google_calendars.yaml. You can create it manually and it will work. Or you can create separate calendars for different events.
@@SlackerLabs Thank you for responding. I'm new to HA (converting from Vera), and I'm finding that many of the videos and documentation don't reflect the current state of HA, even when the video is only a few months old. I guess that's good and bad, because it means HA is actively being developed, but it makes it harder to set things up.
Great video Jeff, like all of them. I have seen the video now a lot of times. Im not so good in the yaml typing but I do my best. And what you are mentioning in your video is my struggle at the moment. I have a automation that is triggering just fine, The normal appointments. But it hangs on the appointments that is taking all day. When my wife has a day off, we manage taht all in the calender, but it doenst trigger at the all_day. It would but then it triggers all events of all_day. It seems I can trigger a all_day with a summary / description of 'wiafe day off' And also the thing that if there is a event of all_day, then all other events can´t be triggerd anymore, because it stucks on the all_day event. As you mentioned. But your solution isn´t possible I think since the new integration. So I am looking forward to maybe a new video about how to handle this all nowerdays. Thanks Jeff, I keep watching.
This is another great video! Thank you Jeff! Sorry that I am not that smart and I have a dumb question. I still don't understand the use of the offset and offset_reached attribute. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks in advance.
Ah don’t worry. That offset thing confused the heck out of me at the beginning. Think of it as that “remind me before” option on a calendar event. The offset gives you a way to do that in home assistant. So for an event starting at 2pm if you put !!-00:10 in the title. In home assistant that off set reached attribute will turn true 10 mins earlier at 1:50pm. If you put !!-05:00 in the title then that offset attribute for that event will turn true 5 hours prior at 9am. So for that last example at 9am the calendar entity will still show off. But the offset reached attribute will be true. So you would be able to kick off an automation related to that event prior to the actual event start time. Once the event start time is reached the calendar entity will turn on. Does that help?
Is the main advantage that HA has a big set of notification options? Google calendar can already send email, but cannot tweet. Are there useful ways to combine this with state? For example, trigger a calendar based notification when someone gets home
Not at all the big advantage is you can pull all this data in and combine it. And yes. Most of what I use the calendar for is notifications. Because when I’m home I’d rather Jarvis just tell me when it’s time to leave or what is on the calendar than finding my phone and getting that data. And yea you could totally combine this data with your presence detection data to do anything. Heck you could put your weekly Amazon prime day and have HA gather up all your smart home tech batteries that are almost dead and send you a list of what you should order. The beauty is once that calendar data is in home assistant you can combine it with any of the other data and make some really smart automations.
I use the Google Calendar integration to intelligently schedule my alarm clock. I normally work M-F at 8am. However, if I have a "Work Early" event scheduled, HA will set my alarm clock an hour earlier. If I have an "Out of Office" event, it will not set my alarm clock and instead notify me that I have the day off when my alarm is normally set.
(given that it is almost Easter) -- EGGzellent :-) video. I love the hashtags thing. I think I am going to look into "house" gmail/google account. Good Idea. Now I have a few questions: 1) I noticed when I linked to my personal calendar (same one as on my Google Pixel phone) - I have colored specific events "like Birthdays" one color and other things are other colors - those events indeed show in HA as different colors - but do not match the colors I was using on Google - anyway to adjust those? and 2) Can HA only view the calendar - or can it somehow put events "ON" my calendar?
do you use the sun integration? i'm wondering where it gets its input data (specifically geographic location and time) from, and if it is possible to get that information from a GPS receiver...
I use the sun integration. At least for triggering a handful of automations. In general configuration page under settings you can set the latitude and longitude of your house along with the elevation. I believe that is how it knows where the sun is in location to your house. And yes you could get gps data into home assistant. Phones for example send their gps location data to home assistant. If you wanted to use 3rd party gps data for sun state though you have to come up with your own sensor. I have seen one that allows that. Then again I have honestly not looked.
Hello, i get a error trying to integrate the google yaml into the configuration: "Component error: google - Exception importing homeassistant.components.google" I added the 2 lines in the secrets.yaml before, but if i add the 3 lines to the configuration.yaml i get the error above and thats it. (Running 2022.3.0 on a raspberry pi) - so i never get to the point to get to authorize HA to google. Thank you very much for your help!
