#Are there any examples of automations

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royal river
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I wrote an example which creates a binary sensor which is on in case there is a calendar entry the next day here: #beta message

royal river
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so it triggers at midnight right ?

still dock
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and every hour

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in case you add an event on the calender for the next day during the day

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you can increase the frequency by changing the time_pattern trigger

royal river
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ok, wasn't sure how to interpret the time trigger. Does this require 2023.9 ? I saw you posted it in the beta channel. I got something working with a script which I can just fire at say 1830 the night before.

fair pasture
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yes, it requires 2023.9

still dock
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this requires 2023.9 indeed, I didn't actually look a the link properly

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you can do it an an automation as well though

royal river
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I will look to re-write this weekend 🙂 the problem with the automation I just created is that it sends an empty message when there is no PE tomorrow

still dock
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trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "18:30:00"
action:
  - service: calendar.list_events
    target:
      entity_id: calendar.test_calendar
    data:
      start_date_time: "{{ today_at() + timedelta(days=1) }}"
      duration:
        hours: 24
    response_variable: events
  - if: "{{ events.events is defined and events.events | count > 0 }}"
    then:
      - service: notify.whatever
        data:
          message: "There are appointments tomorrow"
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this will already work now

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this will not send an empty message when there are no appointments 🙂

royal river
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I just need to drop {%- if "Physical" in event.summary %} in the if clause right ?

still dock
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no

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"{{ events.events is defined and events.events | selectattr('summary', 'contains', 'Physical') | list | count > 0 }}"

royal river
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yeah, just realised that would mean 2 if statements 🙂

still dock
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I think that should do it

royal river
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very cool, i changed to 48hrs and it fired when run manually

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(she has PE thursday)

still dock
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I don't think you need that first part btw, it will return an empty list if there are no events

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"{{ events.events | selectattr('summary', 'contains', 'Physical') | list | count > 0 }}"

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that should be enough

royal river
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I sometimes get confused between the {% %} syntax and the {{ }} syntax - which one is jinja2 ?

fair pasture
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both