Looks like its working now, after a restart of HA (with the 2 lines inside the secrets.yaml) i was able to add the 3 lines in the configuration.yaml - could the missing restart between the editing of the secrets and the configuration be the problem?
the hashtag thing. amazing. thank you... also... i clicked on this video because i was creating an automation to add an event on my google cal when i clean out my litter box.... successful. (when closet light is on for over 2 mins (might change as i test this) service: google.add_event is called.... (ill put my yaml in the replay to this comment) Thank you again.
It’s a home assistant thing. The integration will search for what ever you put in that search field. Since I’m using words that might show up in a normal event description the # allows the integration to be intentional about what it’s looking for. But you could just as easily leave it off and for example look for any events that have “party” in them. Then you wouldn’t need to add something specific for the search.
If you jump into node-red you will be able to do many things much easier. I suggest running it stand-alone rather than as an add-on. If an add-on node-red restarts every time you restart HA and if you are using it to control things outside of HA that becomes really annoying. Also, you can run multiple instances on different ports if you have independent projects and source control them with git. I highly recommend node-red. Of course, I am probably biased since I used to be a NodeJS developer.
so after I add the of the client ID and client secrets it says this when i try to restart home assistant "Invalid config for [google]: The 'google' option near /config/configuration.yaml:2 has been removed, please remove it from your configuration." And then a bunch of other stuff that includes my client info that i added to secrets.yaml I dont know what I did wrong do you have any suggestions on what to try to fix this?
Yea. So after that video the HA team updates the integration. You have to set it up via the integrations option in settings. It will prompt you for your Google api creds. And it no longer creates the Google calendars yaml file. You have to do it manually. I’m in the middle of editing a video on how to set it up now. Just haven’t got it done yet.
Apparently, if you use a phrase instead of a hashtag, it will catch multiple variations of that phrase. For example, I created one for "Work Early" when I need to log in to work at 7am instead of the normal 8am. It also caught the "Test early work alarm" event I used to see if it would schedule my alarm clock at the appropriate time since I had a "Work Early" even the next day. This made it think I had to work early on the current day.
Hey thanks for the video! Followed your instructions, got my calendar to show up in HA. BUT after about an hour or so it doesn't show any of my entries anymore in the log file says " Unable to authenticate with API: 401, message=‘Unauthorized". Tried it twice already after deleting the first Google project for this. Any idea why it work at first, then not work after a couple of hours?
That sounds like you are hitting a limit. Would you have another home assistant instance using the same api? Or some other app perhaps? Or it some how is not using your current api token.
File Editor warns of duplicated mapping key when I add another device id under the calendar. Only the last entered device appears as an entity on restart. Am I missing something about editing yaml files?
That makes me think something is not indented properly. Or if you have multiple device ids make sure each line with device_id is proceeded by a dash like - device_id: Name: - device_id
Cool integration! Thanks for sharing this info. I have it all set up, and Home Assistant pulled in the 12-15 calendars I have. Do you know how I can hide auto pulled in calendars? if I update calendars.yaml, and set tracking to FALSE, or delete the entries for the calendars I don't want to display or pull in, the changes aren't persistent. When I reboot Home Assistant, that calendar.yaml file re-generates and pulls back in all the calendars I tried to hide..... Any idea how to do that? I want to completely hide calendars from the side, not just disable them
Oh, maybe I'm good... I had to refresh my browser. Looks like it's now updated and hidden. For anyone that may come along after me, within google_calendars.yaml, for the ones you want to hide, change their track parameter to FALSE. Restart Home Assistant, and refresh that calendar pane after reboot a few times.
@@elliot762001 You Sir are my hero. Had no error Messages, nothing, but i didnt get a notification. The Google Calendar integration was the culprit, after adding it it worked flawless =D
With the changes in the newer versions, how does one actually search doing the configuration through the UI? I can get it to fire, but only if it matches exactly. My use case is that I would like Alexa to speak the days calendar entries. (thought was to put #Alexa somewhere in the description whenever I wanted the entry to be spoken)
Time to update this video. The integration does not use the google_calendars.yaml file anymore. So now I am stuck trying to figure out how to separate out the individual events for each day.
My understanding is it still can use then calendars.yaml it just doesn’t create it for you so you are on your own for building it. In the docs it is listed as an advance setup and hidden behind some clicks so I suspect they are trying to get away from it. The easiest method would would be to create separate calendars. I started working on a. New video though.
This doesn't work anymoore, synce new google calendars integration. google_calendaars.yaml is deprecated. Is there any way I can track multiple events?
Yes. Use google_calendars.yaml. It still works. It just doesn’t get auto created. But it still works. The only change was they moved google_calendars.yaml to the “advance” option. But I verified it still works. I’ll be doing a new video on how to do it. If you need one to reference I can link to my on GitHub
I have got this error messages right after editing the secrets.yaml and conf.yaml: Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: mapping values are not allowed here in "/config/secrets.yaml", line 5, column 18
That would point to an indention error somewhere. Everything in secrets should be start without indention. For example, if I put three spaces in front of line 5 in secrets I get the same error.
@@SlackerLabs No indentations there. I even did a save and restart after entering into the secrets.yaml and that was fine. The issue seems to come up in my configuration.yaml☹️
Still waiting for a user friendly way to integrate Google Calendars. Everything I've seen expects you to be messing around a lot with YAML or learning Node Red
For sure to enable it you have to get into the yaml to add the google section. But for basic use as long as your calendars are already setup those three lines are all you need. After that when you restart your calendars will be in home assistant. Hopefully that part will get added to the UI flow this year.
I think the only option that I know of is an entities Calendar integration in the home Assistant Community store. That allows you to create a calendar using entities like datetime helpers. I played around with it a while back to see if it would work for chores. But there really isn't a way to create a calendar inside of home assistant. If you have a local ical based calendar I believe those can integrate using the CalDAV integration.
I tried to follow your video but it seems things changed since you recorded it. I was successful in adding the integration and I can see my calendars in home assistant. Alas, I cannot find google_calendars.yaml. Can somebody point me in the right direction for how to add new entities using hashtags as demonstrated in the video if you don't have a google_calendars.yaml anymore?
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Jumping in on Node Red is awesome :)
thank you. I was finally at the level where this makes sense and it is AWESOME to be able to do this. Now i have implemented it, but when i first watched this video as a noob, my brain broke. now i have a much better sense of HA and loving google calendar integration and utility. NOTE there are some changes with recent HA/integration updates- no more configuration.yaml code segment needed.
Great video. Since you made it, I think the integration has been updated, as all of the configuration of the calendar is now done through the Integration itself (no YAML) and the documentation states that the use of the google_calendars.yaml file is deprecated and not recommended as it is incompatible with other HA features. The Google Calendar documentation also mentions the limitation on the calendar attributes being limited to one event, and states that Calendar Automations should be used instead. Would be great if you could provide an updated video on the new approach, which sounds more flexible.
I’m thinking that I am going to start from scratch on home assistant when I finally get this move done. I will definitely do this.
Unfortunately home assistant is so quick in becoming incompatible to itself that 3/4 of all tutorials on the internet don't work anymore.
There is an updated version of this at ruclips.net/video/Q8pnWPEmTrU/видео.html and it shows you how you can still use the google_calendars.yaml file
Thank you very much for this video, it did what was intended for me.
I already had the calendar integration but struggeled (wasn't bothered) to make it useful, with your tips on entity ids and hashtags I can now start using it for what I most need it for.
Heating the car up before we need to leave or pick up kids from school when temperature is low.:)
Nice one Jeff! And congrats on 10k subs!
Thanks Aaron!
Outstanding tutorial! Thank you. Excellent tips for triggering calendar-based automations too.
Love the new video format/information you have added. BTW: Really helpful for me as I have been struggling with this integration
Thanks! Yeah I figured it was time to start changing this up a bit.
Thanks for the video. I never knew about using the hashtags. Been using my calendar for years in HA. I love you celebrate Rex Manning day.
Sweet! The house plays Say No More Mon Amour every April 8th haha
@@SlackerLabs I don't think that would work in my house since that's my wife and I anniversary
@@rasbe6863 oh. Yea I can see that as a being an issue.
Thank you. This was very useful.
I gave up on trying to find the Supervisor tools. Apparently moved to Configure, but I still couldn't find a way to add a file editor.
In the end I just Putty to my NAS and vi edited the files that way
Can the search filters be more flexible? I have a certain calendar (school calendar imported via iCal) that names dissimilar events... similarly 😅 I was thinking something like a regex search or an `|` might be able to do the trick, but they don't seem to work the way I expect 🤔
Thanks.. you mentioned using the Calendar integration for national _____ days in the comments of another video.
Yea. This video has been on the list for a while. Hope it helps.
@@SlackerLabs "For holidays we celebrate in this house like May 4th" LOL
@@SlackerLabs Son of a ........ I got this calendar deal figured out and the HA team upgraded it. We done did it the hard way!
Yea. I saw that.
Hi Jeff, first of all: Thanks for your great Videos.
I've followed your guide about two thirds through the video before facing a problem which appears to be quite new:
I'm missing the google_calendars.yaml
After some research i've found out, that this affects everyone who's installing the google calendar integration after 2022.6. On the integration page it states:
"The integration supports additional configuration from a file google_calendars.yaml which is available for existing users before version 2022.06. This file is no longer automatically populated."
Do you know a clean and easy suggestion on how to populate this file? Or plans on releasing an update to this video?
same problem here
Yea. I need to take a look. I’m in the process of breaking things down to move. But I will take a look at that.
oke, dumb me, after being busy all morning to figure stuff out i see this comment only now... putting away this calandar option for now and wait for a solution haha
thanks a lot, it works perfectly
I've been wanting to do this integration for months now. I put this video on my watch list as soon as it came up on my notifications. Having already taken a very quick look at the official integration page, I could tell the most difficult part was going to be the Google credentials, rolled my eyes and just put this off. You're video showed how easy the HA side of this is and so I finally went ahead with it... and really, getting the credentials wasn't that bad. I was up and running with Calendar within half an hour! Thanks so much for this video. I also really appreciated @Frank Graffagnino 's smart suggestion to create a calendar specifically for HA and avoid the # searching.
Application? I wanted this integration for easer management of firing off scheduled TTS announcements over my mic-less Google Minis. Before this, I had a myriad of time-based automations, "It's time for
This video is really well timed and well explained as always.
I made a Siri shortcut that triggers a Home Assistant script with whatever text is said and Home Assistant then performs actions based on the text content. I've been thinking about expanding it to allow scripts to be scheduled in Home Assistant. For example, I could schedule a whole home TTS announcement with dynamic text. Using Google Calendar would help track the time for the trigger with the contents holding the information about the action.
Watched yours and a couple more on this task/subject - you mention another "Google" account (for your home)....is that the account you are logging into Developer Console with?
Thank you, Jeff for all your videos! I'm learning a lot from you. I am looking forward to implementing this calendar integration and expanding the capabilities of my automations. I was curious about your thoughts on using the CalDav integration with iCloud or a Synology Caldav calendar. I would be interested in those mainly for keeping it local (with Synology) and keeping it private (with both). Do you know of any trade offs for using one of those instead of Google? Any thoughts on privacy concerns with Google calendar?
I’m not sure there would be any real trade offs. I have read a lot of people having issues trying to get caldev to work though. But I haven’t tried. In Theory I think it should work fine. I don’t have any real privacy concerns with the calendars. That said. I wish home assistant had an easy way to sync a local one. If I could keep it local I would go that route. The google calendar was just easier. my biggest issue it’s needs to be easily accessible and updatable with everyone in the house using it when I went down that path.
Great video Jeff, and congrats on the 10k subs!
Please put NodeRed on your video topics list - it helps with my WAF!
instead of using hashtags in the descriptions to separate things, could you just make more calendars in your account - like one for birthdays, one for bedtimes, etc.?
Yeah, you could totally do that, and that would get anyone out of having to do any yaml other than that initial enable Google in the configuration.
Great idea!
Is this integration being removed? I get a weird error. I had this working a long time ago, but the company email we were using got switched to microsoft office. I made a new google account so we could use it and was following this how to, to reinstall.
The error:
The Google Calendar YAML configuration is being removed
Configuring the Google Calendar in configuration.yaml is being removed in Home Assistant 2022.9.
Your existing OAuth Application Credentials and access settings have been imported into the UI automatically. Remove the YAML configuration from your configuration.yaml file and restart Home Assistant to fix this issue.
Not getting removed. They are just removing the google_calendar.yaml file for basic config and removing the option to configure the integration via the configuration.yaml file. After 2022.9 you will only be able to set it up
Via the ui through the integration panel.
@@SlackerLabs I had to upgrade HA to the latest version and reinstall via the button on the HA website. It works now thanks.
On my main HA display I use a atomic-calendar-revive card, a really flexible, compact and useful card for displaying upcoming events with progress bar and all.
Hello Jeff - is there any way to integrate TASKS from the Google Calendar into HA? in my HA instance, events transfer over as expected but tasks do not....do I need additional configuration?
Great video! Can you please share the NodeRed calendar for all events in one day? Thank you very much
Yeah, I'll see if I can get it. I saw your post in Discord, when I get it I will reply there
Great help. Just hoping for more enhancements maybe with Node-Red.
I had a problem that I could only solve with python involving having multiple birthdays on the same day (Me and my great niece). I couldn't find any other solution but the python solution works okay. I can probably refactor it but I wasn't sure if your viewers might have run into that problem with the existing google calendar integration; in general it only reports the 'next' event and since I had two birthdays there wasn't a convenient way to render two events that I could come up with. My solution will work for multiple birthday events (Tom, Dick and Harry for instance) but just a heads up in case anyone else ran into this. As always, I love your channel!
Oh great point. I use a python script for things like anniversaries and birth days too. I can use case that when I talk about how I get the school lunch data into home assistant. All of these weird ways to get date based data into home assistant.
@@SlackerLabs Appdaemon is relatively straightforward but since I'm a programmer by trade, what's easy for one isn't as easy for others. Plus the developer I got my solution from was German and I had to translate a few things to figure out what he was doing ;) I look forward to your follow up video on this topic!
@@VWTesla I would love if you could share. As I am still kind off new to HA - a slip stream into managing complexity would be nice (currently doing data - but played right across the industry)
@@clairerovic I think the Google Calendar integration has changed and it's more difficult to access the google token than it was when I wrote the above comment. I'm in the process of rebuilding my home assistant and I'll see if I can get the integration working again. I wish it were easier and perhaps a HACS component will be developed to facilitate getting dates integrated more easily in the future.
A very useful video, especially for those of us that are doing what we can to emulate you and Tony Stark by having our own "Jarvis". :)
Has the Calendar integration changed? I followed your steps, but I never found a google_calendars.yaml file in my config directory?
Yes. They removed the auto created google_calendars.yaml. You can create it manually and it will work. Or you can create separate calendars for different events.
@@SlackerLabs Thank you for responding. I'm new to HA (converting from Vera), and I'm finding that many of the videos and documentation don't reflect the current state of HA, even when the video is only a few months old. I guess that's good and bad, because it means HA is actively being developed, but it makes it harder to set things up.
Great video Jeff, like all of them. I have seen the video now a lot of times. Im not so good in the yaml typing but I do my best. And what you are mentioning in your video is my struggle at the moment. I have a automation that is triggering just fine, The normal appointments. But it hangs on the appointments that is taking all day. When my wife has a day off, we manage taht all in the calender, but it doenst trigger at the all_day. It would but then it triggers all events of all_day. It seems I can trigger a all_day with a summary / description of 'wiafe day off' And also the thing that if there is a event of all_day, then all other events can´t be triggerd anymore, because it stucks on the all_day event. As you mentioned. But your solution isn´t possible I think since the new integration. So I am looking forward to maybe a new video about how to handle this all nowerdays. Thanks Jeff, I keep watching.
This is another great video! Thank you Jeff! Sorry that I am not that smart and I have a dumb question. I still don't understand the use of the offset and offset_reached attribute. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks in advance.
Ah don’t worry. That offset thing confused the heck out of me at the beginning. Think of it as that “remind me before” option on a calendar event. The offset gives you a way to do that in home assistant. So for an event starting at 2pm if you put !!-00:10 in the title. In home assistant that off set reached attribute will turn true 10 mins earlier at 1:50pm. If you put !!-05:00 in the title then that offset attribute for that event will turn true 5 hours prior at 9am. So for that last example at 9am the calendar entity will still show off. But the offset reached attribute will be true. So you would be able to kick off an automation related to that event prior to the actual event start time. Once the event start time is reached the calendar entity will turn on. Does that help?
@@SlackerLabs Thanks for your explanation.
Is the main advantage that HA has a big set of notification options? Google calendar can already send email, but cannot tweet. Are there useful ways to combine this with state? For example, trigger a calendar based notification when someone gets home
Not at all the big advantage is you can pull all this data in and combine it. And yes. Most of what I use the calendar for is notifications. Because when I’m home I’d rather Jarvis just tell me when it’s time to leave or what is on the calendar than finding my phone and getting that data. And yea you could totally combine this data with your presence detection data to do anything. Heck you could put your weekly Amazon prime day and have HA gather up all your smart home tech batteries that are almost dead and send you a list of what you should order. The beauty is once that calendar data is in home assistant you can combine it with any of the other data and make some really smart automations.
I use the Google Calendar integration to intelligently schedule my alarm clock. I normally work M-F at 8am. However, if I have a "Work Early" event scheduled, HA will set my alarm clock an hour earlier. If I have an "Out of Office" event, it will not set my alarm clock and instead notify me that I have the day off when my alarm is normally set.
(given that it is almost Easter) -- EGGzellent :-) video. I love the hashtags thing. I think I am going to look into "house" gmail/google account. Good Idea. Now I have a few questions: 1) I noticed when I linked to my personal calendar (same one as on my Google Pixel phone) - I have colored specific events "like Birthdays" one color and other things are other colors - those events indeed show in HA as different colors - but do not match the colors I was using on Google - anyway to adjust those? and 2) Can HA only view the calendar - or can it somehow put events "ON" my calendar?
do you use the sun integration? i'm wondering where it gets its input data (specifically geographic location and time) from, and if it is possible to get that information from a GPS receiver...
I use the sun integration. At least for triggering a handful of automations. In general configuration page under settings you can set the latitude and longitude of your house along with the elevation. I believe that is how it knows where the sun is in location to your house. And yes you could get gps data into home assistant. Phones for example send their gps location data to home assistant. If you wanted to use 3rd party gps data for sun state though you have to come up with your own sensor. I have seen one that allows that. Then again I have honestly not looked.
@@SlackerLabs so it is possible? good to know :-)
Hello, i get a error trying to integrate the google yaml into the configuration:
"Component error: google - Exception importing homeassistant.components.google"
I added the 2 lines in the secrets.yaml before, but if i add the 3 lines to the configuration.yaml i get the error above and thats it. (Running 2022.3.0 on a raspberry pi) - so i never get to the point to get to authorize HA to google. Thank you very much for your help!
Looks like its working now, after a restart of HA (with the 2 lines inside the secrets.yaml) i was able to add the 3 lines in the configuration.yaml - could the missing restart between the editing of the secrets and the configuration be the problem?
@@Grmpf66 I had that same issue. Looks like the restart between the 2 WAS needed.
@@Grmpf66 thanks that worked perfectly
it doesnt let me do the config yaml as when i try to restart i get a massive error message interfering with hacs
the hashtag thing. amazing. thank you... also... i clicked on this video because i was creating an automation to add an event on my google cal when i clean out my litter box.... successful. (when closet light is on for over 2 mins (might change as i test this) service: google.add_event is called.... (ill put my yaml in the replay to this comment) Thank you again.
#automation YAML
alias: Kitty litter
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: device
type: turned_on
device_id: 63f59f1c12cd0ada8e696b57694397ae
entity_id: switch.closet
domain: switch
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 2
seconds: 0
condition: []
action:
- service: google.add_event
data_template:
calendar_id: GET THIS FROM GOOGLE_CALENDARS.YAML
summary: Kitty Litter Cleaned Out
description: "#kittylitter"
start_date_time: "{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}"
end_date_time: "{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}"
mode: single
Hi Jeff, Are the hashtags/special characters a Home Assistant or Google thing?
It’s a home assistant thing. The integration will search for what ever you put in that search field. Since I’m using words that might show up in a normal event description the # allows the integration to be intentional about what it’s looking for. But you could just as easily leave it off and for example look for any events that have “party” in them. Then you wouldn’t need to add something specific for the search.
If you jump into node-red you will be able to do many things much easier. I suggest running it stand-alone rather than as an add-on. If an add-on node-red restarts every time you restart HA and if you are using it to control things outside of HA that becomes really annoying. Also, you can run multiple instances on different ports if you have independent projects and source control them with git. I highly recommend node-red. Of course, I am probably biased since I used to be a NodeJS developer.
can-you-please-tell-me-how-do-i-setup-the-reminders
so after I add the of the client ID and client secrets it says this when i try to restart home assistant "Invalid config for [google]: The 'google' option near /config/configuration.yaml:2 has been removed, please remove it from your configuration." And then a bunch of other stuff that includes my client info that i added to secrets.yaml I dont know what I did wrong do you have any suggestions on what to try to fix this?
Yea. So after that video the HA team updates the integration. You have to set it up via the integrations option in settings. It will prompt you for your Google api creds. And it no longer creates the Google calendars yaml file. You have to do it manually. I’m in the middle of editing a video on how to set it up now. Just haven’t got it done yet.
@@SlackerLabs ok that you
Apparently, if you use a phrase instead of a hashtag, it will catch multiple variations of that phrase. For example, I created one for "Work Early" when I need to log in to work at 7am instead of the normal 8am. It also caught the "Test early work alarm" event I used to see if it would schedule my alarm clock at the appropriate time since I had a "Work Early" even the next day. This made it think I had to work early on the current day.
Important safety tip! I think that’s why I settled on words know that you mention it.
Hey thanks for the video! Followed your instructions, got my calendar to show up in HA. BUT after about an hour or so it doesn't show any of my entries anymore in the log file says " Unable to authenticate with API: 401, message=‘Unauthorized". Tried it twice already after deleting the first Google project for this. Any idea why it work at first, then not work after a couple of hours?
That sounds like you are hitting a limit. Would you have another home assistant instance using the same api? Or some other app perhaps? Or it some how is not using your current api token.
File Editor warns of duplicated mapping key when I add another device id under the calendar. Only the last entered device appears as an entity on restart. Am I missing something about editing yaml files?
That makes me think something is not indented properly. Or if you have multiple device ids make sure each line with device_id is proceeded by a dash like
- device_id:
Name:
- device_id
@@SlackerLabs That was indeed the issue. I did not recognize the significance of the preceding dash. Thanks for the guidance!
Cool integration! Thanks for sharing this info. I have it all set up, and Home Assistant pulled in the 12-15 calendars I have. Do you know how I can hide auto pulled in calendars? if I update calendars.yaml, and set tracking to FALSE, or delete the entries for the calendars I don't want to display or pull in, the changes aren't persistent. When I reboot Home Assistant, that calendar.yaml file re-generates and pulls back in all the calendars I tried to hide.....
Any idea how to do that? I want to completely hide calendars from the side, not just disable them
Oh, maybe I'm good...
I had to refresh my browser. Looks like it's now updated and hidden. For anyone that may come along after me, within google_calendars.yaml, for the ones you want to hide, change their track parameter to FALSE. Restart Home Assistant, and refresh that calendar pane after reboot a few times.
I was thinking False should cover it. I know if you comment it out it may just come back.
Hi, i don't get anny errors but i dont get the notifications after restarting HA and no google_calendars.yaml file.
all good now, i had to go to integrations and add the google calendar integration
@@elliot762001 You Sir are my hero. Had no error Messages, nothing, but i didnt get a notification. The Google Calendar integration was the culprit, after adding it it worked flawless =D
@@manuelthallinger7297 glad I could help you out
With the changes in the newer versions, how does one actually search doing the configuration through the UI? I can get it to fire, but only if it matches exactly. My use case is that I would like Alexa to speak the days calendar entries. (thought was to put #Alexa somewhere in the description whenever I wanted the entry to be spoken)
You would need to setup the google calendar yaml file. With that you can define search parameters.
The google_Calendars.yaml file is now **not**
created since 2022.5. Does anyone know of a workaround?
Time to update this video. The integration does not use the google_calendars.yaml file anymore. So now I am stuck trying to figure out how to separate out the individual events for each day.
My understanding is it still can use then calendars.yaml it just doesn’t create it for you so you are on your own for building it. In the docs it is listed as an advance setup and hidden behind some clicks so I suspect they are trying to get away from it. The easiest method would would be to create separate calendars. I started working on a. New video though.
This doesn't work anymoore, synce new google calendars integration. google_calendaars.yaml is deprecated. Is there any way I can track multiple events?
Yes. Use google_calendars.yaml. It still works. It just doesn’t get auto created. But it still works. The only change was they moved google_calendars.yaml to the “advance” option. But I verified it still works. I’ll be doing a new video on how to do it. If you need one to reference I can link to my on GitHub
We don't need no stinking scopes 😂. Thanks I will be giving this a go. I think #set_my_alarm may be very useful.
How does this work when HA is disconnected from the internet?
@slackerlabs why dont i get the notification with the code after restart? :(( or maybe i received one yesterday, how can i check?
I am not sure. I think the Google Calendar integration changed after I did this video and I haven't had a chance to play around with it.
I have got this error messages right after editing the secrets.yaml and conf.yaml: Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: mapping values are not allowed here
in "/config/secrets.yaml", line 5, column 18
I got the same thing. Now I can't even do a restart or load a backup☹️
@@TenshiR I rebooted RPI and it worked.
That would point to an indention error somewhere. Everything in secrets should be start without indention. For example, if I put three spaces in front of line 5 in secrets I get the same error.
Check your indention or spaces on one 5. In secrets there should be no indention or spaces.
@@SlackerLabs No indentations there. I even did a save and restart after entering into the secrets.yaml and that was fine. The issue seems to come up in my configuration.yaml☹️
Still waiting for a user friendly way to integrate Google Calendars. Everything I've seen expects you to be messing around a lot with YAML or learning Node Red
For sure to enable it you have to get into the yaml to add the google section. But for basic use as long as your calendars are already setup those three lines are all you need. After that when you restart your calendars will be in home assistant. Hopefully that part will get added to the UI flow this year.
How to create own calendar, no Google, no iOs etc?
I think the only option that I know of is an entities Calendar integration in the home Assistant Community store. That allows you to create a calendar using entities like datetime helpers. I played around with it a while back to see if it would work for chores. But there really isn't a way to create a calendar inside of home assistant. If you have a local ical based calendar I believe those can integrate using the CalDAV integration.
I tried to follow your video but it seems things changed since you recorded it. I was successful in adding the integration and I can see my calendars in home assistant. Alas, I cannot find google_calendars.yaml. Can somebody point me in the right direction for how to add new entities using hashtags as demonstrated in the video if you don't have a google_calendars.yaml anymore?
I think you just have to make it manually. I have tested it. But it’s still listed in the docs. It just hidden
@@SlackerLabs Thanks a lot! I finally got it to work.
as of Jan 5th, 2024 the National Day Calendar is not working. I emailed them. Hopefully they'll respond.
Yea. Someone pointed it out. I think we will need a new one. Someone provided one and it looks good. Just need to write it up
Just get a spinning circle after enabling the calendar. Won’t go any farther.
This instruction does not work anymore in the new Home Assistant
No? Does the configuration.yaml file not work anymore? My understanding was it just didn’t automatically create it. But you could still use it
Perfect job Jeff, but I think nobody here believes you have a brother...its like detective Colombos wife, nobody had never seen her...(:- ))
Have you followed your own video ?
In which way? Did you see something wrong in it?
it's never smart to use a google calendar :D
Hi, thanks for the video, but I cant find the google_calendars.yml
should I create it or because this is not automatically here that means theres a problem?